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Near chaos with policy cocktail

The unpredictable nature of Australia's renewable energy scene has edged further towards chaos with ...

Legal framework obstacle to Dutch offshore plans

A report by government energy agency Novem says the Netherlands could have an offshore installed cap...

Minister intervenes in planning procedure bottleneck

Dutch energy minister Annemarie Jorritsma is asking 450 local authorities in the Netherlands to desi...

Renewables legislation edges closer in Wisconsin

A new energy package for Wisconsin, which includes a renewables portfolio standard (RPS) and funding...

Turbine owners pay for grid expansion

Wind turbine operators in Lower Saxony have joined forces to pay for the strengthening of a 100 kV g...

Okinawa islands put nine wind firms to test

The local electric utility for the 42 inhabited islands of Okinawa, the southernmost part of Japan, ...

China gets $100 million World Bank loan for wind

Up to a million people and businesses in China will get wind generated electricity within two years ...

Aerodyn offshore plans

German engineering company and wind turbine developer Aerodyn Energisysteme has drawn up plans for a...

Clinton policy push sets 80,000 MW wind goal

The US Energy secretary announced in June a goal of producing 5% of America's electricity from wind ...

Rejection of countryside wind plan

The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has cited aesthetic objections and fears ...

EWE supplies green power

The power trading subsidiary of German utility EWE, EWE NaturWatt, is now supplying about 310 househ...

Nordex wins second wind aid contract at Zafarana

The second contract has been signed for a wind power aid project at Zafarana on the Red Sea coast, a...

Precedent ruling on nuclear shut-down

The supreme administrative court of Sweden has upheld the government's right to order the decommissi...

Texas passes law for big renewable energy portfolio

A utility restructuring bill that includes a 2000 MW renewables portfolio standard (RPS) and substan...

National Trust call for the wild

The National Trust has called on the government to take full account of the value of wild places and...

Green goals hard to achieve

The government's targets for renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions were called into questio...

The Market

Nuclear took some hard hits in the past three months. Germany at last agreed to gradually phase out ...

Utility offers wind shares to local people

People living in the Cambridgeshire Fens in the east of England will be able to buy a stake in their...

Power bourse founded for futures trading

A German power bourse, the German Energy Exchange (GEX), has been founded to start a futures trading...

Enron to install megawatt prototype

Enron Wind Corp will install a prototype 81 metre 1.8 MW turbine by year-end in Tehachapi, company l...

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