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China to invest $500 billion in electric power infrastructure
The Chinese officials announced its strategy to improve considerably the nation’s energy efficiency by 2020, as the country seeks to modernize its energy infrastructure at the domestic level and to dominate the clean energy technology markets at international level.
read more... 27/10/2011
The Longannet carbon project on the way to collapse
The UK government announced that it cancelled the plans to invest £1bn in the construction of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at Longannet in Scotland, blaming that the technology is too expensive and stating that the new project does not meet the Britain’s ambition to become a clean technology leader.
read more... 25/10/2011
Vestas produces huge wind turbine blades
After producing successfully the first batch of 49-metre blades in China, Vestas Wind Technology, the Danish manufacturer, is ready to produce V100 2MW low-wind turbines.
read more... 22/09/2011
Chinese company to build wind farm in Illinois, US
The Chinese wind-turbine maker, Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. announced its plans to build a $200 million wind farm project in Illinois, United States that will generate 109.5 megawatts of power.
read more... 21/09/2011
ABB won 1 billion dollars order
A leading power and automation technology group, ABB, will receive around 1 billion dollars from the TenneT, a Dutch-German transmission grid operator to furnish a power grid that will connect the North Sea wind farms to the German main grid that will have a total transmission capacity of over 900 MW.
read more... 04/08/2011