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enXco has signed a delivery agreement with German turbine manufacturer REpower for up to 143.5 megawatts. The 70 REpower MM92 turbines, each with a rated capacity of 2.05 MW, are slated for delivery in 2011.
“This order reflects our need to secure turbines for the recovering West Coast market. enXco is very well positioned for wind projects due to the quality of the sites we have secured in California and the Pacific Northwest,” stated Tristan Grimbert, president & CEO of enXco. “This conditi... [more]
Members of America’s wind power industry have laid out a compelling case to strengthen the proposed Congressional renewable electricity standard (RES) in order to protect American jobs and maintain America’s leadership status in the increasingly competitive global wind power industry.
Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, G.E. Vice Chair and Energy Infrastructure President and CEO John Krenicki called for any federal RES passed this year to be significantly stro... [more]
Executives from the renewable energy industry met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and told the leaders that current RES provisions will not result in renewable energy deployment or new clean energy jobs in the near term. The U.S. will fall behind other countries, and jobs that would otherwise be created in the United States will move elsewhere.
Representatives of the renewable energy industry called on Congress to strengthen national renewable electricity... [more]
A new grants database, launched by small wind turbine manufacturer Evance and its main UK distributor Segen, will help UK farmers to find which grants they are entitled to for the purchase and installation of a small wind turbine.
The database gives farmers local information on the grants that are available via the EU’s Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, which totals €345 million. Administered by the UK’s regional development agencies, the grants range from £10,000 to £60,000 or up to ... [more]
Renewable energy credits, also called "green tags", are tradable environmental commodities issued by an appropriate oversight entity to represent a set amount of energy produced (typically 1,000 kilowatt hours) from renewable natural resources, such as solar, wind and biomass.
Phoenix Partners Group has introduced an electronic trading platform for renewable energy credits, the first of its kind within the environmental brokerage community.
The web-based platform provides a real-time foru... [more]
According to a new report from Pike Research, global system revenues for sub-utility scale Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) grew at a breakneck pace between 2007 and 2008, rising 76% to an estimated $29.9 billion at the end of 2008. The cleantech market research firm forecasts that the RDEG market will continue strong growth in the coming years, more than doubling in value to $60.6 billion by 2013.
“Renewable distributed energy generation is a sector dominated by small solar ene... [more]
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