Financing, land-acquisition and lack of proper policies are among challenges to India’s ambitious renewable energy projects, the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) run by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), early February, heard. India has begun rolling out widely acclaimed plans to add 100,000 megawatts of solar energy and 60,000 megawatts of wind energy to its energy mix by year 2022, but ...

Australia faces a A$17 billion ($13.3 billion) exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to deal the country a major economic blow and kill hopes of meeting a self-imposed clean energy target. Some 44 Australian windfarm projects, about half overseas-funded, have been shelved since a new conservative government said it wanted to cut state support for the in ...

MANILA, Philippines – Climate change solutions-provider World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) welcomed the timely start of operations of new wind farms in Guimaras and Ilocos Norte, which have already added 303 megawatts (MW) to the country’s power supply. It was reported in late 2014 that Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corporation (TAREC) is in charge of the development of the 54 MW wind farm in San Lorenzo, Guima ...

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems said on Monday it had received a 74 megawatt turbine order for a wind project in China. The order was for 37 units of the V100-2.0 MW turbine for the Yunnan Jianshui Qikeshu wind farm in the Yunnan province of China, Vestas said in a press release. The contract includes delivery, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a two year s ...

Southeast Asia's first wind power plant in Ilocos Norte has raised its power capacity by 19 megawatts bringing to 52 MW its total power generating capacity to augment other renewable energy resources' power production. The former 33-MW Bangui Wind Farm has already received its Certificate of Endorsement for Feed-in-Tariff from the Department of Energy (DOE), AC Energy President and chief executive officer E ...

The Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed PetroWind Energy Inc. to start operating the first eight wind turbines of the 50-megawatt Nabas wind power project in Aklan province in January. ERC said it approved the commissioning tests for the first eight wind turbines, as a part of phase 1 of the project for two months from Jan. 17 to March 17, 2015. The approval would bring the 50-MW Nabas wind power proje ...

Alstom has been awarded a contract by DaeMyoung Energy Corporation, subsidiary company of DaeMyoung GEC, a large engineering and construction services company in South Korea to provide wind turbines for Gowon wind farm. The wind farm is located in Gangwon province approximately 170km east of Seoul. Alstom will supply and supervise the installation and commissioning of 6 units of the ECO 110 Wind Turbines wi ...

Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp., a unit of Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp., said it has fully completed and commissioned all 27 wind towers of the San Lorenzo wind farm project in Guimaras province. The project now contributes 54 megawatts of clean and renewable power to the grid. The wind farm started delivering power to the grid as early as Oct. 7 this year. Trans-Asia Renewable invested P6. ...

Yesterday evening Altaeros Energies, a Somerville-based wind power company announced that it has raised $7 million in new funding. The new funding comes from Japan-based telecommunications company SoftBank, a telecommunications giant which is the parent company of Sprint. SoftBank also owns the largest stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Altaeros, which was founded in 2010 at MIT, used high altitude winds t ...

Suzlon Group, the world’s fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer, today surpassed yet another milestone by expanding the capacity of Asia’s largest wind farm at Kutch, Gujarat to 1100 MW. With this expansion, Suzlon now generates 1800 MW in Gujarat thus accounting for 20% of Suzlon’s total pan-India capacity of over 8250 MW. Commemorating this landmark occasion, the company unveiled S97 120m– World’s talle ...