A Besturn electric car made by FAW Group Corp at an auto show in Beijing. While Chinese automakers regard electric cars as an opportunity to allow them to lead the global industry, they are also very cautious.
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Offshore wind turbines installed at Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm
Vattenfall has completed the installation of the final wind turbines at its wind power off the coast of northwest England, a wind farm utilising REpower’s 5M wind turbines.
Continue readingGreen Power Investment To Build Wind Energy Plant In Northern Japan
Construction on the wind power with 55 wind turbines is to begin as early as the summer of 2013.
Continue readingHybrid Electric Locomotives Will Utilize 514 MWh of Battery Capacity
Most of this capacity will be in lead acid and advanced lead acid batteries, with a portion of the market utilizing sodium metal halide and lithium ion batteries.
Continue reading80 MW Solar Energy Plant to Open in Ukraine
It is aimed at producing electric energy from the clean sources – the solar power and the wind energy- in the amount of 2,000 MW.
Continue readingMichael Bloomberg was contributing $50 million to the Sierra Club?s Beyond Coal Campaign
More than 300 new wind farm plants came online, totaling over 23,000 megawatts of wind energy generating capacity?the electricity output equivalent of 23 coal-fired power plants.
Continue readingRobert Bryce, King of the NIMBYs
Robert Bryce, of the Koch Industries- and Exxon-funded Manhattan Institute, continues firing off anti-wind energy diatribes every day or two.
Continue readingWind energy project with Vestas’ wind turbines in Colorado
The $26.5 million wind power project would feature 16 wind turbines made by Vestas plants in Pueblo and Northern Colorado.
Continue readingVestas secures 190 MW wind energy contract for Canada
Vestas secures 190 MW service-renewal wind turbines contract for Canada?s second largest wind farm. Vestas has supplied 1,021 wind turbines to Canada totaling 1,683 MW of installed wind power capacity.
Continue readingSolar Power Markets Reach $338.2 Billion By 2017
Solar energy has achieved recognized grid parity in some areas and is approaching recognized grid parity in other areas. Large fortunes are to be made in concentrated solar power CSP.
Continue readingElectric vehicles plugged into the grid could make owners a bundle
Energy researchers and electric car with lithium ion batteries developers are looking to vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems as part of the future of electric cars.
Continue readingSiemens secures wind energy order for sixth offshore wind farm in Germany
Siemens Energy has secured another wind turbines order for an offshore wind power plant in Germany.
Continue readingReliance Power Plans 200-Megawatt Wind Energy Project in India
The Vashpet wind farm in Maharashtra state is expected to be completed by September 2012 and could be expanded to 400 megawatts.
Continue readingWindMW completes financing for German offshore wind energy plant
The 80 wind turbines wind farm will be situated approximately 50km off the German coast in the North Sea and construction is expected to be completed in 2013.
Continue readingVestas establishes its first wind energy assembly facility in Brazil
This includes an earlier secured order to supply wind turbines with a total capacity of 90 MW for three wind farm plants in Bahia, Brazil ? Sao Pedro do Lago, Pedra Branca, and Sete Gameleiras.
Continue readingTurkey to hold third wind energy congress
?Turkey could be among the top three producers of wind power and has a predictable and attractive market for wind farm investors,? according to the European Wind Energy Association.
Continue readingSuzlon 85 MW new wind farm orders for wind turbines in India
The total estimated onshore wind power potential in India, as per data from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), is over 48,000 MW.
Continue readingVestas to supply wind turbines for Spanish wind farm in Burgos
Vestas has secured wind power contracts from Brulles Eolica and CYL Energia Eolica to supply wind turbines with a total generating capacity of 92 MW for two wind energy projects in Burgos, Spain.
Continue readingOffshore Wind Power Encourage Establishment of New Species
The research financed by NoordzeeWind, a partnership of Shell Wind Energy and Nuon, has concentrated its efforts to find the environmental impacts of an offshore wind farm near Egmond aan Zee.
Continue readingWind energy set to triple by 2020 in EU
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has published its scenarios for onshore and offshore wind power deployment in the EU, ahead of the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050.
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