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WIND farm investment is suffering from a ''bust'' due to complex policy changes and uncertainty over government responses to climate change, says Infigen Energy. Click here for full story
The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the Trianel West Borkum II wind farm, 45 km north of the East Frisian Island Borkum in German waters. Click here for full story
Dutch builder Ballast Nedam announced on Monday an order to lay down the foundations of the Anholt wind farm in Denmark. The Dutch company has signed a contract with A2SEA A/S for the use of its heavy lift vessel (HLV) Svanen in the construction of the Anholt offshore wind farm in Denmark, without providing financial details. Click here for full story
Wind and solar power could become the world's main sources of energy, a Nobel-prize winning scientist suggests. The global photovoltaic energy production increased by a factor of about 90 and wind energy by a factor of about 10 over the last decade. Click here for full story
A major Chinese generator manufacturer is in Northern Ireland to explore investment opportunities which could create over 600 jobs in the renewable energy sector. XEMC (Xiangtan Electrical Manufacturing Corporation), whose visit to the province is its first to the UK, said it was considering locating its European wind turbine assembly plant and blade factory in Northern Ireland. Click here for full story
Germany's Siemens AG plans to become a major player in the Philippines' nascent wind farm industry. Jacky Chan, Siemens Philippines Inc. president and chief executive officer, said the company is stepping up its clean energy portfolio by cornering a lion's share of wind power projects in the country. "We are looking forward to capture the wind farm market in the Philippines," he said. Click here for full story
Australia is home to an infamous outback and thousands of miles of coastline. These areas make Australia a hotbed for renewable energy generation. Australia is able to attain massive amounts of energy from solar, wind, geothermal and wave energies. However, Australia currently only attains six percent of their energy needs through renewable energy. Click here for full story
Wind energy is set to be the big technological winner in Europe over the next 10 years, as EU countries get down to the serious work of meeting renewable energy targets, reports the Danish Energy Association in its daily newsletter. The EU has set the goal that 20% of its energy needs will be met by renewable energy by 2020, and according to a report from environmental news and information service ENDSEurope, wind energy is set to be a bigger contributor to the green energy mix than solar power and hydro power combined. Click here for full story
Australia has plans to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013, part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean energy sources — wind, solar, waves, geothermal energy and bioenergy. Click here for full story
Australia plans to build the southern hemisphere's biggest wind farm by 2013 as it scrambles to harness its abundance of clean energy sources, such as wind, solar, waves, geothermal and bioenergy, and fight climate change. Click here for full story
Vestas, the world's biggest wind turbine manufacturer, has spread a dark cloud over the renewable energy sector by turning a sizeable second-quarter profit last year into a €120m (£99m) loss over the past three months. Click here for full story
According to the Greens South Australian Senate candidate Penny Wright, four potential wind energy projects on the Eyre Peninsula could more than double South Australia’s wind-sourced electricity generation capacity to 7500 megawatts if better transmission infrastructure were available. Click here for full story
It's not exactly rocket science – when building a wind farm, look for a site that is, well, quite windy. But more than half of Britain’s wind farms are operating at less than 25 per cent capacity.
Australia’s largest wind power project will be one of the first wind farms to use the new 3MW V112 wind turbines made by manufacturing giant Vestas, through a contract with its key customers and the project’s developers AGL Energy and Meridian. Click here for full story
urbine manufacturers Siemens and Vestas have received major orders for wind turbines for developments in the US, Canada and Australia. Click here for full story
AGL Energy Ltd. said Thursday that its joint venture with Meridian Energy Ltd. of New Zealand plans to build a one billion Australian dollar (US$898.8 million) wind farm in Victoria state by early 2013, as Australian policy measures designed to stimulate renewable-energy investment start to bear fruit. Click here for full story
Meridian Energy has partnered with Australian power giant AGL to build a A$1 billion ($1.12 billion) wind farm in Victoria, Australia.
Meridian claims the 420 megawatt 140 turbine Macarthur wind farm in southwest Victoria will be the biggest in the southern hemisphere.It comes after Meridian bought the 70 MW wind farm in South Australia for A$191 million in May.
