Posts tagged Megawatts
Nordic Windpower cranks up turbine production with new $12.1M
Jan 5th
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Nordic Windpower, a Berkeley, Calif. maker of lightweight, two-blade wind turbines for renewable energy generation, has just raised $12.06 million of an anticipated $30.15 million round of equity, according to a filing with the SEC This is a great start to 2010 for the company, which saw its first sales (PDF)Â and a loan [...]
2010 poised to be a big year for California renewables
Dec 31st
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California is poised to meet its lofty renewable energy goals — at least on paper. Right now, 200 renewable energy products totaling 70 gigawatts of energy are under consideration in the state. Not all of them will pass muster — but their equivalent will need to be built in order to make the [...]
Ram brings geothermal a step closer to financial feasibility
Dec 30th
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It’s a little known fact — the Earth’s geothermal resources could satisfy the world population’s power needs many times over. So why is it only generating little over 10 gigawatts of power globally? The prime reason: Few companies have figured out how to make the capital-intensive plants economically feasible. But geothermal conglomerate Ram [...]
California’s Central Valley may soon go nuclear
Dec 29th
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The Fresno Nuclear Energy Group and Areva have signed a letter of intent to build nuclear reactors in California’s Central Valley. Areva is proposing to build its EPR reactor somewhere in Fresno County, possibly beginning construction in 2017. If this nuclear push in the golden state is successful, it will set a strong precedent [...]
