Archive for May, 2009
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22 May 2009
A hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle was presented to the public last week in Basel. The vehicle is named the “Bucher CityCat H2″ and is the first municipal utility vehicle in the world powered by fuel cell technology. For the next 18 months it will be tested in everyday usage
Developers are Empa and the [...]
Kyocera Supplies Solar Modules for New Toyota Prius
21 May 2009
Kyocera Corporation announced that it is supplying solar modules for the new Toyota Prius solar ventilation system, an optional feature for the hybrid car model introduced in Japan by Toyota Motor Corporation (hereafter “Toyota”) on May 18. The system ventilates the air inside of the car by using the electricity generated by the solar module [...]
Category: Energy, Mobility, Solar energy
The Commission calls for proposals for €4 billion worth of energy investments
21 May 2009
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals covering key energy infrastructure projects such as energy interconnections, offshore wind energy and carbon capture and storage as part of the implementation of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR), on which the Council and the Parliament recently reached agreement. Project promoters are invited to submit [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Siemens to provide 175 wind turbines for wind farm London Array
21 May 2009
Siemens Energy will supply 175 SWT-3.6 turbines to the London Array offshore wind project, which is owned by DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar. Upon completion, the London Array project will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with a capacity of 630 megawatts (MW). There is also an option to further expand the [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Electrical transmission towers turned into wind turbines to produces renewable energy
21 May 2009
Metropolis Magazine 2009 Next Generation contest challenged designers to “fix our energy addiction.” The winning entry is such a brilliantly simple design that it’s amazing we haven’t implemented it already. Called Wind-it, French designers Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin and Raphael Menard have drummed up plans to install wind turbines on — and inside of — [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
France expands production of solar energy
18 May 2009
Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he wants to build solar plants in each French region by 2011, for a cost of about euro1.5 billion ($2.03 billion). With this statement, France opened up bidding for an ambitious solar project to blanket the country in solar energy plants and push the country closer to the forefront of [...]
Category: Solar energy
Solar cells going retail in Japan
18 May 2009
The Japanese market has a new concept for the marketing and distribution of consumer solar energy. Where solar cells and other system components are usually sold via specialized installers, small outlets or webshops, in Japan a leading retailer, Aeon Co Ltd, and solar cell producer Kyocera Corp formed a business alliance for the marketing of solar [...]
Category: Solar energy
Gamesa enters into two new agreement to install 98 MW in Italy
17 May 2009
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica has entered into two new agreements with the Italian company Enpower 3 S.r.l., which belongs to the Moncada Construzioni S.r.l. group, for the supply of forty-nine wind turbine generators from the Gamesa G8X-2.0 MW product platform, amounting to the installation of a total power output of 98 MW.
These wind turbines will [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Siemens opens European headquarters for wind energy in Hamburg
17 May 2009
Siemens is greatly expanding its wind power activities in Germany and Europe. As part of this expansion, Siemens has now established its European headquarters for wind power sales and project execution in Hamburg. At the same time, the Bremen location is being upgraded to European headquarters in the service business. The new headquarters in Hamburg [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
With their ‘hydrogen highway’ Norway realizes hydrogen transportation infrastructure
17 May 2009
This week, Norway celebrated the official opening of the Norwegian hydrogen highway, HyNor, at a new hydrogen station at Økern in Oslo. HyNor was opened by Norway’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Liv Signe Navarsete
The HyNor project stretches for 580 kilometers from Oslo on the eastern coast to Stavanger on the western North Sea coast. [...]
Category: Mobility
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