Genesa is a company that as of Dec-2010 had in Spain 1.7 GW of wind power installed capacity, 50 MW wind farm under construction and 3.9 GW of wind turbines in pipeline & prospects
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LDK Expands Solar Power to 570 MW
LDK Solar Co., a manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and photovoltaic, announced the addition of one new solar energy manufacturing site in Hefei City, Anhui Province.
Continue readingSpanish wind energy has record month in March
Wind power’s best comparative monthly performance was in November and December 2009, when it covered 21.2% and 20.1% of national demand. It respectively, toppled nuclear power from second place.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa launches its new G136-4.5 MW wind turbines
Gamesa will open an office in Hamburg for its offshore wind power business in the second quarter of the year, in order to tap growth in one of the world’s largest marine wind farm markets.
Continue readingIberdrola-Wind energy in Scotland: two new wind power projects
Iberdrola Renovables has a strong presence in the wind farm sector in Scotland, so in offshore wind power, and land. The new wind farm facilitys will have wind turbines of 3 MW of Alstom.
Continue readingWind power is not expensive
How expensive IS wind energy? Are future generations doomed to poverty because of the skyrocketing costs and limited supplies of wind turbines? the price from new wind farm plants ranged from 4 to 9 cents per kWh.
Continue readingFluor selected by SunPower to build 20-MW Arizona photovoltaic solar power plant
SunPower awarded Fluor the construction of the 20-MW Copper Crossing photovoltaic solar energy plant on 144 acres of formerly private agricultural land in Pinal County.
Continue readingSolar Energy Decathlon Design Focused on Sustainability
Solar Decathlon challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar power houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive.
Continue readingRWE’s first own offshore vessel for wind energy
The ship will take the transport of 48 wind turbines of the six-megawatt class. Full completion of the ?Nordsee Ost? wind farm is planned for 2013. The wind power plant of 295 MW will supply 295,000 homes in Germany.
Continue readingGiraSolar to build biggest solar power plant in Turkey
GiraSolar is in talks with local Turkish energy companies to build a 100-MW photovoltaic solar energy plant in southern Turkey.
Continue readingWind energy in Cyprus – First wind farm inaugurated
The Orites wind power consists of 41 towering white Vestas V90 2MW wind turbines, spread over the 16km site.
Continue readingEthiopia announced large hydroelectric project on the Nile
Wind energy Goldwind wins wind turbines order of 76.5 MW in Ethiopia. Adama wind farm is located in central Ethiopia. The wind power contract includes 34 wind turbines.
Continue readingSaudi Arabia looking to invest in solar power
Saudi Arabia announced that it would be looking to develop its solar energy, geothermal energy and wind energy sectors.
Continue readingInner Mongolia’s installed wind energy ranks first in China
The installed wind farm capacity of the grid-connected wind power in Inner Mongolia reached 10.9 GW by February 2011, making it China’s first region to possess 10 GW of grid-connected installed wind ene
Continue readingBangladesh joined the geothermal energy
Soon to be constructed the first geothermal power plant for electricity generation in Bangladesh, which will thus become the twenty-sixth country in the world to use this source of renewable energy.
Continue readingThe leading role of renewable energy
Over the past 10 years the world renewable market has registered by far the fastest growth, especially solar power photovoltaic (+39.9% annual average) and wind energy (+29.7% average).
Continue readingVestas to supply wind turbines for wind energy projects in Brazil
Wind power Vestas has secured a wind energy contract from Energisa to supply wind turbines with a total generating capacity of 150 MW for wind farm projects in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Continue reading10 Questions for a Wind Energy & Solar Power Integration Analyst: Kirsten Orwig
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientist Kirsten Orwig specializes in transmission and grid integration for wind power and solar energy.
Continue readingChina may double solar energy goal
China, the world’s largest solar photovoltaic exporter, is likely to boast 10 GW of solar power capacity by 2015 from the current 1 GW, doubling its existing target amid rising doubts about the safety of nuclear energy.
Continue readingChina?s largest wind farm developer places 48 MW wind energy order with Vestas
Vestas has signed its first wind power order in 2011 with China Longyuan Power Group for 48 MW. The order consists of 24 wind turbines V80-2.0 MW which will be installed in Fujian.
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