In a move to accelerate the development of an offshore wind power in the United States, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced plans to fast-track four offshore areas.
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Upton’s agenda: greener energy + fossil wish list
The House Energy and Commerce Committee?s new chairman, Fred Upton, R-MI, was questioned on his energy agenda for this Congress by National Journal editor Ron Brownstein.
Continue readingDOE – One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015
In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama called for putting one million electric cars on the road by 2015 ? affirming and highlighting a goal aimed at building U.S. leadership.
Continue readingMarket for Lithium Ion Batteries Expected to Reach $43 Billion by 2020
The Future Of Lithium Ion Batteries: Including Consumer, Alternative Energy Vehicles (Hevs, Phevs, Electric vehicles), And Electric Power Storage Applications- Technologies, Markets, Competitors And Opportunities.
Continue readingFirst Liberty Power to Focus on Lithium Development
That is projected to result from the acceleration of the adoption and use of electric vehicles and clean renewable energy products that utilize lithium-ion batteries.
Continue readingFirstEnergy Solutions and Iberdrola Renewables Sign PPA With Largest Wind Energy Project in Ohio
304-MW Blue Creek Wind Farm is being built by Iberdrola Renewables, the world’s leading provider of wind power. The Blue Creek wind turbines is the first large-scale wind energy in Ohio to begin construction.
Continue readingSDG&E Adds More Local Solar Power to its Renewable Portfolio
The Borrego Springs project will employ solar energy photovoltaic technology on a 300-acre site in eastern San Diego County, an area that is ideal for producing solar power due to abundant desert sunlight.
Continue readingSaskatchewan teaming up wind turbines with rinks
SaskPower says it is expanding its wind power demonstration project to four locations. Wind turbines will be installed at four community wind farm in Saskatchewan.
Continue readingNordex USA starts 2011 with new wind energy order for 45 MW Idaho wind farm
The 45 MW wind farm in Power County ? Nordex? first wind power project in Idaho ? will use 18 of Nordex? N100 2.5 MW wind turbines.
Continue readingLM Wind Power to develop the world?s longest wind turbine blades for offshore wind turbines
LM Wind Power Group is the world?s largest component supplier to the wind farm industry comprising a blades. Record blade pushes the limits to bring down the Cost of Energy of offshore wind energy.
Continue readingRES Canada to Sell Minority Ownership Interest in Saint-Laurent Energies Consortium Wind Power Projects
RES Canada will continue to develop and construct wind farm projects in Quebec and the rest of Canada, supporting the governments’ goal to develop a robust wind energy industry.
Continue readingEx-Im Bank Chairman to Visit Wind-Energy Factory in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania
Hochberg will meet with Gamesa North America CEO Dirk Matthys and other company representatives at Gamesa’s wind turbines facility in Fairless Hills.
Continue readingAlready 732.4 MW of concentrated solar energy in Spain
There are 732.4 MW concentrating solar thermal power injected to the grid in Spain (only 0.7% of the total but who cares.)
Continue readingConcentrating Solar Thermal Power 2011
By the end of the decade, Concentrating Solar Power plants could eclipse natural gas as the low cost, clean option – at which point the sky will be the limit.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa seeks to reserve four spots for its wind turbines at IREC?s ZÈFIR Test Station offshore wind farm
Gamesa aims to install two anchored and two floating wind turbines at the experimental offshore wind power laboratory off the coast of Tarragona, Spain.
Continue readingElectric vehicles quietly hit streets of Victoria
The first new models of electric cars with lithium ion batteries are starting to roll out onto Victoria streets -and are they ever quiet.
Continue readingOver 30 Angolan localities to get solar power systems
The Minister of Energy and Waters, Emanuela Vieira Lopes, announced on Monday in Luanda that about 36 localities of the country will benefit from photovoltaic solar energy systems, totalling 216 infrastructures.
Continue readingMateria Participates in Grant for Bio-inspired Wind Energy Center
The purpose of the Center will be to carry out research, development, and field testing of novel wind power technologies inspired by engineering solutions found in nature.
Continue readingFuhrländer – Munich Re?s first guarantee for wind energy plants
Munich Re is insuring the guarantees which Fuhrländer, a German builder of wind power plants, is giving its customers. Fuhrländer gives buyers of its up to 2.5-Megawatt wind turbines a technical guarantee.
Continue readingGreenpeace promotes solar power and wind energy in Indonesia?s Papua region
Greenpeace had unveiled a solar energy and wind power system in Indonesia?s West Papua to showcase the country?s huge potential in renewable energy.
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