Engineering firm Mabey Bridge is investing £38 million in a Chepstow, Wales, factory to build and paint wind turbine towers.
29 January, 2010
ACCIONA is the first company to register a wind energy facility in the USA under the requirements of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS).
28 January, 2010
Most homeowners in Britain would install on-site microgeneration technology that uses renewable energy if the financial incentives were greater, according to a survey.
28 January, 2010
Community groups in Wales can access £8 million to develop local renewable energy projects.
27 January, 2010
Intel Corp says new contracts are in place to incorporate 2.5 MW of solar electric projects at corporate locations in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, USA.
27 January, 2010
Duke Energy will add solar power to its commercial renewable energy portfolio through the acquisition of a solar electric facility under development in San Antonio, Texas.
27 January, 2010
Technical assistance grants of US$3.87 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will deploy small wind energy systems and lay the groundwork for using wind energy to enhance access to electricity in poor rural communities.
27 January, 2010
The wind industry in the United States has broken all previous records by installing 10 GW of new capacity last year.
26 January, 2010
The 1200 partners in the Green Power Partnership purchase 18 TWh of green power annually.
26 January, 2010
Wind energy generated 55.4 TWh of electricity in 2008, an increase of 60.7% from the 34.5 TWh in 2007, according to federal data.
26 January, 2010
Globeleq Generation Ltd, an emerging markets power company, is acquiring a 70% majority interest in Energias Renovables de Mesoamerica SA (ERM), an owner, operator and developer of wind power projects in Central America.
25 January, 2010
NRG Energy Inc and Enel North America Inc, a subsidiary of Enel Green Power, have closed an agreement for the sale of NRG’s terrestrial wind development company, Padoma Wind Power LLC to Enel North America (ENA).
22 January, 2010
A consortium of Korean companies will invest C$7 billion to generate 2500 MW of wind energy and solar power in the province of Ontario, in a move that will create renewable energy 16,000 jobs.
22 January, 2010
Riverstone Holdings LLC's most recent renewable energy fund has completed its previously announced acquisition of offshore wind services company Seajacks International, for a total cash consideration of US$207 million.
21 January, 2010
Maestrale Green Energy, THEOLIA’s Italian subsidiary, has closed the financing of a 30 MW wind project under construction in the province of Enna in Sicily.
21 January, 2010
Walmart has completed its largest solar power project at its Apple Valley distribution centre in southern California.
21 January, 2010
The integration of 20% from wind energy is technically feasible, but will require significant expansion of the transmission infrastructure and system operational changes in order for it to be realised, according to an analysis from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
20 January, 2010
Micronor’s MR200W series Yaw Position Transducers are engineered specifically for wind turbine applications, and monitor position, direction, speed and cable twist while giving feedback to the yaw directional motor drive and brake control system.
20 January, 2010
Toyota Motor Corporation has been awarded the 2010 Zayed Future Energy Prize for its third-generation Toyota Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle.
20 January, 2010
REpower Systems AG will supply 20 REpower MM92 wind turbines to National Wind LLC, a large-scale community wind project developer, for the first phase of the Lake Country Wind Energy project in central Minnesota.
19 January, 2010
RES has acquired a portfolio of wind power projects in South Africa totalling almost 300 MW.
19 January, 2010
The Scottish Government has confirmed that an extension to Rothes wind farm near Elgin in Moray has been successfully consented, with Natural Power acting as the lead consultant on behalf of their client, Rothes II Ltd, a Fred. Olsen Renewables (FOR).
19 January, 2010
Wind energy could supply 12% of the world’s power by the middle of this century, up from the current 2%, according to a 'Wind Energy Roadmap' to be published soon by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
19 January, 2010
The European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009 according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
18 January, 2010
Siemens Netherlands and GustoMSC, a subsidy of the Dutch company SBM Offshore, have signed a strategic partnership for the use of electrically powered rack and pinion systems for jack-up units in the offshore industry, including wind.
18 January, 2010
The embedded smart sensor systems will allow operators of offshore wind farms to check ‘the health’ of the wind turbines, while the operator is sitting onshore and while the wind turbine blades are spinning offshore, Denmark’s Risø DTU says.
