High gas prices, carbon constraints, fuel economy standards, and the desire for energy independence are pushing the development of electric vehicles.
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Wind energy – Hannover, Day 2: The neighbors are talking
Is offshore wind power ever going to happen in your country? Is the American market for wind turbines really still growing??
Continue readingEcoMT (Ecomanagement Technology), serving the electric car
The era of electric vehicles began to generate a whole new network of entrepreneurs. One is EcoMT (Ecomanagement Technology) in Spain.
Continue readingChina wants to be the largest producer of electric vehicles
China’s bid for the electric cars is as consistent as the one made with wind energy, solar power, photovoltaics, solar thermal and other renewable energies. Oil is expensive, scarce and imported.
Continue readingOffshore wind farm in Belgium
Today there are rumours in the market regarding Vestas being in final negotiations for an offshore wind power project in Belgium. Vestas has not yet received a firm and unconditional order for the wind turbines.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa opens a technology lab in Singapore for advanced wind turbines
The new wind power tech lab in Singapore is part of Gamesa’s strategy for becoming a global standard-bearer in lowering wind turbines’ cost of energy.
Continue readingBattery Market for Electric Vehicles
Manufacturers need to develop more advanced battery technologies such as zinc-air batteries that help increase range and top speed especially in electric cars.
Continue readingFlexible trailing edge flap for blades to make wind power cheaper
A flexible, controllable trailing edge for wind turbines blades has shown that it can reduce the loads on the turbine and in the end provide cheaper electricity from wind energy.
Continue readingFukushima – Time to Rethink Japan’s Energy Future
Japan?s enormous wind energy potential has hardly been tapped. At the end of 2010 Japan had installed 2,300 megawatts of wind farm capacity, enough to power 700,000 Japanese homes.
Continue readingREpower sells to juwi 240 wind turbines
REpower?s biggest onshore framework wind energy agreement to date for Europe. Total wind power capacity of up to 720 MW.
Continue readingGE Achieves Highest Publicly Reported Efficiency for Thin Film Solar Power
GE to Build 400-Megawatt Manufacturing Facility, will be Larger than Any Existing US Solar Energy Panel Plant Today.
Continue readingEDPR sells financial stake in spanish wind farm
EDP Renováveis, SA (?EDPR?) closed an agreement with Enel Green Power Spain, SA (?EGP?) to sell its stake in Sociedad Eólica de Andalucía, SA (?SEASA?) – a company with 74 operating MW of wind energy in Spain.
Continue readingChinese wind power installations greater than first believed
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and two Chinese wind energy associations have just released a new much higher total for wind turbines installed in China last year.
Continue readingObama in Philadelphia: ITC and PTC should be permanent
First U.S. wind energy manufacturer to win the 2011 U.S. EX-IM Bank Exporter of the Year award for the wind turbines Gamesa has exported from its Pennsylvania factories to wind farm plants in Honduras and Mexico.
Continue readingDeutsche Post road tests 12 new Renault electric vehicles
Deutsche Post DHL is road testing 12 new Renault Kangoo Z.E. electric cars with lithium ion batteries for combined deliveries.
Continue readingAmerica?s wind energy industry grew by 15% in 2010
In addition to wind power?s increased affordability, the 1603 program contributed to new wind farm project starts in 2010. On top of new construction starts, 2010 saw new wind turbines manufacturing as well.
Continue readingAmerican Wind Energy Association on Lawsuit Challenging the Colorado Renewable Energy Standard
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has also found wind farm to be a cost effective generation resource. Wind power lowers prices in Colorado.
Continue readingPolicy support for wind power in India
Currently 18 of the 25 State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) have issued feed-in tariffs for wind energy. Wind turbines must play a key role in fuelling India?s growing economy.
Continue readingKey players in the Brazilian wind energy market
Brazil is well positioned to supply the wider Latin American wind farm market as well as the wind power market in the United States, either with completed wind turbines or with partly assembled parts.
Continue readingWind energy – Vestas number 1, Sinovel second in wind turbines
China has become the single largest driver for global wind power development. In 2010, every second wind turbine that was added anywhere in the world was installed in China.
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