Kenya Electricity Generating Company – KenGen invited companies to carry out feasibility studies for nine new wind farm sites.
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Feed-in Tariff in France: To Drive Sustainable Renewable Market Development
Renewable energy sources offer viable options to address the energy security concerns of a country. France has been making consistent efforts to increase the presence of renewables in the country?s energy basket.
Continue readingDelphi Teams to Develop Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles
Delphi Corp. and ClipperCreek, Inc. have agreed to work together to develop, manufacture and sell charging systems for all-electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).
Continue readingDaimler Targets Sales Growth
In the past twelve months, Daimler AG (stock-exchange symbol DAI) has taken some important strategic actions in an extremely difficult environment and has thus created the right conditions for a successful future.
Continue readingWind energy in Montenegro
Montenegro: Companies that will build wind power plants on localities Krnovo and Mozura will be selected in the next several days.
Continue readingFactory uses own wind turbines to reduce fuel bills
A CO Cork-based window manufacturing plant, which has installed its own electricity wind turbines, is to be the focus of a seminar on how to cut rapidly rising fuel costs.
Continue readingAWEA Files with FERC re Grid Reform
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) called for updates to the way the nation?s electric utility system is operated to make it more efficient and better able to accommodate renewable energy sources such as wind power.
Continue readingWind Turbine Guideline Advisory Committee Recommendations to Interior Secretary
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service transmitted a set of final recommendations on how to minimize the impacts of land-based wind farms on wildlife and its habitat to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
Continue readingWindstream Energy Wins 300MW Contract to Develop Canada?s First Offshore Wind Farm
Windstream Wolfe Island Shoals Inc. announces that it has been awarded a Feed-in Tariff contract by the Ontario Power Authority to develop Canada?s first offshore wind power plant.
Continue readingNebraska: Gov. Heineman Signs Bill Promoting Wind Energy
Gov. Dave Heineman signed LB 1048 into law. The bill is designed to encourage the development, ownership and operation of renewable energy facilities for the export of wind power from Nebraska.
Continue readingExpansion of innovative wind turbine company in Massachusetts
With $3 million in financing from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, “transformative” energy technology-grant winner, FloDesign will open new office, create jobs in Massachusetts.
Continue readingHonda Plans to Begin Sales of Electric Scooter in December
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. revealed the latest prototype of the EV-neo electric scooter and announced plans to begin lease sales in Japan in December 2010 to businesses and individual business owners.
Continue readingRenewable energy sources gain momentum in the MENA Region
As the prices of oil and gas continue to rise, and sources of oil and coal are depleted, the global desire to create less pollution is driving the use of renewable energy sources.
Continue readingMadrid City Council and the Alliance sign an agreement to promote electric vehicles in the city
This engagement will be part of the more than 50 agreements that the Renault-Nissan Alliance has signed worldwide, as it aims to become the leader in bringing zero emission mobility.
Continue readingParaguaná wind farm in Venezuela will be operational in 2011
Paraguana in Falcon state, about 453 kilometers from the city of Caracas, is the first wind power plant of Venezuela.
Continue readingLockheed Martin To Provide Surveillance Radar to United Kingdom for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Lockheed Martin (LMT) will deliver a long-range air surveillance radar system to the United Kingdom that overcomes sensor performance issues commonly caused by the rotating blades of wind turbines.
Continue readingAlgeria first wind farm
The first wind power plant in Algeria will be built in 2010 in the province of Adrar, 1543 km south of Algiers, according to Belhamel, the director of National Centre for Renewable Energy (CNDER).
Continue readingCODA Automotive Taps Public Affairs and Communications Veteran K. Forrest Beanum
CODA Automotive, a California-based electric vehicles and battery company, hired K. Forrest Beanum as Vice President of Public Affairs & Communications.
Continue readingGWEC: Global wind power will reach 409 GW by 2014
Global wind power capacity is expected to increase by 160% over the next five years with China leading the low-carbon power push, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said on Monday
Continue readingSoaring German Solar Photovoltaic Demand in December
Newly connected solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Germany soared to 1.46 GW in December, almost three times the previous record rate of monthly connections of 0.50 GW set in November.
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