The World Wind Energy Association has recently launched the World Wind Energy Report 2012. Below you can find some keypoints: The worldwide wind capacity reached 282 GW, out of which 44’609 Megawatt were added in 2012, more than ever before. Wind power showed a growth rate of 19,2 %, which is the lowest rate in ...
According to an analysis of national action plans by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Europe is will meet easy its target of drawing 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, The group has collated European Commission figures which show that 20.7% of energy consumption – and 34% of electricity demand – will ...
After the big growth in 2011, the European Union’s photovoltaic market slowed right down in 2012. The newly-installed capacity in 2012 is 16.5 GWp compared to 22 GWp in 2011. This is a 25% slide. At global level the market generally held up, with just over 30 GWp installed, bolstered by the build-up of the ...
At the end of September 2012 CSP plants with a cumulative capacity of about 1.73 GW were in commercial operation in Spain about 72% of the worldwide capacity of 2.4 GW. Together with those plants under construction and those already registered for the feed-in tariff this should bring Spain’s CSP capacity to about 2.5 GW ...
The blade is 62.5 metres long and will be installed on Spain’s first offshore wind turbine. Gamesa has recently started the transportation of a 62.5-meter blade destined for a prototype of the first offshore wind turbine to be installed in Spain. The blade, manufactured at the Aoiz factory (Navarre) is the longest turbine blade ever ...
Shams 1, the largest single concentrated solar power plant (CSP) in operation in the world, is now in operation in Abu Dhabi. There are several larger concentrated solar facilities with greater capacity–notably the 354 MW Solar Energy Generating Systems operation in the Mojave Desert, but all of them use multiple units when calculating their total ...
Saudi Arabia unveils plans to build 41 GW of solar PV and CSP plants The King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) has issued a white paper outlining its plans to build 41 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects by 2032. These projects will represent ...