EWEA Offshore 2011: REpower installs 6M wind turbines in Eemshaven At the beginning of the EWEA Offshore exhibition in Amsterdam, REpower Systems SE and RWE Innogy have concluded a contract for the delivery of two REpower 6M wind turbines. The turbines, each with a rated power of 6.15 MW and a hub height of 114 [...]

On November 23rd, 2011, the International Energy Agency (IEA, Paris, France) announced the release of new report which states that a number of renewable energy technologies are increasingly becoming cost competitive with conventional solutions without subsidies across a range of circumstances. The IEA’s "Deploying Renewables 2011: Best and Future Policy Practice" states that renewables are [...]

• Global renewable electricity installations (excluding hydropower) have more than quadrupled from 2000–2010. • Including hydropower, renewable energy accounts for 21% of all global electricity generation; without hydropower, renewable energy accounts for 3.8% of global generation. • Wind and solar energy are the fastest growing renewable energy technologies worldwide. Wind grew by a factor of [...]

Renewable energy (excluding hydropower) is a relatively small portion of total energy supply both globally and in the United States, the installed global renewable energy capacity has more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2010. Including hydropower, renewable energy sources represent nearly 12% of total installed capacity and more than 10% of total generation in the [...]

Africa at the Energy Crossroads: Ethiopia Launches 6 Wind, 1Geothermal Power Project German health resort powered by the sun; 1.1 MWp PV plant to be ready for operation by the end of this year Bad Salzungen, a health resort in the federal state of Thuringia/Germany, has ambitious plans: a 1.1 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) power [...]

Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe (MPSE) plans to present its Sea Angel 7MW wind turbine at the EWEA Offshore show coming in the end of the month. The wind turbine will have a 165-metre rotor and will use subsidiary-Artemis Intelligent Power’s (AIP) continuous variable transmission system (CVT). The peak output will be 7MW. The company plans [...]

Only Way to Stop Greenhouse Gas Emissions is to Use Clean Electricity, Study Finds Solar Frontier and Mainstream cooperate on 5 MW of solar Solar Frontier and Mainstream Energy have signed a distribution agreement to sell and install 5 MW of Solar Frontier’s CIS solar modules in the US. Rimas starts production of Vitrododi Solar [...]