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Wind power News for August 2012
A new partnership to advance research and development of renewable energy captured from ocean waves, tidal currents and offshore wind in the US has been announced.
30 August, 2012
Construction has commenced at Maerdy wind farm in South Wales, after Scottish renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, supported the project to a successful financial close.
30 August, 2012
German project developer juwi has formed a joint venture with Austria’s Verbund AG.
30 August, 2012
The long running dispute over the Cape Wind offshore wind project in Nantucket Sound, 30 miles from the shore of the state of Massachusetts, has come another step closer to a successful conclusion, with the issue of a DNE (Does Not Exeed) determination for 130 wind turbines.
22 August, 2012
Keele University has been working in partnership with McCamley Ltd, a renewable energy company with premises on the Keele campus business park, to develop a new form of vertical axis wind turbine that could be installed in urban environments.
22 August, 2012
While policy prospects beyond 2012 remain uncertain, the US wind power sector was one of the fastest growing wind energy markets in the world throughout 2011, says a new report by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
22 August, 2012
Shepherd Construction has completed the construction of a new offshore wind turbine blade testing facility in at Blyth, Northumberland.
09 August, 2012
US President Barack Obama has given his support to seven “nationally and regionally significant solar and wind energy projects” – including a 3GW wind farm proposal - as part of his We Can’t Wait initiative, proclaiming they will be “expedited”.
07 August, 2012
Offshore construction work has got underway for the Meerwind Süd and Ost Offshore Wind Farms.
07 August, 2012
Triodos Renewables, an independent renewable energy company, has launched a new public share issue offering consumers the chance to participate in direct ownership of the UK’s growing community renewable energy infrastructure.
07 August, 2012
Germany’s TÜV SÜD has acquired UK wind power consultancy Project Management Support Services Limited (PMSS), continuing its growth strategy in the field of renewable energy.
07 August, 2012
ABB has secured a key order to supply substations and transmission infrastructure to increase wind-generated electricity in Brazil’s energy mix.
06 August, 2012
Germany's RWE Innogy has acquired the Taciewo onshore wind farm in northeast Poland from Spain's Gamesa.
06 August, 2012
As the Spanish wind industry faces the crushing prospect of an 11% tax to be levied on it, its US counterpart is sighing with relief after proposals to extend the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) gained “overwhelming” bipartisan support in the Senate Finance Committee.
03 August, 2012
Siemens has won its first major order for wind turbines in Australia.
01 August, 2012