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China eyes major wind turbine industryBeijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 China is set to become the world's third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom. The country's installed wind power capacity will reach 20 gigawatts this year, said Shi Lishan, vice director of the National Energy Administration's New Energy Department, the Xinhua news agency said Wed ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 15, 2009A group of Chinese power firms has expressed shock at a UN decision to reject 10 wind farm projects amid claims that Beijing fudged figures to qualify for financing under a UN carbon trading scheme. The ruling came under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, which allows rich nations to fulfill emissions reduction commitments in part by investing in clean energy technology in developing ... more 
Ostrander MN (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Root River Energy, along with managing partner, National Wind, is proud to announce that it has secured over 20,000 acres of land in Mower and Fillmore Counties. This represents about two-thirds of the leased acres needed to develop up to 300 megawatts of community-owned wind energy in the area. With 10,000 acres signed in the last few months, Root River Energy's Jim Connolly and Barry ... more 
New Delhi (UPI) Dec 14, 2009 A breakthrough deal in climate-change talks in Copenhagen would lead to a sales boost for the wind power industry, says the chief of India's biggest maker of wind-turbine generators. Suzlon, based in the Indian city of Pune, could see a ten-fold increase in annual revenues by 2020 with a successful Copenhagen outcome, predicts chief executive Tulsi Tanti. "With a very strong ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2009A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 metres - information that is vital when deciding where to build a wind turbine to produce electricity. The French company Leosphere developed their system Windcube using 'lidar' (light detection and ... more 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 7, 2009The energy ministers of nine European Union nations on Monday signed a deal to develop a massive offshore wind power grid in the North Sea and Irish Sea, as UN climate talks got underway in Copenhagen. The text was signed on the margins of an EU energy ministers' meeting by Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden. "This very ambitious ... more 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2009Over 30,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity are installed across the United States and an increasing number of communities are considering new wind power facilities. Given these developments, there is an urgent need to empirically investigate typical community concerns about wind energy and thereby provide stakeholders involved in the wind project siting process a common base of knowledge. ... more |
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 Wind projects don't affect property values  Argentina takes wind power to villages  Judith Highlands Energy Begins Development Of Community-Owned Wind Project |
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