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Scottish Renewables calls on government to release fossil levy money

SCOTLAND: Trade association Scottish Renewables is calling on the UK's chancellor Alistair Darling t...

Spanish wind energy production tops nuclear for the first time

SPAIN: During November, Spain's 17.5 MW of installed wind power met 21.2% of national electricity de...

Eirgrid makes case for third interconnector between Ireland and UK

IRELAND: A third interconnector linking the island of Ireland to the UK mainland would be "economica...

Wind wire: Strategic energy projects

The European Parliament has called for an extra EUR1.5 billion to be allocated to the 2010 EU budget...

Wind wire: Joint energy council

The EU and the US have established a joint energy council to help improve transatlantic dialogue on ...

Wind Wire: Lack of support

Many EU countries are failing to offer adequate financial and institutional support for renewable el...

Wind wire: Record Hill opposition

Even a wind plant developed by a former state governor is not immune from the not-in-my-backyard syn...

Wind wire: New tax rules

New rules aimed at limiting Oregon's lucrative Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) are giving state en...

Australia Report: The lucky country ups the stakes

Australia has launched a new renewable energy target that should act as a major catalyst to wind dev...

Conference Report Italy: Plenty of potential but problems persist

Driven by its obligation to meet the EU's renewables targets for 2020, Italy's installed wind capaci...

Emissions Programmes: Alternative carbon finance for Turkey

Carbon markets have become an important source of finance for clean energy worldwide. Turkey has bee...

US Report: California in disarray over green power

The state's renewables sector is split over how much it should rely on other states to help it meet ...

Conference Report UK: Town halls blamed for permits slump

The gloves came off in Liverpool as the UK wind industry rounded on England's Nimbyocracy and attack...

Conference Report Offshore: Experts plan wind without borders

With all EU member states now obliged to meet firm targets for renewable energy use, offshore wind i...

Conference Report Offshore: The Stockholm Declaration

A total of 29 recommendations for action in four policy areas to enable offshore wind power "to prov...

Conference Report China: World asks China to drop its barriers

The flood of visitors to China Wind Power 2009 was testimony to the excitement surrounding China's d...

Europe: Spanish job-threat claim rebuked - University study criticised by US

As governments descend on Copenhagen, Denmark, to hash out a strategy for tackling climate change, d...

United States: Wyoming woes - Proposals to increase wind tax

The prospects of further wind development in Wyoming, a rural state rich in wind resources, could di...

United States: Power deals hurt regional resistance - Dakota wind for the Southeast

In the years-long battle to establish a nationwide federal mandate for renewable energy, lawmakers a...

Europe: Wind-sceptic article rebuffed

A report that questions the effectiveness of carbon emission trading systems and the use of renewabl...

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