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Study: 'Silent sound' from wind turbines does not impact health

A ground breaking study by Australian researchers has found no effect on human health from the infra...

‘Industry first’ as wind, fishing and port industries sign MoU for Irish floating project

Previously ‘fundamentally-opposed’ industries have set aside their differences to collaborate on the...

Regulation 'main barrier' to hybridisation, RES claims

HAMBURG 2018: Hybrid projects are being held back by outdated regulations preventing multiple genera...

Enercon blades destroyed during installation

GERMANY: Two blades of an Enercon turbine were damaged when its wind energy converter "went into ove...

Analysis: 1GW floating project planned off California

UNITED STATES: Principle Power founder, Alla Weinstein, is planning the 1GW Morro Bay floating proje...

Analysis: 1GW floating project planned off California

UNITED STATES: Principle Power founder, Alla Weinstein, is planning the 1GW Morro Bay floating proje...

Parish rejects Areva 8MW prototype

GERMANY: Areva will be unable to install a prototype 8MW offshore turbine at an onshore site near Dr...

Pitch failure downed Vestas Ireland turbine

IRELAND: Vestas has revealed that the collapse of one of its turbines in Ireland, seven months after...

New player tackles radar problem

UNITED KINGDOM: New firm Aveillant is launching technology it claims will remove concerns about avia...

Conference sessions hear radar conflict continues

Two well attended sessions on the conflicts between air travel and wind farms at the British wind in...

Wind opponents make much of failures of old wind turbines

The recent failures of two aged wind turbines, sold as second-hand machines into the French market, ...

Health warning from medical academy

According to the French National Academy of Medicine, there is a real risk that low-frequency noise ...

World Wildlife Fund ranks 30 most polluting power plants

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has named and shamed the operators of the 30 most climate polluting po...

Hijacked by the press

Even before it was officially published at the end of February, a study by Germany's energy agency o...

Poor marks to power sector in World Wildlife Fund green rankings

The global power sector -- the biggest single contributor to climate change -- is ducking its respon...

Dutch province secures EU subsidy for selling its offshore potential

A joint initiative by nine local councils in the Dutch province of Noord Holland has secured a EUR 4...

Trials with very small turbines -- Public acceptance

Three Netherlands provinces are to begin a year long trial to test the public acceptability of a var...

Ministry of Defence under attack -- Radar and wind stations

The Royal Society, Britain's leading independent scientific think-tank, has weighed into the debate ...

New study examines established green marketing programs in Canada

The total installed capacity of renewables feeding green power programs in Canada was 539 MW by the ...

Wind funds get thumbs up as good investment

Most investors in closed-end wind funds, the traditional German method for raising wind plant financ...

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