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Andalucia opens door to massive development -- Electricity network bottleneck cleared up to 3000 MW

Network access has been cleared for up to 3000 MW of wind power stations in Spain's huge southern re...

Creeping progress on grid backlog -- Freeing Irish wind

Ireland's year long impasse in connecting new wind energy projects to its grid network may at last b...

Challenge on cost of integrating wind

Faced with the task of accommodating 990 MW of generating capacity that it cannot turn on and off at...

Wind economics set to beat gas in Ireland

Switching from gas powered generation to wind power for future supplies will typically save consumer...

Costly but a step on the learning curve

The price of services being offered in the American Northwest to firm-up variable wind power supplie...

Wind and nuclear will reduce pollution -- Lifting the Spanish policy veil

Wind power in Spain "will be pushed to the maximum" says industry minister Jose Montilla, confirming...

Potential routes for Scottish island high voltage interconnector

Potential routes for a high voltage interconnector between the Scottish Western Isles and the mainla...

Positive winds of change in Spain

Six months after Spain's Labour party achieved its surprise election victory, the positive influence...

Concession granted for country's largest wind plant

Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk (NTE) has been granted a concession by state Energy Agency (...

Restrictions on growth to be lifted -- Integrating wind in Spain

Revision of "unnecessarily restrictive" regulations for connecting wind plant to the Spanish electri...

Devious casting of wind as grid villain

Looking at the transmission needs of wind in isolation is tantamount to making decisions on road bui...

Transmission charge ruling on small scale projects in Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission has ruled that behind-the-metre renewable energy system...

Good articles for explaining Spain

I read your articles (and the leader) about Spain and the government's aim for 20,000 MW of wind ene...

Spain gets it together

With construction completed or ongoing on 2500 MW of new wind plant this year, Spain is performing l...

Spain on a record development roll

Four years of detailed project development is finally yielding results in Spain with well over 2000 ...

Alberta battle over back up for wind power

The Canadian wind industry has been quick off the mark on the thorny issue of wind power's variable ...

Annual BWEA event lower key than usual

The depth of frustration among wind project developers in Britain trying to secure agreements with d...

Consultation launched on plans to upgrade Scottish transmission network

Energy regulator Ofgem has launched a consultation on plans to allow upgrades of the Scottish transm...

Purchase prices fixed and barriers down -- Germany's new law aims to cut costs and control utilities

As Germany's new renewable energy law took effect at the start of August, the wind power sector foun...

Utility Vattenfall blames wind power for hike in net usage charges

The costs of balancing intermittent wind power are blamed by one of Germany's major power companies ...

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