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Aussie Utility Orders Suzlon Turbines

March 31, 2009

Australia's biggest electricity and gas retailer, AGL Energy, has agreed to buy 63 turbines from India's Suzlon Energy for a $341 million wind-power project in South Australia.  In February, both the firms had entered into an agreement for supplying 54 units of Suzlon's wind turbine generators.
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Japanese Firm Favors U.S. Investment

February 3, 2009

Japan's biggest wind farm operator, Eurus Energy Holdings Corp, is bullish on business opportunities in the United States, but regards China as risky because of uncertainty about government support for the sector.  China is about to surpass India to become Asia's biggest market for wind energy, in some part due to funds from Europe, Asia and the Middle East seeking U.N. carbon offsets from clean energy projects overseas. 
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Philippine Wind Investment Picks Up

December 29, 2008

Six areas in the Philippines are being considered  as possible sites for wind power farms by private investors. The areas being eyed by the companies for possible wind farms are located in the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental.
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Aussie State Considers Feed-In Tariff

December 9, 2008

New South Wales Climate Change Minister Carmel Tebbutt has announced that NSW would join the other Australian states in introducing a feed-in tariff system and that the NSW system would be along the lines of the anticipated federal program.  The design of a national feed-in tariff (FIT) system, and renewable energy sources to include, is the subject of a Senate committee report.
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Union Fenosa Doubling Aussie Wind

December 1, 2008

Spanish energy company Union Fenosa SA will invest $1.2 billion to double Australia's wind farm power generation by 2013.  Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Crean commented the seven wind farms will boost Australia's clean energy capabilities and help reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Hyundai Buys Into Wind Power

October 21, 2008

Korea based Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the largest shipbuilder in the world and a major engineering conglomerate,  is set  to enter the global wind energy market.  Hyundai signed a deal to build wind turbines designed by American Superconductor (AMSC), a leading U.S. energy technology company.
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New Zealand Wind Farm Reconsidered

September 30, 2008

A multimillion-dollar New Zealand wind farm proposal is on the verge of being rejected  because of visual pollution concerns, despite a winter of power cut fears.  A report by Greater Wellington regional council recommends a five-year moratorium on wind farm development at Belmont Regional Park, five years after the council called the site a "world-class wind farm opportunity".
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Turkmen Wind Power

August 20, 2008

Turkmenistan is estimated to possess the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves and substantial oil resources.  Despite the fact that the country’s future prosperity is apparently assured by such bounty, the country is taking steps toward exploring the potential of alternative energy sources. Specialists of the Giun  Scientific Association have constructed a prototype wind turbine capable of generating five kilowatts.
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AGL Acquires Allco Wind Assets

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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NZ Wind Power On the Rise

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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$1 Billion New Zealand Project

June 30, 2008

Contact Energy has filed resource consent applications for its Hauauru ma raki wind farm near Port Waikato. The project is expected to cost more than $1 billion on around 17,000 hectares of isolated farmland to the south of Port Waikato. The wind farm will produce up to 540 megawatts, enough renewable electricity to power up to 200,000 average houses.
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Aussie Babcock Wind Assets for Sale

June 19, 2008

Babcock's share price collapse last week triggered a covenant on a $2.8 billion loan facility provided by 25 international banks. Several European firms signaled their interest in buying the group's global wind farm assets, worth as much as $3 billion. Australia's second-largest investment house hopes to raise around $4 billion from the sale of wind farms and conventional power stations.
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Trans-Asia Expands to Guimaras

June 11, 2008

Trans-Asia Power Generation Corp. (TPGC) is in the final stages of assessing the viability of a 20-megawatt (MW) wind power project in Guimaras province.  Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. (TA Oil), TPGC's sister company, will undertake the project.   TPGC president Francisco Viray said the wind power project is part of the expansion of the group in Guimaras.
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Rudd Govt. Embraces Wind Power

April 7, 2008

The Rudd Government's embrace of renewable energy is expected to usher in a second wave of investment in wind power, despite a two-year waiting list for turbines. Paul Curnow said the outlook was "very good", with investors who had been lying in wait since 2004 now ready to "bring all that potential to market".
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Antarctica Base Resorts to Wind Power

