The first 5,000 MW wind farm would be installed by the end of next year. When completed, in 2020, it will be the world?s largest wind power station by capacity, all technologies considered.
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Evolution Solar Signs Partnering Agreement with Solar-Nomics
Evolution Solar Corp. (pinksheets:EVSO) announced that the company signed partnering agreement with Denver-based solar energy services company Solar-Nomics.
Continue readingPower grid of the future saves energy
Cars and trucks race down the highway, turn off into town, wait at traffic lights and move slowly through side streets.
Continue readingWind energy Nordex reduces revenue target for 2010
Nordex has launched a cost-cutting program as well as an initiative to boost the efficiency of its wind turbines to enhance its competitiveness on a sustainable basis.
Continue readingSDG&E signs solar power purchase agreement with CSolar
San Diego Gas & Electric, or SDG&E, has signed a 25-year power-purchase agreement with a subsidiary of CSolar Development, LLC to procure up to 130MW of renewable energy.
Continue readingWell, they ARE penny-wise ?
Wind energy?s costs are in a competitive range with those of electricity from other types of new power plants.
Continue readingGRIDS 2010 – Grids is a red-hot topic
?Grids is a red-hot topic, which is at the forefront of policy makers? minds right now?, explains Amy Parsons, EWEA?s Conference Manager.
Continue readingVolkswagen’s Popular Golf Goes Electric
Next week during the Los Angeles Auto Show, Volkswagen of America, Inc. will offer U.S. media their first chance to get behind the wheel of the Golf blue-e-motion zero-emissions electric vehicles.
Continue readingCoulomb Technologies Receives Recognition from Time Magazine and BusinessWeek
Coulomb Technologies announced that both Time Magazine and BusinessWeek have recognized their ChargePoint Network for electric vehicle (EV) charging as one of the top innovations for 2010.
Continue readingOwnEnergy Offers Wind-Farm Development Workshops for Farmers & Entrepreneurs
The workshop is focusing on the development process and the options available for building community wind farms.
Continue readingFirst Wind to Host Groundbreaking Ceremony for Milford Wind Power Expansion
First Wind will host a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction of the 102 MW expansion of the company?s Milford Wind energy project.
Continue readingNew wind energy plant in Nicaragua
Combined with the Amayo I wind farm (that has 19 wind turbines), the two phases have a total output of 63.0 MW representing almost 10% of available installed capacity.
Continue readingImproving Food Security by Lester R. Brown
After several decades of rapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.
Continue readingRussia’s Atomenergomash to start wind turbines production by 2012
“Atomenergomash’s strategic goal is to become a global player on the wind energy market with a significant share in Russia and abroad by 2020,” Kashchenko said at a wind power industry conference.
Continue readingGuangzhou CLG Electric Equipment goes global with lithium cell production line
Their equipment has been exported to the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan and they are at the head of the domestic market.
Continue readingTHINK City ? the world?s best-selling electric car
?At the heart of the THINK ethos is adaptability,? said Michael Lock, THINK?s Chief Marketing Officer.
Continue readingSolar energy boom in the American desert
In the remote deserts of the United States, a clean energy boom is under way with potentially far-reaching implications for the way future electricity is generated in the sunbelts of Asia and other regions.
Continue readingDraka opening Kansas parts plant for wind turbines
In November 2009, Siemens began construction on a nacelle plant in Hutchinson, KS. A nacelle is the part of the wind turbine that houses the gearbox, drive train and control electronics on wind turbines.
Continue readingCrosswind Renewable Energy and Eco Energy Partners Partnership Agreement
Crosswind is strategically positioned as a premier provider of clean energy solutions due to its global network reach and its extensive commitments with industry leading companies.
Continue readingChina Wind Energy 2010: Building Strategic Cooperation
US-China Wind Power 2010: Building Strategic Cooperation will take place December 7 – 9th, 2010 in San Francisco, California.
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