Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

announced details of the e-Golf, its first fully electric vehicle to go on sale in the US, prior to its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. To help ensure pedestrians can hear this almost silent vehicle coming, the e-Golf has a low-speed sound system installed. Click to enlarge. Volkswagen of America, Inc. at the Frankfurt show.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Tesla is calling for more energy installers to be certified on its products as the company winds down its own solar installations. Tesla’s solar installation business is disappearing. Last year, Electrek reported that Tesla was changing its solar strategy, laying off workers, and now betting on certified installers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Air Products India installed, and in January 2012 commissioned, a hydrogen fueling dispenser in Pragati Maiden, Delhi to serve a fleet of hydrogen-powered auto rickshaws. Once complete, the UPES project will mark the third Air Products hydrogen fueling station operating in India.

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Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

Aeromine Technologies just closed a $9 million funding round, and it’s ready to scale up production of its bladeless rooftop wind turbines. Aeromine, launched in 2022, makes compact 50 kW or larger “wind harvesting platforms” that it mounts on the edge of a building’s roof. ad* FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

Before moving D cell assembly, Maxwell had produced approximately 7 million D cells, mainly for wind turbine blade pitch mechanisms, at its Swiss production facility. Maxwell produced its 2-millionth 3,000-farad large cell in January, and expects to deliver a third million by the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

Installed revenue by ESG technology, worldwide. Pike Research anticipates that among the various application segments in this market, the integration of renewable energy—primarily wind power—will represent approximately 50% of the total capacity deployed for long duration energy storage. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 25, 2024

Photo: Avangrid Five more wind turbines just came online at Vineyard Wind 1, making it the largest operating offshore wind farm in the US. New York’s South Fork Wind , the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm, is 132 MW.) Once completed, the project will consist of 62 wind turbines.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Photo: Exus Renewables North America Renewables developer Exus Renewables North America is giving a $200 million upgrade to Somerset County, Pennsylvania’s 139 megawatt (MW) Twin Ridges Wind Farm – here’s why repowering projects like this are the future of the wind industry. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 10, 2024

Photo: DongFang Electric Corporation China has installed an 18-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine – the world’s largest by power rating – in Guangdong province. State-owned power generator manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation completed the installation of the massive wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou on June 5.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Sun Catalytix Corporation will develop a unique technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under benign conditions to enable storage of intermittent renewable solar and wind energy for around-the-clock use. Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine. Earlier post.) DOE grant: $4,085,350). DOE grant: $4,462,162). (DOE

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Photo: South Fork The final turbine is up at New York’s South Fork Wind, making it the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm in federal waters. South Fork Wind is now successfully delivering power to Long Island and the Rockaways. ad* FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Photo: South Fork The final turbine is up at New York’s South Fork Wind, making it the US’s first complete utility-scale offshore wind farm in federal waters. Danish renewables giant Ørsted and Boston-based energy provider Eversource developed the 132-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind. Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), which will be the US’s largest offshore wind farm, has installed its first monopile foundation. The Orion , DEME Group’s heavy lift vessel, installed the monopile foundation approximately 29 miles off the Virginia Beach coast.

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Baua Electric

JULY 19, 2024

Map: Orsted Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced this week that Sunrise Wind , New York’s largest offshore wind farm, has kicked off construction. Hochul said, “By breaking ground on Sunrise Wind and advancing the next wave of offshore wind projects, New York is passing a tremendous milestone to combat climate change.”

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Baua Electric

JULY 6, 2024

A German offshore wind farm in the North Sea will use Chinese-made turbines for the first time (and they’re mighty). Hamburg-based clean energy asset manager Luxcara signed a preferred turbine supplier agreement with China’s Mingyang Smart Energy for the offshore wind farm Waterkant.

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Baua Electric

MAY 3, 2024

Voodin Blade Technology In a first, German startup Voodin Blade Technology just installed wooden blades on a prototype wind turbine. foot) wooden blades specifically out of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), and installed them on an existing wind turbine in Breuna, Germany, near the city of Kassel. Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Photo: Dongfang Electric Corporation China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation has rolled out a 26-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine, the world’s largest in both capacity and size. This offshore wind turbine is designed for areas with wind speeds of 8 meters per second and above. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Photo: Worldview Films via Vineyard Wind 1 Massachusetts and Rhode Island have selected 2,878 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power in the region’s first-ever coordinated procurement. This wind power will bring clean energy to over 1.4 The economic ripple effects of these projects will be massive.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Annual US power generation from wind turbines declined in 2023 for the first time since the mid-1990s – here’s why. gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity last year, but data from the US Energy Information Administration’s “ Power Plant Operations Report ” show that US wind generation in 2023 totaled 425,235 gigawatt-hours (GWh) – 2.1%