April 4, 2008

Antarctica's  Scott Base pans to erect wind turbines to cut back on diesel-powered generators and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The wind turbines could save 380,000 litres of fuel a year at Scott Base and more than one million litres a year at nearby United States base McMurdo Station. They could power up to half the heat and light needs for the 35 workers at Scott Base, and some of the energy needs for the 1200 at McMurdo.
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Myths and Facts of Wind Energy

Energy Bangla - Dhaka,Bangladesh

March 31, 2008

Every kilowatt hour of energy generated by the wind in Australia, is a kilowatt hour NOT generated by other sources. The addition of wind generation up to about 20% of the total generation has no need for additional back-up as the National Electricity Market already has backup "spinning reserve" to meet sudden increases in demand. This reserve is generally provided by hydro and gas, which can be brought on-line much quicker than coal.
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Wind energy round the clock
ScienceAlert – Australia

March 20, 2008

While wind power is one of the most mature renewable energy sources around, it’s also still one of the most variable, in terms of a 24/7 supply.  An Australian-designed ‘super battery’ may offer a solution. The Smart Storage battery unit uses technology behind CSIRO’s patented UltraBattery, designed in 2003 for use in hybrid electric cars.   The UltraBattery contains both a lead acid battery cell and a capacitor. While the battery cell allows the unit to store a large amount of energy, the capacitor component allows the unit to charge quickly, many times over, without affecting performance.
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Japan wind power lags
Electric Light & Power- Tulsa

February 18, 2008

Global wind power capacity that was newly installed in 2007 totaled 20,000 megawatts, an amount equivalent to capacity generated by 15 large-scale nuclear power plants, but Japan lags behind in the field. The year's newly installed wind power in Japan, meanwhile, came to 139 MWs, only one-38th of the U.S. figure, a result underlining Japan's slow progress in wind power development. Japan stood at 14th in the ranking in terms of the yearly growth, says the Brussels-based Global Wind Energy Council.
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Global energy growth rates rise
Thaindian.com - Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

February 14, 2008

A record 20,000 MW of wind power were installed world-wide last year, with the United States, Spain and China providing the biggest annual increases. World-wide wind power installed capacity stands at a record ,94,112 MW. The top five countries in terms of installed capacity are Germany (22.3 GW), the US (16.8 GW), Spain (15.1 GW), India (8 GW) and China (6.1 GW). In terms of economic value, the global wind market in 2007 was worth about 25bn EUR or 36 billion US dollars in new generating equipment.
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India builds wind power for Australia
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

February 5, 2008

Pacific Hydro has signed a deal with India's largest wind generator maker, Suzlon Energy, to equip the company's $140 million South Australian wind farm. Suzlon Energy will provide 27 turbines that will produce 2.1 megawatts of electricity at Pacific Hydro's Clements Gap wind farm, towards the north of Spencer Gulf. Pacific Hydro chief executive Rob Grant said Australia should prepare for a renewable energy boom following the Federal Government's promise to increase the mandatory renewable energy target to 20% by 2020.
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Origin, Epruon partner on wind power
The Age - Melbourne, Australia

January 22, 2008

Energy producer and retailer Origin Energy Ltd has partnered with wind generation developers Epuron to develop 590 MWs of wind farm projects. The first project will be the construction of the 30MW Cullerin Range wind farm near Goulburn in NSW. Origin expects to start commissioning the wind farm, which is close to electricity transmission infrastructure, next year. It also has a `capacity factor' of 44 per cent, which means the wind blows 44 per cent of the time in the area.
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Goldman buys Korea company stake

Reuters UK

January 10, 2008

Goldman Sachs bought a stake in CS Wind Corp for $50.13 million, becoming the second-largest shareholder in the unlisted South Korean energy equipment company.  CS Wind, a steel wind tower and wind tower component manufacturer, said it would use the investment to further expand manufacturing capacity in China and Vietnam.  CS Wind said it was Goldman's second wind energy-related investment in South Korea after Pyeong San, a large forged metal parts manufacturer for wind turbines, shipbuilding and chemical plants.  
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Helping hand for Allco's fund
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, Australia

