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Monday, 20 February 2012
German conglomerate Siemens is adding the power of the tides to their renewable energy product mix with its acquisition of a majority stake in Marine Current Turbines Ltd., a developer of tidal power generation projects and one of the first to have such a project producing power for the grid.
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Wind power giant Vestas Wind Systems A.S. said last year’s financial results deviated significantly from what the company expected, as it continues to be more aggressive in the wind energy service category to achieve more profits. Calling 2011 “a tough year,” Vestas recalled that it had to abandon targets, issue profit warnings and lay off employees.
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012
New wind energy installations in Europe worth $16.74 billion remained strong last year, riding on an aggressive renewables drive according to the industry’s umbrella group, although concerns linger for this year onwards. The European Wind Energy Association said the continent installed 9,616 megawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2011, almost similar to the 9,648 MW raised in 2010.
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Thursday, 02 February 2012
Atlantis Resources Corporation, which makes tidal turbines that look much like ordinary wind turbines – except that they are deployed on the seabed – is bringing its unit for testing to a more advanced facility. Atlantis is a vertically integrated marine power company in Britain. The company’s “AR1000” tidal turbine has blades driven by tidal exchange, where the turbine’s rotation happens in the loose period between tides, becoming fixed in place for the next tide. Atlantis says its “AR”
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012
A Dresden-based company is covering several bases in the organic solar cell niche with which it hopes to make an impact in the building-integrated photovoltaics market – and beyond. The company specializes in organic solar cells, photovoltaic devices that use thin layers of organic materials with semiconductor properties. In December last year they achieved a conversion efficiency of 9.8 percent for their product, as confirmed by the Fraunhofer ISE CalLab.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Chinese solar manufacturer Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. entered a supply agreement with Germany’s IBC Solar A.G. to deliver up to 200 megawatts of multi- and mono-crystalline solar photovoltaic modules this year. The modules will be installed at various projects in Germany and other European countries.
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Monday, 23 January 2012
British meat processing and food distribution company PDM Group will be investing £40 million ($62.2 million) to boost its network of ReFood anaerobic digestion plants in Doncaster, Widnes and East London.
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Thursday, 19 January 2012
Gamesa is branching out into another low-carbon technology market with the acquisition of a 20 percent stake in Spanish tech startup N2S for ventures into green mobility and energy efficiency. N2S, founded in 2006, is into electric vehicle charging and real-time energy management.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Britain’s Public Accounts Committee is doubtful that utilities will pass on the benefits gained from a government plan to install smart meters in every home and building in the country by the end of the decade.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Two companies have signed up to jointly develop a 200-megawatt wave energy project off the coast of Orkney, northern Scotland. French engineering conglomerate Alstom and Scottish marine energy company SSE Renewables entered a joint venture agreement for obtaining permits for the Costa Head Wave Project at the Crown Estate’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Strategic Area.
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Sunday, 15 January 2012
French automaker Renault Group was granted a 180-million euro loan from the European Investment Bank for research and development efforts in creating the next generation of batteries and motors for electric vehicles. The loan will be deployed in France to developing products and processes for lithium-ion batteries and engine technologies for electric powertrains. The main objective would be to make EV’s more competitive and speed up their development and acceptance in the mass market.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Three consortia led by Iberdrola S.A. and two rival utilities in France have all submitted bids to secure five spots in the French coast earmarked for the development of the country’s first offshore wind farms. The French government had announced plans to have 6 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2020 as it tries to meet a target of sourcing 23 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Renewable energy generation company 3Power Energy Group, through its subsidiary Seawind Services, will be developing both wind and solar power plants on 240-hectares of land in the Nuoro region, which is elevated by 800 meters at sea level in island of Sardinia, Italy.
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
One of the largest deals in the stationary fuel cell industry ever signed, United States-based fuel cell company ClearEdge Power and Austrian low-carbon utility Güssing Renewable Energy G.m.b.H., entered a $500-million, nine-year agreement to deliver 50 megawatts’ worth of energy derived from fuel cells by 2020.
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Stockholm-based Vattenfall, the largest utility in the Nordic region, has completed the sale of its utilities and other operations in Belgium. Nuon Belgium and Nuon Power Generation Walloon were sold to Italian multinational oil and gas company ENI for 157 million euros ($200 million).
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Landis+Gyr A.G. has acquired Ecologic Analytics after buying all of the remaining stocks of the smart meter data management company for an undisclosed sum. Ecologic has been operating for 10 years in Minnesota making meter data management or MDM systems. It acts as the smart grid's nervous system - collecting data from two-way meters, and then sending them to utilities.
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Monday, 09 January 2012
Swiss power and automation conglomerate ABB could be building Europe’s largest electric car charging network in the country of Estonia. Scheduled to be operational by December 2012, ABB plans to start installing 200 of its “Terra” fast chargers in the second quarter of this year.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall will work with three French companies in a bid to capture a sizable chunk of the country’s hydropower sector. Vattenfall, ArcelorMittal, Rhodia and SNCF will collaborate under the name Force Hydro to bid for concession tenders for hydroelectric projects that France is launching in 2012.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Renewable energy generation company 3Power Energy Group Inc. was granted rights to develop a 127.6-megawatt hydropower plant in Albania, following the signing of a framework agreement with a local investment group. The deal gives 3Power Energy 75 percent of the concession rights for the power plant to be put at the Shala River and is scheduled for grid connection by 2015. Estimate project investment cost is $180 million.
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012
Global smart meter shipments reached 19.2 million in the third quarter of 2011, a 5.3 percent increase over the second quarter of 2011 with North America’s Landis+Gyr maintaining a leadership position by cornering a 25 percent share of cumulative smart meter vendor selections. “Global smart grid deployments continue to enjoy strong growth momentum, particularly those involving smart meter rollouts,” says senior analyst Neil Strother of Pike Research.
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