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US wind power industry warns 37,000 jobs at risk if tax credit lapses
The US wind turbines industry issued a stark warning that its recent progress will stall and 37,000 jobs could be at risk if Congress fails to extend a tax credit widely regarded as critical to wind farm developers.
Continue readingPhilippines approved over 700 MW of wind energy projects in 2011
Wind farm developers, who are members of the Wind Energy Development Association of the Philippines, are in talks with National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.
Continue readingPhotovoltaic Solar Energy SunPower Reports Year 2011 Results
Broke ground on 13.8-MW DC Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake ? largest solar power project in Navy history and first 20 year PPA with a Federal agency.
Continue readingSDG&E to buy more wind energy and solar power
SDG&E would purchase nergy from a photovoltaic solar energy installation planned in the Imperial Valley and a wind farm with 126 wind turbines. The 189 MW wind power facility currently is under construction.
Continue readingWind Energy Update: Europe?s Leading Offshore Wind Power Supply Chain Meeting
With offshore wind farm projects now being developed in deeper waters there is an urgent need to ensure the wind turbines industry is united and prepared to face the upcoming challenges.
Continue readingSen. Franken Presses Colleagues to Protect Wind Energy Tax Credit
A recent study found that if the production tax credit is not extended, construction of wind turbines will likely drop by 75 percent in 2013 and the wind power industry will lose half its jobs.
Continue readingWelspun Energy to invest in solar energy and wind power
Welspun Energy, a part of diversified Welspun group, plans to invest about Rs 15,000 crore in solar power and wind farm projects in India in the next five years.
Continue readingMarubeni to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
Marubeni plans to begin the wind energy experiment by the end of March, supported by Japan’s industry ministry with financing from a supplementary budget for reconstruction following the March 2011 earthquake.
Continue readingNew Nebraska Wind Farm
Edison Mission announced a new wind energy project capable of producing enough wind power to meet the needs of about 14,000 homes in Nebraska. Crofton Bluffs will be powered by 22 wind turbines.
Continue readingEdison Mission and Nebraska public power district announce new wind farm
Crofton Bluffs wind energy plant will be powered by 22 wind turbines capable of generating up to 42 megawatts (MW) of wind power.
Continue readingSiemens Opens U.S. Wind Turbines Center in Oklahoma
In Dewey County, Oklahoma, Siemens provided 95 SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines and three SWT-3.0-101 direct drive wind turbines for OG&E’s Crossroads wind farm.
Continue readingUK kicks off construction on 15 MW wind turbines
According to the announcement, the GBP-35-million (USD 55m/EUR 42m) wind power facility will be the largest of its kind in the world. It is scheduled to be commissioned in summer 2013.
Continue readingAmerican Wind Energy: PTC can still be extended in first quarter
The wind power Production Tax Credit has not yet become part of the payroll tax extension bill. However, the situation is still developing quickly. There are a number of options and nothing is final yet.
Continue readingWind power: PTC is jobs engine conservatives should support
“Low, stable tax rates generate jobs and economic growth. This idea has been the bedrock of conservative ideology for decades. One industry that represents this essential conservative principle is U.S. wind energy.”
Continue readingWind energy: Iowa model for success
I know wind power?s success story firsthand. Iowa was the first state to generate 20 percent of its electricity from wind farm. Now, wind turbines supports as many as 5,000 Iowa jobs, by Rep. Steve King.
Continue readingForbes op-ed mangles facts on wind energy, PTC
An op-ed posted yesterday at Forbes.com by Larry Bell takes some wild swings at wind power and its tax incentives.
Continue readingMinistry of New & Renewable Energy to participate at Concentrating Solar Power Today India
The latest fiscal incentives and government regulations that are aimed at furthering Concentrated Solar Thermal Power development.
Continue readingWind power in Tanzania: Chinese loan for wind farm
Tanzania has secured a US$123 million loan to construct a wind energy plant in its central region. The wind turbines project expects to extend power generation by up to 300 MW.
Continue readingConstruction begins on the world?s largest wind turbine drive train test facility
Narec is the UK?s national translational research centre for accelerating grid integration of renewable energy systems and catalysing the development and deployment of offshore wind power.
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