Narec said that the facility will enable manufacturers and wind farm developers to identify best practice approaches.
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Queensland’s wind energy potential mapped
The Bligh Government has released a map of Queensland’s wind power potential to help lead clean energy companies to prime development sites in Queensland.
Continue readingAvis introduces electric vehicles for hire together with its long-term partner Renault
Building on its long-term environmental heritage, leading car hire company, Avis, has partnered with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to offer electric cars to its customers from 2011.
Continue readingThe government is planning the first wind farm in Bolivia
The government plans to build a wind farm in Santa Cruz, because it is the department with the highest wind power potential in Bolivia.
Continue readingPlanean el primer parque eólico de Bolivia
El Gobierno planea la construcción de un parque eólico en Santa Cruz, porque es el departamento con mayor potencial de vientos en el país.
Continue readingChina launches its first offshore wind farm (102 MW)
The first offshore wind power facility in Asia ended yesterday with the installation of 34 wind turbines in Shanghai.
Continue readingPalo Alto plans electric vehicles plug-in stations
Charging your Tesla could soon get easier in Palo Alto, the electric car maker’s future home base.
Continue reading10 MW floating wind turbine prototype
The large wind turbine was designed by Norwegian company Sway. Its buoyancy is due to the internally hollow tower support, and it will be anchored to the seabed to depths of several hundred metres with a single pipe.
Continue readingSpain gives Turkana Wind Power Project $150m funding
The entry of the Spaniards has come at a time when anxiety was beginning to grow over whether the massive project would achieve financial closure.
Continue readingChina inaugura su primer parque eólico marino (102 MW)
El primer parque de energía eólica marina de Asia concluyó ayer con la instalación de 34 aerogeneradores en Shanghai.
Continue readingWind Turbine Technology
In the last 20 years, wind turbines have increased in size by a factor of 100 (from 25 kW to 2500 kW and beyond) and the cost of energy has reduced by a factor of more than five.
Continue readingBelieve it and we can do it: The bill for a new, clean and efficient energy system
The world would need 3.8 million wind turbines, each producing 5 megawatts, to provide 51 per cent of supply. A further 40 per cent would come from 49,000 large-scale, 300 MW CSP and solar photovoltaic.
Continue readingPaving the way for electric vehicles
Kansas City Power & Light Co. is preparing for a highway power play — a new breed of electric cars. By Steve Everly, The Kansas City Star.
Continue readingTesla Offers Leasing Option for Iconic Roadster
Tesla Motors, producer of the world’s only highway-capable Electric Vehicles, is now offering the option of leasing the groundbreaking Roadster and Roadster Sport.
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