Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centres. The project, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, is expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind…
he United Arab Emirates is pushing ahead with renewable energy investments to lower its dependence on natural gas imports as declining solar prices make projects more feasible, analysts said. Last month, the UAE announced plans to invest USD 35 billion to diversify its energy resources for power generation. Energy Minister…
Eventually, the country’s solar energy agency would like to export its renewable power to countries in the Middle East and Europe. Next month, Morocco will be taking the first step toward becoming the world’s solar energy superpower. That’s when the first phase of a planned renewable energy plant will go…
Net-zero-energy (NZE) buildings were the focus at a recent conference in California, a state that has mandated that all new residential buildings achieve NZE status by 2020. In addition, all new commercial buildings must be net-zero energy by 2030, and 50 percent of the existing commercial structures must be retrofitted…
Wind energy could be the largest power supply source in the EU by 2030 as long as governments drive ambition in climate and energy policies, according to a new European Wind Energy Association report. The Aiming High report suggests that wind power has the potential to exceed gas and other…
The French Ministry of Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE) has revealed that it will allocate 4,350 MW of PV power through the solar auctions that will be held from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2019. The auction calendar was included in a…
By By JEFF BIGGERS In America’s heartland, farmers are taking steps to help the environment and return carbon to the soil. …read more Read more here:: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/iowas-climate-change-wisdom.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Even though photovoltaic (PV) inverter shipments to China increased in 2014, significant price declines have caused revenue to drop. Despite PV inverter shipments to the Chinese market increasing nearly 18 percent last year to reach 13.3 gigawatts (GW) of alternate current (AC), revenues dropped 6 percent, according to IHS Inc.…
The German inverter manufacturer becomes the first non-Japanese supplier to reach this milestone. Local presence in market since 2011 has delivered constant growth drivers. Germany’s SMA Solar Technology AG has become the first non-local inverter supplier to surpass 1 GW of inverter sales in Japan, the company has today confirmed.…
Lawrence, MA – November 19, 2015 – Yaskawa – Solectria Solar, a leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it has become the #1 commercial inverter supplier in the U.S. according to GTM Research. GTM Research is the leading market analysis and advisory firm on the transformation of the…
