Via Great Falls Tribune: NaturEner, a renewable-energy company that entered the North American market in 2007, officially broke ground last Thursday on the first phase of the 210-megawatt Glacier wind farm, in Montana.
The official debut of the project for the public brought NaturEner officials to North Central Montana from the company’s headquarters in Madrid and the U.S. headquarters in San Francisco.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who has supported tax breaks to lure projects such as the Glacier... Read Full Story
AEROBLADE is a newly founded Spanish aeronautical company for the design, development and production of wind turbine blades. It is part of the SYNERGY Group, that also includes the aerospace company AERNNOVA.
Aernnova provides design and engineering of large aircraft sections for clients such as Embraer, Bombardier and Boeing. It opened an engineering center in Ann Arbor (Michigan) last year.
Wind turbine with blades in V-position for service and maintenance
Aeroblade has its main offices... Read Full Story
Gas Natural HQ in Barcelona
The Spanish energy company Gas Natural inaugurated yesterday in Seville one of the first European solar cooling experimental plants. The technology behind it is double-effect solar absorption cooling backed up by natural gas. That allows for more efficiency and consistency in obtaining cold levels apt to be used in heating and refrigeration.
The project’s main objective is to allow the company acquire enough experience to be able to deploy these solar thermal... Read Full Story
Pollution Control Industries (PCI), based in East Chicago (Indiana) is now part of Tradebe, following the completion of the process of acquisition last month. PCI manages hazardous and non hazardous waste through three fully-permitted Part B “RCRA” treatment, storage and disposal facilities in Indiana, Tennessee and South Carolina. It serves many industries, among them the Chemical (including pharmaceutical, petrochemical, Paint and coatings and Plastics) and Printing markets. PCI has 370... Read Full Story
Tecnalia Technology Corp. (Basque Country, Spain) has unveiled a hydrogen fuel cell prototype car, known as H2CAR. The Tecnalia ecological car project was developed to demonstrate not only the viability of fuel cell vehicles but hydrogen as a storage medium for renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and wave power.
H2CAR is driven by an electric motor which is silent and high-performing. The electricity needed is generated from hydrogen stored in standard 200 bars-pressurised bottles... Read Full Story
This year has not been lacking in opportunities to showcase solar energy or services. Besides generic trade shows for the whole of the renewable energy industry like Powergen-RE (February) or WIREC (March), in June there was a megashow specific to the solar industry, Intersolar (Munich) with 1,050 exhibitors across 76,000 m² of exhibitor floor. What is more, Intersolar is branching out this year to the US and next July 15-17 will see its first edition unfold in San Francisco, along with the... Read Full Story
As a follow-up to the Spanish trade mission that visited the state last February, Gov. Bill Ritter is in Spain this week to meet with renewable energy companies and encourage investment in Colorado.
Ritter says the trip will be a way to raise the state’s profile in Europe and “let them know Colorado is the best state in America to do business.” Ritter, Energy Office Director Tom Plant and Economic Development Director Don Elliman will be in Madrid from today to July 9.
Gov. Ritter follows... Read Full Story
A recently released report from Frost & Sullivan for the European Inverter Market for Renewable Energy Systems, finds that the market earned revenues of €654.4 ($1,004) million in 2007 and estimates they will reach €3,105 ($4,763.7) million in 2014.
According to the report, Spain, backed by solid growth in its solar energy industry, moves to the forefront of the European inverter market for renewable energy systems, as Germany becomes a backseat driver.
“A booming market in Spain is... Read Full Story
Gamesa has reached a landmark deal with Iberdrola Renewables, involving the largest ever purchase and sale agreement of wind turbine generators, amounting to a total power of 4,500 megawatts (MW).
The purchase will come about between 2010 and 2012 and they will be destined to wind energy promotions in Spain, the rest of Europe, the United States and Mexico. The agreement includes the wind turbines’ assembly and start-up, along with operations and maintenance services during the wind... Read Full Story
Scientists of the University of Granada, UGR (Spain) have designed a novel and versatile environmental diagnostic method of landfills which is able to adapt to different places of the world and contributes to quantify the environmental impact. The study produced a method helped by a software tool that analyzes the relation between landfill dynamics and their influence on different elements in the environment. It also permits to control harmful impacts such as bad smell and superficial and... Read Full Story
