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Spain's windfarms set new national record for electricity generation
"Wind energy provided more than half of Spain's total electricity needs for several hours over the weekend as the country set a new national record for wind-generated power."
constructireland.ie - Ireland ranked fourth in the world for wind power
"Ireland now ranks fourth in the world for the contribution of wind energy to electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency's 2008 Wind Energy Annual Report.
Ireland, which supplies 8.7% of electricity demand from wind, is only behind Denmark (19.3%), Spain (11.7%) and Portugal (11.3%)."
Huge wind turbine farm in Cyprus
"Cyprus has taken a big step in the direction of reaching its target of supplying 13 percent of its energy consumption by renewable sources in 2020 with the approval of the first wind farm on the Mediterranean island. "
America's No. 1 wind power | Marc Gunther
When the wind blows hard in Florida, people take cover. But the wind doesn’t blow hard enough often enough to support wind farms. “There’s not a wind farm within a thousand miles of our office,” says Mike O’Sullivan, senior vice president of NextEra Energy Resources, an independent power producer that is part of the FPL Group, which is based in Juno Beach, Florida. That hasn’t prevented FPL from becoming America’s No. 1 producer of wind power.
Supplying 200,000 homes, world's largest offshore wind farm opens in Denmark
The wind farm will supply 200,000 Danish households with electricity. It is the first of its kind to be equipped with a platform where personnel can spend the night.
Offshore Wind Farms to Power 17% of Europe’s Electrical Needs in 2030
Offshore wind farms could meet up to 17 percent of Europe’s electricity needs in 2030, an industry group said.
“Offshore wind power is vital for Europe’s future,” the European Wind Energy Association said in a report published at an offshore wind industry conference in Stockholm.
Currently, 11 wind farms harness the stronger winds at sea, mostly in Britain and Scandinavia. Together, they account for only 0.2 percent of Europe’s electricity demand, but that figure could be boosted to 10 percent in 2020 and up to 17 percent in 2030, EWEA said.
Wind power could cut China's emissions by 30%, US study finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk
China's energy needs are expected to double by 2030, but a study in the journal Science says the country could produce 30% less CO2 if it uses wind power to meet them
House OKs $1B for Wind Tech Development & Demos: What’s In It for Innovators?
Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2009. The bill, which cleared the House late Wednesday in a voice vote, would authorize $200 million a year for five years starting in 2010 for a grant program out of the Department of Energy for wind research and demo projects.
Senator Susan Collins on Offshore Wind Energy for Maine | The Exception Magazine
Senator Susan Collins discusses how Maine could become "the national center for deep-water, offshore wind energy" in the video above.
According to University of Maine Professor Dr. Habib Dagher, an academic involved in the wind center proposal, there are "14 nuclear power plants worth of wind within 15 nautical miles off the shore" of Maine
Will the U.S. Ever Need to Build Another Coal or Nuclear Power Plant?: Scientific American
No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today.
"We may not need any, ever," Jon Wellinghoff told reporters at a U.S. Energy Association forum.
Yale Environment 360: Growth in Wind Power Gets Boost From Change in Subsidies
Large banks, including Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, are making major investments in wind farms because a change in federal renewable energy subsidies is providing investors returns of up to 15 percent, the Wall Street Journal reports. The surge in investment has been spurred in part by a new
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U.S. government policy, which now allows wind farm developers to receive 30 percent of the cost of the project upfront in cash, rather than receiving tax credits spread out over the life of the wind farm.
NewNet News - Edison launches 100MW High Lonesome Mesa wind project
New Mexico Senator, Jeff Bingaman joined state and local officials and community leaders for a luncheon dedication of the High Lonesome Mesa wind energy project. All of the clean renewable energy produced at the wind project, which is owned and operated by California-based Edison Mission Group (EMG), a subsidiary of Edison International, will be sold under long-term contract to electric utility, Arizona Public Service (APS).
Africa’s biggest wind farm to be built in Kenya - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
With a capacity of 300 MW, the wind farm will supply a quarter of Kenya’s current installed power, setting a new standard for the exploitation of wind power in sub-Saharan countries.
400-billion-euro plan to pump African solar power to Europe - Yahoo! News
welve European companies launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative Monday to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe.
The consortium says the massive proposal could provide up to 15 percent of Europe's electricity needs by 2050.
Engineering giants ABB and Siemens, energy groups E.ON and RWE and financial institutions Deutsche Bank and Munich Re are among the companies which signed a protocol in Munich.
Desert Sun: Europe’s Huge Solar Ambitions in the Sahara - Environmental Capital - WSJ
In unveiling the proposal, which calls for building huge swaths of solar thermal plants in the Sahara, wind farms on the North African coast, and high-voltage transmission lines to carry all that juice back to Europe, the Desertec companies first stressed all the business opportunities the plan would represent, then paid lip service to the environment.
Oil baron's wind farm project hits doldrums - CNN.com
Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world's largest wind farm. He says the capital markets will not support his plans to build the world's largest wind farm.
The chairman of BP Capital Management announced Tuesday that his plans for the Pampa Wind Project, designed to generate 4,000 megawatts of electricity using thousands of wind turbines, is on hold.
Study encourages wind power - MSN Environment UK
a new report said Britain's energy system was capable of taking a huge amount of wind power.
A study by energy expert David Milborrow found there was no technical reason why a significant amount of energy generated by wind could not be used to supply the National Grid.
China builds $17.6 billion wind project: report | Green Business | Reuters
China will begin construction of a 120-billion yuan ($17.6 billion) wind power project in about two weeks in Gansu province as part of a major push to boost renewable energy and cut the nation's reliance on coal, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The project, also called "the Three Gorges Dam on the land" could be China's biggest wind power station, with an installed capacity of 20 GigaWatts (GW) by 2020
China unveils $140bn plan to build seven giant wind farms by 2020 - 30 Jun 2009 - BusinessGreen.com
China unveils $140bn plan to build seven giant wind farms by 2020
Government claims wind farms will contribute eight per cent of country's total power capacity
Hawaii Says Aloha (Greetings) to Clean, Renewable Energy: Scientific American
Hawaii signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) that would make the Aloha State the country's most aggressive in pursuing renewable energy. By 2030, it plans to obtain 70 percent of its power from clean energy
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