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 Liverpool, England (UPI) Oct 20, 2009 
Britain is on track to reach its ambitious green energy targets, according to the country's wind energy industry. The British Wind Energy Association Monday announced that Britain now has 4 GW of wind power generating capacity, enough to power 2.3 million homes. "We are on track to hit the target of 10 percent of energy in the U.K. coming from renewables by 2010," BWEA head ... read more
Somerville MA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009National Wind Assessments has adopted to add Second Wind's Triton Sonic Wind Profiler to add value to its wind resource assessment offerings. Designed and manufactured by Somerville, Mass.-based Second Wind Inc., a leading provider of wind assessment systems, the Triton is an advanced remote sensing system that uses sodar to capture accurate wind data at the heights of today's wind turbine ... more
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Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 17, 2009The world's largest offshore wind farm has been opened in the North Sea off the west coast of Denmark, the Danish company running the project said on Thursday. The Horns Rev 2 wind farm's 91 turbines covers an area of some 35 square kilometres (21 square miles) and can produce enough electricity to supply 200,000 homes a year, Dong Energy said in a statement. Denmark's Crown Prince ... more 
London (UPI) Sep 17, 2009 BP is expanding its wind power electricity generation capacity in the United States but is shedding an Indian unit, which has been sold to Green Infra Limited of India. BP said Green Infra Limited purchased its subsidiary, BP Energy India Private Limited, for a total cash-free, debt-free enterprise value of about $95 million. Green Infra Limited is an independent power producer owned by ... more 
Stockholm (UPI) Sep 16, 2009 Offshore wind farms could meet up to 17 percent of Europe's electricity needs in 2030, an industry group said. "Offshore wind power is vital for Europe's future," the European Wind Energy Association said in a report published at an offshore wind industry conference in Stockholm. Currently, 11 wind farms harness the stronger winds at sea, mostly in Britain and Scandinavia. ... more |
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Hanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Jul 30, 2009 Vietnam has more wind energy potential than Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, experts say. A World Bank survey says Vietnam has the capacity to produce 513,360 megawatts of wind power annually. That translates into 200 times the output of Southeast Asia's largest power plant, the Son La Hydroelectric Plant in northern Vietnam, reports the VietNamNet Bridge news site. Vietnam's renewa ... more 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Thirty top wildlife scientists-including five from Cornell - have announced agreement on some of the highest research priorities to help America's rapidly growing wind energy industry produce much-needed alternative energy while also providing safe passage for birds and bats. This coalition of scientists from industry, government, nongovernmental organizations and universities met recently ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 28, 2009 After a terrible year for the European offshore wind industry, it appears some projects are receiving the financial push they needed. Belgian consortium Belwind on Monday said it had completed financing for the first phase of a 330 megawatt offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The European Investment Bank granted Belwind a $425 million loan, the company said. A consortium of six ... more |
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