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Fossil fuel scores profits from wind -- Wind pushes prices down

When plenty of wind generated power is expected on Germany's electricity system, broad power market ...

Arson attack and a death threat -- Minority opposition

A Gamesa 700 kW turbine was destroyed and another damaged in an arson attack at La Compagnie du Vent...

System operators to pay transmission -- Offshore breakthrough

Large industrial consumers of electricity in Germany raised a storm of protest last month over a new...

Tender winner to build seven wind turbine factories

The Portuguese government has formally signed a contract awarding 1200 MW of wind power capacity to ...

Clearing barriers to smaller wind -- At the distribution level

Incentives and barriers to the local generation of electricity from renewable and more efficient sou...

Closing the renewables gap

Renewable energy generators in Britain are steadily closing the gap between the volume of power they...

Cutting red tape on permitting -- Proposals of limited benefit

Reforms designed to cut delays in granting consent for large UK electricity generating projects have...

Binding EU targets win favour -- Stern talks

How Europe's energy policy can help in the fight against climate change was the subject of discussio...

Stirrings of serious interest to develop 100 MW in Bosnia

The first wind power project concessions in Republika Srpska, one of two regions making up Bosnia-He...

Vestas wins 145 MW order from leading Chinese developers

Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas has won orders from two of China's leading wind developers for a ...

Projects totalling 1300 MW qualifies for grid network connection

Wind projects totalling over 1300 MW have been told they qualify to be hooked up to Ireland's electr...

Consumer bills drop in Denmark -- Savings from wind power

Savings on consumer electricity bills in Denmark thanks to wind power have now reached over EUR 130 ...

Portfolio financing for 14 projects

Investment company Babcock & Brown, which manages a global wind fund, and Eurowatt, a privately ...

Wind generation snapped up by Energia

Energia, the electricity supply subsidiary of Northern Ireland based energy group Viridian, has sign...

Spanish wind lobby proposes incentive cut -- Last minute effort at a compromise deal with government on new price structure

With just four weeks to go before a total collapse of the pricing structure for sales of wind power ...

Wind conference boycotted by Indian wind turbine makers

Members of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers' Association (IWTMA) boycotted a recent event calli...

Italians see good potential for wind development in Romania

Several Italian wind developers are investigating opportunities in the Romanian wind market, includi...

Wrongly blamed for blackout -- European lights out

Despite accusations to the contrary, wind power was no more to blame than any other generation for t...

Permitting refusal at Swansea challenged

A community energy group is to take its case to build a wind project in south Wales to the High Cour...

To compete or not on offshore wires

Should there be competition in providing offshore grid connections, or should the UK adopt a similar...

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