The NEA official estimated that wind power and photovoltaic materials would be widely applied in industrial, commercial, and residential fields in the next three years
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China, Spain agree to deepen cooperation in solar energy and wind power
China is making efforts to optimize its energy mix by implementing policies to promote the development of renewable energy, Wu said, adding that Spain is a world leader in wind energy and concentrated solar power.
Continue readingObama pushes for wind energy tax credit
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to extend the tax benefits key to the nation’s wind power sector. President Barack Obama tours TPI Composites, a manufacturer of wind turbines blades.
Continue readingFukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power
The world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind energy, solar power, and geothermal energy.
Continue readingObama visiting wind power plant in Newton Thursday
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Trinity Structural Towers Inc. in Newton in April 2009. Obama will return to Newton Thursday, speaking at TPI Composites, another wind energy manufacturer.
Continue readingRenewable Energy in the Mining Industry
Utilization of Solar Power, Wind Energy, Geothermal Energy, Hydro and Hydrokinetic, Biomass and Biofuels, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, and Microgrids in the Global Mining Industry.
Continue readingAmericans’ support for government action on global warming remains high
Nearly 90 percent of respondents favored federal tax breaks to spur companies to produce more electricity from water, wind energy and solar power, photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power.
Continue readingNREL Unveils Energy Project Emissions Calculator
Renewable energy sources are: solar PV, bio-power projects (40g of CO2 per kWh) and concentrated solar power (27g CO2 per kWh).
Continue readingThe challenge of making consumers buy electric vehicles
I call it the electric car smile, and it’s uncanny. A Chevy Volt, a Nissan Leaf, all of these electric cars it’s the same: You step on the accelerator, you go like a bat out of hell, and it’s not making any noise.
Continue readingJapan says `sayonara’ to nuclear power
Japan has become completely nuclear power-free for the first time in more than 40 years after power utility Hokkaido Electric Power began shutting the country’s last active nuclear reactor.
Continue readingMerkel Seeks More Effort in Offshore Wind Power
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will push energy companies to make more effort in the offshore wind farm sector when she discusses power generation issues with key industry officials.
Continue readingAfrican Utility Week to focus on great potential for wind energy and solar power on the continent
Governments and business are scrambling to find ways of making renewable energy, such as solar energy (photovoltaic and concentrated solar power), geothermal energy or wind power, a viable form of energy generation.
Continue readingCities See Electric Vehicles as Critical to Future
According to RMI, electric cars are critical to reducing U.S. reliance on oil for transportation. A key component of our electricity future, EVs will provide storage for renewable energy like wind energy and solar power.
Continue readingUNEP chief calls for urgent action to tackle environment issues
Now it is a good time to talk green, between the Earth Day on April 22 and the World Environment Day in June, when the United Nations will organize a pivotal conference on sustainable development that is known as Rio+20.
Continue readingWorld?s progress too slow on climate change
Aside from a recent boom in wind energy and solar energy (photovoltaic and concentrated solar power), the world isn?t making much progress.
Continue readingJapan recommends preferential price rates for wind energy and solar power
Japan will require power utilities to pay above market rates for electricity generated from renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy, solar energy and wind power.
Continue readingRoadmap for U.S. Electric Vehicle Deployment Released
ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel Facilitates the Safe, Mass Rollout of EVs and Charging Infrastructure to Help Enable EV Penetration of the Consumer Market.
Continue readingWhat will the French elections mean for solar power and wind energy?
Socialist candidate François Hollande may have won the first round of the French elections, but what are his plans for wind power if he manages to pip Nicholas Sarkozy to head the country in the second round.
Continue readingIsrael names Tel Aviv University’s Renewable Energy Center a ‘Center of Research Excellence’
The Center promotes advanced research in renewable energy based in a variety of sources, including solar power, wind energy, and biomass, a power source for electric vehicles.
Continue readingRenewable energy resources, such as hydropower, geothermal energy, solar power and wind energy are plentiful in Africa
Tewolde-Berhan Gebre-Egziabher, Director General for Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority, stressed on the harnessing of unused renewable energy resources for Africa’s industrialization.
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