Huge loans from the Chinese Development Bank are helping Chinese solar power companies push American solar firms out of the market.
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Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) – Global Market Size
?Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) – Global Market Size, Competitive Landscape, Regulations & Investment Analysis to 2020? is the latest report from GlobalData.
Continue readingMajor Breakthrough in Decreasing the Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Production
FUSION is a non-concentrating, customizable optical surface technology that substantially increases the solar power output of both new installed photovoltaic panels for a production cost of less than $0.01/watt.
Continue readingMexico?s First Integrated Solar Energy Company
The company will construct a concentrated solar power system manufacturing plant and use the panels produced by the plant for a utility-sized solar energy generation facility.
Continue readingTurkey’s wind energy reached 1,600 megawatts
Wind power plant inaugurated in Akhisar. There are 72 wind farm plants across Turkey. So far, 1.6 billion euro has been invested in these wind turbines.
Continue readingVictorian Premier Ted Baillieu wages war on clean energy
Will NSW?s Liberal-National state government follow its Victorian colleagues and block the development of wind energy in the state?
Continue readingWind Energy REpower Presents New Variant of MM100 Wind Turbines
REpower Systems SE (WKN 617703) is to present a 50-hertz version of its new MM100 wind turbine at the Italian wind energy trade fair, Eolica Expo Mediterranean, from 14 to 16 September in Rome.
Continue readingWind energy Nordex expands wind power business in Eastern Europe
Market entry in Romania with wind farm projects totalling 20 megawatts.
Continue readingBASF establishes multimaterial lightweight composites team
Endless fibers are already in use today in aircraft and wind energy applications, in plant construction, in prototype construction and in short-run automotive applications.
Continue readingNissan Develops New Quick Charger for Electric Vehicles
It complies with CHAdeMO protocol and is compatible with Nissan electric cars as well as electric vehicles manufactured by other companies.
Continue readingCobalt: A Critical Metal To Electric Cars
The DOE sees cobalt as such a critical metal because of its use in lithium ion batteries. The DOE predicts that each electric car (PHEVs and Electric Vehicles) will demand 9.4 kg of cobalt.
Continue readingClouds’ effects on solar power
The U.S. Department of Energy?s NREL has produced and made available a rich data set showing what happens, second-by-second, when clouds pass over a solar energy installation.
Continue readingSolar Energy Innovations
DOE to provide $5.8 million to support early-stage solar power technologies through Incubator program at NREL.
Continue readingNuclear Power Shutdown in Japan Possible by 2012
Japan?s wind energy and solar power generation capacity can be ramped up from the existing 3,500 MW to 47,200 MW by 2015.
Continue readingNew Directions in Energy Production
They point out that the use of smaller spaces could increase power density and reduce operating costs; optofluidics offers flexibility when concentrating sunlight for solar collection and photovoltaic panels.
Continue readingU.S. – 41 New Offshore Wind Energy R&D Projects
The $43 million dollars in offshore wind turbines funding Secretary Chu announced is part of a coordinated federal strategy to put the nation’s wind power resources to work.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa makes three new wind power contracts in Sweden
First orders for the G9X- 2.0 MW wind turbines (20 MW) for two Swedish wind farm plants from Triventus and Spanish Power.
Continue readingRegulatory framework for wind energy generation in Brazil
The development of wind power in Brazil started in 2002 based on the public policies adopted under the Programme of Incentives for Alternative Electricity Sources (PROINFA).
Continue readingGlobal Photovoltaic Solar Energy Shipments to Reach 30 GW in 2015
The market outlook for photovoltaics solar power in the first quarter of 2011 was rather dismal.
Continue readingUniversity of Delaware wins $9.1 million in advanced solar power research grants
The University of Delaware has won $9.1 million for solar energy research and development through the SunShot Initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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