Posts Tagged ‘wind energy’

• A Wind Farm For North Carolina

  With energy prices rising and increasing emphasis placed on finding renewable alternatives to the fossil fuels that power the multitudes of cars behind every garage door in America, the whispers of a wind farm coming to the Northeastern coast of …

• Google’s Offshore Windmills

  Many of us have heard of Google’s sustainability efforts; from green data center and offices to bringing in goats to chew down the grass on their corporate campus. Now Google is embarking on another effort in sustainability with offshore windmills …

• £50bn investment needed for the proposed supergrid between Africa and Europe to become a reality

  New findings from Dr Anthony Patt of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Africa shows that the proposed supergrid that could power all of Europe with renewable energy only would need around £50 billion of government funded money …

• Sweden to build Europe’s largest wind farm

  Photo credit: jesse.millan Sweden might be the host for Europe’s largest wind farm if the Swedish government approves the proposed plans. The wind farm will be located in Markbygden near Piteå in northern Sweden and will have a total of …

• Renewable energy could power 40% of global electricity demand by 2050

  Photo credit: Blyzz New research from the Helsinki University of Technology’s Advanced Energy Systems in Espoo, Finland, shows that with the help from global cooperation and investment renewable energy will “exceed all previous estimates.” According to the new findings renewable …

• Sweden’s biggest wind farm is in planning stage, will supply as much energy as a nuclear plant

  Photo credit: phault Sölvesborg, a small village near the coast located in southern Sweden, was first in the world with sea-based wind power. And now it might become the place for Sweden’s and northern Europe’s largest offshore wind farm. The …

• Record oil prices turn investors to wind power

  Five French wind farm projects, totalling 77MW capacity came online in February 2008. Project France phase-2 was a €115 million project constructing a total of 42 turbines. This challenge was undertaken as a joint venture by EOLE-RES S.A, a French …

• 2450 Green Tech Jobs Created in Colorado by Danish Wind Company Vestas

  The sign says “Welcome to colorful Colorado”. Photo: Paraflyer. It seems that as for every day that passes more and more jobs in USA gets outsourced and shipped overseas to countries with cheaper labour. That’s why it must be great …

• USA is Now the World’s Largest Generator of Wind Energy

  The statistics are in for the first half of 2008 and they show that USA, for the first time, generated more wind energy than Germany. This “milestone” wasn’t expected to be reached until late 2009. Germany still has more wind …

• Top 10 most wind plants built in Europe 2007

  It’s a brand new year for Europe, and for the European Union member states is has started with “tough” greenhouse gas emission targets being set. The new targets require that a certain amount of renewable energy will be installed in …