Here are some more cleantech and climate policy stories we wouldn’t want you all to miss: Clean Energy First Solar Becomes Desertec Investor Clean Power Finance Partners Comprise Up To 80 Percent Of Major U.S. Residential Solar Companies Helping Schools Finance Solar Webinar: How Racking And Mounting Make Perfect Cents … [continued]
Spanish Energy company Iberdrola recently sold 32 onshore wind farms in France for €350 million. In a consolidation move by Iberdrola, the deal will see General Electric, Munich Re, and EDF adding to their respective renewable energy portfolios, according to Business Green. The deal could even increase by an extra … [continued]
One of the world’s largest wind power projects ever has now begun development. The East Anglia offshore wind farm planned off the coast of Britain will supply up to 7,200 MW of clean renewable energy to the British electrical grid. The wind power company IBERDROLA has started the development … [continued]
Global smart meter shipments fell 15 percent in the first quarter of 2012, reports Pike Research. […]
Abengoa’s Helios 1 solar thermal power plant went live this week, indicative of the leading, but compromised, role Spanish companies are playing in the fast-growing global renewable energy market. Nuclear and hydro power providers have been reaping the benefits of a flawed Electric Power Act that ties the rates they charge consumers to oil prices.
Some top wind energy news from around: Research How Wind Cuts Electricity Bills “Wind as an electricity supply resource has been getting steadily cheaper, and its technical performance characteristics continue to improve as larger turbine sizes and higher hub heights capture both economies of scale and more of the … [continued]
Some more top wind energy new from around the internet: Western Wind Energy Corp. is acquiring a whopping 4,000 MW of wind energy projects from Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings. “Cost of the acquisition is $20 Million US, payable by the issuance of 8 Million common shares at a deemed value of $2.50 per share US.” The … [continued]
Other than our 15 or so wind energy stories from the past week, here’s some more top wind energy news from around: Wind Power Projects EDF Energies Nouvelles and Mitsui of Japan have announced a 150-MW wind power project in northern Morocco. Morocco intends to have 2 GW of … [continued]
France stands to come out ahead economically and environmentally as it awarded an initial five offshore wind power contracts that will result in the first 3,000 MW of a planned 6,000 MW of offshore wind power come online by 2020. So do EDF, Alstom, Dong Energy, Iberdrola and Eoles-Res, among others.
Joining the worldwide move toward electric mobility is Spain, with utility company Iberdrola installing over 100 EV charging stations in […]
