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Businesses rush to switch to wind -- Northern Ireland

Some 500 businesses around Northern Ireland switched to wind power on November 1 -- the first day th...

Tension rises with tariff up for revision

At the end of its first four years of operation, Spain's special renewables tariff mechanism is up f...

Calling for a fixed price and quotas

A "feed-in" style renewable energy tariff alongside a separate system of quotas for the proportion o...

Seeking strategic reinforcement -- Lagerwey's long term issue

Dutch turbine producer Lagerwey The Windmaster has denied industry rumours that it is in financial d...

European activities not in ABB sale

ABB is retaining its wind energy financing and development activities despite deciding to sell off i...

France's largest turbine installed in Marne

The largest turbine in France has been installed in a field at La Chaussée-sur-Marne in Marne...

Divorce terms settled in geographic split -- Iberdrola and EHN split 1300 MW

Spanish utilities Iberdrola and Energia Hidroeléctrica de Navarra (EHN) -- both wind market l...

Belgian council to take legal action over 100 MW offshore plant

In Belgium, the provincial council of West Flanders has announced it will take legal proceedings to ...

Plans for 2.75 MW machine in Aude département

Wind project developer Vent du Sud has sought a permit to install a single 2.75 MW turbine, 80 metre...

Umweltkontor Renewable Energy acquires 100% of offshore development company

German wind and renewables developer Umweltkontor Renewable Energy has acquired 100% of the company ...

Industry criticises government report -- Cost of renewables

A new government report is criticised by the wind industry for overstating the cost of increased lev...

Utility group for green credit trade -- Norway aims to export wind

Half a dozen members of Eurokraft Norge AS, a consortium of 18 Norwegian power companies dealing in ...

Two tariff options

The law governing Spain's two renewables tariffs -- Decree 2818 of December 1998 -- is the mainstay ...

First steps in green power marketing -- Retailer sees niche in coming market liberalisation in Spain

Electra de Carbayin, a small electricity retailer in Asutrias, a single-province region in the north...

Isolated failure and a new prototype -- Vestas 2 MW and 3 MW

Negative publicity for Vestas' flagship 2 MW wind turbine continued last month when the design proto...

Taking the back door into Valencia -- Excluded players access 880 MW

The Spanish wind industry was taken by surprise last month when two of the country's key developers,...

Four wind projects get underway as part of Clean Development Mechanism initiative

Project initiatives under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which will come into force next yea...

Norwegian firm in bid to supply blades to REpower

A Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering firm, Umoe Mandal, is hoping to win a EUR 9.59 million cont...

New law could halt progress -- Austria's feed-in rates

The Austrian wind lobby is hailing the new "eco-electricity" law as beneficial to the industry. But ...

Government shows willing on policy

Barriers to renewable energy created by Britain's new electricity trading arrangements (NETA) are am...

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