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GOVERNMENT HARD TO BUDGE

A wide-ranging consultation process, summarised in a report prepared by the Department of Trade and ...

REGULATORS RELENTLESS ON PRICE

Prices in the next round of the UK's Non Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO-4) will be even lower than the...

INDUSTRY TAKING ON UTILITIES

Stadtwerke Geesthacht is peeved at having to buy electricity from an Enercon 500 kW, owned by Hambur...

SCEPTICISM AT RWE OFFER OF PLANNING HELP

In view of the campaign by German utilities to have the Electricity Feed Law (EFL) ditched, an offer...

GLOBAL TENDER

Swedish wind plant developers and utilities are getting together with energy agency Nutek to issue a...

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Denmark has taken the lead in founding the International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE), d...

GLOBAL WARMING FRIGHTENER

Over the next 100 years, global warming will raise temperatures by two to six degrees on average on ...

SMULDERS ON WIND

"Wind energy is here to stay," says Paul Smulders from the Technical University of Eindhov...

TOO BUREAUCRATIC

Two reports published in October by the UK's Association of Electricity Producers (AEP) call for imp...

REPRIMANDED FOR FALSE CLAIMS

German utilities have been sharply criticised by Schleswig-Holstein's energy minister Claus Möl...

EUROSOLAR AWARD TO BWEA

The British Wind Energy Association has won a Eurosolar award for its Best Practice Guidelines for w...

UTILITY WIND AGREEMENT

At a meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Greece, a consortium of Australian electric...

BUDGET GETS ITS BOOST

The Swedish government has agreed to inject an extra SEK 100 million ($14.3 million) into the countr...

915 MW INSTALLED

By the end of September around 3090 wind turbines were in operation in Germany with a rated capacity...

GARRAD HASSAN OPENS OFFICE

British wind industry consultants Garrad Hassan is setting up a branch office in New Zealand because...

UTILITIES LOOK AT HIGH WIND SITES IN COLORADO

A coalition of utilities is scouting out high wind sites in Colorado. The utilities, led by Public S...

GOVERNMENT TURNS THE SCREW ON PRICES AGAIN

Bidding is soon to begin in the UK for a further 400 to 500 MW of contracts for renewable energy und...

TAX BREAK FOR DIESEL FUEL NOW AXED

Removal of the fuel oil excise tax exemption in Australia is set to dramatically increase the cost o...

STUDIES ON BIRDS OFFER HOPE

Two recently released reports on bird deaths in wind farms, sponsored by California wind developer K...

SEVERAL GROUNDS TO BE OPTIMISTIC

This year's annual wind power conference in Stockholm, Sweden, was the best yet and follows the gove...

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