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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Solar and Wind vs Fossil Fuels – A Question of When, Not If
There is no doubt that solar and wind power will totally replace gas and oil- it’s just a matter of when. This is the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mexico Wind Conference
Mexico plays host to a couple of big wind power conferences in the next few months. The Mexican International Renewable Energy Conference is being […]