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 14, 2024

megawatt (MW) OceanX, with its double-turbine, “V”-shaped floating wind platform, is a game-changer. 180 hybrid drive wind turbines with blade diameters of 597 feet (182 meters) and a capacity of 8.3 It’s also durable enough to withstand winds of up to 161 mph (260 km/h) – and it keeps producing electricity. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

JULY 26, 2024

Photo: RWE The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has canceled the second offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico due to “a lack of competitive interest.” BOEM previously identified the areas in 2021 as potential Wind Energy Areas suitable for offshore wind leasing. GW of offshore wind energy capacity.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 24, 2024

Map: Orsted Sunrise Wind , New York’s largest offshore wind farm, now has the final permit it needs from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to start construction. New York’s largest offshore wind farm will create 800 direct New York jobs and thousands of indirect jobs.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

megawatt (MW) OceanX, with its double-turbine, V-shaped floating wind platform, has begun operations. The single-capacity floating wind platform was launched from Guangzhou, China, in August and is now installed at Mingyangs Yangjiang Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm off the southeast China coast. It features two MySE8.3-180

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Hywind floating offshore wind turbine by U.S. The US announced two proposals for offshore wind sales that could generate more than 18 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy – enough to power more than 6 million homes. It’s the first in a five-year lease schedule that could see up to 12 separate offshore wind auctions.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 19, 2024

Monopiles are steel tubes driven into the seabed that serve as the foundation for offshore wind turbines and support their weight and wind loads. The SeAH Wind Monopile Factory in Teesworks, spanning a vast 90-acre site, will produce monopiles weighing up to 3,000 tons. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Image courtesy of Equinor Construction giant Skanska has been awarded a contract to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the US’s largest offshore wind ports. Skanska’s $861 million critical infrastructure offshore wind hub project in Brooklyn will support the 2.1

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 7, 2024

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com National targets set by governments add up to just over a doubling of the global wind capacity by 2030, but fall short of tripling, according to a new report. The current sum of 2030 national wind targets is 2,157 gigawatts (GW), a 2.4x The analysis suggests that global wind capacity will double.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 20, 2024

By Jplourde umaine – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded the US’s first floating offshore wind energy research lease to the State of Maine. There’s a massive untapped opportunity for this as around 80% of global offshore wind resources are located in deep waters.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2024

Photo: Revolution Wind The 704-megawatt (M) Revolution Wind, Rhode Island and Connecticut’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, just hit a major milestone. Revolution Wind’s site is more than 15 miles south of Rhode Island and 32 miles southeast of Connecticut.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2025

Photo: GE Vernova GE Vernovas onshore wind business announced that it received orders in 2024 to repower over 1 gigawatt (GW) of wind turbines in the US. Wind energy repowering is all about breathing new life into older turbines. GE Vernovas wind repower projects are expected to come online between 2024 and 2027.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The magnets—and thus the rotor—follow the rotating alternating current field in the stator windings. The motor on the rear axle is particularly powerful due to its six-phase design: it has two windings with three phases each. The stators with move-in winding ensure a particularly powerful magnetic field.

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Baua Electric

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Amol Mande on Pexels.com Solar and wind now make up more than 20% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The renewable energy mix – biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind – is now nearly 30% of total US electrical generating capacity.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo: Strauss Wind The global wind industry installed 117 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy – here’s what happened and where. Annual wind installations increased in all regions except Europe and North America. Brazil installed 4.8

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.com Solar capacity additions hit the ground running in 2024, pushing renewables’ installed generating capacity past coal, according to new US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data. That’s more than the installed capacity of coal (207.15 Installed utility-scale solar capacity (104.61

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Photo: Dominion Energy Dominion Energy has hit a major milestone in the construction of its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind ( CVOW ) project. The company has put in place 78 monopile foundations and four offshore substation foundations during the first installation season, surpassing its initial target of 70 monopiles. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Photo: RWE Rivian will power its DC fast-charging network with renewable energy company RWE’s Champion Wind farm in Texas. The two companies just signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity from RWE’s repowered Champion Wind in Nolan and Mitchell counties, west of Abilene.

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