GE Sells Solar to Wind Farms

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 24 January 2012 | 1 Comment
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia, English

As renewable energy deals ago, General Electric’s announcement this week that it would supply 23 megawatts of solar panels for an Illinois photovoltaic farm was rather small change.

Scottish renewable electricity on track for ‘record year’

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 22 December 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Energia, English

Scotland looks set for its highest ever renewables output, and could produce almost a third of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2011.

Egypt shows faith in renewable energy with wind farm tender

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 11 November 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia, English

A tender for a 1,000-megawatt wind farm signals intent by the Egyptian government to meet its ambitious target for tapping renewable energy sources.

Germany Sets Aside $130 Billion for Renewable Energy

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 20 October 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Energia, English

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they currently produce about 28 percent of the country’s electricity.

20 percent of Germany’s power grid now from green energy

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 08 September 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia, English

It doesn’t have Norway’s waterfalls or Spain’s sun-drenched plains. Nonetheless, Germany is inching its way up the list of renewable-energy producers: In the first six months of 2011, green energy for the first time accounted for more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity production.