18 January, 2010
Natural Power has launched a new product in its suite of wind farm monitoring and management tools: ForeSite.
14 January, 2010
Good Energy Group Plc has announced a £11.8 million financing package for the repowering of its wind farm at Delabole in North Cornwall, UK.
13 January, 2010
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has called on the UK government to ensure that UK manufacturing benefits from the recently announced Round 3 offshore wind projects through support for skills and training, the identification of coastal manufacturing hubs and upgrades to the UK’s electricity grid.
13 January, 2010
A research wind farm could be installed on the site of a major US nuclear office, where the wind-generated electricity would be used to operate the plant.
13 January, 2010
The government of Canada will invest C$146 million to support 19 clean and renewable energy projects which include solar, wind, tidal and geothermal energy.
13 January, 2010
Vestas will deliver 40 of its V90 2 MW wind turbines to Nordwind Handels GmbH & Co KG for the eastern part of Germany.
13 January, 2010
The Danish Council for Strategic Research’s Programme Commission on Energy and Environment has granted funding of DKK38 million for the establishment of the Danish Centre for Composite Structures and Materials (DCCSM), which will look into materials to increase wind turbine reliability.
13 January, 2010
Risø DTU has completed a successful test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner in order to increase electricity generation.
12 January, 2010
A study commissioned by the Scottish Government highlights Scotland's location, natural resources, research and manufacturing bases as key advantages for developing renewable energy resources.
12 January, 2010
A wind farm in the Caribbean island of Dominica is one of the first three projects to receive US funding under the ‘Energy & Climate Partnership of the Americas’ announced by President Obama at the 2009 Summit of the Americas.
11 January, 2010
The US$2.3 billion in tax credits for clean energy manufacturing is being allocated on a competitive basis.
11 January, 2010
The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has approved US$102 million in partial financing for two wind facilities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which will establish a critical mass of renewable energy in the country and generate jobs in low-income rural communities.
11 January, 2010
The Forewind consortium will develop the largest zone in Round 3 for UK offshore wind farms, Dogger Bank.
11 January, 2010
The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a division company of Siemens Financial Services, will develop 4 GW of offshore wind farms by 2020 as part of The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore wind farm programme.
11 January, 2010
Two consortia, of which Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) is a partner, have been awarded development partner status by The Crown Estate in Round 3 of its UK offshore wind farm development programme.
11 January, 2010
RWE npower renewables has been awarded the Bristol Channel Zone, off the South Wales and North Devon coasts, UK, under The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore wind farm development.
11 January, 2010
EDP Renováveis (EDPR) and SeaEnergy Plc have been awarded the right to develop offshore wind farms in the Moray Firth, Scotland, with an approximate installed capacity of 1.3 GW, as part of the UK Round 3 awards.
08 January, 2010
The UK's Crown Estate has announced the successful bidders for the exclusive Round 3 "Zone Development Agreements", which will take the development of up to 32GW of offshore wind farms through the consenting phase.
08 January, 2010
The siging of a political declaration in early December last year will see the countries cooperate on the development of a North Sea supergrid joining up clean energy projects scattered in and around the North Sea.
07 January, 2010
Ontario, Canada is helping General Electric Canada (GEC) improve productivity and energy efficiency at its Peterborough-based motor production facility.
07 January, 2010
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC)'s wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary has signed a follow-on contract with China's Dongfang Turbine Co. Ltd. to design and jointly develop 5 MW full conversion wind turbines for the offshore wind power market.
07 January, 2010
Plans for a line of giant electricity pylons from the Scottish Highlands to central Scotland have been approved by the Scottish government.
07 January, 2010
A US federal laboratory suggests that ancillary benefits could be worth even more to community wind projects than the 30% investment tax credit or cash grant available under federal law.
05 January, 2010
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the projects represent 70,000 MW of capacity that will help the state meet its 2020 goal of one-third of power from renewables.
04 January, 2010
The United Kingdom generated 5.5 TWh of electricity from renewable energy in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009, an increase of 25% compared with Q3 2008.
04 January, 2010
Vestas will provide 48 of its V90 2.0 MW wind turbines to the German company Prokon, for different locations in Poland.
01 January, 2010