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North American News -
United States
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July 24, 2008
Marquiss Wind Power, an innovator in
developing and deploying wind turbine technology, announced Wednesday that it
has completed the acquisition of the assets of Cirrus Technologies of Carson
City, Nev. Cirrus Technologies holds 7
patents on technologies related to wind energy. Turbines based on Cirrus Technologies'
patents have been installed and tested at the Desert Research Institute and for
a major utility.
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World News -
Asia/Pacific
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July 24, 2008
AGL Energy has bought the Australian wind farm
interests of Allco Finance Group for $12.5 million to help meet compulsory
renewable energy targets. Australia's largest gas and electricity supplier
said Wednesday it will acquire
investment firm Allco's seven development projects in Queensland,
New South Wales and South Australia.
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North American News -
United States
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July 23, 2008
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the US has passed Germany to become the world’s biggest generator of wind power. The U.S. is still running behind Germany in total installed capacity, because its average wind speed is significantly stronger. The total capacity of wind installations in Germany was 22,000 MWs in 2007, compared with 17,000 MWs in the US.
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North American News -
United States
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July 23, 2008
Landowners in northeastern South Dakota are being asked to invest in a large wind farm that is designed to spread across three counties. Dakota Wind Energy, a South Dakota community-owned wind development company, has announced an intrastate public offering of its securities. This offering is only open to South Dakota resident landowners who grant wind-related rights to Dakota Wind Energy.
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World News -
Europe
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July 22, 2008
Wind-power plants are attracting growing investment in China, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Investment in the country's sustainable energy sector grew by 91 % last year to a record high of $10.8 billion, most of which has flowed to wind-power generating units, says UNEP’s report Global Trends in Substantial Energy Investment 2008.
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World News -
China
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July 22, 2008
Wind-power plants are attracting growing investment in China, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Investment in the country's sustainable energy sector grew by 91 % last year to a record high of $10.8 billion, most of which has flowed to wind-power generating units, says UNEP’s report Global Trends in Substantial Energy Investment 2008.
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North American News -
United States
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July 21, 2008
New Jersey lawmakers
have proposed numerous measures to make the state more energy efficient. They include a proposal to change the
definition of farming to include solar and wind farms, which would affect up to
a million acres in New Jersey
and would offer tax breaks to farmers who harvested energy from the sun or
wind. And a measure to add production of
solar and wind energy to the list of land uses deemed "inherently
beneficial," thereby making it easier to get approval for solar and wind
farms.
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World News -
China
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July 21, 2008
A
wind power plant has become operational in Beijing, a major step towards making 20
percent of the power supply to the city's Olympic venues during the games
wind-generated. The Guanting Wind Power
Plant, beginning operation on Saturday, would not only help fulfill Beijing's promise of a
"green Olympics", but symbolize the first-ever large-scale employment
of wind power generation project in the Chinese capital, said a spokesman for
the project.
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North American News -
United States
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July 18, 2008
The Texas Public Utility Commission approved a
new $4.93 billion plan on Thursday allowing the building of power lines that
can transport wind and solar power electricity from West
Texas throughout the state.
An estimated 18,456 MWs of renewable electricity will be transmitted by
power lines to major Texas
cities. The PUC approved the massive
plan after considering four competing plans.
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North American News -
United States
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July 17, 2008
Noble Environmental Power and a another
wind-energy firm are under investigation by the New York Attorney General's
Office for "improper dealings with public officials and anti-competitive
practices." District Attorneys from
eight counties, public officials and citizens have complained to the AG’s
office about Noble and Massachusetts-based First Wind, formerly known as UPC
Wind.
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North American News -
United States
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July 17, 2008
Texas legislators
and environmentalists urged this week that the state PUC allow the building of
transmission lines that will transport the maximum amount of wind power from
rural West Texas that's feasible to help power
homes and businesses in the rest of the state.
Supporters say the most ambitious plan, dubbed the "renewable
energy superhighway," would spur the construction of more wind energy
projects, create jobs, reduce energy costs and reduce pollution.
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World News -
Europe
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July 16, 2008
The Blackstone Group announced it has
formed a partnership with Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH to complete the
development and construction of Meerwind, one of the North
Sea’s largest wind farm projects. The project, which will be located
80 kilometres off the northern coast of Germany, will cost over €1 billion
to build. The wind farm will comprise 80 wind turbines with a combined
generation capacity of 400MW.
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North American News -
United States
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July 16, 2008
GreenHunter Energy Inc's wind subsidiary bought a project to develop
up to 600 MWs of wind power in southeastern Wyoming from Wind Revolutions LLC. GreenHunter Energy, of Grapevine, Texas, invests in
renewable and alternative energy projects. This development project, referred
to as "Wheatland Wind," will be located on about 20,000 acres of
federal Bureau of Land Management land near the town of Wheatland,
Wyoming.
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World News -
Europe
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July 15, 2008
Switzerland recently adopted one of
the world’s most aggressive systems of feed in tariffs. They are the first nation with a specific
tariff for wind turbines. Not content to
start with a timid program incrementally raising the bar year by year, the
Swiss federal government this spring launched a full-system of feed-in tariffs
differentiated by technology, size, and application. There are tariffs, or
payments per kilowatt-hour (kWh), for solar photovoltaics, wind, hydro,
geothermal, and biomass.
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North American News -
United States
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July 15, 2008
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) announced yesterday
that its Hopkins Ridge and Wild Horse wind facilities have both reached a
milestone, with each facility now having produced more than 1 million megawatt
hours (MWh) of electricity since entering service in 2005 and 2006
respectively. PSE is the largest utility
generator of renewable energy in the Northwest, with its two wind facilities
producing enough electricity, on average, to meet the equivalent of the needs
of approximately 100,000 homes.