January 2, 2008

A $200 million commitment from a large private institutional investor will underpin the launch of Allco Finance Group's first global infrastructure fund, which will house its share of recently acquired wind farm and shipping assets.  Allco GTI will own a part-share of five wind farms in Germany and France that its sister operation, Allco Wind Energy, acquired in March in its first move into the European energy market.  One of its three other funds will be a "pure" energy.
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US Resists Climate Change Progress
Bloomberg Business News

December 12, 2007

The U.S. is resisting calls from the European Union and developing nations to commit to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming, threatening progress on a new accord to fight climate change.  130 nations are meeting in Indonesia this week to decide to write a successor to the Kyoto climate-change treaty, which expires in 2012. The Bush administration says talks should begin without a set emission target. Without U.S. support, the negotiations may not be completed in time to replace the Kyoto treaty.  The lack of an emission-cut target threatens investment in power and carbon-trading markets, UN officials say.
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Marubeni to enter U.S. wind market

Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News

December 6, 2007

Japan's Marubeni Corp will take a controlling stake in Oak Creek Energy Systems Inc, a wind power developer in California, through a $21.5 million equity investment to tap into the fast-growing U.S. wind energy market.  The overseas independent power-producing business is one of the focus areas for Marubeni, Japan's fifth-biggest trading house which currently has electric power generation capacity of a total 18.63 gigawatts in 20 nations. In countries keen to reduce emissions and dependency on fossil fuels, wind technology is the place to invest, analysts say.

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Marubeni enter U.S. market

Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News

December 6, 2007

Japan's Marubeni Corp will take a controlling stake in Oak Creek Energy Systems Inc, a wind power developer in California, through a $21.5 million equity investment to tap into the fast-growing U.S. wind energy market.  The overseas independent power-producing business is one of the focus areas for Marubeni, Japan's fifth-biggest trading house which currently has electric power generation capacity of a total 18.63 gigawatts in 20 nations. In countries keen to reduce emissions and dependency on fossil fuels, wind technology is the place to invest, analysts say.
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AGL Energy to build wind power project

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia

November 6, 2007

Australia's biggest electricity and gas retailer AGL Energy plans to build a $166 million wind power project in South Australia, taking advantage of measures to promote  generation of renewable energy.  The 71-megawatt project, to be AGL's second in the Hallett region of SA, is due to start operating in November 2009.  It will immediately add to earnings once it starts up, AGL said.  Suzlon Energy won the contract to construct the Hallett Hill project, which will provide enough power to fuel 40,000 homes, AGL said. Suzlon is also building AGL's first project at Hallett, the Brown Hill farm.
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Loyalty to coal hampers Aussie wind

Sydney Morning Herald - New South Wales, Australia

November 5, 2007

In April last year the future of wind energy in Australia was in doubt after the Coalition Government blocked a Victorian wind farm.  The Labor Party made much mileage from the drama but it refused to say how much renewable energy it would aim for if it won government. Meanwhile, both parties continued to support the country's dirtiest industry, assigning millions of dollars to an elusive technology they said would clean the carbon out of coal. The renewable energy industry watched in despair.
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Petratherm welcomes Labor policy

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia

October 31, 2007

A Petratherm hot rocks site could become viable as early as late 2009 under the Opposition's requirement that electricity retailers buy 20 per cent of power from renewable resources by 2020.  And Victoria's biggest wind farm operator, Pacific Hydro, would be able to increase its energy output sixfold if the policy comes into play in the event of a Labor Party election victory.  Pacific Hydro, which has 100 megawatts of installed generation, said the incentive would provide certainty for a further 600 megawatts of wind energy projects worth $1.5 billion over five years.
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Antarctic windfarm assessed

Stuff.co.nz - Wellington, New Zealand

October 23, 2007

A New Zealand team investigating a windfarm to power Scott Base in Antarctica has found the world's breeziest continent is an easier place to build a turbine than Wellington.  A team from Meridian Energy is due to fly south today to conduct feasibility tests around Scott Base, which three years ago was hit by a storm with wind gusts that exceeded 200km/h, and which destroyed the base's wind vane.  Antarctica New Zealand's Antarctic said if the windfarm goes ahead, it would also help power the neighbouring United States base, McMurdo Station. 
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