Archive for October, 2009
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7 October 2009
The financial and economic crisis has had a considerable impact on the energy sector worldwide. Investment in polluting technologies has been deferred and CO2 emissions could fall in 2009 by as much as 3% – steeper than at any time in the last 40 years, finds the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its new study, [...]
Category: Energy
Google working on smart grid solution for recharging electric vehicles
4 October 2009
As the number of electric vehicles, or plug-in hybrids increases, there is a good chance that they may put greater strain on the grid with a lot of vehicles going for a recharge simultaneously. Google is currently working on a solution to this problem, by integrating vehicles with the electric grid so as to minimize [...]
Category: Mobility
Bicycle gets radical redesign to battle urban congestion: the YikeBike
3 October 2009
A radical new electric bicycle, launched today at EUROBIKE, is expected to transform the way urban commuters navigate congested cities. A result of five years of research and development, YikeBike mini-farthing has a radically different riding position, steering mechanism and wheel configuration, giving a safe smooth ride while folding up to a super small size.
YikeBike [...]
Vestas signs contract for 58 MW in Italy
3 October 2009
Vestas has received an order for delivery of 29 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine to be installed in the region of Molise, Italy. The order has been placed by the company New Green Molise S.r.l., which is 50 per cent owned by Alerion Spa and 50 per cent by New Green Energy S.r.l.
The [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Siemens and Airtricity sign contract for major onshore wind farm in Scotland
2 October 2009
Siemens and Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), signed a contract on the supply of wind turbines for a major onshore wind farm in Southern Scotland. The 2.3 megawatt machines will be used at the Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire 70 kilometers south of Glasgow which will have [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
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