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Plans for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm
Plans have been unveiled for a floating offshore wind farm project in Scotland. The Kincardine offshore wind farm is a proposed demonstrator floating project […]
Number of UK Onshore Wind Turbines?
How can there be such a discrepancy between the figures quoted in the title? The answer lies in what you call a wind turbine […]
Siemens win Big Dutch Offshore Contract
Siemens has just clinched a deal with the Dutch Offshore Wind consortium called the Gemini Project. The contracts are for the construction, financing and […]
Farmers for Wind
I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of onshore wind turbines on their land. When […]
Idle Wind Turbine in Portsmouth
People in Portsmouth are angry. Portsmouth is the historic South coast of England town where Sir Francis Drake finished a game of bowls before […]
Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine
In Ontario, Canada, the company “LTA Wind Power is developing a revolutionary type of wind turbine. A Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine. In fact, it’s not […]
A Visit to Two Wind Farms
Last bank holiday weekend in the UK was also my 59th birthday and while holidaying in the superb unspoilt Edwardian seaside town of Southwold, […]
GE Set to Launch New Wind Turbine Model GE 1.85-82.5
GE are about to unveil a new turbine which will target class II wind locations, such as those in Brazil. It will be known […]
Renewable Energy Islands
While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are […]
Siemens Second Project With Cobra Energia
Cobra Energia, the Spanish wind developer, has awarded Siemens Energy another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by an additional […]
UK Conservative Party Ending Onshore Wind Subsidies
The U.K. Conservative Party has finally gone public with a policy many political commentators thought would be coming. They will end all subsidies to […]
Google’s Search for Greener Energy Continues
Google Inc. has announced that it has signed its seventh (and largest) renewable energy contract, this one tied to wind-powered generators belonging to MidAmerican […]
VisionAIR3: Heralding a Revolution in Wind Turbines?
In the last few days, the official debut of a new vertical axis micro wind turbine was launched. It’s a new addition to the […]
Germany’s Renewable Energy Means Cheaper Electricity
It’s a good time to be a country adjacent to Germany these days. Data has just been released by Platts Continental Power (CONTI) Index […]
UK Needs To Get its Wind Power Act Together!
Wind watchers and commentators around the globe have been confused and wrong-footed by the UK Government’s on/off like/dislike g0/stop attitude to the future of […]
United States Winning Wind War vs Carbon Emissions
The much respected and authoritative American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) will be giving some good news in a forthcoming report. A key finding will […]
Who’s Who in Wind Power: Henrik Stiesdal
If you have to ask who is Henrik Stiesdal, then it’s clear you don’t know much about wind power. In Denmark and also around […]
Vive Wind La France!
While Germany and the UK seem to get a lot of publicity about their ambitious goals for wind energy, France is determined not to […]
The Most Powerful Turbine Award 2014 Goes Too…..
We’ve come a long way since the first 450-kW offshore wind turbine was installed in 1991 at Vindeby. Vestas’ massive V164-8.0 MW has a […]
Siemens UK “Recognise Offshore Wind Energy”
It has just been announced that manufacturing giant Siemens and the UK’s Associated British Ports are to invest a total of £310m in UK […]
UK MP Proposes Restrictions on Wind Farms
While many see the UK as one of the leading European countries embracing wind power, there are dissenters in Parliament. Christopher hope is the […]
Massive Wind Farm for Kenya
Renewable energy will be coming big-time to East Africa in the form of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project , which will be the […]
Flying High: Blimp “BAT” for Alaska!
Alaska is considered to be the top of the world (or at least the top of the American continent) and it will soon be […]
