Germany's DanTysk Offshore Wind Power Plant Inaugurated
80 Siemens wind turbines with a total capacity of 288 megawatts
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Environmentally friendly power for some 400,000 households
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Siemens to provide service and maintenance for five years
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Wind power plant connected to mainland via Sylwin1 offshore link
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Offshore capacity of Siemens wind turbines in Germany now over 1 gigawatt
Atlantic Wind & Solar Completes Construction on 3 Utility Scale Power Plants in Canada
The $1.57 million commercial rooftop installation, spanning three buildings, is expected to produce 6,000 megawatt hours of power over the next 20 years supplying Ontario with clean reliable energy.
Powerhive Inc.: First Solar-Backed Off-Grid Innovator to Capitalize on Kenya Experience
Solar-powered microgrid response to energy access challenge, proven by more than two years of field-testing
Black & Veatch Microgrid System Begins Providing Power to World Headquarters
The Microgrid Unites Natural Gas, Rooftop Solar, Geothermal and Battery Storage
Four New Community-Shared Solar Projects Launch in Massachusetts
Clean Energy Collective, commonwealth, and town representatives mark groundbreaking of 3 MW of additional clean energy generation across Adams and Uxbridge, Mass.
First Offshore Wind Farm In The U.S. Kicks Off Construction
Offshore wind is coming to the United States.
Construction on what will be the country’s first offshore wind farm started Monday in Rhode Island. The wind farm, which is being developed by Deepwater Wind, will be located off of the coast of Block Island, a small island about 13 miles south of Rhode Island. Once completed, the five-turbine, 30-megawatt wind farm will produce enough energy to power all homes and businesses on Block Island, which previously relied on diesel generators, according to the Sierra Club. The wind farm will also send energy to mainland Rhode Island. It’s expected to come online in fall 2016.
Environmental groups, many of which have pushed for the project since it started going through hearings in 2013, applauded the start of construction. Bruce Nilles, senior campaign director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, told ThinkProgress that the start of construction was a “landmark” moment for the U.S. wind industry, and that it “really makes real the promise offshore wind has” in the U.S., particularly on the East Coast.
“This is technology that will play a very important part in decarbonizing electric sector,” he said.
'Mega' floating solar power plants open in Japan
Two floating solar power plants capable of providing electricity for 1,000 homes have been completed in Japan.
The latest such "mega-plants" at Nishihira and Higashihira Ponds in Kato City are the work of electronics giant Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation, and took just seven months to install. The plant's 11,250 modules are expected to generate 3,300 megawatt hours (MWh) every year.
According to Kyocera, besides being typhoon-proof (due to their sturdy, high-density polyethylene and array design) floating solar plants are superior to their land-based equivalents because of the cooling effect of the water, which allows them to function more efficiently. Reservoirs are also an ideal location because the panels produce shade, which reduces water evaporation and promotes algae growth. A report by Korea Water Resources Corporation found that the lower temperatures of the floating modules mean they are 11 percent more efficient than land-based equivalents. The report identified unsolved issues with the plants, too, however. It said the study had to discard data collected when the panels moved in the wind, and said research into new mooring systems was "continually needed".
WINAICO supplies 2.6 MW of modules to Europe's largest crowdfunded solar project
WINAICO supplies 2.6 MW of solar modules to almost 750 roofs across Berwickshire, Scotland, in Europe's largest ever crowdfunded solar project
FUGRO COMPLETES OF ONE OF OFFSHORE WIND INDUSTRY'S LARGEST EVER GEOTECHNICAL CAMPAIGNS AT HORNSEA PROJECT ONE
Fugro has successfully completed one of the largest seabed investigation campaigns in the history of the offshore wind industry in preparation for DONG Energy's 1.2 gigawatt Hornsea Project One project.
Deploying 72-cell SolarWorld solar panels, USDA system will be biggest in D.C. area
Project totaling 1.5 megawatts of photovoltaics will power office and research facility
ViZn Energy Systems' Zinc-Iron Flow Battery Commissioned at Randolph-Macon College as Part of Dominion Solar Project
Project demonstrating grid-scale energy storage with solar generation
The Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas Completes Multimillion Project to Reduce Carbon Footprint
The Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas has completed a multimillion-dollar cogeneration plant on the Island of Kauai. It is the first instance in the Hawaiian Islands where a cogeneration system has the capacity to generate up to 100% of a resorts energy needs.
E.ON & GE Christen Wind Farm
E.ON's windiest U.S. project comes online
World-first and new standard achieved in floating LiDAR as AXYS selects ZephIR 300
ZephIR 300, a continuous wave (CW) wind LiDAR provides high resolution measurements at an unmatched data rate of 50Hz.
Commercial Solar Projects Deploy KACO new energy-AMPT Solution To Reduce System Cost AND Improve Performance
Optimized power solution enables more modules per string and higher resolution MPP tracking to improve project economics and design flexibility
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