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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Scotland Study Into Wind Turbine “Sickness”
There are numerous independent reports debunking so-called wind turbine sickness. While the visual impact of living too close to an operating wind turbine are […]
Seaforth Problems with Turbines
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 […]
One Turbine – One Field And A Lot Of Bother
A long-running battle with campaigners over the building of a wind turbine could cost a Nottinghamshire council a staggering £80,000 in legal fees. The 66m […]
North Myrtle Beach – New Wind Farms
South Carolina’s North Myrtle Beach is soon to become a significant home for wind farms. South Carolina’s growing wind power industry will take a […]
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 […]
Trairí II Project, Brazil Wind Turbines Project
While we all may be gripped in World Cup Fever in Brazil, wind project deals stop for no-one, not even the semi-finals. It has […]
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 […]
Three Blades or Two Blades?
Just when we all thought that the three-bladed wind turbine was the industry standard, several major wind-power companies are testing a departure by dropping […]
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 […]
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 […]
