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German wind sector hopes for 2011 comebackBerlin (UPI) Jan 26, 2011 The German wind energy industry expects 16 percent growth in new installations at home this year after a painful 2010 saw sales of onshore turbines plummet. An estimated 1,800 megawatts worth of new onshore and offshore turbines will be installed in 2011 in Germany, up from 1,550 MW last year, the German Wind Energy Federation - BWE - said in figures released Wednesday. This would constitute a much-needed turnaround from 2010, when two unusually long winters and the aftereffects of the ... read more |
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 China first in wind power capacity China has surpassed the United States as the country with the largest wind power installation in the world, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reports. ... more | .. |
Siemens, Dong, test new offshore turbines Danish utility Dong Energy has teamed with Siemens Wind Power to test a new generation of offshore wind turbines. ... more | .. |
 Egypt to invite tenders for wind farms Egypt aims to generate 12 percent of its electricity needs by wind power and will initiate wind-farm projects with a capacity of 2,690 megawatts over the next five years, Electricity Minister Hassan Yunes said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Keenan 2 Wind Farm Commences Commercial Operation CPV Renewable Energy Company has announced that it has completed construction and testing of its 152-megawatt (MW) Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma and the project is now delivering clean, renewable ... more |
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US challenges Chinese wind power subsidies at WTO The long list of trade disputes between the United States and China has lengthened further, with Washington asking the WTO to examine subsidies to the Chinese wind power sector. ... more | .. |
Italy wind farm seized by prosecutors Italian prosecutors on Wednesday seized a 27.5-megawatt wind farm in the southern Calabria region over a series of alleged planning irregularities, Italian news agencies reported. ... more | .. |
 New Ideas To Enhance Efficiency Of Wind Turbines One issue confronting the efficiency of wind as a promising renewable energy source is the wind itself-specifically, its changeability. While the aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine is best un ... more | .. |
Outsmarting The Wind Meteorological equipment typically used to monitor storms could help power grid operators know when to expect winds that will send turbine blades spinning, as well as help them avoid the sudden stre ... more |
  
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 Wind Turbines On Farmland May Benefit Crops Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler an ... more | .. |
 Nordex USA Wins 41MW Order For Iowa Wind Farm Nordex USA has announced an order with wind farm developer RPM Access for a 41 Megawatt wind farm in Delaware County Iowa, just weeks after finalizing a 75 Megawatt order with EverPower Wind Holding ... more | .. |
Massive offshore wind proposed for R.I. A proposed 1,000-megawatt offshore wind farm near Rhode Island would be the largest in the United States, developers said. ... more | .. |
 Repair And Inspection Services For The Expanding Wind Power Industry East River Rigging (ER2) is combining Industrial Rope Access with expert technicians to provide cleaning, inspection, maintenance and repair services to the Northeast wind industry. As one of ... more |
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 Vestas Selects Broadwind Towers For Glacier Hills Wind Project Broadwind Energy has announced that its Tower Tech Systems subsidiary was selected as the supplier of wind towers for the Glacier Hills Wind Park project. The Glacier Hills Wind Park is locate ... more | .. |
 Optimizing Large Wind Farms Wind farms around the world are large and getting larger. Arranging thousands of wind turbines across many miles of land requires new tools that can balance cost and efficiency to provide the most e ... more | .. |
 Enhancing The Efficiency Of Wind Turbines A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new coal-fired power generation. The costs of ... more | .. |
Argentina adds wind to energy portfolio Argentina is adding new turbines to its wind farms in Patagonia as part of a government strategy to prepare for increased energy consumption in line with economic recovery in the coming years. ... more |
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Poland's Solidarity shipyard turns to wind turbines Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard, the 1980 birthplace of the Solidarity trade union led by freedom icon Lech Walesa that toppled communism in 1989, started work on making wind turbines on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 German utilities lobby for offshore wind The operators of Germany's first offshore wind farm on Tuesday urged the German government to increase incentives to expand the generation of renewable power at sea. ... more | .. |
Chinese wind power producers plan Hong Kong IPOs: report Two of China's top power producers plan to raise 2.5 billion US dollars by listing their wind-power units in Hong Kong, reports said Tuesday, the latest among several green firms to list in the city. ... more |
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Global Warming Reduces Available Wind Energy A switch to wind energy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions - and reduce the global warming they cause. But there's a catch, says climate researcher Diandong Ren, a research scientist at the U ... more | .. |
 South Korea plans offshore wind project South Korea plans to build an $8.2 billion offshore wind farm in the Yellow Sea, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Buoyant Times Ahead For Offshore Resource Assessments Natural Power have announced the successful long-term trial of a product development activity within the company named SeaZephIR - a patented autonomous floating platform with integrated lidar syste ... more | .. |
 Suzlon eyes China's wind power market Indian wind turbine giant Suzlon Energy said it plans to increase its presence in China, anticipating that China will become the wind energy hot spot of the future, a company official said. ... more |
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 Offshore Wind A Mixed Bag Offshore wind power offers a feasible way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but presents some economic and political hurdles, concludes a new study by the University of Maryland ... more | .. |
Google blows into offshore wind project 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 trans ... more | .. |
Color of turbines a factor in bird deaths The color of a wind turbine affects how many insects it attracts, revealing why birds and bats are sometimes killed by the turbines, a British study says. Scientists say insects are attracted to ... more | .. |
China's wind power capacity to increase five-fold by 2020 China's wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, a report forecast Wednesday, as the country steps up its drive to develop clean energy. Total insta ... more |
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Wind power to grow massively until 2030 Wind power could satisfy more than one-fifth of the global power demand by 2030, an industry group and environmental organization Greenpeace said Tuesday. Total wind power capacity would rise to ... more | .. |
Findings About Wind Farms Could Expand Their Use Wind power is likely to play a large role in the future of sustainable, clean energy, but wide-scale adoption has remained elusive. Now, researchers have found wind farms' effects on local temperatu ... more | .. |
Google in major bid for Eastern US wind power Investors led by technology giant Google on Tuesday announced a five billion-dollar project to power the US East Coast with wind from the Atlantic Ocean, in an ambitious bid to spur alternative ener ... more | .. |
Wind could provide 20 pct of world power by 2030: study Wind power could meet about a fifth of the world's electricity demand within 20 years, an industry group and environmental watchdog Greenpeace predicted in a new report released Tuesday. The glo ... more |
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