The changes would cut the price of wind energy in half for participants of the voluntary program and quadruple its size. They also would create a new long-term option for large businesses.
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BP Plans To Build Big Wind Farm In Kansas
BP Wind Energy has announced plans to build a 419-megawatt (MW) capacity wind farm with 262 GE wind turbines on a 66000-acre site about 43 miles southwest of Wichita in south-central Kansas.
Continue readingChina Wind Power 2011
Norwegian companies take to Beijing for the most influential event on wind energy in China this October.
Continue readingWind energy in Brazil: First Chinese wind turbines order
Sinovel, has signed a wind power contract and will deliver a total of 23 SL1500/82 wind turbines for a 34.5 MW wind farm in Sergipe, Brazil.
Continue readingConcentrating solar thermal power: FLABEG to make CSP technology more competitive
FLABEG, Schlaich partner to make concentrated solar energy technology more competitive.
Continue readingEnel Green Power begins operation of new wind farm in Portugal
The wind energy plant, called Alto do Marco, is comprised of six 2 MW wind turbines for a total installed capacity of 12MW.
Continue readingDenmark boosts wind power ambition to half of power needs
The increased wind energy target is part of a more ambitious 2020 emissions-reduction plan for a 40% cut in CO2 compared to 1990 levels.
Continue readingPattern Energy completes financing on 75 MW wind power project in Puerto Rico
Pattern Energy Group has completed financing for Finca de Viento Santa Isabel wind energy project in Puerto Rico. Siemens Financial Services provided financing for the 75MW wind farm, located in Santa Isabel.
Continue readingBangladesh Minister Stresses Low-cost Solar Energy
Aftab urged all banks to provide easy loans the solar power manufacturers to help make it such power cost-effective.
Continue readingGE to Make PrimeStar Solar Energy Panels at New Colorado Plant
GE has been a big investor in wind energy, photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies, including eSolar’s concentrated solar power business and wind power.
Continue readingVestas gets wind energy order for work in Canada
Vestas, which has four wind power facilities in Colorado, has received a 178 megawatt wind turbines order for two wind farm projects in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
Continue readingCanWEA?s Annual Conference
CanWEA?s Annual Conference and Exhibition is Canada?s largest wind energy conference bringing together over 2,500 experts from all over the world to discuss the opportunities in the Canadian wind power industry.
Continue readingSENER participates in the Ocean Lider project about renewable oceanic energy
SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. is one of the companies participating in the CENIT-E OCEAN LIDER Project in marine energy, led by Iberdrola.
Continue readingESA Renewables Looks Forward to Solar Power International 2011
ESA Renewables (ESA), a leading turnkey solar energy system provider, will showcase its photovoltaic monitoring and control system.
Continue readingMarine energy in New Zealand
The marine energy projects are a wave energy device at Stewart Island, a cable linking to another device at Wellington’s Moa Point and turbines at Parnell Baths in Auckland.
Continue readingWind power has lowered CO2 emissions by about 23 million tons in Spain
Installed wind farm capacity in Spain reached 20,676 MW in 2010 with the addition of 1,515.95 MW, according to the Spanish Wind Energy Association?s Wind Observatory.
Continue readingAWEA CEO Denise Bode statement on today?s Perry campaign energy policy announcement
Governor Perry is right that ‘it is no accident’ that Texas leads the nation in wind power. What he seems to misunderstand is how much a key federal tax incentive has to do with that success.
Continue readingEnel with EPIA to remove barriers to photovoltaic solar power deployment
The EU Consortium PV LEGAL submitted a set of recommendations for the removal and simplification of bureaucratic barriers and for gaining access to the network of solar energy plants.
Continue readingGemasolar Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Achieves 24-Hour Operation
The Gemasolar solar thermal can reach operating temperatures of more than 500°C, much higher than other types of concentrated solar energy plant, which use parabolic trough technology.
Continue readingThe Canadian Wind Energy Association has not in any way changed its position on wind power and human health.
The balance of scientific and medical evidence clearly concludes that sound from wind farm is not unique and that wind turbines do not have a direct impact on human health.
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