IMPSA will get a US$ 150 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help finance its plans to expand wind energy generation in Latin America.
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Wpd builds 36.8 MW wind farm in Croatia with wind turbines from Enercon
wpd has signed a contract to build the 36.8 MW Ponikve wind power farm 45 km north west of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Continue readingBolivia turns to wind power
In February 2010 a meteo tower was installed in Bolivia to collect data confirming the existence of sufficient wind energy to warrant a wind farm.
Continue readingVestas receives 59 MW wind energy order in Michigan, USA
Vestas has received a wind power order for 33 V100-1.8 MW wind turbines for a wind farm.
Continue readingIER turns back on facts, bashes wind energy
The U.S. wind power industry is well ahead of the year-by-year schedule of new capacity additions that the 20% Report outlined in order to reach that level of contribution by 2030.
Continue readingTying wind energy into the grid
UD-led team receives grant to investigate interconnection and transmission of wind farm.
Continue readingWindMade label already attracting major global brands
Major global companies including Motorola Mobility, Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg, Method and BD have procured or have pledged to procure at least 25 percent of their operations’ power consumption from wind energy.
Continue readingMeat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds.
Continue readingFuture wind turbines battle it out in technology contest at OFFSHORE 2011
Offshore wind energy is where the newest and biggest wind turbines are. Right now we?re at 5 MW, but soon 10 MW wind turbines could become the norm at sea, or even more powerful.
Continue readingPower plant stress on freshwater supplies in Southeast
This article by Aaron Sarver was from Footprints on the Path to Clean Energy, the blog of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Continue readingWindTV: Oregon wind energy training program creates opportunity
Tyrell Quantrell has found a promising career in the wind power industry, and he found it right at home in the Pacific Northwest. Quantrell now works as a wind turbines technician.
Continue readingFuhrländer to manufacture wind turbines in the Ukraine
Fuhrlander has announced plans to manufacture wind turbines for the Ukrainian wind farm market at the Kramatorsky Heavy Machine Factory.
Continue readingUS has large geothermal resources, but recent growth is slower than wind energy
Geothermal energy’s greatest growth potential is in the western states. US geothermal energy net electricity generation totaled 10898 million kilowatthours (kWh) during the first eight months of 2011.
Continue readingPolyPlus Lithium Battery Named One of TIME Magazine?s Top Inventions for 2011
The PolyPlus lithium-water battery has achieved a world record energy density of 1300 Wh/kg, many times more than the maximum energy density of current lithium-ion batteries.
Continue readingNRG acquires California-based solar energy firm
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired San Francisco-based Solar Power Partners, a leading developer of commercial and industrial (C&I) distributed solar projects.
Continue readingIndian solar power projects miss deadline
Bridge to India has released an analysis which states that a number of solar energy photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects.
Continue readingNew WindTV segment features Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
Apple Computer, Inc., co-founder Steve ?Woz? Wozniak gives some short takes on his impression of wind power and the wind energy industry in a new video segment from AWEA?s WindTV channel.
Continue readingNearly 100,000 Electric Vehicles to Be Enabled with Vehicle to Grid Technologies
The lithium ion batteries used in plug-in electric cars (PEVs) will be increasingly utilized by property owners and grid operators to provide a wide variety of energy services.
Continue readingBetter batteries for electric cars
A team of engineers at Northwestern University say they have created a new electrode for lithium-ion batteries that will allow cells to hold up to 10 times as much charge and recharge 10 times faste.
Continue readingVolkswagen Aims to Make Electric Vehicles in China
Governments in China and Europe are getting ?more realistic that electric cars could quickly replace internal- combustion engines,? he said.
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