The target is 54 GW offshore wind power capacity by 2030. At present, 83 percent of all offshore wind turbines are manufactured in Europe, which means great export opportunities to the U.S.
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Sharp Supplies Solar Photovoltaic Cells for Solar Power Plant in Thailand
Sharp Corporation has signed an agreement with NED to establish one of the world?s largest solar power generation plants with a power generation capacity of 73 MW, and to supply photovoltaic thin-film solar cell modules.
Continue readingEU research shows strong growth in renewables
Renewable energy sources accounted for 62% of new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU last year with wind power leading the way accounting for 38% of the total.
Continue readingLack of transparency impedes Romanian wind energy development
Despite this, wind farm projects worth 3,000 MW are due to come online in the next three years, and Romania has relatively short lead times and costs in terms of administrative procedures and connection to the grids.
Continue readingAustralian health agency: Wind Turbines sound has no health effect
Another major government organization has found that there is no scientific evidence that wind turbine sound is damaging to human health.
Continue readingGov. Lingle to Join First Wind for Groundbreaking Ceremony for Kahuku Wind Power Project
First Wind will host an event west of Kahuku town in the hills near Charlie Road to celebrate the beginning of construction of the 30 MW Kahuku Wind Energy project.
Continue readingAbengoa will build a 250 MW concentrating solar power plant in Arizona (United States)
President Obama Announces a conditional commitment offer for a $1.45 billion Federal Loan Guarantee for Abengoa Solar Inc.
Continue readingGeneral Electric bet on wind power
Wind energy makes up nearly 80 percent of GE Energy Financial Services’ renewable energy portfolio, which includes equity investments in 58 wind farms with a capacity to produce 6.1 gigawatts.
Continue readingNo evidence of wind energy health impact
‘… there is no published scientific evidence to positively link wind turbines with adverse health effects.’
Continue readingGeneral Clark: renewable energy the ?peace’ fuel of the future
?We cannot move forward as a nation paying $300 billion a year out of our economy to other countries to support our energy consumption,? Clark said. ?Can’t do it – won’t be able to make it.
Continue readingBMW Megacity Electric Vehicles
Megacity Vehicle to become the world?s first volume-produced car with a passenger cell made from carbon.
Continue readingMaintaining the wind turbines
Generator service technicians take care of the key component of a wind energy converter: the generator ? the component that converts the kinetic energy of the rotor into electric energy.
Continue readingMEGAJOULE Publishes Wind Index for Portugal
APREN, the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association commissioned MEGAJOULE to generate and publish the first wind power index for continental Portugal.
Continue readingChina keeps promise to curb carbon emission
The installed capacity of wind energy has been doubling every year for the past four years to more than 22 million kilowatts, the third highest in the world.
Continue readingUS companies with wind power projects in north of Mexico
These wind energy projects will use the transnational interconnections to link the electricity from the Pai-Pai region to California US electric grid system.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles commissions the 98.9 MW Monte Grighine wind farm in Italy
Continuing its wind energy development in Europe, EDF Energies Nouvelles announces the commissioning of the Monte Grighine wind farm.
Continue readingShare of renewables in new electricity generation capacity continues to rise
For the second year running, wind energy accounted for the largest share of new electricity generation capacity.
Continue readingDONG Energy to build Anholt Offshore Wind Farm
The wind farm will have a capacity of 400 MW and thus it will be the largest wind farm in Denmark.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy protect fish from trawlers, study finds
Offshore wind energy development in the European Union is accelerating and could potentially supply 12-16% of the EU?s electricity by 2030, the equivalent of 25,000 wind turbines, the IUCN says.
Continue readingArkansas continues assistance for landowners to quantify wind power resources
The program allows Arkansans ? particularly landowners, farmers, and rural businesses ? to measure wind energy potential up to 110 feet in height.
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