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Study: 'Silent sound' from wind turbines does not impact health

A ground breaking study by Australian researchers has found no effect on human health from the infra...

‘Industry first’ as wind, fishing and port industries sign MoU for Irish floating project

Previously ‘fundamentally-opposed’ industries have set aside their differences to collaborate on the...

Earth Day 2020: How fast the industry has grown

The current century has seen the wind industry move into the mainstream, becoming a legitimate sourc...

Regulation 'main barrier' to hybridisation, RES claims

HAMBURG 2018: Hybrid projects are being held back by outdated regulations preventing multiple genera...

Enercon blades destroyed during installation

GERMANY: Two blades of an Enercon turbine were damaged when its wind energy converter "went into ove...

Review of 2017 - part one

WORLDWIDE: The first six months of 2017 pick up where 2016 had left off with further activity in the...

Analysis: Reopening of iconic Altamont Pass project in doubt

UNITED STATES: Following the annual turbine shut-down to protect birds, owners of Altamont Winds' 83...

Analysis: 1GW floating project planned off California

UNITED STATES: Principle Power founder, Alla Weinstein, is planning the 1GW Morro Bay floating proje...

Analysis: 1GW floating project planned off California

UNITED STATES: Principle Power founder, Alla Weinstein, is planning the 1GW Morro Bay floating proje...

Parish rejects Areva 8MW prototype

GERMANY: Areva will be unable to install a prototype 8MW offshore turbine at an onshore site near Dr...

TechTalk: PMG future must ensure ethical supply chain

WORLDWIDE: In late 2010 I attended a public discussion on the role and risks of strategic materials ...

Don't let loud opponents be the only voices heard

Environmental issues played just a minor part of the coverage of the 2012 Dutch elections, with refe...

Pitch failure downed Vestas Ireland turbine

IRELAND: Vestas has revealed that the collapse of one of its turbines in Ireland, seven months after...

New player tackles radar problem

UNITED KINGDOM: New firm Aveillant is launching technology it claims will remove concerns about avia...

Everyone needs a basic knowledge of energy

WORLDWIDE: At the European Wind Energy Association's annual conference in Brussels earlier this year...

Conference sessions hear radar conflict continues

Two well attended sessions on the conflicts between air travel and wind farms at the British wind in...

Wind opponents make much of failures of old wind turbines

The recent failures of two aged wind turbines, sold as second-hand machines into the French market, ...

Health warning from medical academy

According to the French National Academy of Medicine, there is a real risk that low-frequency noise ...

World Wildlife Fund ranks 30 most polluting power plants

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has named and shamed the operators of the 30 most climate polluting po...

Hijacked by the press

Even before it was officially published at the end of February, a study by Germany's energy agency o...

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