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Spanish windmill makers tilt overseasMadrid (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 Spain's economic crisis is sucking the air out of the windmill business. Once a booming sector of the Spanish energy industry, manufacturers now face an uncertain outlook for demand and state subsidies, industry leaders say. Increasingly, windmill manufacturers are tilting for business in countries such as Scotland, China and Brazil. "The inadequate regulatory framework, the plunge in energy demand and the difficult financial conditions have created a climate that has pushed Spanish business ... read more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Jul 06, 2010Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore, and require increasingly larger expanses of land. One solution: ocean-based wind turbines. While offshore turbines already have been constructed, they've traditionally been situated in shallow waters, where the tower extends directly into the seabed. ... more 
College Park, Md. (UPI) Jun 30, 2010 Wind turbines as a renewable energy source have problems of noise, visual clutter and land use, and one U.S. researcher says moving them offshore is a solution. Offshore wind farms have been built, but only in shallow water near coasts, and one naval architect wants to go much farther out by placing turbines on floating platforms, a release from the American Institute of Physics said We ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 15, 2010 China is quickly developing into the world's biggest wind power market. The Asian giant in 2009 installed more wind turbines than all of Europe and by 2017 could have the world's largest total capacity, said Angelika Pullen, spokeswoman for the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group. China in 2009 installed 13 gigawatts of new wind power capacity, compared to 10 GW in Euro ... more |
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Alliance to promote offshore wind power Washington (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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