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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2009 
China is aiming to build a huge wind farm in the northwest by 2020 that will have energy capacity similar to the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, a senior official said Thursday. Feng Jianshen, a vice governor of Gansu province, told reporters that the province planned to expand the installed capacity of its wind power base to more than 20 gigawatts in 11 years, more than 10 times the current ... read more
Arhus, Denmark (UPI) Jun 24, 2009 Denmark's Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine maker, is betting big that a growing U.S. renewable energy market will help the company emerge stronger from the economic crisis. U.S. President Barack Obama's stimulus package "will kick-start the industry in the United States," Ditlev Engel, the chief executive officer and president of Vestas, said Tuesday at his company's brand-new ... more
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Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2009In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude winds, which globally contain enough energy to meet world demand 100 times over. The researchers found that the regions best suited for harvesting this energy ... more 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 19, 2009On June's Global Wind Day, sponsored by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), National Wind underscores the myriad benefits not only of wind energy but specifically of community-based development. Community wind projects have 5 times the local economic impact and 3.4 times the impact on local job creation of traditional, corporate wind farm ... more 
Oyster Bay NY (SPX) Jun 16, 2009The emission-neutral energy provided by wind power represents a unique opportunity to help the world end its reliance on expensive, polluting fossil fuels, and to spur the economy by creating millions of "green collar" jobs. Wind power has followed an evolutionary path over thousands of years that has transformed it from an efficient method for grinding grain into the world's fastest ... more 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009The Campo Band of Mission Indians of the Kumeyaay Nation, Invenergy and San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG and E) have jointly announced a plan to build a wind energy project capable of generating up to 160 megawatts (MW) of renewable power. The three parties signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of a wind project on tribal land that could offset as much as 57.6 million ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) May 29, 2009A French team of an engineer and two architects have won this year's prestigious Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize for "Wind-it," a design to place wind turbines inside existing high-voltage electricity pylons. The winners are Julien Choppin, 31, and Nicola Delon, 31, partners in the Paris architecture firm Encore Heureux, and Raphael Menard, director of Elioth, a 20-person ... more 
Detroit MI (SPX) May 29, 2009Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify potential partners interested in jointly developing wind energy projects with the company. The RFI is intended to gauge the interest of potential and existing wind energy developers to enter into joint agreements with Detroit Edison to build Michigan-based wind energy farms capable of producing at least 75 megawatts of ... more 
Boston MA (SPX) May 29, 2009PowerAdvocate is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a DOE Stimulus Funding award to support the "20% Wind Energy by 2030" initiative. PowerAdvocate will specifically concentrate on overcoming supply chain obstacles to Wind Power. In order to meet the 20% Wind Energy scenario by 2030, significant investment will need to occur into the domestic wind supply chain. ... more 
Charlotte NC (SPX) May 28, 2009Duke Energy took another step in expanding its renewable energy portfolio with the announcement that it is acquiring a 70-megawatt wind power project in Pennsylvania - the company's first in the eastern U.S. Duke Energy will purchase the North Allegheny Windpower Project from wind turbine manufacturer and project developer Gamesa Energy USA. The North Allegheny project consists of 35 Games ... more |
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