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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! […]
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 […]
United States Wind Power Surges in Quarter 4 of 2013
The American Wind Energy Association has published its quarterly market report for the US wind industry. It reveals that while there was very slow […]
Belwind-Belgium: World’s Biggest Offsore Turbine is Erected
In a follow up to our previous story (Ostend offshore wind farm) about the world’s largest offshore wind turbine near to the port of Ostend, […]
Iranian Wind Power
While the word “nuclear power” tends to crop up when speaking about Iran, it could soon be “renewable energy” instead. Year on year Iran […]
Does Wind Power Increase Carbon Emissions? Of Course Not!
It’s always quite amusing to see critics of wind power jump on some piece of dodgy reporting, or half-baked so-called research and use it […]
World’s Largest Wind Turbine About to be Tested in Scotland
It’s an interesting and exciting time in Scotland for the wind business: The world’s largest and most powerful installed wind turbine will be ready […]
Belwind: Belgium’s Finest- Invisible from Land
Alstom and Belgian developer, Belwind, have signed an agreement of cooperation to install, connect to the grid, operate and maintain one Haliade 150 6MW […]
Pellworm, The Greenest Island?
Pellworm is one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea Coast of Germany. It is tiny- its area is 37 square kilometres […]
Vestas V112 3.3MW Turbines for Kavakli Wind Farm, Turkey
Erciyas Çelik Boru A.Ş is one of Turkey’s leading manufacturers and top exporters of spiral-welded steel pipes. It has signed an agreement to construct […]
Czech Plans for Renewables
Czech Plans for Renewables. High on a wind turbine, hidden amongst the cherry orchards and the wheat fields of the Eastern Czech Republic, is […]
Hooray Hooray for the London Array!
On 4 July, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron opened the London Array and said it was “a great day for Britain and a big […]
Underground Wind Energy Storage:Rock On Aeolus!
While wind power is one of the greenest renewable energies around, the wind doesn’t blow continuously at an optimum speed for offshore or onshore […]
UK Government New Incentives for Wind Farms
The UK Government has presented new Wind Farm Planning Guidance which will enable local opposition to reject proposed wind farms. However, the Government still […]
New Type of Turbine Designed in English University
Here on the MWPS web pages we often feature new innovative designs to capture wind energy. Few ever make it beyond the drawing board […]
South African Factory to Produce Wind Towers
South Africa’s heavy engineering group, DCD is to build wind turbine towers at Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province. The facility, due for completion […]
UK Advisory Body gives Green Light for Low-Carbon Investment for Decades to Come
The UK’s influential advisory body- the Committee on Climate Change has issued a report outlining why investing in low-carbon technologies will, over the longer term, […]
Google Acquire Wind Power Company
You may recall that search engine supremo Google has invested in some novel innovations and technologies. The self-driving car and the wearable computing device being […]
Hola to Spanish Wind Power!
Renewable energy is gaining significant momentum in Spain. In April of this year the country set a new record when over half of its […]
Green Google
Google this: Spinning Spur Wind Project, Oldham County, Texas. You’ll see that the company famous for its ubiquitous search engine has purchased a 200 […]
US Wind Power Passes 50,000MW of Generation Capacity
United States wind power developers are installing a record numbers of turbines this year: The U.S. wind industry in August for the first time […]
Giddyup! Wyoming to have World’s Biggest Wind Farm?
Wyoming may not be top of your list of United States of America and may conjure up images of the Wild West, Cowboys and […]
UK to Import Wind Power from Ireland
The UK Government is considering plans to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea. The power […]
