The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity recently received a proposal for a massive renewable energy investment in the country from Siemens. According to recent media reports, German company Siemens has proposed investment worth €10 billion in Egypt to set up 10 GW of renewable energy capacity. The reports, however, did not … [continued]
Egypt is set to start raising funds for an ambitious wind energy project that will result in setting up of 2 GW of operational capacity. The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has announced that it is at the final stage of negotiations to raise €180 million for a large-scale … [continued]
Siemens*, or at least the company it has commissioned to make the video above, knows how to make a wind power advertisement. One of the key takeaway impressions people seem to have after visiting a wind turbine up close (or even going to the top of one) is how entirely … [continued]
Multinational technology conglomerate, Siemens Energy has signed an agreement to supply equipment and engineering, procurement, construction services for several renewable energy projects in South Africa. The projects are being undertaken by lead developer Mainstream Renewable Power along with other partners like Globeleq, black economic empowerment investment company Thebe Investment Corporation, … [continued]
Siemens Energy has been contracted to provide another wind power installation in Turkey amounting to 22 wind turbines for the Balabanli onshore wind power plant near the city of Tekirdağ in the European part of the country. This is the fourth contract Siemens has undertaken in the country, and this … [continued]
Siemens Energy recently started testing its 154-meter rotor, the world’s largest for wind turbines. The new rotor will be used for its 6-megawatt wind turbine in Denmark. The SWT-6.0-154 will have the world’s longest rotor blades, the Siemens news release noted. Each blade will have a length of 75 meters. … [continued]
Here’s a little story about wind you might have heard. First we’ll tell it the way it happened. And then we’ll tell it the way Mitt Romney’s campaign thinks it happened. […]
Here’s a nice bit of a Guardian interview with Cem Özdemir, Chair of the German Green party, that was just published yesterday: by Philip Oltermann How would you sell the benefits of wind energy to the Brits? That’s easy. It’s not about ecology: there are pragmatic economic reasons for taking wind energy … [continued]
Siemens has received a wind order for 270 megawatts (MW) in Australia for the Snowtown II wind farm from energy retailer TrustPower. The order will include 90 turbines, while Siemens will also provide maintenance as part of the agreement. Installing the wind turbines will commence in 2013, with the … [continued]
Chicago’s the “Windy City,” but EWP’s betting that, sited atop Boston high-rises, its vertical-axis wind turbines can make a sizable dent in buildings’ energy costs. […]
