Thursday, September 22, 2011

20110922 0932 Renewable Energy Related News.

JAPAN CHUBU LOSES 1,870 MW HYDRO POWER DUE TO TYPHOON
TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Chubu Electric Power Co  said on Wednesday it has lost about 1,870 megawatts of hydro power output as a very strong typhoon approaches central Japan, but added there are no worries of power shortages.
The company said the hydro plants currently shut due to a rise in water levels include two of its pumped hydro plants, the 780-MW Okuyahagi No.2 unit and the 315-MW Okuyahagi No.1 unit.
GAMESA TARGETS 12-15 PCT OFFSHORE WIND MARKET
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa  plans to capture 12-15 percent of the global offshore wind market in 2020, chairman Jorge Calvet told Reuters on Tuesday.
Gamesa does not have any utility-scale offshore wind generation, but expects global demand for rugged sea-based turbines to be about 60 gigawatts (GW) in 2020, half of which will be in the North Sea, which it is targeting along with the U.S. and China.

SIEMENS HOPS ON RENEWABLES WAVE WITH POWER LINES
PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain, Sept 20 (Reuters) - German industrial group Siemens AG  aims to benefit from the global push into renewable energy by installing power lines to get electricity from sun-drenched and wind-swept sites to customers.
It also wants to deliver the natural gas-fired power stations that can fill the gap left when neither wind nor sun is powering the green facilities, the company told reporters on the Spanish island of Majorca.

GREEN ENERGY MEETS 23 PCT OF ITALY 2010 POWER DEMAND
MILAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Power produced from renewable sources covered 22.8 percent of total demand in Italy in 2010 compared with a 27 percent target set for 2020 under the European Union's efforts to fight climate change, Italy's energy management operator GSE said on Tuesday.
Renewable energy plants doubled in number over the last year to 160,000 with a total capacity of 30.3 gigawatt, up 14.2 percent from 2009, GSE said in a statement.  

RENEWABLES STIR GROWTH, CREATE JOBS - EU ADVISER
BERLIN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A major expansion of renewable energy could create millions of jobs worldwide, stir economic growth in heavily indebted countries and help fight climate change at the same time, an American adviser to the German leader Angela Merkel said on Monday.
Jeremy Rifkin, a best-selling author and an adviser to the European Union on climate change and energy security, said Germany has been leading the way by creating some 250,000 jobs in renewable energy in just a few years, but could do more.

CHINA QUELLS VILLAGE SOLAR POLLUTION PROTESTS
HAINING, China, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Residents of a village in east China accused riot police of heavy-handed tactics after a three-day protest against a solar panel factory accused of dumping toxic waste was brought to an end on Sunday.  
"We are being silenced," said a protester who would only give his surname as Cao, at an industrial park on the outskirts of Haining in Zhejiang province as police in riot gear sealed off the site.  

E.ON EYES CHINA WIND TURBINES IN GREEN PUSH
FRANKFURT, Sept 16 (Reuters) - E.ON  is in talks with China's wind turbine makers, the chief financial officer of its renewable operations said, adding the German utility may in future source turbines produced in the world's largest wind market.
"We have been talking to half a dozen manufacturers and are looking in detail at costs and benefits," Cord Landsmann, chief financial officer of E.ON's climate and renewables unit, told Reuters in an interview.

SUZLON SEES STRONG DEMAND FOR WIND ENERGY IN CHINA
DALIAN, China, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy  could begin exporting Chinese-assembled turbines to third countries as early as next year, the chairman of the company said on Thursday.  
With the company expecting about a 40-percent increase in global revenue this fiscal year, Suzlon is also seeking a Chinese joint-venture partner to produce large turbines in China for the Chinese market, Tulsi Tanti said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Dalian.

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