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Alliance to promote offshore wind powerWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2010 Ten U.S. East Coast states have formed an alliance with the U.S. Department of the Interior to promote offshore wind power. Governors of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina have signed the memorandum of understanding related to wind power. The agreement will help to facilitate federal-state cooperation for commercial wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf off the Atlantic coast, the Interior Dep ... read more |
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Newark DE (SPX) Apr 14, 2010The energy needs of the entire human population could potentially be met by converting wind energy to electricity. While offshore wind power resources are abundant, wind turbines are currently unable to provide steady power due to natural fluctuations in wind direction and strength. Offshore wind power output can be made more consistent by choosing project development locations that take a ... more 
Ottawa (UPI) Mar 25, 2009 Wind energy projects run by Wind Works Power Corp. received a boost with a $10 million credit facility that will go toward developing capacity in Canada, the United States and Europe. Wind Works Power Corp. said it was pledged the line of credit after an investment agreement signed with Kodiak Capital Group LLC of New York. The agreement covers a a $10 million equity line of cre ... more
Berlin (AFP) March 22, 2010Sound pollution from offshore wind turbines poses a threat to Baltic Sea porpoises, a German marine mammal specialist said on Monday. "It was highlighted that wind turbines are so noisy that the harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea are threatened," Harald Benke, the director of Germany's Sea Museum, told AFP. "There are methods to reduce the noise. They are costly but allow the considerab ... more |
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Sweden to build 2,000 new wind turbines: minister Stockholm (AFP) March 2, 2010 Sweden will build 2,000 new wind turbines over the next decade as part of a bid to dramatically increase its production of renewable energy, Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson said Tuesday. "Sweden has extremely good prospects for rapidly increasing the production of renewable energy, especially from the burning of biofuels, cogeneration plants and windpower," Olofsson wrote in a newspaper column. The Scandinavian country would for instance build "2,000 new wind turbines of the size co ... read more |
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