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![]() Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2010 Google has agreed to invest, along with other partners, in a massive offshore wind power project along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. The Atlantic Wind Connection "backbone" deep-water cable transmission project, led by Trans-Elect, is expected to provide approximately 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity, enough power to serve 1.9 million households, when fully complete. Other investors include Good Energies, a global investor in renewable energy, and Japan's Marubeni Corp. I ... read more |
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![]() Spanish windmill makers tilt overseas 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 su ... more | .. |
![]() Britain opens world's largest offshore wind farm Britain on Thursday inaugurated the world's largest offshore wind farm, part of the government's bid to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change. The project got a qualified welcome ... more | .. |
![]() US Wind Energy Project Nets Billions The Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) is located in the heart of one of the most proven wind resources in the United States - the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area, in Kern County, California. To pro ... more | .. |
![]() Spanish wind turbine firm Gamesa to triple China investments Spain's Gamesa, one of the world's top wind turbine manufacturers, said Tuesday it would triple its total investment in China by 2012 to meet rising demand for clean energy there. The company ha ... more | .. |
![]() Britain urged to speed up wind-power plans Britain must allow more wind farms if it is to meet its climate-change target of generating 15 percent of its energy needs from green sources, experts say. The United Kingdom has committed to rea ... more |
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China sailing ahead in offshore wind power![]() Offshore wind power is gaining ground in China. Chinese energy companies are expected to submit bids Friday for four offshore wind power projects with a total installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts, representing a combined investment of $3.06 billion, China Daily reports. The proposed projects follow on the heels of the 102-megawatt, $337 million Donghai Bridge Wind Farm, China's ... more Duke Energy Changes Focus Of Coastal Wind Demonstration Project With UNC ![]() Duke Energy Carolinas will no longer pursue a plan to place up to three demonstration wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound. Instead, the company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will refocus their collaboration to study and help enable large-scale offshore wind development on the ocean side of the North Carolina coast. Since the project was announced in September 200 ... more U.K. wind farms deny causing seal deaths ![]() British wind farm developers have strongly denied allegations their construction ships are responsible for a recent rash of seal deaths, authorities said. Scientists investigating the killing of at least 33 seals whose mutilated bodies have washed ashore in Norfolk and the surrounding coastline say they believe the deaths were caused by a vessel with a ducted propeller that has caused " ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2010 The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a long-term agreement to receive over 100 megawatts of new wind energy from Milford Wind Farm Phase II at its meeting on July 22, 2010. The project is consistent with the LADWP's long-term strategy and marks a strategic shift in the LADWP's renewable energy program, which seeks to tap into existing resources, transmission and generation plants, and focus on more cost effective investments in new r ... read more |
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