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Beating expectations in New York -- Mandate with a difference proves success of market approach

New York State's renewable energy legislation calling for 25% green electricity in the supply mix by...

Financial sophistication comes to wind power

Institutional investors are falling over themselves in efforts to pick up wind assets, and the macro...

Regulatory reforms taken to court -- Uproar in Galicia

Outraged project developers in Spain's mighty wind region of Galicia say that sweeping regulatory re...

Big league financingfor big time growth -- Babcock & Brown

Setting yet another benchmark for innovative and aggressive investment in the wind business, Babcock...

Bruised but victorious wind lobby in Spain -- Lower but acceptable new purchase prices with a dose of uncertainty added

The Spanish wind power market is secure once again. In late May, the government finally passed refor...

A plan for remote communities -- Reducing diesel burn

Wind power can take a big bite out of the use of polluting diesel fuel for generating electricity in...

Fierce reaction to siting standards -- Federal law debate

Newly unveiled legislation that the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) had warned could bring U...

TPI makes blades in China for GE

American company TPI Composites, a manufacturer of large-scale composite structures, has signed a lo...

Greenpeace Spain says 100% renewables supply feasible

A Greenpeace report claiming renewables could meet Spain's entire electricity demand by 2050, and at...

Lack of power market transparency documented

Only 14% of the EU's most important electricity interconnectors are operated on a transparent market...

Greenpeace protests Sardinia's wind cap

The Italian arm of Greenpeace is protesting against the region of Sardinia's anti-wind energy policy...

Getting wind on the wires

A series of interlinked regulatory changes to the way electricity transmission is managed in Scotlan...

German loans made available for renewable energy

Germany's Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and German development bank KfW have established a...

Finalists chosen for blade test facility

A new National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) wind turbine blade test facility is coming to eith...

Newcomer on a fast track offshore -- Another 5 MW turbine

All wind guns are blazing for German firm Bard Engineering. In the last two months it got its constr...

Brazil attracts Australian investor

Even with a deal of market uncertainty (main story), Brazil's incentives for renewables continue to ...

AGL buys rights to 71 MW project

Australia's largest retail energy supplier, AGL Energy, has acquired the development rights to a 71 ...

Radar worry delay in California -- Air force intervenes

Military radar concerns are back on the horizon in the US after a period of relative quiet. Permitti...

Vattenfall buys rights to huge German offshore site

The Swedish part of German utility Vattenfall says it wants more experience with deep-water offshore...

Minnesota north gets first projects

Minnesota Power, a small regional utility, is playing a large part in bringing the first two wind pr...