http://www.winddaily.com/index.html Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST en-us The clean energy industry today urged governments and the broader community to beware of misleading claims about wind farms and health by anti-wind power activists and to reject their calls for extra regulations that would send jobs and investment out of Australia. Clean Energy Council acting Chief Executive Kane Thornton said government documents indicated that NSW Health had repeatedly w]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST A new way of generating wind energy which could see smaller, more efficient turbines on the landscape is being developed by a Derbyshire inventor with support from Nottingham Trent University. Future Factory, the university's sustainable design project, is helping Heath Evdemon, founder of Wind Power Innovations Ltd, to progress the first technology demonstrator of the Wind Harvester - a s]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has been appointed as Owner's Engineer at Sixpenny Wood wind farm for AES Wind Generation, a subsidiary of the energy company AES Corporation. Construction on the farm, located in East Riding of Yorkshire, is expected to commence in February 2012 and will comprise of 10 REpower 2.05MW turbines. Natural Power will be act]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST China expressed "deep concern" Saturday after the US launched a probe into Chinese wind towers that it suspects of being unduly subsidised and sold at a loss on the American market. "The act will not only hamper bilateral cooperation in the field of new energy and harm the interests of US industries, but also go against global efforts to tackle the challenges of climate change and energy sec]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time. Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different shapes, such as turbulence, to the wind profile, a turbine will produce different amounts of]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Spain's Gamesa, one of the world's top wind turbine groups, has won a contract to supply Chinese firm Longyuan with 50 Megawatts of power generating capacity, the company said Monday. The turbines will be installed at a wind park operated by Longyuan, the world's number three wind farm developer, in Ningxia in northwestern China in June, Gamesa said in a statement, without providing financi]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST The South Australian Opposition's policy on wind farms would threaten more than $3 billion of investment and push up power prices for South Australian householders if implemented in its current form, the renewable energy industry's peak body said this past week. It would also place in doubt the creation of nearly 1,000 direct jobs, Clean Energy Council Acting CEO, Kane Thornton, said. ]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Mortenson Construction was recently selected by San Francisco-based developer, NaturEner, for the construction of the Rim Rock Wind Project. Located on nearly 21,000 acres approximately 20 miles north of NaturEner's Glacier I and 2 Wind projects, previously constructed by Mortenson, Rim Rock will generate189-megawatts of wind power - enough energy to power approximately 66,000 homes. Morte]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST French and Spanish companies have put in 10 bids to build hundreds of wind turbines off France's Atlantic coast and in the English Channel, a source close to the project said on Wednesday. The bids come from consortiums put together by French energy giants EDF and GDF and Spanish utility Iberdrola, the source told AFP. "Four consortiums are in competition for the five sites to be attribu]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST An interactive tool developed by researchers from the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) will help wind energy facility operators make informed decisions on efficient ways to reduce impacts on migratory bats. Fatalities of migratory bats at wind energy facilities have become a frequent occurrence. Bat migration patterns are poorly understood and the relationship]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Leading international renewable energy consultancy Natural Power announces this week the release of WindManager - a groundbreaking wind farm portfolio information system increasing profitability of wind farm operations - to the US market at the AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance and Reliability Seminar in San Diego, California. WindManager is a turbine independent system based on la]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST Denmark says it plans a heavy push on green energy initiatives during its six-month stint in the presidency of the European Union. Danish officials indicated they will translate their championing of renewable energy investments in their own country onto a Europe-wide level during while at the helm of the EU Council of Ministers. Denmark, as a founding member of the North Seas Off]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST The Scottish renewable energy firm SSE says its rapid expansion of onshore wind farms has resulted in its surpassing the 1-gigawatt installed capacity mark. The company, based in Perth, said Wednesday its continued ramp-up of new wind farms in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland has resulted in 1,100 megawatts of installed capacity - surpassing what it produces from hydropower, The (]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST China has launched its largest intertidal wind farm. The pilot offshore wind farm in Rudong county, Jiangsu province, by Longyuan Power, China' s largest wind power developer "will lead the way for China to develop offshore wind power, particularly in site selection, planning and design, installation and maintenance," said Longyuan General Manager Xie Changjun, Xinhua News Agency report]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST In order to manage wind generation in its real-time and day-ahead markets, the system operator for the New England area of the U.S., ISO New England Inc., has awarded GL Garrad Hassan a two-year contract to provide wind power forecasting services to all wind in the ISO's footprint, including generation within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermo]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:09 AEST