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New Zealand's environment court has rejected a plan to develop the country's biggest wind farm, on the grounds that it would ruin the surrounding landscape. The proposed $1.4 billion 630-megawatt wind farm by Meridian Energy, New Zealand's largest electricity supplier, would have produced enough power to supply all the households on South Island, representing a population of more than ... read more
London (AFP) Nov 9, 2009British energy company Globeleq said Monday it was withdrawing from a giant wind farm project in northern Kenya after failing to reach agreement on buying a controlling stake. "Globeleq failed to reach common ground regarding the development of the projet. Globeleq is therefore not participating in the project," said Paul Kunert, head of business development at Globeleq. ... more
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Oroville, Calif. (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 If the plans of innovators in the emerging high-altitude wind power sector come to fruition, huge floating helium devices and whirlybirds could be part of the aerial landscape. For the first conference Nov. 5 on the subject at Oroville, Calif., inventors, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and university representatives came together from the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy ... more 
Male (AFP) Nov 2, 2009The Maldivian government on Monday flagged off construction of a 200-million-dollar wind farm as part of efforts to make the low-lying archipelago carbon neutral by 2020. The wind turbine facility on a small islet just north of the capital Male is expected to be completed within 20 months, an official said, adding that it would supply more than half the nation's electricity needs. ... more 
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2009 A consortium of Chinese and American companies announced plans Thursday for a $1.5 billion, 600-megawatt wind farm in West Texas. The venture's main companies include U.S. Renewable Energy Group, Texas-based Cielo Wind Power LP, China's Shenyang Power Group and A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. The wind farm is to be located on 36,000 acres in West Texas, although the group did not ... more |
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Oslo (AFP) Sept 8, 2009The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday. The turbine known as Hywind, which measures 65 metres (213 feet) tall and weighs 5,300 tonnes, lies some 10 kilometres (seven miles) off the island of Karmoey near the Scandinavian country's southwestern coastline, the ... more 
Charlotte NC (SPX) Sep 02, 2009Duke Energy continues to add to its renewable power portfolio with the announcement that it will build and operate a 200-megawatt wind energy project near Casper, Wyo. The Top of the World Windpower Project will be the company's ninth U.S. wind farm and its fourth in Wyoming. Duke Energy will construct the Top of the World project on approximately 17,000 acres of private and public land it ... more 
Bremerhaven, Germany (UPI) Aug 14, 2009 A year late and roughly $85 million over budget, Germany's first offshore wind farm Alpha Ventus has now gone online. The first three of the farm's 12 5MW wind turbines began supplying electricity to the national grid Wednesday, the company said. Towering 328 feet above the rocky North Sea, they represent Germany's hopes for clean power generation from sea-born wind. The remaining nine ... more |
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