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UK Energy – Wind Turbines – Make UK Resilient
How do you make your energy market more able to resist the vagaries of fossil fuel prices? You install more wind turbines of course! […]
EWEA Offshore Conference 2015
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) holds its much-anticipated offshore wind conference in less than two months, in Copenhagen. It will be held at […]
Shock! UK Wind Turbines Powered by Grid!
In a series of articles in certain areas of the UK media (essentially the usual anti-wind Not in My Back Yard suspects) it has […]
Africa Moves towards a Green Future.
Africa is the poorest continent on our planet. In a recent analysis and assessment, it was concluded that the most efficient way of moving […]
Press Release – GREEN WIND ENERGY LIMITED
In the world of wind energy, big isn’t necessarily beautiful. While the EON’s, EDF’s or RWE’s of the electricity wind energy market may seem […]
Christmas Break in United States for Wind
When people across the world think of Christmas, they probably think of giving and receiving presents, Goodwill to all men and a time for […]
Australian Councils Grab the Wind Initiative
It’s been well-documented that the Australian Government has got cold feet over its pursuance of renewable energy for a variety of reasons, both economic […]
GEV Show Wind Turbine Maintenance Rig
As anyone involved in wind power knows, one of the more expensive and time-consuming parts of the business is maintenance of the tower, nacelle […]
Germany Leads the Way in Wind
Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and nearly a third of its electric power comes from renewable energy. That fraction is increasing… Indeed it […]
UK’s Renewable Energy Controversy
The UK’s Renewable Energy Foundation’s recent online report on renewable energy performance in the UK has provoked a storm of controversy. The report’s authors […]
New Study – No Link to Wind Turbine Health Effects
A Health Canada study has found no link between exposure to wind turbine noise and negative health effects in people. While the closer people lived […]
Rural England – Wind Power is Embraced
You can’t get more rural than the village of Gorran High Lanes, Cornwall, South West England. If you believe the British press and fossil […]
UK – More Power from Wind than Nuclear
Before we all get too excited about the headline, I should say that this achievement was only managed for one day. Earlier this week, […]
Google Flying a Kite?
Google, a company that has long championed renewable energy, is looking closely at the possibility of conventional wind farms with tall wind turbines being […]
Drivetrain Technology
Drivetrain Technology Today The end of this month sees an important conference, to be held in Bremen, Germany from 27 to 29 October 2014: […]
Wind Tower Technology
Today’s Wind Tower Technology There was a time when all wind-driven affairs such as windmill sails, were mounted on wide wooden structures- windmills. With […]
El Hierro – Powered by 100% Green Energy
El Hierro is a Spanish owned island, one of the Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa. It is 278.5 square kilometres and […]
US Offshore Wind
Why is it, that when other countries, such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Germany, have built massive turbine farms off their coastlines […]
Flagging Up the Future of Wind Power?
“You got me flipping like a flag on a pole/Come on baby let the good times roll!” The words of the song were brought […]
Rockefellers Abandon Oil, Gas and Coal
In a move that is likely to have massive (positive) ramifications, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from their great-grandfather’s Standard Oil Co., […]
$100 Billion for Oil vs Renewable Energy
Don’t take my word for it! A French investment bank, Kepler Chevreuxhas, has produced a ground-breaking piece of analysis which should have considerable implications for the […]
Small Scale Wind Turbines and Scotland
While the UK seems to be whipping itself into a frenzied panic about the possibility of Scotland voting itself out of the Union of […]
Eolian Renewable Energy – Mount Waldo
In the town of Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, Eastern United States, is a small mountain about 1,060 feet (320 m) high. Granite from the surrounding area was […]
