The EU exceeded all its 2010 targets for wind energy, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar thermal power, and heating/heat pumps.
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Conergy completes Great Britain?s largest solar power plant
The solar energy project was clearly a race against time to meet the deadline of July 31, 2011 ? but we made it, even more than two weeks beforehand thanks to our brilliant solar expert team.
Continue readingEnvironmental study completed for Hawaii’s largest wind energy plant
Hawaii’s largest wind farm is set to be built on Oahu now that a study of its environmental impact has been completed.
Continue readingSolar power monitoring applications
Typical uses include research & development, resource assessment, and performance monitoring of solar thermal or concentrated solar power (CSP) and concentrated solar energy photovoltaic (CPV) technologies.
Continue readingAcciona and Navantia join forces in offshore wind energy in Spain
The president of Acciona Energy, Carmen Becerril, and the CEO of Navantia, Luis Cacho, signed a co-operation agreement in the field of offshore wind power.
Continue readingSopogy to develop solar thermal energy plant in Thailand
Sopogy has signed a MoU with a Thai company to develop a six-megawatt concentrated solar power plant in southern Thailand.
Continue readingWind energy Suzlon receives 100 MW wind power order from Orient Green Power
Wind turbines manufacturer Suzlon Energy Limited had bagged an order from the Chennai-based Orient Green Power Company Limited (OGPL), for over 100 megawatts (MW) of wind farm projects.
Continue readingDarlene Snow named to head Wind Energy Foundation
Darlene Snow has been appointed Executive Director of the Wind Energy Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in 2010 to educate the public about the benefits of wind power.
Continue readingForbes blog notes study on wind power’s limits, but not detailed critique
The notion that massive use of wind farm generation will cause climate-change-like effects has been kicking around, and the anti-wind turbines echo chamber is always looking for a good story.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas signs wind turbines order for 90 MW in Brazil
Vestas has received a wind power order for a total capacity of 90 MW for wind farm projects in Brazil.
Continue readingArmenia to build new geothermal energt plants
Armenia has great geothermal potential, allowing it to produce about 30 MW. Geothermal power is constant, unlike solar energy and wind power.
Continue readingSolar power being promoted in Manipur
The agency recently organized a one-day workshop on solar thermal system that laid stress on the need to use solar energy and wind power to meet the power shortage in the region.
Continue readingColombia promotes geothermal energy with IDB support
The IDB?s Energy Division is currently carrying out GEF-funded projects in nine countries in Latin America involving solar power, wind energy and hydro power, biogas, methane recovery and energy efficiency.
Continue readingDominican Republic Promotes Wind Energy with Support from IDB
$78.3 million in loans for two wind power projects with wind turbines of Gamesa and Vestas.
Continue readingAquentium Solar Seeks JV Partners in Europe for Solar Energy Projects
If a concentrated solar power system was built that was a hundred mile by hundred mile square in size out in the Southwest (United States), either strategy would be more than enough to meet the entire energy demand.
Continue readingWind energy drives global renewable energy growth
Trends for wind power include continued offshore wind farm development, community-based wind turbines projects and distributed, small-scale grid-connected wind turbines and the development of wind farm projects.
Continue readingNordex USA completes corporation?s largest wind energy project
60 N90/2500 wind turbines commissioned in Colorado for a wind farm.
Continue readingSiemens Wins 20 MW Idaho Solar Energy Project
Siemens has been a leader in the development, operation and maintenance of the majority of the world’s largest solar power photovoltaic plants and solar PV projects.
Continue readingShare of renewable energy continues to grow
Globally, nearly 80 GW of renewable power capacity was added in 2009, including 31 GW of hydro and 48 GW of non-hydro capacity.
Continue readingChina wind energy companies breaking into foreign wind farm markets
China Longyuan Power Group Corp (CLPG), the world’s third-largest wind farm operator by installed wind turbines capacity, took its first step overseas by acquiring the rights to develop a 100 MW wind power project.
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