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London’s largest solar bridge in the world (finally) opened
Located in central London, the new railroad bridge ‘Blackfriars’ which spans the River Thames in central London officially became last week the largest solar bridge in the world. During the...
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Alstom gets its first wind contract in Korea
Alstom announced it had received a contract from a major Korean company engineering and construction for the supply of wind turbines for the wind farm Gimnyeong in Jeju Island, Korea. The French...
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Giant offshore wind farms to protect coasts from hurricane
New research by two American universities show for the first time a significant number of offshore wind would be able to absorb the damage caused by hurricanes on coastal cities. The results published...
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New record in efficiency for transparent solar cells
Thanks to a new development made by the German company Heliatek on organic solar films, it is now possible to obtain levels of transparency up to 40%, with an efficiency exceeding 7%. Note that the...
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Soitec sells solar project 7 MWp in California
Soitec Solar Development announced that it sold the solar power project ‘Desert Green Solar Farm’ with Invenergy Solar Development, whose power is 7 MWp and whose construction is imminent. Central...
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Alstom optimizes and expands its range
Alstom has recently announced they have signed a global partnership agreement with Freyssinet for the development of a concrete mast 119 meters specially designed for wind ECO 122. The new mast will be...
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The first solar power plant in eastern Turkey
Gobekli de Sanliurfa, a city located in the eastern part of Turkey, hosted a 240 kWp photovoltaic project realized by the Asunim. The system belongs to ODAS Energy, a publicly traded company in...
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7.8 megawatt photovoltaic plant in Israel
German subsidiary of ET Solar Energy announced last week the completion of the design and commissioning of a photovoltaic plant of 7.8 megawatts (MWp) in Israel for EDF Energies Nouvelles. Mishmar...
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A tidal turbine of 300 MW in Europe by 2020
OpenHydro, a subsidiary of DCNS, specializing in tidal energy systems and Alderney Renewable Energy (ARE) signed an agreement to create a joint venture, Race Tidal Ltd. The two companies will combine...
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Are wind farms bad long-term investment?
By 2020 UK aims to produce 15% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind energy; To date, the country has 4,246 turbines spread over 531 wind farms, generating 7.5% of the country’s...
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Revolutionary solar cells act like lasers
Solar cells based on silicon as those installed on our roofs operate with an efficiency of about 20% to convert sunlight into electrical energy; It took over 20 years to achieve this rate of return. A...
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Touwsrivier: 44 MW solar power plant is on track
Soitec, a specialist in the generation and production of semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced Monday that the Ministry of Energy of South Africa had finally...
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Biofuel from an Australian tree is “viable” and “sustainable”
A two-year study, commissioned in 2012 by Airbus and its partners, including Virgin Australia to validate the interest of the use of the Australian mallee (a family tree of eucalyptus) for the...
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Alstom signed his first contract in Poland
Alstom announced the signing of a contract worth approximately €80 million with PGE Energia SA Odnawialna for the supply of 30 wind turbines for the “90 MW Lotnisko ‘park, which will be located in...
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Photovoltaic plant of 20 megawatts to Burkina Faso
The Canadian company Windiga Energy and the Government of Burkina Faso signed an agreement to support investment allowing Windiga to become the first independent solar energy producer in the country....
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Green light for mega wind farm off the UK
Vattenfall and Scottish Power have got the green light from the British government to start construction of the wind farm East Anglia One ‘located off the east coast of England. The project will...
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Gain for Harjavalta hydroelectric power plant
Alstom signed a contract with the owner of Harjavalta hydroelectric plant (72 MW), for the rehabilitation and modernization of two existing generators as well as providing a new alternator for a total...
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NER 300: Deep geothermal energy and ocean thermal energy in the spotlight
The “Nemo” project, DCNS, by Akuo Energy to capture ocean thermal energy and the Franco-German “Geostras” FONROCHE on deep geothermal energy are the two French winners of the call for proposals “NER...
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Alstom gets the funding of its first solar power plant in Israel
Megalim Solar Power announced that it had received funding from the European Investment Bank and Hapoalim Bank, to build and operate the solar power plant of Ashelim Israel. This new step follows the...
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Alstom to supply 127 wind turbines for Umburanas complex
Alstom announced yesterday signed with the Brazilian wind energy specialist, Renova Energia, a contract worth about 320 million euros for the supply, installation and commissioning of wind turbines in...
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