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Continue readingMonthly Archives: July 2011
Pentagon clears Kansas wind power projects
The Defense Department says a half-dozen wind farm projects planned in Kansas would have little or no effect on military missions.
Continue readingSolar power monitoring applications
Typical uses include research & development, resource assessment, and performance monitoring of solar thermal or concentrated solar power (CSP) and concentrated solar energy photovoltaic (CPV) technologies.
Continue readingEnvironmental study completed for Hawaii’s largest wind energy plant
Hawaii’s largest wind farm is set to be built on Oahu now that a study of its environmental impact has been completed.
Continue readingConergy completes Great Britain?s largest solar power plant
The solar energy project was clearly a race against time to meet the deadline of July 31, 2011 ? but we made it, even more than two weeks beforehand thanks to our brilliant solar expert team.
Continue readingRenewable Energy 2011 Global Status Report
The EU exceeded all its 2010 targets for wind energy, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar thermal power, and heating/heat pumps.
Continue readingVolvo develops range extenders for electric vehicles
Volvo is now taking the next step in the company’s electrification strategy by producing test cars with Range Extenders – electric cars that are fitted with a combustion engine to increase their effective range.
Continue readingThe Dream of the Electric Plane
The VoltAir, as the plane is tentatively dubbed, would be powered by enormous lithium-ion batteries, with energy densities of 1000 Wh/kg.
Continue readingElectric Car Charging Station Opens in Bloomington, Minn.
General Motors has already released their lithium ion batteries powered Chevy Volt, and later this fall, Nissan, Ford, and other major automakers will introduce new hybrid electric cars and all electric vehicles.
Continue readingSolar power being promoted in Manipur
The agency recently organized a one-day workshop on solar thermal system that laid stress on the need to use solar energy and wind power to meet the power shortage in the region.
Continue readingArmenia to build new geothermal energt plants
Armenia has great geothermal potential, allowing it to produce about 30 MW. Geothermal power is constant, unlike solar energy and wind power.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas signs wind turbines order for 90 MW in Brazil
Vestas has received a wind power order for a total capacity of 90 MW for wind farm projects in Brazil.
Continue readingForbes blog notes study on wind power’s limits, but not detailed critique
The notion that massive use of wind farm generation will cause climate-change-like effects has been kicking around, and the anti-wind turbines echo chamber is always looking for a good story.
Continue readingDarlene Snow named to head Wind Energy Foundation
Darlene Snow has been appointed Executive Director of the Wind Energy Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in 2010 to educate the public about the benefits of wind power.
Continue readingWind energy Suzlon receives 100 MW wind power order from Orient Green Power
Wind turbines manufacturer Suzlon Energy Limited had bagged an order from the Chennai-based Orient Green Power Company Limited (OGPL), for over 100 megawatts (MW) of wind farm projects.
Continue readingSopogy to develop solar thermal energy plant in Thailand
Sopogy has signed a MoU with a Thai company to develop a six-megawatt concentrated solar power plant in southern Thailand.
Continue readingAcciona and Navantia join forces in offshore wind energy in Spain
The president of Acciona Energy, Carmen Becerril, and the CEO of Navantia, Luis Cacho, signed a co-operation agreement in the field of offshore wind power.
Continue readingTen Transit Connect Electric Vans Join New York City Fleet
The thrust for adoption of EV technology is growing rapidly worldwide and Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Drive Electric NYC’ educational program will help sustain that momentum by providing facts about electric vehicles.
Continue readingDaimler and Bosch sign agreements for electric vehicles JV
Like lithium-ion batteries, electric motors are key components for our electric vehicles. It is extremely important that competence in this field is maintained in Germany.
Continue readingGE To Provide Wind Turbines For First Wind Farm In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Cong Ly Company also has plans for a second phase of the project, which would add up to 120 megawatts of wind power to help resolve the country’s chronic power shortages.
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