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ABB Invests in Renewable Energy
ABB Ltd. (ABB) made an investment of $13 million in Aquamarine Power, a Scotland based renewable energy company. Aquamarine engages in the conversion of wave energy into consumable electricity.
Continue readingPoul la Cour Prize to RES?s Ian Mays: wind power beyond frontiers
Since 1993, the Poul la Cour Prize has been awarded to individuals who have pioneered the development of wind power and have achieved exceptional results in the wind community.
Continue readingProton to launch electric vehicles and hybrids ‘by 2012
Malaysia’s national car maker Proton aims to roll out its first fleet of electric vehicles in January for a pilot test before mass production targeted for 2012.
Continue readingChina BAK Announces Conference Call to Discuss Fourth Quarter FY 2010 Results
China BAK Battery Inc. (Nasdaq: CBAK), a leading global manufacturer of lithium-based battery cells, will host a conference call at 8:00 am Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
Continue readingMass Megawatts Wind Power Goes Horizontal in Its Blade Design
Mass Megawatts Wind Power announces a new blade design for the patented Multi-Axis Turbosystem (MAT).
Continue readingquietrevolution has signed an exclusive agreement with RWE Innogy for the sale of its small wind turbines
The quietrevolution wind turbines can utilise winds from all directions unlike traditional HAWTs which need to track the oncoming wind.
Continue readingSMart Wind scoping report for Hornsea offshore wind farms
SMart Wind has submitted a Scoping Report to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) detailing the proposed approach to the development of the first offshore wind farm projects in the 4 GW Hornsea Zone, UK.
Continue readingRWE Innogy involved in the expansion of Belgian offshore wind farm Thornton Bank
The C-Power consortium, of which RWE Innogy is a shareholder, reached an investment decision concerning the construction of the second and third expansion phases at Thornton Bank offshore wind farm.
Continue readingEcotricity gets green light for UK’s first ‘sun park’
Wind energy provider Ecotricity has taken a major step towards extending its renewable energy portfolio by securing planning permission for its first solar farm at a site adjacent to one of its wind farms in Lincolnshire.
Continue readingSpain’s ACS To Sell 1,757 MW Of Renewable Assets
ACS, which has also made an all-share takeover bid for German peer Hochtief , said it would sell 1,056 MW of wind energy in Spain and 352 MW abroad as well as 349 MW of concentrated solar energy in Spain.
Continue readingREpower: 295 MW wind power contract signed for Thornton Bank offshore wind farm
REpower to deliver 48 wind turbines of the 6M type for phases 2 and 3. Biggest wind energy project financing in the offshore wind industry. Installations planned for 2012 and 2013 respectively.
Continue readingChevrolet Volt MI Vehicle Honored with 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year Award
General Motors was ecstatic when Motor Trend Magazine announced the Chevrolet Volt MI electric vehicle won the prestigious title of the 2011 Car of the Year.
Continue readingLG Chem attains ?A-? credit rating from S&P
The chemical firm stands as a global leader in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. It supplies to major automakers such as Renault, General Motors and Ford.
Continue readingImproving Food Security by Strategically Reducing Grain Demand 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 readingChina – Foreign firms eye wind energy sector
Governments and companies from around the globe are keen to get a piece of the action in China’s booming wind power market, which is set to surpass the United States as the world’s largest by the end of the year.
Continue readingUkraine?s EnergoAtom to increase investment in wind energy
National nuclear generating company EnergoAtom is considering expanding its wind power generation program, EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky told journalists.
Continue readingGoldwind To Acquire Two Wind Energy Companies
Goldwind will inject 550 million yuan into a wholly-owned subsidiary, Jiangsu Goldwind Wind Equipment Manufacturing, for the research of 6 MW wind turbine direct drive permanent magnets.
Continue readingEgypt one of African states leading the way in wind power
Egypt has impressive plans for the future, launching its first privately owned wind farm in 2013 to be situated in the Gulf of Suez, the nation also aims to produce a fifth of its power from renewable energy sources by 2020.
Continue readingDraka Offshore Awarded Baltic 2 Wind Farm Subsea Array Cable Contract
Draka Offshore announced today they have been awarded the array cabling contract for the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm from Visser & Smit Marine Contracting.
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