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Manufacturers out in force at CanWEA conference

If a market's potential can be measured by the number of turbine manufacturers looking to make a sal...

Businesses rush to switch to wind -- Northern Ireland

Some 500 businesses around Northern Ireland switched to wind power on November 1 -- the first day th...

First tentative step as plan for 150 MW wind farm announced

Wind could be taking its first step in Pakistan with the announcement by Brigadier Nasim A Khan, Pak...

Calling for a fixed price and quotas

A "feed-in" style renewable energy tariff alongside a separate system of quotas for the proportion o...

Cielo Wind's New Mexico project size tripled

Cielo Wind Power is tripling the size of New Mexico's first wind power project with the addition in ...

France's largest turbine installed in Marne

The largest turbine in France has been installed in a field at La Chaussée-sur-Marne in Marne...

Belgian council to take legal action over 100 MW offshore plant

In Belgium, the provincial council of West Flanders has announced it will take legal proceedings to ...

Plans for 2.75 MW machine in Aude département

Wind project developer Vent du Sud has sought a permit to install a single 2.75 MW turbine, 80 metre...

Umweltkontor Renewable Energy acquires 100% of offshore development company

German wind and renewables developer Umweltkontor Renewable Energy has acquired 100% of the company ...

Construction start in Minnesota -- GE supplies 51 MW

A wind power project that has been on the books since spring 2000 will soon enter the construction s...

Utility group for green credit trade -- Norway aims to export wind

Half a dozen members of Eurokraft Norge AS, a consortium of 18 Norwegian power companies dealing in ...

Moving into the Great Plains -- FPL in Illinois and maybe Oklahoma

Northern Illinois and Oklahoma could both get their first taste of wind generation next year. FPL En...

First steps in green power marketing -- Retailer sees niche in coming market liberalisation in Spain

Electra de Carbayin, a small electricity retailer in Asutrias, a single-province region in the north...

First project under incentive program -- Constructing 75 MW in Alberta

Construction has started on the first wind farm in Canada to sign up for the government's wind power...

Isolated failure and a new prototype -- Vestas 2 MW and 3 MW

Negative publicity for Vestas' flagship 2 MW wind turbine continued last month when the design proto...

Taking the back door into Valencia -- Excluded players access 880 MW

The Spanish wind industry was taken by surprise last month when two of the country's key developers,...

Four wind projects get underway as part of Clean Development Mechanism initiative

Project initiatives under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which will come into force next yea...

Making the most out of Mexico

Wind power is continuing to scale the sizeable barriers to Mexico's energy market. A number of playe...

Norwegian firm in bid to supply blades to REpower

A Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering firm, Umoe Mandal, is hoping to win a EUR 9.59 million cont...

Province gets its first two turbines -- Planning manufacture in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia has officially become a player in Canada's wind energy industry with the installation of...