RWE npower renewables has been granted planning permission to build a wind farm in the East Midlands that could generate at least £540,000 for the local community.

A broad, nonpartisan coalition of 369 members, including wind turbines manufacturing, wind farm and wind power interests, issued a letter endorsing a four year extension to wind energy’s key federal tax incentive.

Companies using the WindMade label must source a minimum of 25 percent of the electricity consumed from wind power. The wind energy share can be procured through a company-owned wind farm generation facility.

PLNU continues to show their commitment to sustainability with one of the highest ratios of solar power to students in the US SPG Solar – a leading national solar energy company.

The Dervish license extension also paves the way for a second plant using GE’s FlexEfficiency technology and eSolar’s concentrated solar power.

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that the global Concentrating Solar Thermal Power market will continue to experience ups and downs between now and 2020.

AOL Energy, as part of a “feature week on wind,” devotes an article to the U.S. Treasury’s “Section 1603” program, which provided a system of cash payments in lieu of federal tax credits to wind farm developers.

Why is offshore wind power expensive compared to onshore wind turbines? We all are aware that at this moment the costs are higher compared to onshore wind farm.

This loan will help finance the Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project, one of the first large-scale solar thermal plants of this kind in North Africa to exploit the region’s vast solar energy resources.

Manufacturers, farm and business leaders join forces to endorse key wind energy tax incentive.

The companies pioneering the use of the world’s first wind power consumer label were unveiled today at an event hosted by WindMade? and the UN Global Compact in New York.

Abengoa commissions 200 MW of concentrated solar thermal power in Spain, Algeria.

EU, U.S. and Japan agreed rules to speed up introduction of electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries.

Areva SA (CEI), which entered the concentrated solar energy market last year by acquiring Ausra Inc., expects to have contracts to sell as much as 300 MW of concentrating solar thermal systems by the end of the year.

Ouarzazate is only the first part of Morocco’s ambitious plan of developing 2000 megawatts in solar energy capacity by 2020. The first stage is a concentrated solar thermal power design, using parabolic trough mirrors.

The $100 million wind energy project will be located 70 kilometers southeast of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia?s capital city, and is set to open in 2012.

This large-scale $50 million wind energy project, located in the town of La Higuera in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, consists of 10 wind turbines that generate 20 megawatts of wind power.

RPM Access, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, is an independent developer, owner and operator of wind farm projects with its main focus on the development of high quality wind power farms in the Midwest.

Pennsylvania currently has 17 operating wind power plants with a production capacity of 818 megawatts, with another 100 megawatts under construction.