The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published offshore wind farm statistics for the first half year of 2011, showing a comfortable 4.5% increase in installations of offshore wind turbines.
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Michigan – Lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles
The Battery Show will highlight not only how the advanced battery market will develop globally, but also how new technology and innovation will drive performance, safety and cost.
Continue readingEnvironmental Refugees, Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables, and Toxic Pollutants
Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding deserts, falling water tables, and toxic waste and radiation are also forcing people from their homes.
Continue readingFree access to unique wind energy measurements
The wind power project, which has aroused great interest among scientists, has now been published in the journal ?Boundary-Layer Meteorology?, giving the public free access to the measurements.
Continue readingREpower wins 50 MW wind turbines order for Canadian wind farm projects
REpower Systems SE has concluded a wind power contract with WindWorks Power Corp for the delivery of a total of 25 wind turbines for 5 wind energy projects at Ontario in Canada
Continue readingWind energy in Nepal – it possible to produce 20 MW through wind power in Kathmandu
The team identified hills to the valley?s west and east as potential wind farm sites. Besides, the cost per megawatt for a hydro plant and a wind turbines based plant is about the same.
Continue readingDTE Energy Wind Energy Purchase Gets MPSC Ok.
DTE Energy is more than halfway to its renewable energy goal with a contract to purchase 120 megawatts (MW) from a wind farm in Tuscola, Bay and Saginaw counties.
Continue readingChina has set a target of creating 3 GW of concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) by 2020
The Chinese government plans to expand its concentrated solar energy capacity to 3 GW by 2020. China has recently emerged as the world’s dominant player of solar power.
Continue readingGeothermal energy hold the potential to generate 25.4 gigawatts of electricity in Taiwan
Hualien and Taitung counties in eastern Taiwan could produce 15.1 GW of electricity, followed by northeastern Yilan County?s 7.4 GW and the Datun volcano group?s 2.9 GW.
Continue readingJapan could produce 80,000 MW with geothermal energy
Policy Institute in April estimated that Japan could produce 80,000 megawatts and meet more than half its electricity needs with conventional geothermal energy.
Continue readingGeothermal energy could readily meet up to 40 percent of Indonesia?s energy needs
Little progress has been made in increasing renewable energy usage, but Indonesia has enormous renewable energy potential. Geothermal energy could readily meet up to 40 percent of Indonesia?s energy needs.
Continue readingIran’s first 5 MW geothermal energy plant
Iran’s first geothermal energy pilot plant would be built in Meshkin-Shahr town–northwestern Iran.
Continue readingLithium phosphate batteries to power 100 UPS all electric vehicles in California
Valence Technology is a global leader in the development and manufacture of safe, long-life lithium iron magnesium phosphate advanced energy storage solutions.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas new nacelle assembly plant
The new wind turbines assembly facility will be dedicated to assembly of nacelles. The assembly facility is expected to start operations in Q4 2011 to satisfy the needs of the wind farm project pipeline in Brazil.
Continue readingGreece plans major solar energy exports to Germany
Greece plans to develop some 20,000 hectares of solar power parks in a bid to export renewable energy to Germany.
Continue readingTamil Nadu Govt seeks private players support to construct wind power infra
The government of southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is looking for support from private sector players for the development of infrastructure for wind farm evacuation in the state.
Continue readingDTE Energy signs PPA Contract with Tuscola Bay Wind Farm
DTE Energy has won a $485 million wind power contract to purchase 120 MW wind energy from a wind farm located in Tuscola, Bay and Saginaw counties.
Continue readingWindWorks, REpower Partner for MM92 wind turbines for Canadian wind energy project
Apart from providing wind power, the wind farm building and maintenance will create some new on-site job opportunities.
Continue readingGM partners with LG to create lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles
LG Chem, a subsidiary of LG, supplies the lithium ion batteries that power the electric car Volt. GM is teaming up with LG to develop electric cars that go beyond the capabilities of the Chevy Volt.
Continue readingJapan law expected to give wind energy a boost
Some 100-meter-tall wind turbines are slowly spinning near a troubled nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture.
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