In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.
Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy Limited (GME Wind) is operating a 44 MW wind farm project through its wholly owned Nicaraguan subsidiary, Eolo de Nicaragua, S.A., under a public-private partnership...
The kinetic energy in wind is converted into mechanical power in specialized propeller-driven turbines mounted on towers. A generator inside the turbine converts the mechanical power into electricity...
The Brazilian experience with wind energy auctions illustrates that even carefully designed policies often must be reconsidered in the light of a complex and changing environment.
Mexico's 2010 national energy strategy aims to promote sustainability and simultaneously increase energy access by increasing the share of renewable resources used to generate energy. The wind farms...
The US consumes 25% of the world's oil — but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy our bridge to...
Wind and solar energy is a fast-growing share of the global energy mix. But integrating them into power-system operations requires significant adaptations to compensate for their variability....
This knowledge note singles out auctions as an important mechanism that has been implemented in a growing number of countries in recent decades. It features a case study of auctions designed to...
The note is based on original work by Marcelino Madrigal and Steven Stoft, "Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up: Emerging Lessons and Recommendations". Texas leads the United States...
"Battery storage allows for wind and solar energy to be used at a much greater scale by making it possible to store electricity and use it when it is needed most."
A new, first-of-its-kind $1...
International Union for Conservation of Nature Director Frank Hawkins is an expert in the birds of Madagascar. He speaks with IFC wind energy specialist Sean Whittaker about how their professional...
"The predominance of hydro generation and high-water storage capacity puts Brazil in an excellent position."
Brazil is a large emerging economy, and its electricity sector is quite unique. In some...
Significant multiyear and multi decade variations in intermittent renewable resources hold major implications for power system investments. They have been using extensive hydrology data for many...
The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, collectively The World Bank Group, have provided this Global Solar Atlas in addition to a series of global, regional and country GIS data...
"Interactively explore least cost electrification strategies and contextual investment scenarios for 46 countries around the world."
The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is an open access,...