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GE Win Contract for 400MW Texas Wind Farm
New Generation Power Texas (a diversified global developer, investor, owner and operator of energy infrastructure assets in the areas of Utility Scale Power Generation) has […]
UK Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance Specialists
The UK is hoping to produce 15% of all its energy from renewable sources by 2020 to try to cut climate-warming emissions. While the […]
Germany Wind Turbine Manufacturers Look At South Africa
A number of German wind turbine manufacturers and service providers are now focusing on the South African wind energy market. They are keen to […]
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 […]
Businesses See Sense in Wind Power Investment
A few weeks ago the Scandinavian home furnishing colossus, Ikea, announced plans to build a wind farm on property it owns in Illinois. This […]
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, […]
5 Major UK Offshore Wind projects Approved
Eight major renewable energy projects, expected to support 8,500 jobs, have been given government approval. They include 5 offshore wind projects and 3 Biomass […]
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 […]
Climate Change UK: The Signs are Obvious
The consensus view has been that global warming and carbon pollution will bring about increasingly erratic, unpredictable, volatile and more extreme weather conditions. While […]
Educating Demand Management from Electricity Users
One of the problems with wind power and the grid at the moment, is that it is difficult to store large amounts of excess […]
Landmark International Energy Study on Renewables
In a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) it is shown that any country can, cost-effectively, have a high proportion of its […]
UK Energy Minister Hypocricy
The UK Energy Minister is Michael Fallon and he has been exposed of having dual standards and being hypocritical unfairly in laying into the […]
GE Design Wind Turbine for Japan
Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred in March 2011 and Japan continues to search for new investment in wind power as the resource-poor country continues to […]
What Future for Offshore Wind Farms in Europe?
In the beginning there were only onshore wind farms. But with newer wind turbine technology and reduced objections from local communities, offshore wind farms […]
Global Wind Power to Exceed 45GW In 2014?
What was the total world-wide capacity for wind power installations last year? Preliminary estimates, yet to be verified, indicate that 34-35 GW of capacity […]
Wind Farms are “Clean and Safe”
I guess this may seem like pushing at an open door for most of our visitors…. but it’s official- there is no reliable or […]
