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Wind Energy Outlook for North America
Market Drivers for Onshore and Offshore Wind Power, Regulatory and Policy
Issues, Technology Issues, Key Industry Players, and Wind Farm Capacity & Revenue Forecasts.
Chesser misinforms on wind energy incentives
The federal wind Production Tax Credit, wind power’s primary incentive has been allowed to expire periodically since its inception in 1992, creating a boom-bust cycle.
Continue readingWind power poll best in survey of attitudes toward energy projects
The survey results compared support for a power plant, a nuclear power plant, a natural gas pipeline, oil drilling, a wind farm, natural gas drilling, and a power transmission line.
Continue readingCompletion of Sheffield Wind Energy Project
Vermont Governor Shumlin to Join First Wind at Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony to Commemorate Completion of Sheffield Wind Farm. The state?s first utility-scale wind power project will produce clean energy in Vermont.
Continue readingInstalled Wind Farm Capacity in North America to Double by 2017
Larger, more efficient wind turbines are generating greater amounts of wind power at lower costs, and both the U.S. and Canadian governments have shown strong commitment to the wind energy industry.
Continue readingVietnam inks $1bn wind power deal
Vietnam’s emerging wind energy industry has received a major boost after the country’s Development Bank announced it has secured a $1bn loan to fund the development of wind farm plants in the Mekong Delta.
Continue readingFire Island Wind Energy Project in Alaska
This approval resolves the final regulatory barrier to construction of the wind farm, which will be Alaska’s largest wind power project with 33 wind turbines.
Continue readingNordex gets 250 MW of wind turbines orders from Pakistan
The customers for the other three wind farm projects are Gul Ahmed Wind Power, Metro Power Company and Yunus Energy. Construction of those wind energy farms is due to take place next year and in 2013.
Continue readingNew wind power legislation in Spain threatens ?13 billion of investments
The Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE) has warned that if a royal decree is passed in its current draft form, 69% less new wind farm capacity will be installed in the various regions between now and 2020.
Continue readingVestas receives second V112 wind power order for Finland
The introduction of Finland’s feed-in tariff system (FIT) for wind farm in January 2011 marks a turning point for a government eager to release the untapped potential of the country’s wind energy.
Continue readingNextEra Energy Resources powers up North America?s largest concentrated photovoltaic solar power plant
The 5-megawatt Hatch concentrating photovoltaic solar energy facility is comprised of 84 Amonix 60-kilowatt units, and began operation in June 2011.
Continue readingRenewable energy technologies in UAE
100MW ?Shams 1? project ? in the western region of Abu Dhabi utilizes concentrating solar power (CSP).
Continue readingWind power make 1st appearance in Ohio, ‘churning up cash’
Eight new wind energy projects planned for northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan will add up to $2.8 billion in investment and generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of some 400,000 homes.
Continue readingVolvo V60 Plug-in Electric Vehicles confirmed for 2012
A single wind power plant, for instance, produces sufficient wind energy to power 3000 electric cars. Vattenfall will offer buyers of the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid a contract including electricity from renewable so
Continue readingSTELAWorld – International Solar Thermal Electricity Association formed
Concentrated Solar Thermal Electricity Generation poised to form the Backbone of the World?s 21st Century Electricity System.
Continue readingSeven historic facts about renewable energy
Do you know the origins of these renewable energies? How the human race came to know about them and who discovered them.
Continue readingSinovel inks first wind energy order in Brazil
Guodian is the third largest wind power production in China and the tenth globally. The company is interested in the states of Ceara and Rio Grande do Sul as potential sites for the installation of wind turbines factory.
Continue readingScience supports wind energy
A landmark study in Scientific American (Nov. 2009) examined wind power’s cost. The authors concluded that, by 2020, “wind power is expected to be the least costly of all options.”
Continue readingVestas receives 101 MW wind energy order in Michigan, USA
Vestas has received a 101 MW wind power order for 56 V100-1.8 MW wind turbines from Consumers Energy, for the utility?s Lake Winds Energy wind farm in Mason County, Michigan, USA.
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