These discussions include small-scale hydroelectric projects as well as solar and wind generators, the officials said.
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India now has 4, 500 megawatts of installed wind generators, accounting for about 3.4% of total electricity-generation capacity.
Thanks to dramatic advances in wind-turbine technology, the costs of setting up and operating wind generators now approach those of gas turbines, even without subsidies.
To boost its green credentials, the designers have incorporated 160 square meters of solar panels on the roof, as well as wind generators that can produce 28-30 kilowatt hours of power (kwh) -- the average daily consumption of a family household.
China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005 and 20 per cent of the power supply to the venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will come from wind generators, according to the official state agency, Xinhua.
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Ralls Corp, which had been installing wind turbine generators made in China by Sany Heavy Industry Co.
The company already ranks as the world's eighth-largest producer (in terms of installed capacity) of wind turbine generators.
After Ralls completed the purchase, it prepared to install wind turbine generators made in China by a company called Sany Electric.
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The firm will use the money to build the foundation structures for large wind turbine generators in waters over 30 metres (100ft) deep.
So while Gamesa and Areva are among the wind turbine generators saying they want to manufacture in Scotland, they're not committing until they have orders, and commitments for orders are still some way off.
So GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous as it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base, says Wlliam Schmitz, president and CEO of WindTamer (WNDT), a maker of wind power generators utilizing proprietary technology for elecrtric generation and energy management.
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Still, thanks to ubiquitous government subsidies, the manufacture of wind and solar generators is a vibrant business.
Sales and profits had both doubled, and it had captured more than half of the Indian market, becoming the world's fifth-largest maker of wind-turbine generators.
Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.
And here is the opening for the next profit niche with a social purpose, says Rory Stear of Freeplay Energy, the company that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators best known in the 'wind-up radio'.
He is also offering operating subsidies through the renewable-obligations mechanism, which will pay tidal generators three times as much as the subsidy paid to onshore wind farms, and wave generators five times as much.
Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpected direction.
The electricity generators operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
But generators of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy must have their plants operating by the end of 2007 to get their tax rewards.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
ReGenerators are ruggedized mobile and transportable power systems that use solar, wind, and battery power to provide uninterrupted power to replace or augment fossil fuel generators.
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This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
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