The row between Donald Trump and his millionaire’s gold course versus EOWDC (the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Anerdeen Bay, Scotland rumbles on […]
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Abengoa to Build New Wind Farm in Uruguay
Abengoa Wind Farm Uruguay The Spanish energy company Abengoa announced in the last few days that it had a contract to build a 70-megawatt […]
What is the Economic Life of an Onshore Wind Turbine?
A study commissioned by the Renewable Energy Foundation has found that the economic life of onshore wind turbines could be far less than that […]
The Voices of Wind Farm Hosts Down Under
When it comes to opinions and debate about wind power, we usually get the pro-lobby arguing against the frackers, the NIMBYs and the Fossil […]
Japan and Floating Wind Turbines
From time to time you will have seen reports of reserach and innovation in the area of floating offshore wind technology. This has usually […]
Nordex Doubles Sales in Germany
Nordex, one of the leading turbine manufacturers has more than doubled its volume of sales in Germany. It has installed a combined capacity measured […]
Pellworm, The Greenest Island?
Pellworm is one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea Coast of Germany. It is tiny- its area is 37 square kilometres […]
The World’s Most Powerful Turbine
Veterans of the wind power industry, Vestas, have been showing off their new super-turbine which is reckoned to be the most powerful yet seen. […]
Vestas V112 3.3MW Turbines for Kavakli Wind Farm, Turkey
Erciyas Çelik Boru A.Ş is one of Turkey’s leading manufacturers and top exporters of spiral-welded steel pipes. It has signed an agreement to construct […]
US Wind and Solar Energy Will Be Cost Competitive
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a study, called ‘Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the […]
Higher and Higher…
We’ve become used to Chinese renewable energy companies pushing boundaries. After becoming the world leader in solar energy, the country has just built the […]
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Acquire Wind Farm Sites in the UK
RES took over the Bransford Bridge wind farm near Rugby in the English Midlands earlier this year. They have now also purchased Brown’s Holt […]
Thinking Wind Power? Think Second-Hand Turbines.
While no-one can claim that the last two or three years of recession have been a boom-time for the wind industry. With turbine manufacturers […]
European Wind Turbine Manufacturers Turn Corner
After three years of losses, shutdowns and lay-offs, European wind turbine manufacturing giants such as Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems, Germany’s Nordex and Gamesa appear […]
Panama to get first Wind Farm in 2014
Goldwind USA Inc. announced last week that the company had secured a $71 million project financing deal for a 55MW project in Panama. This will form the first […]
Wind Power Cost-Competitiveness with Fossil Fuels in United States
Some very interesting statistical data had just been released in regard to Wind Power Cost-Competitiveness. It is contained within the US Department of Energy’s […]
Vestas Turbines for Ukraine Wind Power Plants
The Danish wind turbine giant,Vestas, announced this week that they had secured a firm and unconditional order for a total of 21 MW of […]
Prairie Chickens Safer Near Wind Farms
The effect of wind turbines on wildlife can cause anxiety to those with green credentials. However the greater prairie chicken, a wild inhabitant of […]
Two New Wind Farms for Northern Poland
The Polish wind power plant developer and operator PEP S.A. ( which stands for Polish Energy Partners S.A.) has commissioned Siemens to build two […]
Significant Wind and Solar Power Growth seen in 2012
Despite the glocal recession solar and wind renewable energy continued to grow last year. according to recently released figures from the Worldwatch Research Institiute. […]
Wind Farms on Family Farms in Minnesota, United States
Windmills used to be regular sights on farms; used for grinding wheat, or for pumping water for the livestock. While windmills may be a […]
UK Offshore Wind Capacity now 10 Gigawatts
The UK Coalition Government’s Ministers have said that they will be providing £66m of funding to improve the supply chain for offshore wind developments, […]
Renewable Energy Storage is now more Important than Renewable Energy Generation
When the sun is shining, the winds are blowing and demand for energy is low, all seems well in the renewable energy world. But […]
Fracking in UK Attracting Major Opposition
The controversial technology of extracting shale gas from under the ground by a process known as fracking, is beginning to generate opposition from local […]
