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Deutsche Bank lays out offshore finance options

EUROPE: Private equity will have to play an increasingly central role in financing the UK offshore w...

Alberta activists push pro-wind policy

CANADA: Wind-energy advocates in the province of Alberta are pushing for the creation of an emission...

Uncertainty drives Italian firms abroad

ITALY: Uncertainty about financial incentives has accelerated a push abroad by the country's wind-en...

US wind faces challenge to renew PTC

UNITED STATES: The US wind-energy sector is facing some strong political headwinds in its efforts to...

China plans 100GW wind capacity by 2015

CHINA: China will have 100GW installed capacity by 2015, including 5GW of offshore wind, according t...

EWEA slams 'astounding' EC assumptions about wind

EUROPE: The EC's 2050 energy roadmap has been criticised by the European Wind Energy Association (EW...

Renewables not responsible for rising prices

UK: Support for wind and other renewables have been ruled out as the main cause of rising consumer e...

Crown Estate launches 800MW NI offshore tender

UK: The Crown Estate has announced an 800MW offshore tender for a project around the coast of Northe...

Ontario renewables 'schemes bypassed regulatory processes'

CANADA: Ontario's auditor general has declared that billions of dollars of new wind and solar power ...

Ferc rules against BPA over curtailments

UNITED STATES: America’s electricity regulators today ruled that Bonneville Power Administration’s (...

Wind makes up 45% of South African renewables bids

SOUTH AFRICA: The South African government has announced 28 preferred bidders following the first ro...

CanWEA forecasts record growth in Canada for 2011

CANADA: The Canadian wind industry is on track to install a record 1.4GW of capacity in 2011, more t...

Wind provides 1.5% of China's electricity

CHINA: Wind power generation accounts for 1.5% of national power generation, according to the Wind P...

Scotland looks ahead of Round 3 for offshore

UK: A new scoping report prepared by Marine Scotland Science has identified future offshore wind ene...

Poor surveys blamed for eagle deaths

UNITED STATES: The controversial deaths of six eagles at a Californian wind farm are not typical of ...

Wind drives $100bn grid investment

UNITED STATES: Wind power will be the primary driver of up to $100 billion in capital investment in ...

Slow progress amid financial troubles

ARGENTINA: Argentina added 80MW of wind capacity during the last quarter, thanks to Parque Eolico Ra...

Big players devise strategies to beat market conditions

CHINA: Leading players in the Chinese wind industry are adopting a number of strategies following po...

Regional reforms deliver certainty

AUSTRALIA: Reforms to permitting procedures in South Australia will give more certainty to wind-ener...

State struggles to change mindset

GERMANY: The government of the south-western German state of Baden-Wurttemberg faces a dilemma as it...

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