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Windicator: Quarterly update of industry share price performance and global installed capacity
As world capacity growth continues to slow and cheap gas in North America quells demand for wind power, there has been a marked downturn in confidence in the sector's largest market. Yet orders remain...
Environmental analysis and the challenge for offshore wind developers
UK: Before developers can get on with constructing Round 3 offshore wind farms, a host of environmental surveys must be undertaken to ensure that the turbines within the development zones have minimal...
China promises greener growth
CHINA: The Chinese government has vowed to slash the amount of carbon dioxide emissions for every unit of economic growth - its first binding target for emissions reductions.
Wind power key to pollution reduction, says Friends of the Earth
EUROPE: Promoting wind power, and making it more acceptable to local populations could allow Europe to build enough turbines to cut its 1990 emissions levels by 40% by 2020, according to a report by F...
UK focus: Wind fails to make friends
The planning system in England and Wales has been blamed for keeping the UK's rate of wind development low.
Not so conclusive final results
Researchers have plenty of good news to report on the minimal impact of offshore wind farms on marine life after an expensive six year study paid for by Danish electricity consumers, but when told th...
Answers trickle in on bird death report
Formal responses from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to charges that a 2004 report it commissioned on bird deaths in Altamont Pass is deeply flawed in its scientific approach and resulted in t...
Negligible risk to wildlife offshore
Marine life gets along well with offshore wind power. Not only do wind turbines installed at sea pose no danger to birds, fish and aquatic mammals, these creatures thrive in their presence. For the 20...
Next chapter in the Cape wind saga
The mammoth public consultation exercise into the proposal for a 468 MW offshore wind plan in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod is about to start. The issues open for public comment are myriad, from global...
Tide of opinion turns with the wind
Proposing an offshore wind farm for the playground of the privileged was bound to bring trouble, but nobody had foreseen how deeply and widely it would divide opinion or that it would lead to a winner...
Winning over hearts and minds
A growing sense of self-confidence characterised Britain's wind industry as it gathered for its annual conference at Brighton in October. Some 500 people came together at the Brighton Centre to do bus...
Precedent setting battle off Cape Cod
Wind turbines are going offshore in Europe by popular request, but projects proposed for waters off the coast of New England have given rise to a storm of well orchestrated protest among the region's ...
Just the start of a whole new industry
Much of the offshore wind industry gathered in Brussels last month in a bullish and upbeat mood. Although there are still critical issues to be solved -- and these were much discussed at the seminar -...
An historical turning of the tide
Steeped in history and tradition, south east New England is being asked to consider something as radically new as a large offshore wind plant off Cape Cod. Opposition to this use of a major domestic e...
German offshore plans in costs trap
Germany's grand plans for 12 GW of offshore wind power are forcing the country to face economic facts. Wind plant at precious coastal locations are unwelcome, but way offshore nobody can afford to bui...
Renewed but tempered growth in Spain
Several regions have either finished or improved their strategic development plans for wind power, setting the scene for the next great development push. Nearly 1800 MW is operating on mainland Spain ...
Treading water in seas of potential
Major offshore wind plant project development is getting close to reality. But technical, economic and environmental uncertainties have turned past optimism into serious realism. Experience is limited...
A small but lively newcomer
As a case study of the frantic melee of wind development in Spain, the small region of Asturias is a classic example. The government there is overrun with wind plant applications, with developers scra...
Green word sweeps churches of America
What started as a good idea is rapidly turning into a major mission for modern day churches of all faiths. More and more are signing up to buy green power as a way of saving the Earth -- and thus mank...
Boom for remote applications in Alaska
Wind turbines are set to become almost as common as caribou in Alaska's remote, cold-weather communities north of the Arctic Circle. Experience gained from operating wind turbines there so far could a...
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