Environment Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen presented the definitive plan for the wind farm, which will feature 86 wind turbines along the dyke to the north of Urk.
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Iran Plans to Build Largest Solar and Wind Power Generation Plant
Damghan, Semnan province in Iran will soon have its first ever privately built wind farm and solar power plant.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles Expands Wind Energy Portfolio in Greece
EDF Energies Expands Wind Energy Portfolio in Greece with Commissioning of 46 MW Wind Farm Projects.
Continue readingChina leads Asia in wind power
Data from the Global Wind Energy Council showed China had the largest wind turbine fleet in Asia by 2008, with a total power-generating capacity of 12.21 million kilowatts.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles has commissioned a 20.7MW wind farm in France
EDF announces the commissioning of the Corbières Méditerranée wind energy plant, with nine wind turbines and 20.7 MW of wind power capacity.
Continue readingVestas wins a 50 MW wind energy order in China
Vestas has received a wind power order for 25 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines from a wind farm from Hebei Construction Investment New Energy Company in China.
Continue readingSouth Korea to spend $900 million in wind energy and other renewable energy sources
?The move came as we aim to nurture solar and wind power generation as the country?s next chip industry and shipbuilding industry, respectively,? ministry officials said.
Continue readingUS Wind Energy Market
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines.
Continue readingFirst Wind?s Boston Headquarters Achieves LEED Gold Status
First Wind is an independent wind energy company exclusively focused on the development, financing, construction, ownership and operation of utility-scale wind farm projects in the United States.
Continue readingEMCORE Corporation to Present at Investor Conferences
EMCORE offers concentrating photovoltaic systems for utility scale solar applications as well as offering its high-efficiency GaAs solar cells and concentrated solar energy components for use in solar power.
Continue readingBergamo Acquisition Announces Terms Agreed Upon for Three Hybrid Solar Thermal Power Plants
Bergamo Acquisition Corp Announces Terms Agreed Upon for Three Hybrid Concentrating Solar Power Plants Totaling 200 Megawatts of Capacity in India.
Continue readingSolar Power Supporter Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot
The USA is still reeling after a shooting in Arizona killed six people and wounded 14 others. Among the wounded was Congresswoman Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords, a staunch supporter of solar energy.
Continue readingWind Turbines on Farmland May Benefit Crops
Researchers at the Ames Laboratory and the University of Colorado find that wind farm help channel beneficial breezes over nearby plants.
Continue readingABB Wins $24 Million Wind Power Orders in Romania
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won wind energy orders worth $24 million to build a new substation to receive and transform power from a 700 megawatt (MW) wind farm.
Continue readingRWE Innogy awards wind farm contracts
RWE Innogy is erecting offshore wind power plants in Europe with an installed capacity of 1,000 MW. By 2014, the company will have obtained permits for additional offshore wind turbines projects totalling 5,000 MW.
Continue readingLDK Solar Agrees to Acquire 70% of Solar Power for $33 Million
Founded in 2005, Solar Power, Inc. is a vertically integrated solar energy developer; the Company manages its value chain from material sourcing.
Continue readingSouthwest Windpower Unveils Most Efficient, Easy-to-Use Small Wind Turbines
Southwest Windpower, the world’s leading supplier of distributed wind turbines, unveiled its newest and most efficient small wind turbine?Skystream 600?which could put wind energy in thousands of homes and businesses.
Continue readingGoldwind wins wind power order of 76.5 MW in Ethiopia
The wind energy contract includes 34 wind turbines of its 1.5MW direct-drive permanent magnet. Adama wind farm is located in central Ethiopia, about 95km northeast from the capital, Addis Ababa.
Continue readingXZERES Launches Online Site Assessment Tool for Customers of the Buy Direct Program for Its Small Wind Energy Systems
XZERES Wind Corp designs, develops, manufactures and markets distributed generation, wind power systems for the small wind turbines market (2.5kW-100kW).
Continue readingMunro Distributing Company expands into solar energy
Munro and SunTrac Solar offer the industry’s highest efficiency solar energy panel for solar hot water.
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