EDF won three of the tenders four offshore wind power sites while a fourth wind energy plant was won by Spain’s Iberdrola in partnership with French state-owned nuclear reactor maker Areva (wind turbines).

A recent study has highlighted the potential of one form of solar energy, Concentrating Solar Thermal Power, to make a significant contribution to meeting future electricity demands from renewable sources in Europe.

Iberdrola and French nuclear group Areva has been done with the granting of a wind farm in France, of the two who was bidding, said the daily Le Figaro. Areva manufactures wind turbines for Iberdrola wind farm.

National Solar Power Partners has reached a major milestone in its plans to build solar energy facilities totaling 700 megawatts (MW) in Florida.

Guardian Glass Spreading Across Solar Value Chain in Concentrating Solar Thermal Power, Photovoltaic Solar Power, and BIPV.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) joined representatives from BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power at their Flat Ridge 2 wind farm in Harper County to mark the launch of the wind power project?s construction.

Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica is engaged in design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of wind turbines. The wind power company operates mainly in wind farm market of Europe, the US, China, India and Brazil.

Mesa in 2008 agreed to buy 667 1.5-MW GE wind turbines for the Pampa wind power project. Mesa said later that year it would use some of the 333 wind turbines at wind energy projects in Minnesota and Canada.

The report also incorporates a brief overview of the major wind farm bases in China. This section includes a snapshot of each of the major ?GW scale wind power bases? in China.

Cennergi, the newly launched South African energy company selected Suzlon group (Suzlon), the world’s fifth largest wind power manufacturer, as the preferred supplier for a 138 MW wind energy in South Africa.

State officials joined representatives of BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power on Wednesday to mark the start of work on the Flat Ridge 2 wind farm in Harper County.

GE Energy Financial Services has previously invested with Enel Green Power in a 101-megawatt wind farm in Smoky Hills, Kansas, and a 63-megawatt wind farm in Scurry County, Texas.

Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said: This wind energy will bring enormous benefits to the people of Shetland, generating more than £30m in annual income for the entire Shetland community.

The New York Power Authority authorized a $30 million solar power research and development program aimed at lowering the cost of solar energy on March 27.

China’s wind power market bubble will deflate as the industry enters the worst year in its history, said the Spanish wind turbines maker Gamesa.

Wind power accounted for just 2.9 percent of total electricity generation in the United States in 2011. In five U.S. states, however, 10 percent or more of electricity generation came from wind turbines.

At the Ivanpah solar concentrated solar power plant, thousands of software-controlled mirrors track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight to a boiler that sits atop a tower.

Mesa Power Group LLC, a Texas-based wind energy development company, is partnering with Wind Tex Energy, LP, on the Stephens Bor-Lynn Wind Power Project (SBL), about 50 miles south of Lubbock.