Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric) and Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) debuted a solar energy charging station for electric vehicles at the MMNA headquarters in Cypress.
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Energy Storage in Commercial Buildings
In some markets, these requirements are met by TES and by flow batteries now, and possibly by lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries in a few years.
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SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants in the US, will partner with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE).
Continue readingBring back the Photovoltaics Summit and Concentrated Solar Thermal Power to California next year
?We are pleased to bring back the Photovoltaics Summit and Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy to California next year,? said Christopher Smith, senior conference producer at IntertechPira.
Continue readingPostponing a move to 30% could damage competitiveness
Today Europe leads the world in wind power technology attracting billions of euros in investments (?12.7 billion in 2010 alone) and creating thousands of green jobs.
Continue readingUN reports strong surge in investments in renewable energy
China, developing countries are now biggest investors in large-scale renewables like wind energy and solar thermal while Germany surges ahead on rooftop solar power.
Continue readingIn a world facing climate change, wind power is the energy answer
David Suzuki, Canada?s best-known environmentalist, dismissed wind turbines critics on Tuesday and said the emissions-free generating technology should be embraced by a world dealing with climate change.
Continue readingKuraymat concentrated solar thermal power plant to boost Egypt’s power production
Spanning across the uninhabited desert landscape, theConcentrating Solar Power plant will collect solar energy through a total mirror surface area of 130,000m2.
Continue readingNissan Begins Tests for NV200 Electric Vehicles
Preparing electric cars with lithium ion batteries for the compact commercial market, aiming to become the leader in zero emissions.
Continue readingNew Kansas wind energy plant
Duke Energy Corp. is building its second large-scale wind farm in Kansas, providing electricity for Kansas City Power & Light Co..
Continue readingWind energy in Cook Islands
This project spans a new wind power monitoring system for Atiu, moving the wind monitoring system from Mitiaro to Mauke as well as a site study for a wind farm on Rarotonga.
Continue readingBP secures wind power PPA for a wind farm
BP Wind Energy has entered into two long-term PPA from its proposed Mehoopany Wind Farm in the US state of Pennsylvania.
Continue readingNordex to deliver 32.5 MW in wind energy in Poland and France
Wind power Nordex has received two new wind turbines orders from Poland and France that will amount to 32.5 MW of additional wind farm capacity between the two countries.
Continue readingNew Jersey has the chance to be the first state in the country to have an offshore wind energy program
An offshore wind farm program would create thousands of jobs for the state.
Continue readingSolar energy in China
Zhao Chunjiang’s dream is that one day every rooftop in this eastern metropolis will have a solar power generator.
Continue readingTibet’s largest solar energy plant starts operation
The 30-megawatt (MW) solar power plant project is located in Xigaze Prefecture, about 3 km northwest of Tibet’s second-largest city of Xigaze.
Continue readingSkyFuel Named Concentrating Solar Power Supplier of the Year
Parabolic trough solar thermal maker SkyFuel was honored as concentrated solar energy (CSP) Technology Supplier of the Year at last week’s CSP Today USA Summit in Las Vegas.
Continue readingBD Otomotive in talks to rescue electric car maker Think
?Our intentions are simple ? to bring Think out of bankruptcy and make it the affordable urban electric vehicles for Europe it was always designed to be,? BD Otomotive Chairman Osman Boyner said. Think sold just 1,043 electric cars of the City in 2010.
Continue readingJV to Manufacture Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries For Electric Vehicles
The Dow Chemical Company and Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube) announced an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and market formulated electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in energy storage.
Continue readingMitsubishi unveils cheaper i-MiEV electric vehicles
The electric car i-MiEV would be able to power an average household for at least a day.
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