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RT @DESERTEC: Africa's largest #wind farm to provide - with #geothermal - Kenya's cheapest electricity http://t.co/0FTEMC2Y

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RT @j3juliano: Vision of a "SuperGrid" in Europe powered by offshore #wind, UK as net #energy exporter http://t.co/ejWrrDmo
Interesting vision of a "SuperGrid" in Europe powered by offshore #wind, UK as net #energy exporter http://t.co/QuCetzyd via @robin_koffler
– John J. Juliano (j3juliano) http://twitter.com/j3juliano/status/117153614388142080

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Huge Renewables Expansion Coming! Even with policy uncertainty, markets expected to explode. http://bit.ly/gpRyS1 #solar #wind #supergrid
– Michael Powers (TerraWatts2010) http://twitter.com/TerraWatts2010/status/17241495673249792

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The installed capacity of Spain increased by 2,459 MW in 2009, reaching a total of 19,149 MW (these figures include both the activities of national and international operators). This way, wind energy rose as the third technology of the system with demand coverage of 14.4%, reaching peaks of over 50% on certain occasions. 

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In actual fact, wind-created energy is horrendously expensive

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Global subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

Governments last year gave $43 billion to $46 billion of support to renewable energy through tax credits, guaranteed electricity prices known as feed-in tariffs and alternative energy credits, the London-based research group said today in a statement. That compares with the $557 billion that the International Energy Agency last month said was spent to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008.

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Terra-Gen Power has announced it has begun construction on what it's calling the world's largest wind energy project, the 1,550 megawatt Alta Wind Energy Center, in Mojave, California. At double the capacity of the next largest completed project, the wind farm will generate enough power to electrify 275,000 homes.

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Shares in Spain's largest wind and solar energy firms climbed yesterday, after the renewable industry reached a deal with the Spanish government that should result in lower-than-expected cuts to subsidies.

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Huge wind turbines with a span rivalling that of the London Eye could form part of the UK's energy future.

The first giant offshore turbine, named Britannia, will be complete by 2012.

It will tower 574ft (175m) above the North Sea, with blades that sweep a circle more than 100ft (30m) wider than the diameter of the London landmark.

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An interesting 2 page study on the price of energy from wind vs offshore oil

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Taiwan said Friday it would launch 50 low-carbon communities by 2012 as part of its effort to cut carbon emissions and become a leader in environmental protection.

Under the 10-year plan, by 2012, at least two districts in each city or county will be asked to cut carbon emissions by using wind or solar power, electric vehicles and energy-saving lighting and appliances

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The UK's most eminent engineers have warned that the biggest set of investments and social changes ever seen in peacetime are needed to meet the country's energy needs in the coming decades, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The changes include a transformation of the nation's draughty homes and cuts in how far people commute to work, as well as a vast expansion of wind and solar power and dozens of new nuclear or "clean coal" power plants.

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Government aim of making Britain a centre of green manufacturing win a major boost from plans that will create hundreds of jobs

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Indian mobile phone and commodity export firm Airvoice Group has formed a joint venture with public sector body Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam to build 13GW of solar and wind capacity in a sparsely populated part of Karnataka district in south west India.

The joint venture is budgeting to invest $50 billion over a period of 10 years, claiming it to be the largest single renewable energy project in the world.

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The stimulus package passed in 2009 by Congress may help shovel-ready community wind projects move ahead, according to a new report by Mark Bolinger, a scientist in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway's fjords: Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.

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"Brazil has held its first energy sale directed exclusively at wind power. More than 1,800MW of wind energy was contracted $82.8 per MWh. The proceeds of the auction will allow for the construction of 71 generation projects across five states in the northeast and south of the country."

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California's renewable power boom is off to a slower start than planned.

Delays have hit more than half of the big solar, wind and geothermal energy projects under development throughout the state, according to a recent government report. They're still moving forward, but not at the pace their developers expected.

As a result, California probably won't meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2010 - a key element of the state's fight against global warming. "

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"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."

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"Hundreds of people were rescued from homes and vehicles after heavy rain and strong winds brought severe flooding to parts Scotland and Wales yesterday.

Around 100 people, many of them elderly, were rescued from flooded properties in Huntley, Aberdeenshire.

The Grampian fire and rescue service was continuing to search homes in the town today in an attempt to ensure nobody remained trapped."

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