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August 14, 2008
The construction of five wind energy
parks is set to be launched in Lithuania's
Baltic Sea waters with a completion date of
2015. Earlier this week the territorial
planning committee of the local authority of Klaipeda approved the environmental impact
assessment program. The five wind power
parks would be based about twenty kilometers from the shore.
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August 11, 2008
Scotland is considering
plans to build the world's longest electricity connector to Norway. The purpose is to help meet its renewable
targets and end its dependence on nuclear power. The whole project could cost
more than £2bn. Jim Mather, the Scottish
Executive's energy minister, will meet his Norwegian counterpart in October to
discuss the proposal.
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August 7, 2008
REpower
Systems has successfully installed the initial six wind energy turbines for the
Belgian offshore wind farm Thornton Bank. The project, at about 30 km off the
coast, is the first Belgian offshore wind farm. For the first of three
construction phases, the third-largest German wind turbine manufacturer is
providing six REpower 5M offshore turbines with a rated power of five MWs each,
adding up to a total of 30 MW. The contract partner is the Belgian company
C-Power.
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August 6, 2008
Scientists from Delft University of
Technology in the Netherlands
harnessed energy from the wind by flying a 10-sq meter kite tethered to a
generator, producing 10 kWs of power. The experiment generated enough electricity
to power 10 family homes, and the researchers have plans to test a 50kW version
of their invention, called Laddermill, eventually building up to a proposed
version with multiple kites that they claim could generate 100 MkW, enough for
100,000 homes.
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July 28, 2008
Greenpeace accused the British government of trying to impede
development of renewable power in Europe, and in particular in the U.K. Greenpeace says they have obtained draft
documents from negotiations in Brussels, which
amount to a 'smoking gun' exposing the UK's anti-renewables agenda. Greenpeace
claims a major issue facing renewable power plants in the UK is that of
gaining access to the National Grid.
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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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July 22, 2008
Scottish & Southern Energy
Plc. (SSE) said it has received government consent to develop the largest
offshore wind farm in Europe. The project is located in southern Scotland with a
total investment of 600 million pounds and capacity of up to 456MW. The wind farm will eventually have up to 152
turbines and construction work is expected to begin later in this financial
year.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 3, 2008
Given its target of 20% renewables by 2020, the EU
sees offshore wind as a major power source for the future. EU Energy
Commissioner Andrès Piebalgs declared at the European Wind Energy Conference in
March that he is counting on the potential of offshore wind energy to ‘ensure
that the growth trend in wind energy continues’. He indicated that he would
develop an Action Plan by the end of this year outlining the means by which the
EU can facilitate the development of offshore wind energy.
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July 1, 2008
British government plans to invest £100 billion into cleaner
energy production have opened up opportunities for investors. Under the plans, an extra 4,000 onshore and
3,000 offshore wind turbines would be needed, prompting investors to look at
the technology as a good bet for future returns. Wind power is the preferred
technology in the Black Rock New Energy investment trust, making up nearly half of the portfolio.
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June 27, 2008
Scottish and Southern Energy's Irish renewable energy
subsidiary Airtricity has entered into joint venture partnerships in Portugal.
The first agreement is with Riviera, a real
estate and property development company based in Portugal, to jointly develop a
number of wind farms with a total capacity of 250MW. Under the terms of this agreement, Airtricity
will hold a 60% share in the joint venture company and Riviera will hold 40%.
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June 26, 2008
Plans for a massive expansion of
a wind energy program in the UK
are to be unveiled by the Government. They will include the building of 7000
wind turbines both in the countryside and around the coast. Sustainable energy schemes will become much
more common, and change to our landscapes, towns and cities is inevitable, the
government will say.
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June 24, 2008
Novozymes, a Danish company with a large presence supplying enzymes to
the ethanol industry in the U.S.,
is seeking to become carbon neutral for electricity at its Danish facilities as
early as 2012. Novozymes has partnered with DONG Energy AS to
reduce its energy use and use the savings to purchase wind energy. Measured in
terms of carbon dioxide emission savings, the arrangement is the largest of its
kind to date in Denmark.
The agreement represents more than 30 % of a planned Horns Rev II offshore wind
turbine park capacity.
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