Siemens Canada Ltd. (SI: News ) said Tuesday that Siemens, builder and trading company Samsung C&T Corp. and Pattern Energy have come to agreement for the supply of up to 600 MW of Siemens wind turbines to serve the Ontario renewables market and Siemens will build Ontario's first blade factory as part of a plan to meet Samsung, and Pattern Energy's demand Click here for full story
Denmark is a windy place. Windy enough to provide 20 percent of the country’s power generation from both onshore and offshore wind farms. As growth in wind power continues, the problem of large-scale energy storage from wind becomes an increasing challenge. Click here for full story
According to the data, during the year 2008 and 2009 the total electric power produced from renewable energy sources increased by 20% from 5.6% to 6.7%. The wind energy has made a record growth of 31% during the period and currently represents nearly 2.5% of the total electric power produced during the period in the UK. Click here for full story
At a time when the state is reeling under power shortage and looking to strengthen renewable energy sources, 1527.6 MW of renewable energy projects have been cancelled. Click here for full story
Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, will this week pave the way for a controversial increase in wind turbines in a bid to protect Britain from a looming energy crisis. Click here for full story
Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) are one of the popular subsidy measures used by government around the world to promote Green Energy.However the market pricing of these certificates leads to uncertainty which can deter private capital from investing in projects which depend on REC prices. Click here for full story
Siemens is set to unveil a strategic partnership in Russia that will see Europe’s largest engineering group enter the country’s fledgling wind energy market. Click here for full story
A2SEA has signed a contract with Chinese company, COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd., for the construction of a new vessel specially designed for the purpose of installation of offshore wind turbines. The contract has a value of US $139 million (approx. DKK 820 million). A2SEA is a market leader within installation services for the construction of offshore wind farms. The new vessel is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2012 and have the name Sea Installer. It will be a jack-up vessel optimized to operate at water depths of up to 45 meters and it will therefore be well-fitted for the installation of upcoming offshore wind projects in the UK as well as in other offshore wind markets. Click here for full story
Gov. John Baldacci today signed a memorandum of understanding with Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter to share information on tidal power and offshore wind energy. Maine Gov. John Baldacci is pledging to work with the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on issues related to generating electricity from the ocean. Click here for full story
The Renewable Energy Snapshots 2010 study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) reports that with regards to the new capacity constructed in 2009, (27.5 GW), among the renewable sources, wind power accounted for 10.2 GW out of the 27.5 GW built, which represents 38 percent of the total. Click here for full story
Windflow Technology hopes that a new overseas government policy will help it crack the UK market. The company announced it had received “unprecedented” interest from the UK market in the last few months, following the introduction of a UK government scheme to incentivise small scale renewable electricity generation in April. UK wind projects in the 100-500 kW range using new turbines are now guaranteed payment for the electricity they generate for the next 20 years, at between 40-45NZc per kilowatt hour. Projects in the 500-1500 kW and 1500-5000 kW ranges receive lower subsidy payments, at between NZ5-30c per kilowatt hour. Windflow staff attended the All-Energy exhibition in Aberdeen in May to seek out potential UK partners and are in the process of finalising an agreement with an exclusive UK distributor.Click here for full story
DRIVE to Waubra, a half-hour idle north-west of Ballarat, and you will find 128 wind turbines spread across the horizon, covering an area roughly 100 times greater than the Melbourne CBD. Click here for full story
One of India's leading power company, in the private sector area, Tata Power said that it is going to acquire substantial assets in the wind power sector.
The power company said that it is going to acquire 20.95 MW of operating assets in the wind power sector. These are situated in Maharashtra and the company from which it is going to takeover is Niskalp Energy.Click here for full story
Canada’s Enbridge will invest $500m (C$525m) in the 250MW Cedar Wind Energy Project in Colorado, which Renewable Energy Systems Americas (RES-Americas) will build under a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction contract. Financial details of the contract were not released.
Construction of the project, which a US affiliate of Enbridge will own and operate, is scheduled to begin shortly with “substantial completion” expected in late 2011, the company says.Click here for full story
The project that inspired other states to push for offshore windfarms was the Cape Wind project. The project is the first offshore windfarm with federal approval in North America. It is located off of the coast of Cape Cod.
The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 plan shows that it is technically feasible and affordable to replace all fossil fuel electricity with 100% renewable energy given the willpower and commitment to do so. Click here for full story
AGL Energy Ltd., Australia’s largest electricity retailer, plans to “fast track” the A$800 million ($700 million) Macarthur wind farm after the Senate approved revisions to laws aimed at spurring renewable energy investment. Click here for full story
A massive introduction of solar-thermal power plants and wind farms would allow Australia to generate all its energy needs from renewable technologies by 2020, research shows. The report, to be announced today by the retiring Liberal Victorian senator Judith Troeth, the Greens senator Christine Milne and the Independent Nick Xenophon, finds a 100 per cent renewable plan by 2020 would cost $37 billion a year, in public and private money – or 3 per cent of Gross Domestic Product. Click here for full story
While plans for offshore drilling are on ice, the governors of 10 states – including Virginia and North Carolina – and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed a deal to create an Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium. Click here for full story
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- AGL Energy Ltd., Australia’s largest electricity retailer, plans to “fast track” the A$800 million ($700 million) Macarthur wind farm after the Senate approved revisions to laws aimed at spurring renewable energy investment.
The changes give the industry the certainty it needs to spend on clean-energy projects and allow AGL Energy and partner Meridian Energy Ltd. to accelerate plans for the wind farm in the state of Victoria, Sydney-based AGL said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange today.
With a fortune estimated at close to £100 million, Dale Vince, a former hippy who once lived in a truck, is probably Britain's most successful eco-tycoon. Click here for full story
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