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Offshore initiative to drive down costs -- Price saving potential of £30 billion

UK: Five major international energy companies are collaborating in a £30 million research and develo...

Vestas opens Singapore R&D centre

Danish turbine supplier Vestas has opened its Asia research and development (R&D) centre at Fusi...

Government subsidises domestic technology

China's government has confirmed plans to subsidise domestic wind equipment research and development...

Industry finds itself footing radar bill

Wind turbines can disturb radar images and put both civil and military aircraft at risk, but researc...

Urban wind power not a good idea -- Government report

Domestic-scale wind energy generators installed in urban areas are a bad idea, reports the UK's Carb...

IFC funding wind resource mapping in Bolivia

The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is providing the money for US-based renewab...

New wind power strategy for utility SaskPower

SaskPower, Saskatchewan's publicly owned monopoly utility, is working with private developers to par...

Bid to set up R&D campus in north-east England

The world's largest wind energy research and development (R&D) centre is planned for the north-e...

Chinese turbine manufacturer Hewind's private share offering

Chinese turbine manufacturer Zhejiang Hewind has announced a private offering of 15-30 million addit...

Researching impact of ice build-up

Hélimax, a wind industry consulting firm in Montreal, has installed testing equipment to obse...

Identifying what needs to be done -- Europe's research priorities

Research and development funding of around EUR 6.7 billion will be needed to help meet the 2020 goal...

Welcome reprieve for test centre -- Minister extends funding

Canada's national wind power research centre has received a new injection of federal cash, just week...

National wind resource measuring

In the first step of a nationwide effort to fully assess China's wind resources, 19 wind measuring m...

Biggest concerted research effort yet

The European wind industry will unveil detailed proposals for future research priorities under the E...

Efficient maintenance -- EU research (2)

An EU-funded research and development project aimed at reducing the cost of wind energy to below EUR...

Energy minister sees wind future -- Ireland looks at 42% wind

The island of Ireland could meet 42% of its electricity demand from renewable energy by 2020 without...

Working group to study radar concerns

Some good news at last on the topic of alleged interference from wind turbines on radar in France. A...

Vestas plans United States research and development centre

Wind power giant Vestas, intent on expanding its reach into the US, announced plans for an American ...

Governments approve EU strategic energy research plan

The European Commission's plan to boost EU research into low carbon energy sources has been endorsed...

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