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American offshore rules far from perfect
America's Minerals Management Service, more used to dealing with the depletion of oil and gas resources than with abundant wind energy, has front-loaded wind with a series of levies and charges in its...
Market drivers are stronger than ever
The global credit crisis has done little to impact the soaring confidence in China's wind market. The message coming out of the Global Wind Power 2008 conference in Beijing in late October was that, i...
A limited world energy outlook
The International Energy Agency is once again being widely criticised for underestimating the potential of renewable energy. If the recommendations contained in its latest World Energy Outlook report ...
Staying on track in troubled times
With toeholds in the wind markets of Europe, America and Asia, AES Corporation is using its existing might in global power generation to develop a promising new business, although it is also exercisin...
Provincial leadership for federal policy
So convinced are Canada's provinces about the benefits of wind power that they are forging ahead with strong policies to see it developed. But a clear federal energy policy is essential for pulling it...
Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - Market overview - A market with little room for outsiders
China's wind power market is on fire. By the end of this year, installed wind capacity will have topped 10 GW, two years ahead of the official national plan. More than 9 GW of that has been achieved w...
Lack of transmission warps purchase prices
Wind power quickly becomes worthless on wholesale electricity markets in America when lack of transmission causes local overflows of supply, driving prices down to below zero in areas rich with wind g...
Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - Domestic suppliers - Three leading lights way out in front
Chinese made turbines now make up more than half the total installed wind capacity in China, with 94% of them supplied by just three companies. Goldwind leads with 57% of the Chinese share, followed b...
Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - International suppliers - Not a level playing field for foreigners
When China announced its renewable energy law in 2005, the global wind power industry hailed it as the opportunity of a lifetime. International turbine suppliers were already dominating a fledgling ma...
Clarion call for courage and vision
A much stronger lead from government on fast tracking wind farm permitting and grid connection is required to break down the existing regulatory and infrastructure barriers preventing the rapid growth...
Getting out of gear and into magnets
For the past quarter century and more, conventional wind turbine design has used the intermediary of a gearbox to step up the slow rotational speed of a wind turbine rotor to the high speed at which c...
Special Report - A Guide to Wind Power Investment in Canada - Quebec - More green power lined up than wanted
With close to 3000 MW of already contracted wind power to come online over the next seven years and two new manufacturers preparing to set up shop in the province, Quebec is emerging as a market leade...
Special Report - A Guide to Wind Power Investment in Canada - Market overview - A market ready for the next big step
Canada's wind energy sector is in the midst of a building boom that is expected to more than double the country's current installed capacity by the end of next year. If present provincial targets are ...
Spain settles down to steady growth
The policy uncertainty that spurred last year's wind power development rush in Spain is over. A revised regulatory structure is providing steady and confident industry growth and the government's 29 G...
Grid operator rises to variability challenge
While wind forecasting studies in Alberta have proved to be a sharp reminder of the unpredictability and complexity of weather patterns in mountainous regions, they also demonstrate that given further...
Leadership required not another review
The wind industry is steadily losing faith in the government's ability to walk the talk on its energy policy. Green power can only reduce emissions if it replaces fossil generation on the electricity ...
France moves into third place in Europe
In less than four years, France has seen an eight-fold increase in installed wind capacity and has set itself an ambitious target for 2020. But a recent court ruling on fixed purchase prices and a pow...
Fostering a culture of safety
Such is the good safety record for workers in wind power compared with other industries that American health authorities are satisfied with the industry's ability to police itself under existing gener...
Blade failure and load monitoring
Series blade failures have once again hit the wind power industry in America, with specialist service firms now working flat out to remedy defects keeping brand new wind farms offline. Defective manuf...
Emerging markets around Italian hub
The growing economies of countries bordering the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea are shaping up to be a huge market for wind power. Somewhere in the region of 54 GW is already bei...
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