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North American News -
United States
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July 14, 2008
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
released images last week showing offshore wind energy potential around the
world. Gathered from a decade of
satellite data, the wind maps can be used by offshore wind energy developers to
measure which sites have the best resource.
The chief technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Paul
Dimotakis, said that offshore wind turbines can produce electricity cheaper
than solar energy can.
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World News -
Europe
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July 14, 2008
Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee
said Germany aims to
build up to 30 offshore wind farms in the North Sea and Baltic
Sea, at a cost of 1 billion euros each, to reduce dependency on
energy suppliers from overseas. The government hopes to obtain 25,000 megawatts
of energy from offshore wind farms by 2030, Tiefensee said. Germany is the world leader in
onshore wind technology but it’s still charting unknown waters with its
offshore plans.
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North American News -
United States
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July 11, 2008
General Electric will
invest a total of $100 million in 3 wind farms under construction in New York. The
investment by GE Energy Financial Services brings the total commitment in
renewable energy to more than $4 billion.
GE, the biggest supplier of wind turbines in the U.S., is expanding investments to
take advantage of federal tax credits and state renewable energy portfolio
minimum requirements for green energy.
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North American News -
United States
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July 11, 2008
Texas billionaire oil tycoon
T. Boone Pickens is calling for a massive switch to natural gas as a
transportation fuel and a boost in wind power in a plan aimed at reducing U.S.
foreign oil dependence by a more than a third.
He calls it the Pickens Plan, which includes exploiting domestic natural
gas supplies in new areas like East Texas and Appalachia, could replace 38
percent of U.S.
oil imports, he said.
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World News -
Europe
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July 10, 2008
The founder of wind energy company Airtricity,
sold the company last year for 1.9 billion euros. He seeks to raise 300 million euros to fund a new company, Mainstream Renewable Power. The Dublin-based
company will develop wind, concentrated solar power and marine power projects,
and aims to sell some resulting income to investment funds.
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Europe
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July 10, 2008
Spanish green energy companies Iberdrola
Renovables and Bancaja will cooperate in the wind energy plan for the region of
Valencia,
under the auspices of the regional government. Both companies suggested their
proposal through a newly created company called Sistemas Energeticos de Levante,
which is jointly owned by Iberdrola Group and Bancaja with a 40% share.
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World News -
China
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July 9, 2009
Tanti group, which owns wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy,
announced a joint venture with Bahrain-based investor Arcapita Bank to invest
$2 billion to develop 1,650 MW portfolio of wind farms in the inner Mangolia
region of China.
The joint venture has acquired Honiton Energy Holdings, an energy company based
in China.
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World News -
China
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July 9, 2009
The National Development and Reform
Commission has approved construction for China’s
first offshore wind farm, the East China Sea
Bridge wind farm off Shanghai.
The project will have installed capacity of 102,000 KWs and be built by a consortium including
Guangdong Nuclear Power, China Datang Group, China Power International and
Shanghai Green Energy Engineering.
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World News -
Europe
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July 8, 2008
Germany
expects to build up to 30 wind parks in Baltic Sea and the North
Sea. The wind parks are
meant to offset the decline in power supply from the phase out of nuclear
energy, says infrastructure minister Wolfgang Tiefensee. The projected wind
parks will be a first step to increase wind power in Germany to 25,000 MWs by 2030.
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North American News -
United States
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July 8, 2008
The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission is
expected to approve this week the final development plan for a proposed
44-turbine wind power project near the Canadian border in western Maine. The LURC in January granted Transcanada's
application to rezone 2,367 acres for its project atop Kibby Mountain.
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United States
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July 7, 2008
The first large-scale wind turbine
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been installed near KILI radio at
Porcupine, South Dakota.
The turbine is expected to provide about 92,000 kilowatt hours of power each
year, which KILI officials hope will cut the station's annual electric bill by
about $12,000. Any power that is not used by the station will be sold back to
the local electric utility.
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World News -
Europe
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July 7, 2008
The Irish and Scottish
governments and the Northern
Ireland executive are co-operating on a plan
for a wind electricity grid linking all 3 jurisdictions. Energy ministers will launch a joint study to
make the case for an offshore wind-power grid operated by all three
administrations. Officials say the resources in coastal areas
off the three jurisdictions are significant.
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July 4, 2008
The Norwegian Government is far from reaching
its goal of developing wind power plants producing 3 TerraWatts by 2010. The
political opposition is critical.  So far, wind power facilities with a total capacity
of only a little more than 1.1 TW have been developed, and further developments
are far from being realized, the newspaper Klassekampen writes.
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World News -
Asia/Pacific
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July 4, 2008
New figures show wind is being used to provide
a greater percentage of the New
Zealand’s power. Ministry of Economic
Development statistics show the percentage of electricity generated from wind
rose from 2.2% in 2007, to 2.6% in the first quarter of this year and it is
expected to continue to rise.
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World News -
China
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July 3, 2008
With China’s
massive push for 21st Century renewable technologies, we shouldn’t be surprised
if China
achieves 100 GW by 2020 say energy experts. Officially, China’s latest
renewable energy plan sets a goal of 10 GW by 2010. That’s double the previous
target. However, according to industry analysts at China Strategies LLC, China’s current
pace of wind development will bring 10 GW by the end of this year, two years
ahead of schedule.
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