Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
<p>Bharuch Co Powered World’s First Manned Solar Plane Prashant Rupera TNN Vadodara: When the world’s first manned solar powered airplane took off from a Switzerland airfield recently, Gujarat had a role to play in its maiden flight. Some special polymers used in this airplane were manufactured at the Panoli plant of Solvay Specialities India Pvt Ltd in Bharuch.
RRB Energy, a leading manufacturer of wind electric generators (WEG), launched on Tuesday its prototype blade for its 1.8 MW WEG. Addressing visiting presspersons to the company's facility in Poonamallee on the outskirts of Chennai, Rakesh Bakshi, Chairman and Managing Director, the 40-metre blade was indigenously designed and developed and fully engineered to Indian requirement.
Cameroon is considering harnessing power from its ocean currents to help fill its chronic electricity gap. The government of the central African state bordering the Atlantic has hired MRS Power Cameroon, a subsidiary of MRS Holding Ltd, to conduct a tidal power feasibility study, the government-owned Cameroon Tribune reported on Monday. "This project comes at a time Cameroon is suffering a h
Widespread adoption of electric cars could reduce U.S. oil demand and the need for imported oil more than creation of a national mandate for renewable power such as wind and solar, according to research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy released on Monday. The Baker Institute analysis found that a mandate calling for 30 percent of all U.S.
Scotland should produce enough renewable electricity to meet all its power demand by 2025, First Minister Alex Salmond said Tuesday. "Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80 percent of electricity needs from renewables by 2020 will be exceeded by delivering current plans for wind, wave and tidal generation," Salmond said. "I'm confident that
Senators backing a bi-partisan bill that would make big utilities begin embracing renewable electricity believe they can get enough votes to pass it without having to add oil or nuclear incentives to the measure, a Congressional aide said on Friday. Democrat Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the Senate's energy committee, and Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican, introduced the bill this week that inc
Bulgaria plans to put limits on new renewable energy assets to avoid a spike in sensitive energy prices and a collapse of its aging power grid, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said on Friday. Traikov said the Balkan country can add up to 2,000 megawatts of new solar, wind and hydro power plants by 2020 without jeopardizing the security of power supply and keeping the energy prices a
Stocks of solar power companies were mostly higher on Friday after California regulators voted on Thursday to raise the state's renewable energy target. California's Air Resources Board approved an increase in the share of electricity in the state that is produced from renewable energy sources to 33 percent by 2020 from 20 percent by 2010. However, an initiative in front of California voters
The promised vast expansion of the UK's offshore wind resources is proving to be a powerful lure for companies not normally associated with renewables but keen to generate eco-friendly and reliable sources of revenue. Engineers, consultants and oil rig makers, from GKN to Lamprell and Singapore's Keppel, are setting up new divisions and partnerships in order to get a foothold in the market, whi