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GT ENERGY to build the UK’s largest geothermal heating project
The developer GT Energy has unveiled its plans to build the largest geothermal heating project in UK. The project will tap into the Cheshire Basin, which holds the largest geothermal resources in UK, located beneath Manchester. The 10 MW plant using two 3,000m wells drilled in the city’s Ardwick district will provide heating needs to approximately 7 million homes. Moreover, the project will help creating new jobs in the region and sustaining the expansion of a low carbon economic zone.
read more... 30/07/2012
IEA: Power generation from renewable sources to increase by more than 40%
According to IEA, wind power will growth considerably in the years to come becoming the second major contributor to global renewable electricity generation after hydro at 16.7%. By 2017 wind power will grow by about 100TWh per year, up 15.6%. Onshore wind power will represent 90% of this increase, jumping from 230 GW to 460GW.
read more... 27/07/2012
Gamesa to sell four wind farms in France and Germany
Spanish wind energy company Gamesa, has signed a contract to sell four wind farms, three of them in France and one in Germany, with a total installed capacity of 56MW. The farms will be sold to European Sustainable Power Fund 2, a renewable energy fund for institutional investors owned by German real capital asset manager KGAL.
read more... 26/07/2012
Germany: First in Europe in offshore wind growth
According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Siemens dominated the offshore wind turbine market during the first six month of 2012, installing 108 wind turbines across Europe. Siemens and RePower were most active in places like UK and Europe, installing 422 MW of wind turbines.
read more... 25/07/2012
UK: Good Energy to build Britain’s biggest solar farm
UK’s energy group, Good Energy, would build the UK’s biggest solar farm which will cover 224 acres by putting 135,000 solar panels on farmland in the Cornish countryside. It will cover an area six times bigger than the project at Marley Thatch Farm, in Devon, approved last month, which will cover 37 acres and have 28,000 photovoltaic panels.
read more... 23/07/2012