Update April 19, 7:45am EDT: a reader comment has been appended to the bottom of this post. Italy’s total installed solar photovoltaic capacity now stands at an impressive 16.7 GW, as of the end of March, according to Italian energy agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici SpA. And it is continuing to … [continued]
According to provisional data released by the Italian transmission grid operator TERNA, solar energy provided 5.6% of Italy’s electricity demand in 2012. In relative terms, this makes Italy the most solar-powered industrialized nation of the world, even surpassing Germanys 4.8% share of solar in the electricity supply. In absolute terms, Italian … [continued]
One of the world’s leading developers of wind technology Vestas has announced it has now reached a total of 3,000 megawatts of installed capacity in Italy, which equates to 40 percent of the total installed wind energy in the country, making it a big contributor to the country’s EU … [continued]
Vestas has received an Italian order for 19.8 megawatts (MW) of wind power. As part of the deal, the wind turbine manufacturer will give Italy’s first set of 11 V-100 1.8 wind turbines for the Luce Wind Power Plant in Tuscany, Italy. The deal will see Vestas oversee the … [continued]
Some top wind energy news from the past week or so (other than the wind energy stories we’ve already covered): Japan has installed a small, floating wind turbine off a Goto island with the eye to bringing the technology to commercialization. The demonstration project, organised by the Ministry of Environment (MOE), … [continued]
The DB Climate Change Advisors has released its latest Global Climate Change Policy Tracker report [PDF], its fourth. The report has quite a bit of interesting info in it. Most important, from a global perspective, is that “the best case global outlook” based on potential current targets still leaves us is … [continued]
