Group Says EU Anti-dumping Duties Based on Faulty Evidence
Representatives of over 30 European solar photovoltaic (PV) companies travelled to Brussels yesterday to give evidence to the European Commission (EC) on the impact of preliminary and proposed...
View ArticleBMW’s electric car i3 Officially Unveiled
After years of development and countless teasers, the commercial-production BMW i3 has finally been unveiled. The BMW i3 electric car was simultaneously unveiled in London, New York, and Beijing...
View ArticleWall Street Journal highlights cost competitiveness of new wind energy projects
Already established as the “cleanest” source of readily-scalable electricity, American wind power is rapidly on its way to taking the title as the most affordable source as well. The Wall Street...
View ArticleGo ahead for 6MW renewables storage trial facility in UK
A 6MW test facility for renewable energy storage technologies has been approved in the UK. The Smarter Network Storage (SNS) in Leighton Buzzard is said to be the largest of its kind in Europe. The...
View ArticleVolvo Invents a Solar Panel That Unfurls From the Car Trunk
Jack Keuroac and Hunter S. Thompson wrote about the freedom of the open road, but their serendipitous stories would be hard to replicate in the era of electric cars, when travelers constantly need to...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Approves Chinese Solar-Panel Pact
The European Commission approved trade chief Karel De Gucht’s plan for curbs on Chinese solar panels, allowing import tariffs to be removed in three days in Europe’s largest dumping dispute. The...
View ArticleWind near-cost competitive with fossil fuels, says US Department of Energy
The latest data on US wind power provides some extraordinary statistics. During 2012 about 13 gigawatts of new capacity was installed, almost twice the UK’s total wind power. This provided about 43% of...
View ArticleYes, He Can…Put Solar Panels Back on the White House
If you haven’t heard the big solar news, a Washington Post reporter has confirmed from an anonymous source that the Obama Administration is finally following through with Secretary Chu’s promise to put...
View ArticleSamsung 7MW nacelle arrives in UK
The nacelle for Samsung Heavy Industries’ (SHI) prototype 7MW offshore wind turbine is set to begin a six-month programme of trials at the National Renewable Energy Centre’s (Narec) in northeast...
View ArticleFloating Gyro-Stabilized VAWT to Be Tested in Norway
A model of a floating gyro stabilized Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for offshore and near-shore applications, which is called Gwind, will be tested in the harbor of Stavanger this autumn, according...
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