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Wind Lidar company announces new turbine-mounted Lidar and formation of Measurement Services business
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
ZX Lidars has also formed ZX Measurement Services to provide the industry with 'Data as a Service', primarily focused on delivering turnkey wind measurements wi...
Wind Power: It is all about the distribution
Sep 06, 2018 (SPX)
The prerequisite is that the operators distribute the plants optimally on the German mainland. To estimate usable wind energy, the researchers have developed a ...
Big wind, solar farms could boost rain in Sahara
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
The study in the journal Science used computer modeling to simulate the effect of covering 20 percent of the largest desert on the planet in solar panels and in...
DNV GL supports creation of China's first HVDC offshore wind substation
Sep 03, 2018 (SPX)
China has committed heavily to developing its offshore wind power generating capacity. It currently plans to have 5 GW of offshore wind power installed by 2020 ...
China pushes wind energy efforts further offshore
Aug 29, 2018 (UPI)
Huadong Engineering Corp. has contracted DNV GL, the Norwegian-based housing for independent energy experts and a certification body, to provide technical train...
Wind energy prices at all-time lows as wind turbines grow larger
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
"Wind energy prices - particularly in the central United States, and supported by federal tax incentives - remain at all-time lows, with utilities and corporate...
Iran opens 61 MW wind farm in Qazvin province
Aug 27, 2018 (UPI)
Representatives from the Iranian Energy Ministry were on hand for a ceremony held for the start of operations of a 61-megawatt wind farm in Iran's Qazvin provin...
Denmark gets nod for renewable energy support scheme
Aug 17, 2018 (UPI)
The European Commission said Friday it approved of renewable energy schemes proposed by a Danish government looking to meet half of its energy needs from renewa...
Searching for wind for the future
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
As part of an ongoing collaboration with the University of Notre Dame in the United States, Marc Genton's research group recently turned its attention to how th...
Clock starts for Germany's next wind farm
Jul 05, 2018 (UPI)
The company said it started installing the first of the 60 turbines planned for the 385 megawatt facility in the German waters of the Baltic Sea. Once completed...
ENGIE: Wind energy footprint firmed up in Norway
Jul 02, 2018 (UPI)
SUSI, through a renewable energy fund, takes an 80 percent stake in Project Tonstad, a planned 208 megawatt wind farm in southern Norway. The French energy comp...
Batteries make offshore wind energy debut
Jun 27, 2018 (UPI)
Equinor, formerly known as Statoil, started handing out contracts to deliver a 1 megawatt Lithium battery storage system for the Hywind wind farm off the Scotti...
India embarks on offshore wind energy effort
Jun 19, 2018 (UPI)
Norwegian energy advisory group DNV GL announced Tuesday it completed a study, co-funded by the European Union and an offshore wind energy group in India, exami...
New wind turbines are even efficient in low winds
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
Heavy investments are being made in wind power, which highlights the importance of this new and competitive technology. Wind power accounts for around 4% of glo...
Cryptocurrency blowing in the wind as mine opens in Estonia
Jun 01, 2018 (AFP)
Mining virtual currencies, like bitcoin, ethereum or ripple, requires powerful computers that are voracious users of electricity, making it uneconomical to mine...
U.S. Atlantic states eye offshore wind leadership
May 24, 2018 (UPI)
"We're taking another step forward in rebuilding New Jersey's reputation as a leader in the development of clean energy sources while fulfilling a critical prom...
European wind energy generation potential in a warmer world
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
This has implications for wind energy generation among other things. The results suggest that wind could be a more important source of energy generation than pr...
New York to world's largest offshore wildlife aerial survey
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
Alicia Barton, President and CEO, NYSERDA said, "Collecting this data is crucial in the state's effort to provide regulators and offshore wind developers with n...
German utility E.ON sees renewable sector growth
May 08, 2018 (UPI)
Adjusted net income for the first quarter was up 38 percent from the same period last year to $862 million. Its renewables division saw earnings increase by abo...
Germany's E.ON wants even bigger wind footprint
May 07, 2018 (UPI)
E.ON said it's targeting a takeover of the German activities of Vortex. E.ON takes 30 employees from the company, though non-German activities of Vortex are not...
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