NewsSiemens Make Mark In Barents Sea20/12/2010Siemens Energy will supply power to the
Goliat floating offshore platform in the Barents Sea north of Norway
via a 106 kilometre long sub-sea cable, a strategy it says will reduce
CO2 emissions from the oil and gas operation by 50 percent.
Typically, power for oil and gas platform... Wind Diversity Study Released20/12/2010Sea Breeze Power Corp. and the Bonneville Power Administration
in Portland Oregon in the US have released a “wind diversity study”
they hope will foster greater collaboration between US and Canadian
firms engaged in renewable energy projects. ... Renewable Fuel For Flights20/12/2010Compact Contractors for America (CCA)
has developed a dry process biofuel from algae which the company hopes
will power military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles such as Northrop Grumman's
Global Hawk in the not too distant future. CCA’s founder and President,
Robert Fulton, explains to Renewable Energy Magazine... European Commissioner Announces Plans For 'Smart Cities'10/12/2010During a recent event in Brussels
(Belgium) to take stock of progress made through the European CONCERTO
initiative, the European Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger,
congratulated currently engaged CONCERTO cities for their efforts, and
spoke of the central role they will play in the “new generation ... UK Renewables To Focus On 'Investor Certainty'10/12/2010One of the major issues that slows down renewable energy development
anywhere, is investor certainty – how much support for a particular
project, how long, and so on. Every major renewable energy project
requires years for development, and quite a large amount of investment
into the process, in order to see it through to the very end. In a ... US Eastern Seaboard To Host 1GW Of New Wind Generation10/12/2010Deepwater Wind Energy announced plans to built a 1000 MW Deepwater
Wind Energy Center (DWEC), near the shores of Rhode Island. The project
is presented as the "second generation" of offshore wind farms in the
United States. The future offshore wind farm is a project that could
serve as an offshore wind energy center supplying several US ... Clean Energy Could Produce $2.3 trillion Of Investment By 202008/12/2010Private investments in G-20 clean power projects could total $2.3 trillion (€1.7 trillion) by the end of the decade, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Massive energy demand and strong clean energy policies will drive investment to Asia, led by China and India.
... Join The Solar Revolution08/12/2010The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform from the European Commission, in cooperation with Solar Solidarity and the Belgian association for the promotion of renewable energies (APERe) have launched a new campaign called Your Sun Your Energy to raise aware... China And Israel Join Forces For Solar Deal08/12/2010Nanjing, China-based China Sunergy Co., Ltd. and Pythagoras Solar, an Israeli firm, have agreed to jointly develop and market building integrated photovoltaic products for a five-year period extending through 2015. The production of the BIPV products will be done in China.
The agreement positions b... Oyster 2 To Be Build In BurntIsland06/12/2010Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power
has announced its next-generation Oyster wave energy device is to be
built in Scotland by leading fabrication contractor Burntisland
Fabrications Ltd (BiFab).
The n... Germany Doubles Renewable Jobs06/12/2010The German Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology's website, Renewables Made in Germany, recently
announced the findings of a new study that reveals 340,000 people work
in the field of renewable energies in Germany.
This is the result of a scientific evaluation presented by ... Siemens Renewables Sector Aims To Be In Top 3 Worldwide06/12/2010Siemens continues to expand its
international manufacturing network in the rapidly growing wind power
business, after opening its first rotor blade manufacturing plant in
China, located in Shanghai, and a new nacelle production facility in
Hutchinson (Kansas, US) last week. Siemens has also selected Tillsonb... China Announce Subsidy Package For Renewable Companies03/12/2010China has announced plans to offer
major new subsidies for solar power generation, a sector it intends to
grow at a rate of 1 GW annually after 2012. According to the Chinese
Finance Ministry, the national government will create 13 renewable
energy industry zones and provide a 50 percent subsidy for critical... Plans For HiPRWind Revealed03/12/2010With a kick-off meeting in Bremerhaven
at the start of December, 19 partners from 8 European countries under
the direction of the Fraunhofer IWES have entered the conception phase
for the largest publicly-funded research project to develop technology
for deep-water offshore wind: HiPRwind.
... Siemens Look To Expand World Wide Share In Wind Market03/12/2010Siemens announced several additions to the company's wind turbine
manufacturing potential with the official openings of wind turbine
component manufacturing facilities in China, the US, and plans an
investment in a rotor blade manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada.
Additionally, the company plans wind turbine production facilities in... |
