The battle between two of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers heated, when General Electric (GE) filed a lawsuit against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) accusing of infringing two patents.
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UTC: an eventual majority purchase of Clipper is possible
United Technologies Corp. (UTC), which recently closed an offer to acquire a 49.5% stake in Clipper Windpower, says it is ready to make bigger investments in renewable energy.
Continue readingIt’s a snow job on wind power from ABC News
Last night, while the world was busy with real news, ABC News presented a fictional account of how the Obama Administration’s Recovery Act was being used to ship jobs overseas.
Continue readingWind power: 37,500 MW added in 2009
Despite the economic crisis, the wind energy industry?s turnover reached 45 billion euros. Excellent performance of the US, Europe and especially China, which doubled its installed capacity for the fifth year running.
Continue readingThe Eye of the Wind welcomes the world
British Columbia’s wind energy icon and newest technological marvel, The Eye of the Wind, was inaugurated at a special event attended by Premier Gordon Campbell.
Continue readingStimulus Money IS Creating US Jobs: American Wind Energy Association Response to American University Study/ABC World News Story
ABC aired a story on February 9 based on a report by the American University purporting to show how stimulus, or Recovery Act, funds were being used to create jobs overseas.
Continue readingMore wind jobs in Wisconsin through Recovery Act By Chris Madison (AWEA)
While anti-wind types charge that the Recovery Act is being used to send jobs overseas, Wisconsin is using Recovery Act funds to help finance a new wind blade manufacturing plant in the state.
Continue readingREpower announces financial figures for first nine months of fiscal year 2009/10
In the first nine months of fiscal year 2009/10 REpower Systems AG (WKN 617 703) realized total performance of EUR 932.1 million compared to EUR 842.9 million in the same period of the previous year.
Continue readingREpower constructs first turnkey wind farm in Canada
REpower and Renewable Energy Systems Canada have successfully completed the construction of a test wind farm in the Gaspé region.
Continue readingPPA agreement paves way for 80 MW Nebraska wind farm
Power Purchase Agreement Signed by NPPD, Midwest Wind/Edison Mission Group for Laredo Ridge Wind Farm near Petersburg.
Continue readingCanada Awards $6.5 Million for R&D on Wind Power in Nordic Climates
Canada announced the awarding of $6.5 million to the Wind Energy TechnoCentre to equip two wind turbines with the instrumentation needed to carry out research and development on wind energy in nordic climates.
Continue readingTreasury Announces $1 Billion in Recovery Act Bond Authority for Tribal Communities
The Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico will use $7 million to develop and construct a wind farm power project. The wind energy project, Wind = Nature’s Dividend (WiND) will have a gross design capacity of 15 megawatts.
Continue readingNV Energy to Purchase Power from Central Nevada Geothermal Plant
NV Energy (NYSE: NVE) announced today that it has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with a subsidiary of Ram Power Corporation (TSX: RPG) for energy that will be produced by a new geothermal power plant.
Continue readingMaryland’s Offshore Wind Power Potential
A report sponsored by The Abell Foundation and prepared by the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment.
Continue readingWalmart Canada announces wind power and solar projects
Walmart Canada announced plans to conduct two significant wind energy and solar power projects. The company plans to install a rooftop solar system as well as a wind turbine.
Continue readingIndia’s Airvoice plans 13 GW of renewable energy
Airvoice Group has joined hands with Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam to build 13 GW of solar and wind energy capacity in India.
Continue readingEDF Energies Nouvelles : Full-year 2009 results up sharply and ahead of objectives
With operations in Europe and North America, EDF Energies Nouvelles is a market leader in green electricity production.
Continue readingAsia’s First Professional Offshore Wind Power Market
The Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA), Global Wind Energy Council and Shanghai International Exhibition Co., Ltd., join forces to build Asia’s first platform on the offshore wind energy.
Continue readingIberdrola Renovables adquiere a Gamesa el complejo eólico de El Andévalo (Huelva)
La operación se enmarca en el acuerdo firmado en 2005 con Gamesa Energía para la compraventa de parques eólicos en Andalucía.
Continue readingLa Comisión Federal de Electricidad de México licita tres parques eólicos
La Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) lanzará la licitación del proyecto Las Oaxacas, que se compone de tres parques eólicos independientes que le suministrarán al sistema eléctrico nacional 300 megavatios.
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