Good Move! Google Invests $38.8 Million in Two North Dakota Wind Farms
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169.5 Megawatts of Combined Capacity
Google has stopped being only about internet services such as search and email a while ago, but so far, most of its investments in renewable energy were directed at R&D and startups, not at more mature clean energy sources. This is changing: the search giant has decided to invest its pocket change into two wind farms located in North Dakota….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Solar Industry Created 17,000 US Jobs, 441 MW in 2009
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Despite the harsh recession, the solar power industry appears to have continued to grow at fairly rapid clip. The Solar Energies Industry Association has released its report for 2009, and the findings are encouraging: installations generating 441 Megawatts of power were put up, manufacturing costs went down, the industry attracted $1.4 billion worth of investment in ventur…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ontario Announces 2,500 Megawatts of Renewable Energy Deals
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In Germany’s Footsteps… And About as Sunny
Canada’s most populous province has been signing deals left and right since it increased its feed-in tariffs (the danger is now arguably that they’re too generous, and this could lead to a backlash from rate-payers). The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has recently announced deals for 184 new projects, mostly wind, solar, run-of-river hydro, …Read the full story on TreeHugger
“Chinese” Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?
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The buzz around the green blogosphere today is another record-setting Chinese wind farm, with 240 turbines producing 648 megawatts. But this one isn’t in Inner Mongolia — it’s in Texas.
This $1.5 billion wind farm — a US-China…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Chile: Largest Wind Park in the Country Inaugurated
The new park. Photo: EolicaMonteRedondo.cl
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet inaugurated last week the country’s largest wind park. The Monte Redondo project took a 100 million USD investment and will have a production of 38 megawatts, which will power 57 thousand homes.
According to Bachelet, never before had Chile invested so much in clean energy as in her government period. And the numbers are impressive….Read the full story on TreeHugger
53 MW Thin-Film Solar Power Plant Now Germany’s Largest
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Thin-film solar power plants are definitely becoming more common and larger in size. A year ago the world’s largest thin-film power plant was just 10 megawatts. Now one near Cottbus, Germany comes in at 53 megawatts, Renewable Energy World reports:…Read the full story on TreeHugger