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Wrong RE sites in the EU could cost €45bn by 2030 – Siemens (15.05.13)
Deploying renewable power plants at the wrong locations could cost €45bn ($58bn) in unnecessary investments across Europe, according to a study by German industrial giant Siemens. |
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Meeting targets in the Maghreb - Power Engineering (14.04.2013)
Governments across the Maghreb have set domestic targets to boost electricity-generating capacity by 2020. Considering the bullish global economy and the impending deadline of 2020, how will these targets be reached? |
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Merkel Losing Allies in $700 Billion Shift to Renewables
German utilities are reducing clean-power spending for the first time since 2009. That limits funds for offshore wind energy, the centerpiece of Merkel’s plan to replace all atomic reactors by 2022 and triple renewables’ share by 2050. |
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$80 Billion Hydropower Project with Congo and South Africa
South Africa on March 8 completed an agreement expected to enable Congo to secure the initial $10 billion in financing required. Built in seven phases that may ultimately produce 39,800 megawatts, this would make it the world’s biggest. |
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Analysis - Financing Saudi Arabia's wind energy plan Wind Power Monthly (March 2013 )
Saudi Arabia's plan to create 54GW of renewable energy, 9GW of this wind, by 2032 is a catalyst for the industry. Local content to generate industrial employments prioritized. |
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Les premiers électrons verts de Nareva (L'economiste Maroc)
Activités de la société NAREVA: Les sites Haouma et Akhfennir opérationnels, début de livraison des turbines de Tarfaya en septembre (NAREVA/GDF Suez), au total des projets à 8,2 milliards de DH. |
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HVDC circuit breaker solves 100-year old electrical problem
ABB developed the world’s first circuit breaker for high voltage direct current (HVDC). It combines fast mechanics with power electronics capable of ‘interrupting’ power flows equivalent to the output of a large power station within 5 ms. |
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RUSTEC: Wind’s Huge Play in Russia (by Greentechmedia)
Wind Energy in northwest Russia could make a better investment than the multi-billion-dollar DESERTEC North Africa solar undertaking, according to researchers at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). |
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RUSTEC - massive wind farms in Russia's Arctic to sell electricity to Europe (Moscow Times)
Kick-starting the country's renewable energy industry, the plan would see dozens of onshore wind farms built across the Murmansk region and plugged into a "power bridge" carrying the energy into the European grid via Norway or Finland.
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Siemens Exits Solar, Desertec in Green Portfolio Setback (Bloomberg News)
Siemens AG (SIE) plans to give up its unprofitable solar-energy business after failing to turn the unit around, in a blow to the German engineering company’s effort to win more revenue from its so-called green portfolio. |
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Wind cheaper than gas, says E&Y
EUROPE: The net cost of European wind power is up to 50% lower than that of its main conventional power rival, combined cycle gas (CCGT), according to Ernst & Young (E&Y). |
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Approval of 3-GW Wind Farm in Wyoming
On October 9 of this year, Wyoming became the future home to what could end up becoming the biggest wind power farm the world has ever seen. |
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The Sahara Wind Project Connecting Wind and Water (Revolve Magazine, January 2012)
In no other place in the world is wind energy used for so many different purposes as between Morocco and Mauritania – all within an intricately inter-related system including scientists, academia, government agencies, industrial companies and NATO... |
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Sahara Wind déploie ses premières pales
L'approche graduelle et phasée du Projet Sahara Wind axée sur les partenariats académie-industrie pour la formation de compétences dans le secteur éolien au Maroc et en Mauritanie. Article publié sur les Echos (20.10.2011) |
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Spain overcomes Germany to become the first European wind energy producer
Even though Spain has less installed capacity, it generated more electricity from wind energy than Germany in 2010, which shows the good performance of the system. |
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World Water Day: Wind Power Saves Water
Wind power uses less water than almost any other power generation technology, the Global Wind Energy Council emphasised today, on UN World Water Day. |
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Renewable Energy World: Oversupply Causes Drop in Wind Turbine Prices
Prices for wind turbines last year dropped below €1 million ($1.36 million) per megawatt for the first time since 2005, due largely to over-capacity, greater manufacturing efficiency and increased scale. |
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Wind power to provide a fifth of world's electricity by 2030
The 'Global Wind Energy Outlook 2010' (GWEO 2010) finds that wind power could play a key role in satisfying the world's increasing power demand, while at the same time achieving major greenhouse gas emissions reductions. |
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IEA Publishes the World Energy Outlook 2010
Projections of energy demand, production, trade and investment, fuel by fuel are listed by region until 2035 with scenario anticipating future actions by governments to tackle climate change and growing energy insecurity.
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High Voltage DC Transmission Market to Grow 44% by 2015
A Recent study published by Pike Research entitled “Electricity Transmission Infrastructure” analyzes the global transmission market and provides forecasts for transmission expenditures in each region through 2020. |
