The visitors were also briefed on other ongoing Masdar projects, including the 100 MW concentrating solar thermal power plant, Shams One, and other similar plants in Spain.

RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind energy, wave energy and tidal energy industry, has welcomed the launch of the Marine Energy Array Demonstrator (MEAD) scheme.

A new report says New Mexico is among the nation’s leaders in production of electricity from solar power.

Wind energy manufacturer Suzlon Group had been selected as the preferred supplier by Cennergi for a 138 MW wind farm currently under development in South Africa.

Observing that the country was going through a power crisis, Minister of state in PMO V. Narayanasamy appealed to scientists to help tap photovoltaic solar power to the maximum extent possible.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited a factory producing wind turbines for wind energy in Urumchi on the first day of his official trip to China.

The Indian Wind Power Association has said 3200 MW of wind turbines capacity was commissioned in the country during 2011-12 in spite of tough times.

outh Dakota and North Dakota rank among the top three states in the percentage of electric power generated by wind farm. A report says 22 percent of South Dakota’s electricity last year was provided by wind turbines.

The company has delivered over 200 MW wind energy last fiscal year, through its wind farm projects existing in six states, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

This offshore wind energy programme represents a unique opportunity for France to revitalise the regions while building up a carbon emission-free energy industry.

An April 17 online auction thought to be one of the first of its kind will offer the bankrupt Maricopa concentrated solar power plant in Peoria, which uses a rare solar-thermal technology.

Students in six Illinois schools will learn wind power through model wind turbines and weather balloons next year.

The World Wind Energy Association WWEA and the German Wind Energy Association BWE invite the world community of wind to the 11th World Wind Energy Conference in Bonn, Germany, from 3-5 July 2012.

The European Consortium led by France’s leading electricity producer Electricity of France (EDF) has won three offshore wind energy projects in France.

A standard seabed survey (for a 1000 hectares wind farm with about 30 wind turbines) takes between 20-30 days or 20-35 hectares per day and is a must if risks are to be reduced to the very minimum.

The U.S Federal government encourages residents to go for photovoltaic solar power by providing subsidies for installation or some other incentive.

The Watertown (S.D.) Public Opinion, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, became the latest in a series of newspapers across the country to support an extension of the federal wind energy PTC.