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AWEA response to Schumer push to suspend stimulus

AWEA statement on Senators Schumer, Casey, Brown, and Tester Urging Administration to suspend stimulus program

 

North America News

 

Clipper makes loss in second half of 2009 as CEO resigns

Clipper - set to make loss for second half of 2009

US: Wind turbine manufacturer Clipper Windpower has announced in its preliminary results...

 
 

Mexico hands Acciona $600million deal for three wind projects

Acciona's 250 MW "Eurus" wind project in the Oaxaca region of Mexico using Acciona's 1.5 MW turbines

MEXICO: Acciona Energy has been awarded a tender by the Mexican Federal...

 
 

Daewoo signs C$139m manufacturing plant deal and wins $30m Texas order

Daewoo is to build the factory at an mothballed railcar plant

NORTH AMERICA: South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Ltd. (DSME) will...

 
 

Patent wars - ITC rules GE is not 'sole inventor' of disputed LVRT

The controversial MHI 2.4MW turbine

US: The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has affirmed that Thomas Wilkins,...

 
 

Incentives - US tax credits lure new names into wind supply chain

Brevini's new turbine gearbox factory is under construction

US: Release of US government funds for component manufacturing sees growth in...

 
 
 
 

US senators urge Obama administration to alter renewables stimulus package

New York state senator Chuck Schumer

US: The Obama administration is being urged by a group of Democratic...

 
 

Market Status: US wind market grows in the gloom

Market Status: US  wind market grows in the gloom

US: The US wind market had a record year again in 2009,...

 
 

Credit Crisis - Canadian utility bails out third project

CANADA: Nova Scotia Power has stepped in to shore up another struggling...

 
 

Community Wind - Small projects chip at Bay State target

US: Massachusetts' wind power future may be offshore, but community-owned projects are...

 
 

Policy - Wind energy tax laws created in Wyoming

US: The new year has brought new complications for wind power in...

 
 
 
 

North America In Depth

 
 

The dizzying heights of Mountain Home

Suzlon technician Kent Smith

US: It was my wife who applied for the job for me....

 
 

The case for CMS - it picks out a myriad of problems

US: Turning Point director David Clark believes CMS picks out a myriad...

 
 

Condition-monitoring systems - unconvinced

US: Harm Toren, head of US operations for Iberdrola, believes the cost...

 
 

Condition-monitoring systems versus hands-on

US: The price of predicting catastrophic turbine breakdowns in the North American...

 
 

Market Status: Canada - Another record year and boom goes on

Market Status: Canada - Another record year and boom goes on

Canada's wind industry had its biggest year ever in 2009, and 2010...

 
 

US Report: Wisconsin - Fewer permit hurdles in linchpin market

Alliant Energy's 67MW Cedar Ridge wind farm ising 41 Vestas turbines

US: Wisconsin has watched wind projects in upper Midwest neighbours Minnesota, Iowa...

 
 
 

North America news from the web

 
 

First US off-shore wind farm challenged by American Indians

US: Plans to build America's first off-shore wind farm in the sea...

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North America Events

 

AWEA Wind Power Supply Chain Workshop

 
Date:
17 March 2010
Location:
Greensboro, NC
Organiser:
AWEA
 

Globalcon

 
Date:
24-25 March 2010
Location:
Philadelphia
Organiser:
Globalcon
 
 
 

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