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Power sector pushes for green strategy -- Cheapest option for Denmark

Denmark's power industry is unanimously calling for renewable energy to provide 70% of the country's...

Creeping progress on grid backlog -- Freeing Irish wind

Ireland's year long impasse in connecting new wind energy projects to its grid network may at last b...

Call for evolution not revolution

As the established European electricity industry formally calls for a single competitive market for ...

Developer proposes one thousand megawatt

A battle is looming Scotland is also a prime region for large wind plant with proposed developments ...

Challenge on cost of integrating wind

Faced with the task of accommodating 990 MW of generating capacity that it cannot turn on and off at...

Industry surprised at new lawsuit -- Altamont Pass bird kills

Most wind farms in the Altamont Pass are now being targeted in a renewed and expanded federal lawsui...

Wind economics set to beat gas in Ireland

Switching from gas powered generation to wind power for future supplies will typically save consumer...

Moving into the mainstream

A 46% increase in delegates, coming on the heels of some major wind purchase and policy announcement...

Utility to buy wind from Texas and New Mexico for customers in Southwest

A subsidiary of giant US utility Xcel Energy will step up its purchases of wind generated electricit...

Green credit market without a cap -- Sweden announces permanent renewables mandate

In a radical change to its renewable energy policy, Sweden is introducing a permanent market for gre...

Colorado voters rule for renewables -- Mandate contains features that could make it a role model

For the first time in the United States voters, rather than legislators, have implemented a minimum ...

Wind and nuclear will reduce pollution -- Lifting the Spanish policy veil

Wind power in Spain "will be pushed to the maximum" says industry minister Jose Montilla, confirming...

Good chance for extension of Texas renewable energy mandate

Texas is set to expand the state's renewable energy goal from 2000 MW by 2009 to 5000 MW by 2012 and...

Financial support for wind growing but far less than for coal and nuclear

Financial support for renewables generation in Germany -- in the form of premium payments required b...

Turbine tower manufacturing to return to Scottish Isle of Lewis

Manufacturing of wind turbine towers is set to return to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland after a packa...

Reindeer risk in Scandinavia

Reindeer herders in both Norway and Finland say that large wind farms could seriously damage their l...

Learning to live with George Bush

Given the go-ahead by voters to pursue his agenda for four more years, President George Bush is unli...

New EU energy boss

Europe's new energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, was given a resounding thumbs up after his hearin...

Utility and gas giant Gas Natural enters wind market

Spanish utility and gas giant, Gas Natural, has finally entered the wind market after several months...

Promise of no fundamental change to Renewables Obligation

The 2005 review of the Renewables Obligation (RO) framework will not look for fundamental changes to...

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