The Tennessee Valley Authority is adding more renewable energy to its generating system with a contract for up to 44 megawatts from a wind farm in Iowa.
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Wind energy Vestas Asia Pacific wins award
Vestas Asia Pacific wins the 2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan Renewable Energy Company of the Year.
Continue readingWestern Wind Energy – Financial close and funding completed for Windstar
Western Wind owns over 500 wind turbines with 34.5 MW of rated capacity and a further 131 MW of expansion wind power purchase agreements.
Continue readingUnited Technologies Completes Clipper Windpower Acquisition
Clipper Windpower is a California-based company engaged in wind energy technology, wind turbines manufacturing, and wind farm project development.
Continue readingEthiopia Could Use Wind Energy in Lieu of Gibe III to Save Lives
Ethiopia should abandon the Gilgel Gibe III, an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam being built on the Omo River, and explore wind power to harness needed energy.
Continue readingHere Enterprises Acquires Wind Energy Development Project
Here Enterprises is working to develop a wind farm on the Cycle Ranch site in conjunction with its operating commercial motocross speedway business.
Continue readingChina – Top wind energy producer says capacity up 76% annually in past five years
China Longyuan Power Group, the country’s largest wind power producer, said its installed wind farm capacity had reached 5.51 MW as of November, after seeing an annual rise of 76.2 percent during the past five years.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas enters Cape Verde with an order for 26 MW
Vestas has received an order for 30 V52-850 kW wind turbines for Cape Verde.
Continue readingClashindarroch wind farm planning permission granted
Planning permission for a wind farm with 18 wind turbines in Clashindarroch Forest near Huntly has been granted by Aberdeenshire Council.
Continue readingWind energy in Algeria – First wind farm
The draft of the first wind farm planned in southern Algeria, Adrar, was awarded Monday to French consortium Cegelec.
Continue readingTexas leads the US for wind energy installations, with 9,410 MW
Much has already been written on the transformative power of wind power ? revitalising declining towns and harbours with new employment and industry.
Continue readingNew methods to examine the potential of concentrating solar power
New data and methods have been developed to examine the potential for thermal concentrated solar energy (CSP) plants to help meet energy and environmental goals.
Continue readingTunisia-Japan sign MOU in Concentrating Solar Power
Tunisia and Japan penned, on Saturday, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU ) for the construction of a 5 Megawatt concentrated solar energy plant connected to a 40 Megawatt-combined cycle power plant.
Continue readingRomania: Three major wind power projects by the end of 2010
At the end of this year, Romania will most likely have three major wind energy projects, operated by CEZ (the Czech Republic), Energias de Portugal and Enel (Italy), with a 464 MW capacity.
Continue readingEl Sewedy Electric Intends to Develop Wind Farm in Ghana
Egypt-based El Sewedy Electric, a manufacturer of wind farm equipment, is in talks with the Ghanaian government to develop a wind energy project in Ghana.
Continue readingWind Works Power Corp: Agreement Signed to Sell 20 MW Joint Venture Wind Energy Project in Germany
Wind Works invested 100,000 Euros in the project in May 2010, and will receive a total of 190,000 Euros over a 12 months period.
Continue readingWind energy in Lesotho: wind farm in the Mokhotlong district
Lesotho will begin construction next year of an $87 million wind farm, the first in the mountainous African kingdom, which will add as much as 30 megawatts to the nation?s electricity grid.
Continue readingFrance’s Reunion island aims for zero CO2
France’s fifth largest wind power producer Aerowatt launched a 3.85 megawatt-wind farm on the small cyclone-prone French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Continue readingNYSERDA Anounces New York State Solar Thermal Incentive Program
NYSERDA and the State of New York have just announced the PON 2149 “The First Solar Thermal Incentive Program in New York State”.
Continue readingWind energy accounted for 6.5% of Germany?s electricity consumption
The three leading manufacturers on the German market for wind turbines were Enercon, Vestas, and Repower Systems. About 90,000 people in Germany were employed in the wind power sector.
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