Four gigawatts of wind power capacity have been held on lock-down and unable to move through the UK’s planning system due to Ministry of Defence (MoD) radar issues.
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The largest wind power complex in Poland
250 MW wind farm will have a capacity to produce a quarter of all wind energy generated in Poland.
Continue readingFarmers sign up for wind energy plant in Missouri
Iberdrola Renewables, which operates 46 generating wind power plants in the country, met with 37 farmers. Dozens of farmers have signed up to be part of a wind farm in northern Jasper County.
Continue readingSyria awards Gamesa contract to build 50 MW wind power plant
Gamesa has been awarded a contract to build Syria’s first wind energy plant. Gamesa is one of the world?s leading companies in the design, manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines and a top wind farm developer.
Continue readingLibya to build first wind power project
Libya is about to join the wind energy club with the construction of a 61.75 MW wind farm at Al-Fetaih, near Dernah on the north east coast.
Continue readingSkyFuel launches new R&D concentrated solar energy program
SkyFuel, Inc., a solar thermal concentrating power technology and service provider, has launched a new R&D program on a parabolic trough concentrating solar collector.
Continue readingElectric vehicles i-MiEV On Sale in 15 European Countries
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that sale of the European-spec i-MiEV new-generation electric car with lithium ion batteries is to commence in 15 European countries
Continue readingCanada’s Manitoba starts operation of largest wind farm
Pattern Energy has begun commercial operation of the first batch of wind turbines at its 138MW St. Joseph project, the largest wind energy plant in the Canadian province.
Continue readingAffinity Wind Closes Joint Venture Agreement with wind power Suzlon
Affinity Wind, LLC, a St. Louis based wind energy has formally closed its joint venture agreement with Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation, based in Chicago.
Continue readingChina Wind Systems Appoints KRC to Develop a SOX 404 Compliance Program
China Wind Systems, Inc. is a profitable, rapidly growing supplier of precision forged components primarily to the wind energy industry in China – the world’s leading wind-power market.
Continue readingSurviving the Photovoltaic Crash of 2012
In the recently released report, the PHOTON Consulting team anticipates that the saturation of the German PV market will lead to the solar power sector’s first year of negative growth in recent history.
Continue readingEast Midlands Airport to install wind turbines
East Midlands Airport has been given planning permission to install a total of four wind turbines. The four wind turbines should produce up to 225kw of electricity each, enough to power 503 houses a year.
Continue readingWind turbines from Walney Offshore wind farm are now generating power
The wind energy plant will supply a third of a million UK homes. Walney 1 and 2 wind power plants will have a capacity of 367.2 megawatts of CO2-free renewable energy.
Continue readingBoralex starts construction on solar energy project in France
Renewable energy company Boralex Inc. is entering the solar power business by beginning construction of a solar park in France.
Continue readingEGPI Firecreek to buy Arctic Solar Engineering
EGPI Firecreek, Inc. (EFIR.OB) Makes a Bold Move into Solar Thermal with the Acquisition of Arctic Solar Engineering.
Continue readingM+W Group at the World Future Energy Summit 2011
Company?s experts will participate in a round table discussion on Monday 17 January from 02:00 to 02:45 p.m. (?Fresnel based Concentrating Solar Power: Experience of a grid connected direct steam generation plant).
Continue readingWind energy Sinovel debuts below IPO price
Sinovel is China’s largest producer of wind turbines. Sinovel won a bid to build wind power plant to provide 1.35 million kilowatts of the total 3.3-million-kilowatt capacity in Zhangjiakou.
Continue readingChina supplants US as country with most installed wind energy capacity
China in 2010 became the country with the most installed wind power capacity, supplanting the United States. China will increase cumulative grid-connected installed wind farm capacity to 55G W this year.
Continue readingGamesa Wins Contract to Build Syria?s First Wind Energy Plant
The wind farm will be located southwest of the central city of Homs. Vestas, the world?s largest maker of wind turbines, will develop a wind energy project with generation capacity of 50 to 100 MW.
Continue readingTranscat Completes Acquisition of Wind Turbine Tools
The acquisition further expands and deepens Transcat?s presence in the wind energy industry.
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