UNEP Asks for End User Input in Building Global Solar & Wind Energy Atlas
UNEP is developing a world solar and wind energy atlas and they’re looking for input from end users.
Wind Energy
141 GW of European Offshore Wind Under Way
A new EWEA report tallying all existing offshore wind power projects in the 17 European Union states, based on a survey of built, consented and planned capacity and wind farm projects already undergoing construction, finds that Europe has a pipeline of a staggering 141,000 megawatts of offshore wind due on the grid over the next twenty years. With 4 GW installed by the end of 2011, Europe has 99% of offshore wind globally already.
2-MW WindFloat Towed To Atlantic Site off Portuguese Coast
A Portuguese utility, Energias de Portugal, and Seattle-based offshore wind energy developer and Principle Power, Inc. have deployed a full-scale 2-megawatt WindFloat off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal.
Wind Energy Corp Introduces WindSail Turbine that “Likes Turbulence”
A company introduced a customizable VAWT called the WindSail.
Massive Battery System Captures The Wind
One of the biggest challenges facing wind energy is intermittency. Wind often blows strongest when power demand is lowest, and weakest when electricity is needed the most. Because today’s power grid needs electricity to be consumed the moment it’s generated, that means wind turbines send energy to the grid half as often as an average coal plant.
What if wind farms could store the power that isn’t needed right away and sell it later when demand is high? energyNOW! correspondent Patty Kim visited an energy storage system built alongside a wind farm in the heart of coal country.
More Clean Tech News: China Dumping Solar PV; First Solar’s Desert Sunlight; DoE’s Rooftop Challenge;…
It was another event-filled week of clean and renewable energy news. Among this week’s briefs and links: Chinese solar anti-dumping case moves forward, First Solar’s 550 MW DesertSolar project, offshore and trans-national grid flows hot topic at European Wind Energy Association’s annual conference, Madrid’s big smart grid project, Japan clean energy investment fund & more…
Size Does Matter — More Massive Offshore Wind Turbines for Europe
Scotland and 2B Energy aren’t the only ones in Europe making waves with massive off-shore wind turbines – electronics giant Siemens introduced its new SWT-6.0 turbine this week. The SWT-6.0 is a larger version of Siemens’ 6MW wind turbine with a diameter just shy of 400 feet and using a … [continued]
4 More Cleantech Policy Stories
Some top cleantech policy stories from around this week: 1. Clean Energy Standards Create Clean Air & Water with No Cost to Economy The U.S. is sorely in need of a clean energy standard. A recent post by Richard Caperton, Director of Clean Energy Investments at the Center for American Progress, … [continued]
Cleantech Biz & Products News
Other than our own stories, here are 8 notable cleantech business and product stories: 1. Gamesa Opens 6th Factory in China Gamesa, a large wind turbine company from Spain, has opened its 6th wind turbine factory in China now. Ad it’s already got some deals lined up: “It will provide … [continued]
Fox News Bites NewsCorp’s Nose to Spite Solar Power
The U.S. solar energy company SunPower is the latest target of Fox News’s apparent campaign to paint the U.S. solar industry as a doomed-to-fail enterprise, only this time Fox has put the bite on Dow Jones, one of its own sister companies in the NewsCorp media empire. According a report … [continued]
