Pedreres de s'Hostal
pruned.blogspot.com 2/10/2009 — (Pedreres de s'Hostal, Minorca, Spain. Photo by Lluis Bertran.) Pedreres de s'Hostal is a disused stone quarry on the island of Minorca, Spain. In 1994, the quarry saw its last stonecutters, and since then, the non-profit organization Líthica has ...

Gales set wind power record for Spain
guardian.co.uk 3/6/2009 — Fierce winds push north-west Spain's wind farms to provide 40% of the country's electrical power Spain set a new record for wind power generation yesterday as gales blew across the country, with more than 40% of the country's energy needs being ...

Spain's solar market crash offers a cautionary tale about feed-in tariffs
nytimes.com 8/27/2009 — Greenwire: For a brief, shining moment, Spain was the best solar market in the world. Unlike in cloudy Germany, the sun bakes Spain's southwestern provinces -- the brown, hard-packed Extremadura and Andalusía -- on the Mediterranean coast. And the ...

Spain Installed More Than 3GW of Solar in 2008
greentechmedia.com 1/20/2009 — The latest estimates from the Spanish government show that the new capacity added last year exceeded some expectations by as much as threefold.

Spain leads 2008 solar market
cleantech.com 3/30/2009 — Global market reaches 15 GW installed capacity, but Spain could lose market-leader position in 2009 because of reduced incentives.

Spain: How to Use Solar Energy at Night
sciam.com 2/19/2009 — Scientific American: Near Granada, Spain, more than 28,000 metric tons of salt is now coursing through pipes at the Andasol 1 power plant. That salt will be used to solve a pressing if obvious problem for solar power: What do you do when the sun is ...

World’s biggest solar power tower to open in Spain
climateprogress.org 1/2/2009 — The world’s biggest solar tower will open early this year in Spain. The race for leadership in the next generation of solar power is taking off. The UK Guardian reports that in the desert 20 miles outside Seville, the Spanish company Abengoa ...

Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers
guardian.co.uk 2/26/2009 — The Pyrenees mountains have lost almost 90% of their glacier ice over the past century, according to scientists who warn that global warning means they will disappear completely within a few decades. While glaciers covered 3,300 hectares of land on ...

Vice President Al Gore Touts Spain’s Leadership in Energy and Infrastructure
businesswire.com 3/18/2009 — NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Vice President Al Gore recognized Spain as one of the world’s top innovators of renewable energy and high-speed rail transportation. Speaking at the Spain-U.S. Business Sustainability Conference on March 17, Gore cited ...

BYD signs agreement to import EVs to Spain
green.autoblog.com 9/26/2009 — BYD e6 electric MPV - Click above for high-res image gallery BYD's Wang Chuan-Fu has signed an agreement with Spanish distributor Grupo Bergé to import BYD electric cars to Spain. As a consequence, two BYD models are already included in the list of eligible models for the Movele ...