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Why are Wind Turbines White?
Do you know why wind turbines are invariably white in colour? Henry Ford, the father of mass production famously said of his Model T-Ford, […]
Vestas Turbines for Onshore Wind Farm in Flanders, Belgium.
The major Danish wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has clinched a deal with Aspiravi and Limburg win(d)t to supply 27MW worth of onshore turbines for […]
Northern Ireland’s Carn Hill Wind Farm Facility Opened
The Irish renewable energy group, Gaelectric, opened a £20m wind farm at Carn Hill, Newtonabbey, County Antrim. It’s the first fully operational wind farm […]
Hola to Spanish Wind Power!
Renewable energy is gaining significant momentum in Spain. In April of this year the country set a new record when over half of its […]
New Green Shoots at Old Coal Port
Once upon a time the Scottish port of Methil, north of Edinburgh, was a bustling seaport and a centre for Scotland’s coal exports. As the […]
Storing Green Energy
It has long been recognised that the vagaries of the waves, the sun and the wind, mean that renewable “green” cannot be relied upon […]
Hypocricy in British Climate Change Government
The Department for Energy Climate Change is a major British Government Department that has a declared aim to tackle global warming. However, the Department […]
Vestas in “Plug and Play” Offshore Installation Innovation
The Danish company Vestas has pre-assembled and supplied V112 3MW turbines to the Swedish Karehamn offshore wind farm, something the manufacturer describes as a […]
Wind Power Mexico Conference 29-30 May 2013
Later this month the 3rd Annual Wind Power Mexico Conference will take place in Mexico City Building on the success of last year’s conference, […]
Focus on Gamesa
With 18 years’ experience and more than 25,000 MW installed in 40 countries, Gamesa is one of the prime global technological leader in the […]
UK Minister to Unveil New Wind Farm Planning Proposals
Michael Fallon, the recently appointed Coalition minister for energy and business, will shortly publish planning protections and proposals for a scheme of what he […]
Solution To The Wind Power Battery Issue?
One of the major problems with wind power is the (in)ability to store the power generated. When it is windy, everything is fine and […]
Members of the European Parliament Vote for Pollution
The European Commission representing most European nations operates a measure known as “backloading”. It is part of their store of incentives to promote the […]
Wind Farms and Peatland.
As always here at MWPS while we are pro-wind, we do not shy away from issues that should be addressed when weighing up questions […]
New Wind Farm given Go-Ahead in Wales
A 28 turbine wind farm at Brechfa Forest West in Carmarthenshire, Wales, has been given the thumbs up by the United Kingdom’s Department of […]
New Windpower Cheaper Than Coal
Did you know that windpower energy is cheaper than coal in some countries? Consequently when countries are choosing their next generation of power stations, […]
Breakthrough in Storage and Re-use of Wind Power
The tricky problem of how to store wind and solar energy and re-use it at a later time, may be a step closer to […]
Wind Turbine Illnesses: Anti-Wind Power Campaigners are to Blame!
You may have read reports that some people claim to suffer at the hands of those clean machines, wind turbines. Many claims are, of […]
More Wind Power than Nuclear Power in Chinese Electricity?
Who would have thought it? Those historic purveyors of smoke, carbon, pollution and all things anti-environment may have cleaned up their act so much […]
South Coast of England Offshore Wind Farm Gets Thumbs Up for Extension
Just off the Kent coast of Southern England, near Herne Bay and Whitstable, lies one of the first offshore wind farms built in the […]
Great Britain; Green Britain
A bumper crop of more than 1,200 new wind turbines will spring up throughout Britain’s countryside over the next twelve months. Onshore there are […]
Green Google
Google this: Spinning Spur Wind Project, Oldham County, Texas. You’ll see that the company famous for its ubiquitous search engine has purchased a 200 […]
Real Time Wind Map USA
Since time immemorial poets, writers, philosophers have posed the question “Who has seen the wind?”. While the effects of the wind can clearly be […]
