US wholesale energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has acquired a controlling stake in the 32MW Lost Hills-Blackwell Solar Facility in California from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic ...
Tags: Solar Facility, Solar Cell
New Generation Power Texas, LLC (NGP Texas), a Texas-based renewable energy company, has begun the first phase of construction on their 400 Megawatt (MW) Texas Wind Farm. The newly formed subsidiary of Chicago- based New Generation Power ...
Tags: Wind Farm, New Generation Power Texas, PTC
Siemens last month inked a deal with the Cape Wind project that could be a significant step to advance wind farm activity in the United States. The plant is to operate in New England, on Horseshoe Shoal, an area of water toward the center ...
Tags: Siemens, Cape Wind project, offshore wind farm, renewable energy
Belltown Alpha Renewables has announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 10.2MWp solar project in Somerset and a 500kW wind project in Wales. Belltown Alpha Renewables was formed in May 2013 as a joint venture between Belltown ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. and Pattern Energy Group LP say they broke ground on the 270MW South Kent Wind project in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ont. “Samsung is thankful to become part of this supportive community in ...
Tags: Samsung, South Kent Wind Project
April 23, 2013 - In a decision released late yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while residents of Clearview Township cannot bring claims for a proposed industrial wind project at this time, the ruling is ...
Siemens Energy has been awarded an order from Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. and Pattern Energy Group LP to supply and install 124 wind turbines for the South Kent 270MW wind project in Southwestern Ontario. "This order reinforces our ...
Tags: Wind Power, Energy, Electrical, Electronics, Siemens
Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
Tags: Tech Companies, Microsoft, data center
Google will invest $200 million in a wind farm project in west Texas, part of the Internet giant's continuing interest in funding renewable energy projects, the company said Wednesday. The equity investment is in the Spinning Spur Wind ...
Tags: Google, wind farm project, Texas, Internet giant
December 22, 2012 - British Columbia-based Naikun Wind Energy Group Inc. has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Siemens Canada Ltd. The latter will assist Naikun in advancing the development of the first phase of its Haida Energy ...
Tags: Naikun Wind, Siemens, Energy Field, electricity
Search engine giant Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project to power its Oklahoma datacentre. The collaboration is part of Google's ...
Tags: Google, Oklahoma datacentre, wind capacity, renewable energy
Arab News reported that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the new entrants from the MENA region to Ernst&Young's Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices,which scores 40 countries across the globe on the attractiveness of their renewable ...
Tags: MENA, Renewable Energy, Attractiveness Indices, markets
The renewable energy industry is at a tipping point as the developed markets start to close the door on generous subsidy programs and emerging markets develop cost strategies to compete with fossil fuels, according toErnst & Young's latest ...
Tags: renewable energy, at a tipping point, subsidy programs, fossil fuels
According to GE, Cartier Wind Energy announced the operation of its Gros-Morne Phase II wind project, which is located in the Gaspesie region of Quebec. Powered by 74 GE 1.5-77 wind turbines, the energy generated by the farm can power about ...
Tags: Largest Wind Farm, Wind Energy, wind project
Ming Yang Wind Power International has shipped the first batch of turbine generators for a 4.5MW pilot project in Somovit, Bulgaria, which is expected to be commissioned by July this year. In December, the firm entered into an engineering, ...
Tags: market view, generator