Wind power Features for August 2009

Wind power Features Archive

Green light for unique NOVA offshore wind turbine Green light for unique NOVA offshore wind turbine

An all British consortium has been given the green light to develop a unique vertical axis winged aero-generator turbine, with substantial funding from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETi).

Comment: It is time to cool it with wind. Comment: It is time to cool it with wind.

At every meeting I attend the wind advocates complain that the utilities do not understand the importance of wind to the economy and climate change. They focus on the fact that they are the most commercially viable clean energy source available today. That the industry needs them and that the wind machines are very reliable. In all cases they are right, but it is time for them to cool it.

Wind power in Romania Wind power in Romania

A number of factors are making Romania emerge as an attractive and alternative location for renewable energy investors who are increasingly concerned about lower returns from more established markets in the Western European countries. Loredana Mihailescu explores.