Search Windpower Monthly

121 results

Opposed to green pricing, German environmentalists

Green pricing is a concept vehemently opposed by several of Germany's environment groups, including ...

Rebates versus subsidies

Discussions on how best to support wind's entry into California's new competitive market continue to...

The sins of the heavyweights

In the five years since the Earth Summit in Rio, the world's governments are failing to meet the glo...

Panel says competition not enough

The case for continued support for renewable energy in Britain was boosted with the latest advice fr...

Moving into foreign markets

Exports of German wind turbines picked up in 1996, although much of the improvement was on paper onl...

Political

The European Union's agreement on a climate target (15% reduction in C02 emissions by 2010) is a con...

Wind farm of Letigation MW Nordtanks

An 18 MW wind farm of 1.5 MW turbines is to be constructed at Renkenberg near Lathen in the Emsland ...

NUTEK says its views on wind are misunderstood

Swedish energy agency Nutek says its views on subsidies to wind energy have been misunderstood. Far ...

AWEA's market predictions

Worldwide installed wind capacity will increase by at least 1300 MW this year, up from 1200 MW in 19...

Development

The pace of development continues to outstrip the industry's own predictions of just a few years ago...

New energy technologies suffer biggest cuts

Science research funding in America is expected to continue to shrink over the next five years -- an...

Public relations

Public opinion tested in surveys continues to be overwhelmingly in favour of renewables, including w...

Spin, Wendle and Windy

Several thousand work books about wind power are being distributed to school children by the Kern Wi...

Internet presentation of German wind

As part of an "export initiative," the Deutsches Wind-Energie Institut (DEWI) is preparing...

Economics

Where there is competitive bidding for projects of reasonable size, wind is consistently being offer...

Germans willing to pay more for wind

The majority of Germans -- about 70% -- would be happy to contribute cash to support the use of rene...

Canadian made blade fails

A blade on a Tacke Windtechnik TW 600e machine sited near Kamen in inland North Rhine Westfalia came...

Sale of stranded costs in California

California electric utilities are to sell $6 billion in "stranded-cost" bonds backed by el...

Four projects selected but await EDF approval

Four projects in four separate regions have reportedly been selected for the first 15 MW round of Fr...

Bright spark solution

German wind turbine manufacturer GET Gesellschaft Energietechnik is paying particular attention to t...

Filter results

Article types

Date

Regions/Countries