The 3-MW Alstom wind turbine towers above the nearby 1.5-MW GE and 2.3-MW Siemens wind turbines with its 90-meter tower and 100-meter rotor diameter.
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SunReports Enters Canadian Solar Energy Market
SunReports, a leading provider of performance monitoring solutions for residential and commercial solar thermal and photovoltaic installations, has entered into a distribution partnership with Latitude51 Solar.
Continue readingPolicy support for wind power in India
Currently 18 of the 25 State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) have issued feed-in tariffs for wind energy. Wind turbines must play a key role in fuelling India?s growing economy.
Continue readingLG Chem opens lithium ion batteries factory for electric vehicles
LG Chem has completed the lithium ion batteries plant, which is capable of powering 100,000 electric cars per year.
Continue readingElectric Vehicles Volt Wins Edison Awards
Innovation has been at the heart of the electric car Volt from its onset; from the development of the lithium ion batteries to the drive unit and the driver connectivity.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa hosts President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting
Obama’s visit to one of Gamesa’s wind power plants — his third visit in recent years, and his first as President of the United States — comes within the framework of a campaign to outline his energy plan.
Continue readingChina adds 18.9 GW of new wind farm capacity in 2010
China added 18.9 GW of new wind energy capacity, thereby reaching a total wind power installed capacity of 44.7 GW.
Continue readingWind energy Goldwind Announces 2010 Annual Results
In 2010, China?s wind power continued to experience rapid growth. The wind farm?s relatively small contribution so far, there is a fantastic opportunity for the rapid growth of the Chinese wind turbines industry.
Continue readingOffshore wind energy is driving the UK?s green growth objectives
The UK offshore wind power industry is expected to capture about 10% of the global sector by 2050 and employ up to 230,000 people. UK wind farm related exports could create up to 80% of total new jobs in the sector.
Continue readingRenewable energy: 19 new priority projects in the USA
They include 9 solar power (concentrated solar thermal energy and photovoltaic), 5 wind energy and 5 geothermal energy projects ? totaling 4.366 MW ? to be developed on public lands.
Continue readingWind energy EDPR takes full control of GENESA
Genesa is a company that as of Dec-2010 had in Spain 1.7 GW of wind power installed capacity, 50 MW wind farm under construction and 3.9 GW of wind turbines in pipeline & prospects
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa launches its new G136-4.5 MW wind turbines
Gamesa will open an office in Hamburg for its offshore wind power business in the second quarter of the year, in order to tap growth in one of the world’s largest marine wind farm markets.
Continue readingWind power is not expensive
How expensive IS wind energy? Are future generations doomed to poverty because of the skyrocketing costs and limited supplies of wind turbines? the price from new wind farm plants ranged from 4 to 9 cents per kWh.
Continue readingFluor selected by SunPower to build 20-MW Arizona photovoltaic solar power plant
SunPower awarded Fluor the construction of the 20-MW Copper Crossing photovoltaic solar energy plant on 144 acres of formerly private agricultural land in Pinal County.
Continue readingInitiative to pave the way for electric cars
In Italy Enel Distribuzione is devising the recharge infrastructure for electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries as well as coordinating demo projects.
Continue readingVestas to supply wind turbines for wind energy projects in Brazil
Wind power Vestas has secured a wind energy contract from Energisa to supply wind turbines with a total generating capacity of 150 MW for wind farm projects in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Continue readingSolFocus 1 MW concentrated solar photovoltaic system
SolFocus, Bechtel Power, and developer Sol Orchard just announced that the 1-megawatt concentrated solar photovoltaic plant was completed for Nichols Farms in Hanford, California.
Continue readingGlobal Clean Energy Investment Reached Record $243 Billion in 2010
China, Germany, Italy and India were among the nations that most successfully attracted private investments, according to new research released by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Continue readingBTM and Make Consulting – The Wind Power Sector
The Wind Energy is the fastest growing electricity generation technology. The level of annual installed wind farm capacity has grown at an average rate of 27.6% p.a. for the past five years.
Continue readingWind power Nordex awarded contract for 28.6 MW wind farm
Nordex is to supply 22 wind turbines for the Drone Hill wind energy project in Scotland.
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