Landscapes with wind turbines on the horizon have become a common sight, but do you know when the world’s first wind farm was built? It was 1981 when collaboration between NASA and the US Department of Energy led to the commissioning of the world’s first wind farm, Towards 2000. This prototype – given that the... Read more »
Tag: renewables
The wind is blowing in favour of wind power: 550 billion investment up to 2028
Installing wind power will represent investment of arround €550 billion over the next eight years
Israel will invest $22 billion to boost solar energy
Yuval Steinitz, Energy Minister of Israel, announces a plan to increase the use of solar energy over the next decade
The Spanish thermosolar energy reaches a new record of generation
During the first 8 months of the year the thermosolar energy has produced 4,269 GWh in Spain, a 4.1% increase compared with the last record
The energy future of Saudi Arabia: 60GW of renewable energy by 2030
The arabic country could install a total of 60GW of renewable energy, as has been known in an interview with the UAE state news agency, WAM Dr. Khalid bin Saleh Al Sultan, President of the King Abdullah Atomic and Renewable Energy City, has granted an interview where the energy future of Saudi Arabia has been... Read more »
Goodbye to the coal power plants in the Netherlands by 2030
The European country will also reduce its emissions by 49 percent for that year The Dutch Government confirmed during 2018 that the coal power plants in The Netherlands will dissapear in just over 11 years. That´s the plan that the executive authorities is designing to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020 and by... Read more »
Smart Cities World Forum, 7-8 May in Toronto, Canada
The summit, that will be celebrated in The International Centre in Toronto, will gather the main experts of Smart Cities during two days During two days Toronto will be the hotpoint of Smart Cities thanks to the Smart Cities World Forum, that will be celebrated from the 7th to the 8th in The International Centre... Read more »
Dubai will spend $22 Billion in an energy infrastructures plan
The arabic emirate has announced an ambitious project to boost its energy infrastructures during the next 5 years As Bloomberg has informed recently, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority is planning a energy infrastructures plan that will need, at lest, an investment of $22 Billion. This huge effort, that is expected to be developed during the... Read more »
France opens the world’s first Solar Road: see how it works
The first solar road has opened this December in a little village of the French region of Normandy Far away from that song of the Australian band AC DC called”Highway to hell” nowadays we can say that we have a “highway to sustainability”. Althought it´s only 1-km (0,6 milles) long, not enough to be considered... Read more »
Velatia is leading the Nautilus project
Companies such as Astilleros Murueta, Tamoin, Vicinay Marine and Tecnalia Technology Centre are participating in the NAUTILUS project, which is included within the “Collaboration Challenges” programme of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) The NAUTILUS project, led by Velatia and funded by the “Collaboration Challenges of the State Research, Development and Innovation Programme Oriented... Read more »
