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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 […]
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 […]
UK Election – Wind Power Becomes Political
As UK’s coalition Government approaches the end of its tenure, the issue of wind power looks like becoming a key issue for voters. It […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pakistan Wind Power
30 different wind power projects The government of Pakistan is in the process of implementing no less than 30 different wind power projects. It […]
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 […]
Hunterston Exports Power for the First Time
SSE Renewables has exported power from its offshore wind turbine test facility at Hunterston on the North Ayrshire coast for the first time. Hunterston […]
Harnessing Wind Power in New Ways
Dr Daryoush Alleai is an engineer and pioneer and founder of a company called Sheerwind, which has developed an innovative wind turbine called Invelox […]
Twin Turbine Trouble in Derby, England.
There are two sides to every story and the pro-wind and anti-wind lobbies’ arguments can be seen in a microcosm in a corner of […]
Focus on Finland
Vestas has won its largest-ever wind turbine order in Finland. It will be a 99MW project using the Vestas V126-3.3MW turbines (see picture below) […]
The Composition of Turbine Blades
Wind turbine blades are the heart and soul of a wind turbine. Have you ever wondered what wind turbine blades are made from? In […]
Texas- The Renewables State
Why is Texas at the forefront of renewable energy production in the United States? Because a decade and a half ago the State had […]
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 […]
