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December 31, 2008
The Russian news agency Interfax reported
that the Astrakhan region has signed a protocol of intent with Fersa Cherkessk
LLC to install wind turbines in the region.
Astrakhan is situated in the Volga Delta. Fersa Cherkessk is a venture of the Spanish
energy firm Fersa Energias Renovables, which engages in electricity generation
from alternative energy sources.
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December 23, 2008
Germany utility RWE plans to build its
first offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
RWE has acquired the project
company Enova Energieanlagen, which is part of the Enova Group. This
acquisition includes the rights to the offshore wind project North Sea
Windpower 3. Following the acquisition, the wind farm will be renamed Innogy
Nordsee 1.
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December 15, 2008
Turkish companies have decided to produce
wind turbines. Model Enerji, formed during the first half of
2008, is the first company founded in Turkey to manufacture megawatt-class wind
turbines. Istanbul-based Model Enerji plans to manufacture the 1.65-megawatt
turbines, which utilize a doubly fed induction generator drive train, at a
factory to be established in Ankara’s industrial zone.
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December 8, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell and its partners have
withdrawn from a major UK wind energy project.
The consortium of Shell, Scottish Power and Denmark's Dong Energy have
abandoned the Cirrus Array project off the Northwest coast after denying a
month ago it had exited the project. The consortium cancelled the 800
million pound project after five years and millions of pounds of investment.
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December 4, 2008
BlackRock New Energy Investment Trust in Great Britain
invests globally to generate long-term capital growth from stakes in companies
which focus on alternative energy or energy technology. Started in October 2000, more than 40% of the
£96 million trust is invested in wind-related companies.
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December 2, 2008
Great Britain’s Committee on Climate Change
has published its first report describing
how to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80% before
2050. Created by the Climate Change Act,
the committee said the target would require "almost full
decarbonization" of the power industry by 2030. It suggests wind power will play a major role
in decarbonization.
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November 24, 2008
If all of Wales was covered with wind
turbines, the nation would generate only a sixth of the Great Britain’s energy
needs, according to a physicist at Cambridge University. This criticism comes as the Environment Agency
is about to announce plans to build up to 80 turbines on its own land and the
speculation that a new nuclear power station will be built in Wales intensifies.
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November 13, 2008
RWE
Innogy has gained access to three further wind energy projects in Poland with a
total installed capacity of 150 MW. The
sites, each with 50 MW of planned capacity, are located in northern Poland. RWE
Innogy has concluded a contract for the projects with a Polish project
developer. All three projects are still in the early phase of development. Based on current planning, official approval
of the wind farms is expected from 2011.
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November 7, 2008
Irish
company Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a $1 billion euro joint venture
with Andes Energy in Chile to develop 400 MW of wind farms in that
country. Mainstream Renewable plans to develop, construct and operate a
range of renewable energy plants across Europe, the U.S., South America and
Australia and expects to have 200 MW of power built by 2010.
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October 29, 2008
Europe leads the world in production
of wind power, and Germany leads Europe. The 20, 000 windmills that line the
landscape generate 8% of Germany’s electricity, power 10 million German homes
and save an estimated 42 million tons of carbon dioxide.
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October 28, 2008
Britain’s Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. has
started a 1.2 billion-pound ($1.9 billion) bid to build its Infinis unit into
of the U.K.'s largest wind-energy producers.
The company plans to buy or build up to 800 mega-watts of onshore wind
generating capacity over 10 years. Guy
Hands, the buyout baron behind music publisher EMI, heads Terra Firm. Infinis presently concentrates on
waste-to-energy commerce.
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October 23, 2008
Britain has enough offshore wind farms to provide power
to 300,000 households. The UK has become
the world’s leading producer of offshore wind power, toppling Denmark from the
top spot. The completion of the latest wind farms off the Lincolnshire coast
has taken the industry past the 3 gigawatts capacity mark.
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October 7, 2008
Wind turbines do not drive birds from surrounding areas,
according to British scientists in findings published in the Journal of Applied
Ecology. Conservation groups have raised concerns that large birds could get
caught in the turbines and that the structures could disturb other species.
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October 2, 2008
GE Energy announced it has already received more than one
gigawatt of commitments for its 2.5xl wind turbine over the next year and a
half. That represents enough clean, wind-generated electricity to meet the
needs of more than one million German households.
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September 22, 2008
British
installations of small-scale wind-power turbines may more than double this year
as the government seeks to achieve renewable-energy targets and as consumers
face mounting electricity costs. Private
turbine installs could reach 7,844, compared with 3,459 in 2007, said the
British Wind Energy Association report.
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September 19, 2008
The
GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, launched a new project
with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such
as solar, wind, or sustainable biofuels, to power 118,000 new and existing
off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. Achieving that target
would save up to 2.5 billion litres of diesel per annum and cut annual carbon
emissions by up to 6.3 million tons.
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September 17, 2008
The
renewable energy sector will see a $29.43 billion shortfall in debt finance by
2020, following the credit crisis and a brake on lending, according to a senior
British banker. Investors at a renewable
energy finance conference in London
on Monday tried to make sense of the implications of a banking woes following
Lehman Brothers' filing for bankruptcy and Bank of America's planned
acquisition of Merrill Lynch.
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September 16,
2008
The chairman of ice cream
manufacturer Mackies of Scotland has unveiled proposals for farmers and
landowners in Britain
to form their own wind development company.
Farmers and landowners have been urged to support a new multi-million
pound wind generation scheme, being set up by Aberdeenshire farmer and
agri-businessman, Dr. Maitland Mackie.
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September 10, 2008
In the Netherlands, 11 of the 19
world-famous windmills on the Kinderdijk are due to be restored in the
next few years. This country is
proud of its pre-industrial engineering works - which used to help drain the
land and stop it from flooding - but in spite of this strong tradition,
the development of new wind turbines in the Netherlands has found it
difficult to get off the ground.
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September 4, 2008
The
European Patent Office gets more patent applications for fuel cells and wind
power technologies than any other category in the new energy market. Fuel cells accounted for approximately 50
percent of the new energy patent applications submitted between 1998 and 2007.
Wind, however, is growing the fastest, with 31 percent more patent applications
being filed every year.
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