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Approvals come in for Northwest plant -- Vansycle 99 MW extension

A 99 MW expansion of FPL Energy's 24.9 MW Vansycle wind plant along the state line of Oregon and Was...

Stirring up the competition

With the government continuing to pave the way for ever faster wind development, Japan could well re...

Boom and bust concerns

Grid limitation on wind development is a hot issue in Spain. While developers are showing signs of f...

Long research history looks at short future

Lack of adequate public funding for wind energy research and development in New Zealand is causing K...

Utilities obliged to buy renewables -- India aims for 6% by 2012

Through an obligation on utilities to buy a fixed quota of green power, increased subsides, a carbon...

Study shows higher bird kills rate -- Altamont avian enigma

An ongoing study of bird kills in California's Altamont Pass has found that the wind farms there are...

Major plans for Northwest

SeaWest Windpower Inc has unveiled plans to build 300-500 MW of wind projects in the Pacific Northwe...

Call for distributed generation -- Wind can add stability says DOE

Small electricity generating units distributed in the power system are being promoted by the Departm...

Double inauguration in Navarra

Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Ecotècnia inaugurated both a new assembly plant and its Mon...

Financing bottleneck threatens progress -- Investors could be in short supply

Projects already planned by Germany's commercial wind plant developers could become stymied for lack...

Securing supplies in Germany and China -- Dutch utility seeks wind abroad

Dutch utility NUON is seeking to triple imports of renewable energy in the coming year and has begun...

NSP renewables fund distribution

Northern States Power Co (NSP) is proposing how it will spend as much as $8.5 million a year to prom...

Parachutist death at wind turbine

A 23-year-old woman from Schwerin died while making her first parachute jump when she hit a wind tur...

Tomen proposes 33 MW for Shimokita

Energy sources developer and trading company Tomen Corp is proposing a 32.5 MW wind farm for Higashi...

Unit Energy opens shop in Portugal

Finertec Energia e Tecnologia of Lisbon has acquired a 49% stake in Unit Energy Portugal, the Portug...

Bevan retires from DTI post

Godfrey Bevan from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to retire early from his post as di...

Minimum renewables quota criticised

Renewable energy associations have criticised the contents of a revision of Austria's electricity la...

Competition complaint from Germany to European Commission

German renewables association Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE) dispatched a formal complaint ...

Queensland gas-driven rhetoric

A state program unveiled in Queensland to support renewables, innovative energy technologies and gre...

Field testing of scale model to start -- Vortec still in design

Wind tunnel testing continues to be a strong focus of the research side of operations at Vortec Ener...

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