By Paul Dvorak The giant CFRP rotor blade of a wind turbine located in front of the Messe Augsburg premises is already being touted as one of the trade fair highlights of this year. “EXPERIENCE COMPOSITES – powered by JEC group” is dedicating a separate showcase to the area of fiber composite applications in wind…
By Paul Dvorak Trish Williams, Communications Specialist, EERE Communications Office Editor Williams’ Note: This is an excerpt of a story that was originally published in Amped Up! Magazine, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s publication that highlights breaking technologies and achievements in renewable power, energy efficiency and sustainable transportation that influence global change…
On Tuesday, Schneider Electric introduced its New Energy Opportunities (NEO) Network, an online platform that it hopes will help commercial and industrial companies quickly identify and vet renewable energy and cleantech prospects. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Solar Tech News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com
Definitive rules for the auction have been published, along with a new timetable. Bids will be selected in October. The quota for 300 MW of PV projects has been maintained. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: pv-magazine.com
By Guest Contributor Sustainability is changing the way we experience life in the 21st Century. It integrates concepts that in the 20 th Century were considered in isolation. No longer can we celebrate a strong economy if the environment is in decline. Nor can we push environmental policies that do not also consider the attending…
By Press Release The Airbus E-Fan 1.2 operates on a hybrid engine to reduce noise, vibration and weight of the plane while increasing battery capacity and extending its range. The post Airbus Says the Future of Aviation is Electric! appeared first on Solar Thermal Magazine. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Solar Thermal…
By Michelle Froese Gamesa, a global technology provider in wind energy, has secured its first order from fast-growing electricity producer Voltalia. Gamesa will supply 13 of its G114-2.1 MW for a total of 27.3 MW at Voltalia’s Vila Acre wind facility in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in North-Eastern Brazil. Gamesa will supply…
By Press Release The company’s SolarWindow generates electricity when its transparent organic coatings are applied in thin layers on to glass surfaces. The post SolarWindow Reveals Their Invisible System for Transporting Electricity on its Electricity-Generating Window appeared first on Solar Thermal Magazine. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Solar Thermal Magazine
By Steven Bushong Ulrich Spiesshofer, president and CEO, ABB By Ulrich Spiesshofer, president and CEO, ABB Solar Impulse has made history by completing the first flight around the world in a plane powered only by energy from the sun. Its achievement is a tremendous success for clean technologies and a triumph of technology innovation to…
By [email protected] (Karl-Erik Stromsta) There’s more than 12,450MW of new wind capacity under construction across the US, up 23% in the past three months, the American Wind Energy Association says. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Jon LeSage Porsche will be increasing its hiring with 400 more newly created jobs than previously reported as it prepares to build its Mission E and compete with Tesla and Silicon Valley. In all, the German automaker has raised the number of new jobs it will create to more 1,400 from more than 1,000…
By [email protected] (Karl-Erik Stromsta) Vestas’ US order book exploded during the second quarter of 2016, with its turbines attached to 2,679MW of late-stage development projects compared to 329MW in the first quarter, according to new figures from the American Wind Energy Association. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Jon LeSage Apple Inc. has brought back a former senior executive to lead its Project Titan electric car initiative, according to people familiar with the matter. Bob Mansfield, previously a top executive under former chief executive Steve Jobs, will be running the company’s secret autonomous, plug-in electrified, vehicle project. Mansfield is known for having…
By [email protected] Last week, the U.S. government pledged to push the electric-vehicle industry toward charging a car in less than 10 minutes. Now, that sounds like a long time. In Switzerland, a new line of buses can be topped off in a few seconds and fully charged in minutes. ABB received a commercial order from…
By Bloomberg New Energy Finance Clean energy investment in the second quarter totaled $61.5bn, some 12% above the first-quarter 2016 figure but 32% below a very strong outturn of $90bn in the equivalent period of 2015. The post Clean Energy Investment in 2016 Undershoots Last Year’s Record appeared first on Solar Thermal Magazine. Read Full…