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• Renewables

  ‘Onshore wind – Policy action needed now to achieve German and European climate targets’

  Following the record expansion year 2017 for onshore wind energy in Germany, new installations are declining in 2018 as expected. The figures collected by Deutsche WindGuard show a ...

  On July 26, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  GE to test 12 GW wind turbine off UK coast

  GE Renewable Energy has signed a five-year agreement with Renewable Energy Catapult, funded by the British government, to test GE’s Haliade-X 12 megawatt (MW) turbine in Blyth, Northumberland. “This ...

  On April 27, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Renewables

  Accessing an offshore wind turbine safely and quickly

  The Safeway motion-compensated offshore access system supplied by the Dutch firm Van Aalst Group has been installed on Offshore Construction Vessel, ‘Olympic Intervention IV’ owned by Olympic Subsea ...

  On April 16, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  13.7MW floating solar power plant starts operating

  Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo Century Corporation have announced that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started the operation of Japan’s 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar plant this month. Located on ...

  On March 27, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  Cannabis growers may welcome vertical axis wind turbine

  MITU Resources Inc. has planned the commercial introduction of the Company’s licensed WindShark self-starting vertical axis wind turbines within the regulated cannabis sector in California. Experts estimate that ...

  On March 7, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  New technology combines solar, fossil power and energy storage

  Pintail Power has announced a new patented technology that combines solar and conventional power generation with molten salt thermal energy storage to deliver low-carbon dispatchable power. The result ...

  On February 28, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  Windshark turbine paired with commercially available generator

  WindShark is a proprietary vertical axis windmill with three curved helical blades that capture airflow from any wind direction.  Inspired by sacred geometry and the operational dynamics of a ...

  On February 25, 2018 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Renewables

  Grid stabilization or enabling renewables?

  The DOE’s recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), advertised as “Grid Stabilization”, was immediately demonized by the Renewables Community as a subsidy for Coal and Nuclear Power Generation. ...

  On February 14, 2018 / By Pete Baldwin
• Renewables

  Siemens Gamesa launches several new wind turbine models

  Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is now launching the new geared turbine SG 4.2-145, as part of the new geared turbine platform Siemens Gamesa 4.X. The model SG ...

  On November 28, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Renewables

  4MW geothermal plant powering up Terceira Island in the Azores

  EXERGY took part today at the inauguration ceremony of the Pico Alto 4 MWe geothermal power plant held in the stunning scenery of the Terceira Island, in the ...

  On November 22, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors