Solar power has finally become a viable option, driven by falling prices for photovoltaic panels and the soaring cost of oil, say proponents of the alternative energy.

Founded in 2005, Shear Wind is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is engaged in the exploration and development of renewable wind power properties in Canada.

Telvent’s MxVision WeatherSentry Online Wind Energy Edition warns Gamesa’s wind farm operators when lightning strikes are detected within a predefined radius.

Suzlon Group has been selected as the preferred supplier by Cennergi for a 138MW wind energy project currently under development in South Africa.

The UK government has funded a prize intended to encourage Britain’s first full-scale wave energy projects.

Denver Post editorial writer Alicia Caldwell underlined the newspaper’s previous support for an extension of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) yesterday with a brief commentary on “The Spot”.

More than half a million people will be working for the wind energy industry in Europe by 2020.

The decision by the French government to award tenders to build offshore wind energy farms to produce 2 GW of energy suggests that wind turbines is high up the Elysée?s list of alternatives to nuclear.

The wind energy plant in the country department of Maldonado, consisting of 14 wind turbines with a generating capacity of 3MW each.

Acciona is present in the wind power and concentrated solar power, in addition to manufacturing wind turbines and is a great promoter of wind farm.

Cape Wind is America?s first offshore wind farm to secure Federal and State approval with Siemens’ wind turbines.

China was the world’s largest wind energy market in 2011, accounting for around 40% of international new wind power installations.

China’s domestic demand for photovoltaic solar power is expected to nudge 5GW by the end of 2012, jumping over Germany and Italy to become the world’s number one.

Solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, concentrated solar power (CSP), solar water heating systems, and biofuels grew at rates ranging from around 15% to nearly 50% annually.

Concentrating Solar Power would be used. And not just to heat the limestone ? but also to help in electrolysis. This would produce a different chemical reaction without a carbon dioxide byproduct.

Czech company Wind Energy Invest will construct Paravani (Samtskhe-Javakheti, Southern Georgia) wind farm with a minimum installed wind power capacity of 50 MW.

Japan is desperately trying to replace its nuclear-power capacity with wind energy, geothermal energy and solar power. It still has a long way to go.

Wind turbines of the first wind farm in Ethiopia and are being assembled. The wind power generators were exported from Vigo.

NPS exports its NPS 100 wind turbines for installation into European Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) wind-farm plants and into hybrid power applications, where wind energy offsets expensive diesel-generated electricity.

As the end-of-year expiration of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) inches closer, calls for its extension–as soon as possible, to prevent job loss in a growing industry–are growing louder.