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Asia/Pacific
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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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Europe
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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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India - Pakistan
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August 13, 2008
Indian
Wind Turbine Manufacturers’ Association (IWTMA) has called for a
generation-based incentive policy to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)
into the nascent wind energy sector. Addressing a press conference on Monday,
D. V. Giri, Chairman of the association, said any generation-based incentive
should have no ceiling on capacity.
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Europe
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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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Europe
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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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Middle East
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August
6, 2008
Although wind energy is the most developed and efficient energy source
among the new renewables, the focus in the Gulf is more on solar energy.
Conditions for its production are very favorable in the region, while the
endowment of wind resources is not so impressive in international
comparison. There are notable exceptions
though. Wind power has considerable
prospects on the Red Sea shoreline and the East coast of the Peninsula.
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Europe
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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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Latin America / Caribbean
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July 31, 2008
Record-breaking fuel costs have pushed the
Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) to consider the possibility of harvesting
wind power in the Cayman Islands. CUC is
seeking experienced and qualified wind-generation companies worldwide to look
at investing in windmill infrastructure capable of producing up to 10 megawatts
or about 13 percent of Cayman’s current generation capacity.
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China
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July 29, 2008
Strong Chinese government
policies, rising coal prices and improved technology have prompted a surge of
investment into green energy, particularly wind power. Since 2005, the country's wind generation
capacity has increased by more than 100% a year. The government's renewable
energy policy aims fto procure 15% of the country's energy from non-carbon
sources by 2020, twice the proportion of 2005.
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Europe
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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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China
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July 25, 2008
The Korean government run electric power
company announced this week it is expanding wind farms it is operating in China, with
high hopes for entry into the world's second largest energy consuming
country. Korea Electric Power
Corporation (KEPCO) said it has signed a deal with China's biggest electric
power firm for construction of additional wind farms.
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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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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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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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Europe
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Europe
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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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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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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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Europe
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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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India - Pakistan
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July 1, 2008
India's
private Lanco Group said it has planned to set up a wind turbine unit to foray
into wind energy. The power and infrastructure major is planning to set up a
wind turbine manufacturing unit in southern Puducherry. It is also planning to
establish wind farms in India,
the United States and Europe. The group is also exploring options in solar and
nuclear energy fields and has a presence in the hydropower sector.
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Europe
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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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Asia/Pacific
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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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India - Pakistan
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June 30, 2008
The Ministry of New and Renewable energy
(MNRE) today announced an "incentive" of Rs 0.50 per unit of
wind-power fed by the independent power producers into the grid. The generation
based incentive (GBI) is aimed at increasing the quantum of grid interactive
renewable power.
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