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Chutzpah and wile cut through red tape
It took the drive of an American businessman and the wile of an Italian lawyer to get wind development moving in Italy, where a new company already has over 100 MW either in the ground or under constr...
Dynamic and focused in Dublin
Politics and market issues dominated the 1997 European Wind Energy Conference which had all the atmosphere of an industry gearing itself up for a new era of market growth, technology advances and pric...
Still a paradise of possibilities
Prophesying design trends has been a discipline fraught with failure. The pundits of just a few years ago who anticipated the convergence of wind turbine design concepts have been proven wrong in no u...
Optimism fired by political good will
Public recognition by the new Labour government of wind energy's wide popularity in Britain despite the publicity antics of a small anti wind farm lobby inspired this year's annual industry conference...
UK Reveals good and bad in green pricing, Critics of the concept of green pricing are having all their worst fears fulfilled in Northern Ireland.Here the utility is putting its own interpretation onto
As the debate rages over the best mechanisms for helping renewable energy to survive and flourish in the liberalised UK electricity market after 1998, several of Britain's public electricity suppliers...
Mixed feelings about first world fair, For those unfamiliar with wind technology today, the scale of the all dominating wind turbine exhibits at the first world sustainable energy trade fair clearly i
For those unfamiliar with wind technology today, the scale of the all dominating wind turbine exhibits at the first World Sustainable Energy Trade Fair clearly impressed. But the professional marketin...
Emphasis on big issue of climate change, The future for wind in the united states would now seem to be closely linked to the need to take action on cuttingcarbon emissions and reshaping the entire ene
The Windpower '97 conference in June reconfirmed the impact of restructuring's uncertainty and of seemingly ever cheaper natural gas. Most surviving American companies--and there are now even fewer fu...
Shaping clean power policy in Europe, Europe is in the throes of creating a long term strategy for renewable energy. But, as became clear at a top level congress last month, there is still no broad ag
Europe is in the throes of creating a long term strategy for renewable energy. But, as became clear at a top level conference last month in Greece, there is still no broad agreement on how best to sha...
Not just a marriage of marketing convenience, The bonds tying Enron and Zond into their recent marrige are both strong and true according to the new partners as they here share their view of an ever b
The purchase of Zond Systems, America's largest remaining wind company, by Enron Corporation, an established giant of independent power marketing, was an event without parallel in wind energy history....
Competition and the green challenge, Like it or not green pricing of clean power in the United States has arrived. Customers willing to pay a premium for wind and other renewables now have the option
Customers willing to pay a premium for wind and other renewables now have the option to do so in many US utility districts. Among the pros and cons, the concept has opened the door for wind turbine sa...
Dutch wind set fair for liberalisationWithin the framework of some of the most advanced plans for electricity market liberalisation yet seen in Europe, a budding shoot of green renewable energy
Within the framework of some of the most advanced plans for electricity market liberalisation yet seen in Europe, a green renewable energy policy has emerged in the Netherlands. Not only does the poli...
Goverment orders green power supplies, in a major step in the right direction the Canadian government announced at last month's Ottawa renewables conference that it will be ordering green power for a
The Canadian government announced at last month's Ottawa renewables conference that it will be ordering green power for a number of its buildings, power that will have to be supplied by new generating...
Contracts for major Midwest projects, utilities finally comply with renewables law and sign up for wind
With three wind projects announced last month--and another major deal expected within weeks--Iowa's installed wind capacity could exceed 175 MW within just a few years. Sceptics were quick to point ou...
Price and credibility on the bottom line, the German government requires its electric utilities to buy wind power at a price which is 80% higher than the average paid in Britain. The reason for this h
Today's purchase price for kilowatt hours of wind generated electricity is twice as high in Germany as it is for the cheapest wind in Britain. Yet German wind plant owners are far from being millionai...
Contracts spread across many players, This time no one company can be accused of scooping the pool of NFFO-4 contracts, but the much criticised concentration of lange projects in just a few areas cont
The clearer picture emerging from Britain's latest competition for wind energy power purchase contracts reveals a more even spread among developers than ever before. The 65 premium priced wind power c...
dialogue in asia on sustainable GROWTH, although the lang term prospects for wind in India remain as optimistic as ever, an end to the country's lack of ready cash for buying wind turbines is not yet
Although the long term prospects for wind in India remain as optimistic as ever, an end to the country's lack of ready cash for buying wind turbines is not yet in sight.
Record low prices for British contracts
The price of wind generated electricity in Britain is set to drop to record low levels when projects awarded contracts in the latest round of UK renewables support come on line. In the fourth and larg...
From the court room to the golf course, The collegial atmosphere of an old boy's club at work is ruffled only on occasion at the Kenetech bankruptcy court hearings as they continue to provide fascinat
The collegial atmosphere of an old boys' club at work is ruffled only on occasion at the Kenetech bankruptcy court hearings as they continue to provide fascinating glimpses of the sometimes absurd unr...
Roller coaster ride hits bottom
Sweden's tortuous debate over its energy future--in particular the future of nuclear power--continues to delay a new policy structured towards use of renewables. Meantime wind power is left at the mer...
Wind lobby protests California plan
Hearings into how best to share out the several million dollar pool of subsidies earmarked for easing the renewables industry into California's forthcoming competitive power market are not all going t...
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