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Local government waking up

The potential for constructing large wind projects by forming partnerships with local governments co...

New look trade fair lived up to its promise

Megawatt technology and wind turbine manufacturers from Denmark and the host country dominated this ...

Regulating for credit where credit is due

A detailed proposal is being considered in Britain for monetising wind's "embedded" value in supply ...

Policy paper taking shape

The European Commission is still considering the best approach for supporting renewable energies in ...

Citizens positive but county negative

With four Colorado utilities lined up to buy from the two wind farms, by this winter fully three-qua...

Doing buisness samurai to viking

Since Takeru Kojima became the Japanese agent for Danish Micon in 1991, founding his company, Ecolog...

Capacity gap after nuclear lay ups

In the largest single cutback in the world nuclear industry, Canadian utility Ontario Hydro is to pr...

Race against the contract clock

Wind farm developers in Ireland are racing against time to complete projects under the country's fir...

British call for fixed price

A rolling programme of renewable energy support is the best way to deliver the UK government's targe...

Gotland output exceeding demand

Up to ten of the more than 100 turbines on the island of Gotland had to be shut down during some win...

Opening the door

Global mega trends currently shaping industry, society and politics are about to hit the energy busi...

Bonn brought to a standstill

Several thousand people flocked to Germany's capital city last month to take part in a rally in supp...

Economics

Electricity demand is increasing at nearly 4% per annum in Western Europe, a market force which has ...

Great Lakes request for proposals

Up to $2 million may be awarded for one to three business plans that provide consumers with "sc...

Subsidy secured

Roughly $70 million in state subsidies will soon be made available to give California wind farm oper...

PG&E rate increases

California's second largest utility is seeking big rate increases for both electricity and gas on th...

Plans in the far north

Norwegian utility Nord-Trøndelags Elverk is planning a 15 MW wind farm of ten turbines in Vik...

NedWind plans scale down

Dutch wind turbine maker NedWind is planning to close its 12 strong manufacturing division. The plan...

Wind boom since 1992

Wind energy supplied 0.4% of Germany's electricity in 1996, increasing its share from 0.06% in 1992,...

Public okays Liverpool dockside wind farm

A dockside wind farm at Liverpool has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry. The Mersey Doc...

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