A Canadian (Nova Scotia) Dartmouth wind turbine maker, Seaforth Energy Inc, that’s already more than $4 million in debt, has also had recent trouble […]
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Green Investment Bank Plans For More Wind
The government’s Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank (Gib) has announced plans to raise £1bn to encourage new investors to put money into offshore windfarms. The bank […]
New Wind Power Projects for Scotland
Scottish ministers have approved two wind farm projects that together could provide power more than 100,000 homes. One is a 54 turbine extension to […]
German Renewables Act Affecting Wind Turbine Market
Changes to Germany’s EEG (Renewable Sources Energy Act- Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz – EEG), due to come in on 1 August this year, are going to have a […]
Australia Turns its Back on Wind
Australia’s Senate has voted to repeal the carbon tax, a levy on the biggest polluters passed by the previous Australian Labor government. Tony Abbott, whose […]
Vestas to Supply Turbines for Minnesota Wind Project
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has clinched an order from Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. to supply 166 megawatts worth of wind turbines for a […]
Pupil-Power!
Grassfield High School is a “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) school in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. Partly to help students study how a wind […]
Wind Turbine Payback In 6 Months!
The fossil fuel followers have often said that the carbon cost in manufacturing commercial wind turbines is so great that it takes years, if […]
Everything’s Bigger in Texas- Including Wind!
Texas. The lone star state. Home of the Alamo, the huge ten-gallon cowboy hat, massive steers and huge oil wells (but we don’t like […]
Vestas 3.3MW Turbines for Izmir Wind Farm in Turkey
Giant Dutch manufacturer Vestas has clinched an order for 33 megawatts of wind turbines for a wind project in Izmir, Turkey. The order for the Fuat RES […]
Should Nuclear Power Share the Stage with Renewables?
While nuclear power may be a way of weaning us off nasty fossil fuels, should it be getting equal status with “genuine” renewable energy […]
Partnership Between Fossil Fuels and Wind Power
You may be forgiven for thinking that fossil fuels and renewable energy don’t mix. But a UK company best known for supplying fossil fuel […]
Wind Power and Fashion
Wind power and fashion?? Do you mean to say that tall majestic functional wind turbines are now being seen as not just iconic, but […]
New 170MW Onshore Wind Farm for India
The company Inox Wind (which is a subsidiary of Gujerat Fluorochemicals) has secured a contract to provide wind turbines for an onshore wind farm […]
BT Buys 50% Output from Scottish Wind Farm
BT, the giant communication company, has agreed a £300m deal to buy enough energy to meet the needs of all its Scottish operations for […]
Vestas Deal for Oakfield Wind Farm, Maine
Vestas Wind Systems have won a 148-megawatt order from First Wind Holdings Inc. in Maine. This is the Danish manufacturer’s fourth project with this U.S. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Renewable Energy Islands
While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are […]
Siemens Second Project With Cobra Energia
Cobra Energia, the Spanish wind developer, has awarded Siemens Energy another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by an additional […]
