Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has raised £3.5m from an investor group led by Carbon Trust Investments Limited and including Bank Invest, EDF Energy, High Tide and a group of significant private investors.  The funding will help MCT in its plans to deploy the UK’s first commercial tidal energy farm in UK waters within the next [...]

Vestas has received an order for delivery of 48 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for different locations in Poland. The order has been received from the German company Prokon. The contract includes delivery, installation and commissioning of the turbines and a VestasOnline® Business SCADA solution. Delivery of the turbines will take place during 2010 to 2012. [...]

  Alstom has recently signed a memorandum of intent with the Government of the state of Bahia, Brazil, to install its first industrial wind turbine assembly facility in the country. The new facility, based in Bahia, will be dedicated to the assembly of wind turbines with an annual capacity of up to 300 MW per [...]

Adventures in microsolar supported by microelectronics and MEMS techniques Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells – these are from 14 to 20 micrometers thick and 0.25 to 1 millimeter across. (Image by Murat Okandan) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected [...]

Both companies will be once again at this event showing the evolution of their solar projects, among them Gemasolar, Valle 1 and Valle 2, that are currently under construction. It is to mention that in November 2009 Gemasolar obtained the financial support of the European Investment Bank (EIB) that announced a EUR 80 million loan. [...]

BEIJING – China’s utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal. Legislators approved the measure on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Beijing has set ambitious goals for renewable energy [...]

Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) has recently announced the inauguration of the largest rooftop solar system in Europe with a capacity of 40MW. The rooftop solar system was built for a global logistics service provider with headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium. The installation has been completed with solar modules supplied by Trina Solar under a previously [...]