Greece?s Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou said he expects an agreement by the end of the year that will advance a 20 billion-euro ($27 billion) solar power project, part of an initiative to boost the economy.

Wind energy has grown by 24 percent in 2010, while Enel Green Power almost doubled its installed wind farm capacity.

Mexico?s first high level international wind energy event will take place on 14-15 February 2012 in Mexico City. Mexico WindPower 2012 is being organized by the Mexican Wind Energy Association, EJK and GWEC.

Tauhara 2 was a key geothermal energy project for Contact and for New Zealand.

While offshore wind turbines is well established in Europe, with some wind farm projects there in place for more than 20 years, there are not yet any in operation or under construction in North America.

NRG Energy officially unveiled its 20- megawatt solar energy photovoltaic plant on 210 acres in the middle of the desert in Santa Teresa.

It utilizes concentrating solar power (CSP) technology, which involves using numerous mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a solar tower to produce steam.

Colorado State completed one of the largest solar plants at a U.S. university in January 2011 in collaboration with its renewable energy developer Sun Edison.

The next step has been made in the development of renewable energy sources in Azerbaijan. There were installed wind power with 0.9 MW, a photovoltaic solar energy plant with 1.8 MW and a bioenergy (1 MW).

A similar approach will be applied to its concentrated solar power (CSP) business, as Siemens believes CSP will play a big role in supporting government’s focus on job creation through the maximisation of local content.

At least 10 German firms are coming to the Philippines soon to explore investment opportunities involving renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind power.

In order to attract investment in the energy sector, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has set upfront tariff for wind farm projects along with cutting down paper work.

Today it has a total installed wind tubines capacity of 5,204 MW (2010 figures) which accounts for 6% of the EU?s total wind farm capacity – the sector is beginning to catch up with its European cousins.

A new offshore wind energy project, West of Duddon Sands, is to have a capacity of 389 MW ? enough to meet the electricity consumption of 300,000 households in the UK.

German concentrated solar thermal power developer Solar Millennium announced that it was selling Blythe and three other solar energy projects in its pipeline to solarhybrid.

Deepwater Wind has submitted a plan to develop an offshore wind farm. The 1,000-megawatt wind power project would be located between Block Island and Martha?s Vineyard and would boast as many as 200 wind turbines.

“After the successful installation of the Alpha Ventus and Ormonde offshore wind energy projects, we are very pleased to work together with Vattenfall also in the area of onshore wind power.”