Asia needs to invest around $10 billion in the next few years to make solar power generation competitive with conventional energy sources and called for radical steps to fight climate change.
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Wind energy Nordex industrialises production
The aim was to significantly improve the efficiency and production quality of the wind turbines plant.
Continue reading2011 Vehicle Battery Summit ? 14-15 November, in Shanghai
Lithium ion batteries development, along with the growing penetration of electric vehicles, has prompted development of the SAE International 2011 Vehicle Battery Summit, November 14-15, 2011 in Shanghai.
Continue readingGoogle to finance Alta Wind Energy Center
AWEC will ultimately have a generating capacity of 1,550 megawatts of wind power when completed. Citi and Google will each invest $102 million in the 168 MW Alta V wind farm.
Continue readingWinWinD and the French-based InnoVent have signed a contract for six 3 MW wind turbines
Winwind Ltd. and InnoVent have signed two wind energy contracts. WinWinD will deliver the WWD-3 wind turbines to wind power plants located in the Northern France in the municipalities of Fiefs and Sains-lès-Pernes.
Continue readingIntersolar North America 2011 Showcases Solar Technology Evolution
We hope to increase our market visibility and demonstrate the ways in which our PV, concentrated solar energy and CPV solutions are tailored to each customer.
Continue readingNew concentrated solar thermal power application for Kittiwake Procal 5000
Kittiwake Procal has been awarded contracts to supply three Spanish Concentrating Solar Power utility providers with Kittiwake Procal 5000 monitoring systems.
Continue readingWinWinD builds 250 MW wind energy plant in India
WinWinD will supply, commission and operate a 250 MW wind farm in India under a MoU with Suryachakra Green Power.
Continue readingCharging station for electric vehicles in Beijing
385 of them will serve private electric cars with lithium ion batteries. After the network is built, electric car charging stations will be nearly as widespread as gas stations.
Continue readingGeothermal Energy Technologies
DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Program works in partnership with U.S. industry to establish geothermal energy as an economically competitive contributor to the U.S. energy supply.
Continue readingFirst foundation of offshore wind farm Thornton Bank 2 installed off Belgium
Construction of Europe’s largest project financed offshore wind energy project on schedule. Expansion of the wind power in two phases by a total of 295 megawatt.
Continue reading24,000 households getting solar energy in Philippines
More than 24,000 households in Mindanao will benefit from the solar power electrification program.
Continue readingTurkish Wind Energy to Grow 31.6% a Year
Turkey?s energy regulator may give licenses for 2,277 megawatts of new wind farm plants, subject to environment assessment reports
Continue readingAPA raises $300m for wind energy in Australia
APA raised $300 million from institutional investors, which will be used to fund the purchase of the Emu Downs Wind Farm, 200km north of Perth.
Continue readingThe growing wind energy industry in South Carolina
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy published a report on how to achieve 20% of the nation?s electrical supply from onshore and offshore wind power.
Continue readingSolar thermal and and concentrating solar power barometer
Total concentrated solar energy plant electrical capacity in the EU at the end of 2010: 638.4 MW.
Continue readingElectric car maker Think files for bankruptcy in Norway
Think Global is among the older manufacturers of electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries, emerging more than 20 years ago and launching its Think City model in 1999.
Continue readingWind energy REpower to supply 44 MW wind farm in Italy
REpower will deliver 13 3.4M104 wind turbines to San Marco in Lamis, a 44 megawatt (MW) wind farm situated north-east of Foggia.
Continue readingResource potential for wind energy
A growing number of global wind resource assessments have demonstrated that the world?s technical potential for wind power exceeds current global electricity production.
Continue readingThe potential role of wind energy in reducing GHG emissions
Wind power (in many applications) is a mature renewable energy RE source that has been successfully deployed in many countries.
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