International studies have also announced the continuous rise of Concentrating Solar Power. Swiss bank Sarasin forecasts installed output worth 32 gigawatts (GW) in 2020.
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The industry expects to add 100,000 more wind turbines over the next two decades
International wind farm operators and OEMs will be meeting at the Wind Energy Update?s Operations and Maintenance Summit USA 2011 in Dallas (March 29-30).
Continue readingBASF hikes research spending to new record level
The chemical industry is making decisive contributions to the mobility of tomorrow. This applies to the classical internal combustion engine and to hybrid drives and future electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingEnercon installs world’s most powerful wind energy converter E-126/7.5 MW
Enercon has installed what is currently the world`s most powerful wind power converter, an E-126/7.5 MW wind turbine, at its wind farm in Magdeburg-Rothensee in Germany.
Continue readingThere are 679 MW of installed CSP capacity worldwide and more than 2000 MW under construction
According to The Global Concentrated Solar Power Industry Report currently, there are 679 MW of installed Concentrating Solar Power capacity worldwide and more than 2000 MW under construction.
Continue readingInvestment in wave and tidal energy to jump
A recent report released by Douglas-Westwood projects that $1.2 billion will be spent on wave and tidal current stream sectors over the next five years.
Continue readingPhoton’s Solar Electric Utility Conference to Highlights Opportunities, Challenges of North America’s Solar Boom
The 5th Solar Electric Utility Conference is part of Photon’s Solar Terawatt-hours Conference Series, which takes place each year both in Europe and the United States.
Continue readingLithium mining in Nevada
When President Barack Obama highlighted his investment priorities during the State of the Union speech last week, he made special mention of electric cars with lithium ion batteries.
Continue readingBrookfield Renewable Power Acquires Controlling Stake in Aeolis Wind’s Thunder Mountain Wind Energy Project
The wind farn has obtained an environmental assessment certificate for up to approximately 320 MW of wind power generation.
Continue readingRestoring Food Security for All Takes Action on Many Fronts By Lester R. Brown
Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain to produce fuel for cars.
Continue readingEDP Renewables inaugurates the Terra Fria wind farm in Montalegre, Portugal
The wind farm has installed wind power capacity of 96 MW. The wind energy plant comprises 48 Enercon E82 wind turbines.
Continue readingEnel Green Power EBITDA Rises 7.7%
Net electricity generated amounted to 21.8 TWh, of which 11.1 TWh (51%) from hydroelectric, 4.9 TWh (22%) from wind energy, 5.3 TWh (24%) from geothermal energy, and 0.5 TWh (3%) from other renewable energy technologies.
Continue readingVehicle-to-Grid (V2G) – Investment in Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure
The global vehicle-to-grid (V2G) market is projected to grow at a blistering growth rate during the forecast period 2012-2020.
Continue readingGE, ACS Offer Advanced Services for Wind Turbines
GE declared that it has contracted a 10-year accord with Cobra Energia, a Spanish wind energy developing company, to offer advanced services for its 178 GE wind turbines erected at eight wind farms all over Spain.
Continue readingAGL Selects KBR for Wind Farm in Australia
AGL Energy Limited (AGL) has chosen KBR to deliver project management services for its wind turbines plant in Victoria, Australia.
Continue readingU.S. – 5.6 GW of additional wind energy with 3,000 wind turbines
U.S. – More wind farm plants are under construction than in all of 2010 ? 5.6 GW of additional wind power capacity ? equivalent to about 3000 new wind turbines.
Continue readingEU leaders: don?t waste this opportunity By Christian Kjaer
Suez canal. What better reason could there be to focus on switching to domestically produced renewable energy such as wind energy and solar power?
Continue readingBahrain MoU signed for wind energy desalination technology
Wind power desalination technology is to be promoted in Bahrain under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on 31 January 2011 between Jade Consultancy of Bahrain and Synlift Systems GmbH of Germany.
Continue readingNational Report on Electric Vehicles
Plug-In Electric Vehicles: A Practical Plan for Progress represents a first-ever evaluation of one of President Obama’s chief environmental campaign goals — putting one million electric vehicles on U.S. highways by 2015.
Continue readingGlobal wind energy capacity increases by 22% in 2010: 194.4 GW
Global wind power installations increased by 35.8 GW in 2010. Wind turbines capacity up to 194.4 GW, a 22.5% increase on the 158.7 GW wind farm installed at the end of 2009.
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