Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
Vestas has received an order for 109 units of its V82-1.65 megawatt (MW) wind turbine for projects in U.S.. The wind turbines have a total installed capacity of 180 MW. The order has been placed by the North American division of E.ON Climate & Renewables.
The news follows an order for [...]
Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
The renewables unit of Spanish utility Iberdrola has begun testing a wave energy pilot plant in Santona, Cantabria. The company has begun on-shore testing of the operation of the internal components of the first buoy, manufactured in the United States and named Power Take Off (PTO).
The installation will be [...]
Posted in Wind Energy on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
Garrad Hassan (GH) has announced that is has reached its target for 2007, providing forecasts for 3 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy worldwide using its GH Forecaster system.
GH Forecaster is a short term forecasting service used by grid operators, wind farm owners and energy traders. GH provides online forecast services [...]
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
DayStar Technologies, Inc. has announced it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with juwi solar GmbH. The LOI identifies juwi solar GmbH as a sales partner for DayStar in commercializing its CIGS glass modules. juwi plans to work closely with DayStar in the early stages of production to test and evaluate modules in field [...]
Posted in Climate, Europe, Policy on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
As EU heads of state and government prepare to descend on Brussels for an annual summit to discuss the EU’s CO2 reduction commitments and the ‘growth and jobs’ agenda, a new report warns European leaders about waves of immigration driven by intensifying climate change.
Background:
Since 2000, when the EU’s ambitious ‘Lisbon Strategy’ for growth and jobs was [...]
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-03-10 | No Comments »
- The Company consolidated its world leadership in 2007, ending the year with 7,704 MW in capacity and a project pipeline of more than 42,000 MW
- The La Torrecilla wind farm consolidates IBERDROLA RENOVABLES’ leadership in this region, where it has 262 MW of installed capacity
- The operation comes in the framework of a wind [...]
