Search Windpower Monthly

749 results

Regulatory risk keeps wind on edge

GERMANY: The widely-feared premature death of the offshore wind industry in Germany has been headed ...

Wind is Spain's biggest power generator in 2013

SPAIN: For the first time ever, wind provided more power to the Spanish electricity system than any ...

On Reflection: High ambitions needed to lower costs

WORLDWIDE: Downwind turbines of up to 10MW mounted on floating foundations might sound like somethin...

UK government positivity boosts offshore

UK: The UK government has revealed plans to boost subsidies to offshore wind while cutting support f...

Windicator: Emerging markets and Asia Pacific stand out in slow quarter for many

WORLDWIDE:The global wind sector was less active in the third quarter of 2013 compared with the same...

Windicator: Slowdown in former strongholds makes for sluggish year

WORLDWIDE: With approximately 23GW of new capacity installed globally so far this year, the final to...

WindEconomics: Risk rates bump up nuclear generation costs

WORLDWIDE: While the announced UK strike price for nuclear has prompted some to believe that nuclear...

A new year, a new chance to shine

So 2013 is over and done with, goodbye to all that. It was predicted to be an "annus horriblis" for ...

French onshore tariff ruled illegal

FRANCE: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the French onshore wind tariff amounts to...

UK energy reform bill signed into law

UK: The UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has released its delivery plan for the ...

New PTC and ITC proposals put forward

UNITED STATES: Key tax incentives for wind energy in the US would remain in place until 2017 under a...

German renewables targeted by EC 'state-aid' investigation

GERMANY: The European Commission has opened a formal investigation on into whether the reduced renew...

German renewables targeted by EC 'state-aid' investigation

GERMANY: The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into whether the reduced renewabl...

Analysis: Post-independent Scotland would look to UK on wind

UK: There would be little change in Scottish renewable energy policy if the country becomes independ...

Germany adds most onshore capacity since 2003

GERMANY: Germany saw more onshore wind capacity new online in the last twelve months than in any sin...

Social Democrats take on German wind policy

GERMANY: Germany's wind policy has been handed over to the federal economy ministry following a vote...

Social Democrats take on German wind policy

GERMANY: Germany's wind policy has been handed over to the federal economy ministry, following a vot...

UK could miss 2020 offshore target

UK: The UK is in danger of missing its reduced 2020 offshore wind target as it fails to draw in the ...

US lags with only 188MW connected this year

WORDLWIDE: The US has trailed behind the rest of the developed markets in terms of new wind capacity...

Brazil commissions 2.3GW of wind power in A-5 auction

BRAZIL: Brazilian power distribution companies bought a total of 2.3GW of power from 97 new wind pow...