The year ahead will be tough for wind energy whereas solar power will experience an uptick in 2009, according to analyst Emerging Energy Research (EER).
30 April, 2009
The American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) annual wind energy industry rankings report shows that wind energy leaders in several categories maintained their number one positions, while 24 states saw new wind turbine and component manufacturing facilities opened, expanded or announced in 2008.
29 April, 2009
One of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers is to shed 1900 manufacturing jobs in the UK and Denmark.
29 April, 2009
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a list of the USA’s top green power purchasers.
28 April, 2009
LM Glasfiber saw a 53% jump in revenues to €885 million and recorded an operating profit of €91m in 2008.
27 April, 2009
US President Barack Obama has announced that the Department of the Interior has finalised a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
27 April, 2009
Noble Environmental Power has received long-term capital for its 330 MW wind power projects in western and northern New York State, with more than US$200 million from GE Energy Financial Services.
24 April, 2009
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) subsidiary Airtricity and Fluor Ltd are creating a new consortium to bid for the exclusive rights to develop windfarms under The Crown Estate's Round 3 Offshore Wind Farm Development Programme.
24 April, 2009
Markbygden windfarm will consist of 101 wind turbines along a 50 km long and 10 km wide area in Markbygden, West of Piteå in Northern Sweden.
24 April, 2009
First Wind has filed a permit application with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to build a proposed 51 MW wind project in the town of Oakfield in Aroostook County, Maine, USA.
24 April, 2009
The UK's wind power industry has given a thumbs up to a £525 million support package in Budget 2009, and believes that this will enable the industry to unlock up to £10bn of private sector investment in wind and marine energy projects over the coming few years.
24 April, 2009
How has the industry reacted to the 'low carbon', renewable energy provisions in the UK's Budget 2009?
23 April, 2009
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has delivered his latest budget, which includes £1.4 billion of extra targeted support in the low carbon sector, including offshore wind, energy efficiency, and small scale renewables.
22 April, 2009
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19 April, 2009
Siemens has received a turnkey order for the supply of 13 of its SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines from EnerjiSA Power Generating Company for Çanakkale-Mahmudiye windfarm in Northwest Turkey.
17 April, 2009
Energy Composites Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the City of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA, to acquire a 54 acre parcel of land for a 350 000 ft2 composites fabrication plant for manufacturing wind turbine blades.
16 April, 2009
Energy Composites Corporation has launched a composites-in-wind-energy programme, WindFiber™, under which it will carry out wind-related innovation, engineering, customer proposition, production and services planning, and logistics activities.
16 April, 2009
Wind power developer First Wind has secured a non-recourse term loan from HSH Nordbank AG and NORD/LB for its 125 MW Cohocton Wind power project in Cohocton, upstate New York.
16 April, 2009
Multibrid, a subsidiary of AREVA, will supply 80 M5000 5 MW offshore wind turbines for the 400 MW Global Tech 1 windfarm 90 km from the coast in the German North Sea.
16 April, 2009
Could the UK greatly increase the number of its onshore windfarms without destroying wildlife? According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the answer is yes.
16 April, 2009
AGL Energy Ltd has entered into agreements for the construction of the 132 MW Hallett 4 windfarm at North Brown Hill in South Australia.
15 April, 2009
DONG Energy has installed the first offshore wind turbine at its Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm project in the Thames Estuary off the East coast of England.
15 April, 2009
StatoilHydro and Norwegian utility Statkraft will develop the 315 MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk in the UK, representing a total investment of NOK 10 billion.
14 April, 2009
Vestas will supply a total of 76 units of the V90-3.0 MW wind turbine for two projects in Romania.
14 April, 2009
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) and its member companies have built up an industry fund of £3.2 million for advanced technologies designed to solve issues such as wind turbine interference with radars.
14 April, 2009
The Institute for Public Policy Research (Ippr) has said that without a rapid expansion of offshore wind capacity the UK will struggle to achieve its legally-binding target of 15% of renewable energy from renewable sources by 2020.
14 April, 2009
Iberdrola Renovables has increased its wind power production by 20% in the first quarter of 2009 (year-on-year growth), to 5,398 million kilowatt hours (kWh).
14 April, 2009
Swedish-based Morphic Technologies has initiated a restructuring program, to focus on the group’s core businesses of wind and fuel cells.
14 April, 2009
The Hydrogen Education Foundation, part of the National Hydrogen Association, has announced the winners of the 2008-09 Hydrogen Student Design Contest.
13 April, 2009
Feynman's famous 1959 proclamation “There's plenty of room at the bottom” largely referred to the untapped storage ability for information at the nanoscale.
12 April, 2009
South Africa is introducing feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for renewable energies, according to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA).
09 April, 2009
Marine and offshore renewable technologies will now receive financial support in the UK after an overhaul of the system for supporting renewable energy.
09 April, 2009
Targeted Government intervention is needed if the UK is to meet its renewable energy targets, according to the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA).
09 April, 2009
Vestas will deliver 37 x V90 2 MW wind turbines to EDF Energies Nouvelles for Sardinia, Italy, in 2009 and 2010.
08 April, 2009
Electricity supply from renewable energies including wind and hydro in the UK rose by 11.7%, or 2.2 TWh, to 20.7 TWh in 2008.
07 April, 2009
Graco® will exhibit its fluid handling equipment for wind energy manufacturing applications at the WINDPOWER 2009 Conference and Exhibition on 4-7 May, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
06 April, 2009
REpower Systems AG has completed the first windfarm consisting exclusively of REpower 6M wind turbines, at the Westre civic windfarm.
06 April, 2009
MAG is introducing rapid material placement and quick-cure moulding systems that reduce lay-up infusion and curing time by 50%, double throughput and increases quality for wind turbine blades.
03 April, 2009
Plans to connect large amounts of future offshore wind energy to the UK national grid have been firmed up.
03 April, 2009
The MarineWind Alliance consortium of wind power, maritime operations and renewable energy investment companies has submitted a joint bid for exclusive rights for Round 3 offshore windfarm rights from the UK Crown Estate.
02 April, 2009
Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a joint venture (JV) deal with South African windfarm developer, Genesis Eco-Energy, to build an initial pipeline of over 500 MW of wind energy in South Africa by 2014.
02 April, 2009