Marine Current Turbines Ltd has secured approval for a lease from The Crown Estate to deploy its award-winning SeaGen tidal current technology off Brough Ness, on the southern most tip of the Orkney Islands (South Ronaldsay) and north east of John O’Groats. The company plans to have its first phase of SeaGen tidal turbines deployed [...]
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REpower Systems AG (WKN 617703) has received the first unit certificate from Germanischer Lloyd for new turbines in its turbine portfolio. The certificate is the first ever that has been issued for a wind turbine (generation unit) with a double-fed generator system. It confirms once again that the technical system implemented by the company meets [...]
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE conducts research on the technology needed to supply energy efficiently and on an environmentally sound basis in industrialized, threshold and developing countries. To this purpose, the Institute develops systems, components, materials and processes in the areas of the thermal use of solar energy, solar building, solar cells, [...]
Gamesa and BARD sign MoU regarding collaboration in the offshore wind market
The Memorandum of Understanding aims for:
a significant investment by GAMESA to become a minority shareholder in BARD
the creation of a marketing joint venture, and
the possibility that GAMESA may manufacture BARD offshore wind turbines under licensing contracts
BARD has developed one of the world’s largest offshore [...]
Companies | admin | February 23, 2010 | Comments (0)
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The latest £8m funding for offshore wind technology was made available today as the Prime Minister hailed the UK as a ‘global leader’ in the offshore wind market.
The announcement came as Clipper Windpower confirmed that it is to start construction of a factory in Newcastle to build the biggest wind turbine blades in the world.
Visiting [...]
Companies | admin | February 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
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For some years, the Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU has been working to develop a method for controlling the loads on large wind turbine blades using a flexible trailing edge made of an elastic material which can be controlled by means of compressed air or hydraulics. Now, the invention, which has been called CRTEF [...]
AGS srl, established in 1991 at S.Germano dei Berici (VI) from a cooperation of entrepreneur with diversification experience in component production sector for heating items, air conditioning, sanitary with production shaped pipes in copper , iron , aluminium.
After that, seen difficult founded on the market, delay for delivery and insufficient quality, necessity supply brass fittings [...]
IBERDROLA EARMARKED €90.5 MILLION TO R&D IN 2009, 23% MORE THAN IN 2008
The company has developed over 150 projects with the overriding goal of tackling emerging energy challenges
The company has launched a number of initiatives within the renewable energy, electric vehicle, smart grids and carbon capture technology fields
IBERDROLA has been designated as Spain’s [...]
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Gamesa has called upon seventy Technology Centers in Spain to develop sustainable technology projects
The company will be involved in the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, mobility and waste to energy projects
Gamesa and the Spanish Federation of Technology Centers (FEDIT) have launched a new initiative that will enable the company to identify and assess [...]
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SeaGen, the world-leading prototype commercial tidal energy turbine designed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has exceeded 1000 hours of operation in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. It is the first and only tidal current or wave energy system in the world to have achieved this milestone.
The 1.2MW tidal [...]
