National Grid and Cape Wind will file a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Monday under which National Grid will buy clean power from the first offshore wind farm.
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Advanced Battery Technologies Announces New Orders of Electric Vehicles
Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ABAT) announced that it obtained approximately $1.7 million in new orders for electric vehicles during the International Bicycle Expo held in Shanghai.
Continue readingNordex acquiring a stake in an offshore wind power project
Nordex SE has signed a contract to acquire a roughly 40% stake in the wind energy project company which is developing the ?Arcadis Ost 1? offshore wind farm.
Continue readingFeeling lucky about Googling towards a wind-driven future
Investing in wind power, as Google has just learned, is definitely the opposite of evil and an innovative pathway to a healthier future.
Continue readingMagnetek maximises wind turbines potential
Magnetek’s E-Force Wind Inverter maximises the potential of wind turbines operating with permanent magnet generators and will be shown at the Windpower 2010 conference and exhibition.
Continue readingWind power in Germany in 2009
Last year, 958 wind turbines totalling 1,917 MW of wind energy capacity were added to the German fleet, including 136 MW repowering and 60 MW in wind farm offshore.
Continue readingRadar Interference and Wind Power
Radar Interference Soon to Become a Thing of the Past for the Wind Industry; US Wind Energy Project Site Selection Conference in Boston on June 29-30.
Continue readingEuropean Parliament: Standard chargers needed to boost electric vehicles
Standard chargers for electric cars would be a major step towards a single European electric vehicle market, says a resolution adopted by Parliament on Thursday.
Continue readingCemex completed the Eurus wind farm, developed jointly with Acciona Energía
CEMEX completed the EURUS wind farm, developed jointly with ACCIONA Energía, the third largest wind energy project of its kind registered as a United Nation?s Clean Development Mechanism project.
Continue readingGolf electric car to launch in 2013
Volkswagen wants to use bestsellers such as the Golf to take electric vehicles out of their niche model status and to become the market leader for a new type of sustainable mobility by 2018.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic Barometer By EurObserv?ER
The global photovoltaic market expanded again in 2009. Germany set a new system installation record while the capacity build-up of the major solar photovoltaic markets contained the fallout in Spain.
Continue readingenXco Announces Changes in Executive Management Team
enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) is pleased to welcome Deborah Gronvold in the position of Executive Vice President for Implementation and Generation and the promotion of Paul Kaufman.
Continue reading?Capture the Wind? in Ohio
GE?s (NYSE: GE) 28-day, multi-state ?Capture the Wind? tour stopped in Columbus today, carrying with it grassroots support for expanding clean, efficient, wind power across the United States.
Continue readingElectric Vehicles Join UPS Fleet in Houston
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles had expanded with the deployment of 25 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks to Houston.
Continue readingWalmart de Mexico y Centroamerica to Use Wind Power to Operate 348 Stores
Walmart de Mexico y Centroamerica announced that starting today, 348 of its self-service stores, pricing clubs, and restaurants in Mexico will use wind energy from Oaxaca I Lamatalaventosa Wind Farm, located in Oaxaca.
Continue readingThe quixotic opposition to Cape Wind … By Tom Gray
… is sent up nicely by The New Yorker magazine with the cover of its latest issue. The cover depicts a pilgrim perched on a whale, tilting at the offshore windmills with a Don Quixote-style lance.
Continue readingLinamar and NCB Lohmann Form Strategic Alliance to Pursue Wind Turbines Components in North America
Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) and German-based NCB Lohmann GmbH announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to pursue wind turbines components for customers in North America.
Continue readingEDF EN Canada Inc. Announces Acquisition of wind energy company Saint-Laurent Énergies
EDF EN Canada Inc. Announces Acquisition of Hydroméga Shares in Saint-Laurent Énergies.
Continue readingWind and Solar Jobs for Ohio Calls for Renewable Energy Tax Reform
Ohio’s high tax rates on wind energy and solar power development are pushing jobs, revenue for local schools out of state.
Continue readingGuangdong to build China’s 800 MW offshore wind power plant
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group is planning to build an 800 MW wind farm in Yuxi City, in the province of Yunnan.
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