A pumped-hydro facility in Switzerland has an energy storage capacity of 1,450 MW, and is an interesting story of innovative energy storage. To generate electricity, water is released from Lake Mutt at 8,100 feet above sea level. It flows to a deep valley below and turns the GE pump turbines … [continued]
Originally published on CleanTechies. President Obama’s historic visit to Asia has yielded some benefits for clean energy development in Vietnam. US-based GE has entered an agreement with the government of Vietnam for the development of 1 GW of wind energy capacity in the country. The agreement was one of several … [continued]
Finally catching up on all the extra stories I’ve saved since the Tesla Model 3 unveiling, here’s a lot of big solar + wind energy project news, as well as a “solar article highlight” that is worth a read. Solar Article Highlight I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar. PV … [continued]
GE Renewable Energy announced this week that it has officially installed more than 50 GW of onshore wind installations around the world. After its parent company published its first quarter earnings a week earlier, GE Renewable Energy announced on Tuesday that it had reached the 50 GW milestone during its … [continued]
The 2016 AWEA WINDPOWER conference* takes place May 23–26, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The theme of this year’s event is Generation Wind. It will feature four times the number of educational opportunities as a year ago. They will be set up in all five of the main show areas … [continued]
Wind turbine manufacturers Vestas and Goldwind have reclaimed the top two positions as the world’s leading wind turbine OEM companies. MAKE Consulting published its latest Global Wind Turbine OEM 2015 Market Share analysis this week, crowning the two companies as 2015’s leading wind turbine manufacturers ahead of multi-industrial turbine original equipment manufacturers … [continued]
GE announced earlier this month that it has completed the installation of the offshore platforms for America’s first offshore wind farm. The road to offshore wind in the US has been long and bumpy, with very little to show for the efforts. The collapse of the Cape Wind project left … [continued]
In what could be a significant step towards integration of large-scale wind and solar energy projects in the existing power grid, General Electric will design a storage-equipped hybrid renewable energy project in India. General Electric recently announced that it received an order from India-based IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited to … [continued]
More than 12 GW of wind turbine contracts were awarded to nearly 140 wind projects worldwide, according to new research from Navigant Research. Research published in a new Navigant Research report, Wind Turbine Order Tracker 1Q16, which tracks all publicly awarded wind turbine orders, reveals that Siemens and Vestas led turbine orders … [continued]
For the first time, a Chinese wind firm, Goldwind, topped the annual ranking of onshore wind turbine manufacturers in 2015. Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology led Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s annual rankings of global wind turbine manufacturers, with 7.8 GW of capacity commissioned during 2015, thanks in part to a surging … [continued]
