In an interview given to the influential magazine Recharge earlier this month, Steve Sawyer, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) secretary-general said: ‘We are […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Turbine Training Time
While most paramedics will seldom need to operate at anything other than street or road level, some could be called upon to care for […]
2013: A Green Year for Britain
It has been revealed from Government statistics just released that the United Kingdom generated almost 15% of its power from renewable sources last year. […]
UK Wind Turbine Record – Seals Loving It!
RenewableUK industry group reported that United Kingdom wind turbines generated a record 22 percent of the country’s electricity on Sunday 17 August 2014, beating […]
Wind vs Fracking: The Debate Continues
In a carefully calculated move to switch opposition to fracking to opposition to wind turbines the UK energy department’s recently-gone chief scientific advisor has […]
Nordex and Vestas News
Poland will see 15 of Nordex’s N100/2500 turbines at the Orla development. The first nine of these machines will be installed within weeks, with commissioning […]
