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Irish forestry board offers land for large wind farms

Coillte -- the Irish forestry board -- is seeking partners to help it develop large wind farms on it...

Economics

Wind's costs are rapidly converging with those of the "conventional" thermal sources of electricity ...

Lowering Condon costs by increasing project size

SeaWest Windpower Inc and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Northwest federal power bro...

Another venture for UK nuclear

Nuclear generator British Energy is entering the Canadian wind power market in a joint venture with ...

Development

The world total for operating wind power plant at the start of 2001 was just over 17,700 MW, an addi...

Blades built by robot -- French innovation

A young French company, Coriolis Composites, claims to have developed a system that will fully autom...

California agency to open door in India for wind companies from home

California's Trade and Commerce Agency is to set up an office in Delhi as a first step to opening th...

Policies

Climate change brought about by human activity is advancing more rapidly than expected, lending new ...

Supermarket turbine up and running -- Fully commercial

The UK's first "on site" wind turbine has been installed without subsidy at the Scottish distributio...

Sweden approves 72 MW Lillgrund offshore plans

Sweden's government announced its approval of Eurowind's long planned 72 MW Örestads Vindkraftp...

Tall towers needed

A new era of truly tall lattice towers is starting in Germany in an effort to reach winds worthy of ...

Oregon expedites siting process to help supply problems

A measure to cut the permitting time for new renewable and gas plants has passed through one house o...

Government gets out of the way -- ABB and Vestas can proceed

Hopes for an early start to Dutch offshore wind development have been boosted by economics minister ...

No predictions

Book building for the flotation of 70% of Nordex, a wind turbine division of the German Babcock-Bors...

Examining the Windformer -- ABB innovations

Nine months ago power giant ABB announced it was entering the wind business with major new innovativ...

Objections to wind beside the point in wind power goals

Norway is on course to meeting or even exceed its target of 3 TWh of wind power (2.4% of current ele...

Cumbria tourist attraction anticipated with small wind farm

Developer National Wind Power (NWP) has applied to build eight wind turbines in Cumbria, complete wi...

Potential for wind power studied on reclaimed Tokyo dump

The Tokyo metropolitan government is examining the potential for a wind power station on a reclaimed...

Wind turbine planned on London M25 motorway

Developer Renewable Energy Systems (RES) is to erect a wind turbine on the site of its new offices a...

Renewables top priority to Rajasthan government

India's northwest state of Rajasthan has decided to invest INR 50 billion ($1.08 billion) in its pow...

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