Hungary had 203 MW of wind energy capacity at the end of June, up from 176 MW a year earlier
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Wind power Goldwind restarts IPO in Hong Kong
By the end of 2009, Goldwind cumulatively installed over 5,500 units of wind turbines. In 2009, Goldwind was ranked the fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer globally in terms of newly installed capacity.
Continue readingAlaska wind farm project is a mythbuster By Tom Gray
If wind power does not displace fossil fuels, because backup power units must be kept running anyway, how did KEA save 930,000 gallons of diesel fuel?
Continue readingIberdrola Renewables opens in Portland the most advanced wind energy control facility in the US
Iberdrola Renovables is the sector?s second largest wind farm operator in the US with 41 wind farms in operation with a wind power combined capacity of nearly 3,900 megawatts (MW).
Continue readingREpower and Denker & Wulf sign wind energy contract (74.8 MW)
REpower and Denker & Wulf sign wind power contract about 74.8 MW for wind farm project in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Continue readingGE and Harbin Electric team up in Chinese wind energy JV
GE announced a joint venture with Harbin Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. (HEC), a subsidiary of Harbin Power Equipment Co., Ltd. (HPEC), to manufacture and supply wind turbines to its customers in China.
Continue readingToyota dealership uses wind energy to lower carbon footprint
Although the Byers? wind turbines are not designed to compete with the capacity of industrial-scale wind farm, they are indicative of a growing trend by businesses to tap into the many benefits of wind power.
Continue readingStart up of the Concentrating Solar Power Plant Hassi R?Mel in Algeria
It has commenced work on start up of the hybrid solar thermal plant ?Hassi R?Mel-ISCC? that Abener and Teyma are building in Algeria, near the largest natural African gas reserve called Hassi R?Mel.
Continue readingCanadian and Chinese to set up a wind energy project in Pakistan
A foreign consortium of Canadian and Chinese companies, Bradford Power Limited, it is ready to set up a wind power project with an output capacity of 200 MW in Pakistan with an investment of $500 million.
Continue readingWind energy in Israel – Golan Wind Farm Underway
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu signed a decree this past week which declares the plan by the Multimatrix company to build a large wind farm in the northern Golan Heights a national project.
Continue readingEdf Energy Renewables Signs Deal With Force 9
EDF Energy Renewables has signed a joint development agreement with Force 9 to develop a series of onshore wind power plants over the next few years.
Continue readingChristian Kjaer, EWEA?s CEO, talks to Power and Energy
In an article published this month in Power and Energy, Christian Kjaer argues that in order to stimulate an internal electricity market in Europe, a ?fifth freedom? needs to be instated quickly.
Continue readingVestas? vision of wind power, oil and gas is becoming a reality
The Danish Climate Commission states that Denmark can have a fossil free energy supply.
Continue reading127 gigawatts of wind energy potential off the Eastern United States Coast
According to a leading ocean conservation group, offshore wind power could provide up to half of the energy demand for the eastern coast of the United States.
Continue readingA-Power Energy announces delivery of wind turbines for U.S. wind power project
The wind turbine prototype will be shipped to Texas and is planned to be installed at the site of the proposed 600 MW Spinning Star Wind Energy Project, to be located in west Texas, U.S.
Continue readingU.S. Wind Power Project Nets Billions
One of the U.S.’s largest wind farms relies on GL Garrad Hassan to secure $1.2 billion in financing.
Continue readingMasdar turns to sun’s heat to cool buildings
The pilot plant will be operated for approximately two years to test the technology?s suitability in Abu Dhabi?s climate and weather conditions, and assess the scope of cleaning and maintenance requirements.
Continue readingSolar Power Torresol Energy Selects IFS Applications
Torresol Energy, a leader in the concentrating solar power (CSP) sector, has selected IFS Applications to manage the entire lifecycle of its engineering projects and to maintain its solar thermal energy plants.
Continue readingConcentrating Solar Power comes to Chile
GDF Suez and Solar Power Group have agreed to jointly develop a 5-MW solar thermal electric power plant which will supply superheated steam to the Mejillones coal-fired plant (150 MW) in the North of Chile.
Continue readingBrightSource Energy gets OK for 370 MW Concentrating Solar Power in Mojave Desert
BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is one of four large solar thermal power plants approved by the Energy Commission this month; five others are pending.
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