The UK and the Republic of Ireland have signed a key agreement that will enable the two countries to trade renewable power with each other by 2020.
30 January, 2013
Nordex is to supply its N117 turbines for a 50.4MW wind farm in the Florida district of southern Uruguay, currently being developed by French developer Akuo.
30 January, 2013
The company has now purchased the three turbines, three 2MW G80 turbines, from Spanish manufacturer Gamesa.
25 January, 2013
The global growth of renewable energy over the last few years cannot be disputed, but can it really play a major role in the world of large-scale electricity generation?
23 January, 2013
In his inaugural speech for his second term in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has upped the ante, promising to show global leadership on climate change and support the development of clean energy...
23 January, 2013
The 161 MW Spinning Spur Wind Project is located in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle, and was built by EDF Renewable Energy
23 January, 2013
EWEA 2013 is just a few weeks away. So what can conference delegates expect to be the main topics up for debate?
23 January, 2013
EWEA CEO Christian Kjaer has been an ever-present force for the premier wind power lobbying organisation EWEA as it has driven the wind industry forward in Europe over the past decade or so. He will leave the post later this year...
22 January, 2013
Almost half of all new generating capacity installed in the United States during 2012 was renewable, a new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said.
22 January, 2013
RWE Innogy and BMR Windenergie plan to commission the Jüchen wind farm this week after installing the four 3.4MW turbines over the past six months on the site of RWE Power’s Garzweiler opencast mine.
22 January, 2013
Gamesa has secured a ten-year full service operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for one of the largest operating wind farms in the eastern United States.
22 January, 2013
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have embarked on a €8 million research programme which aims to automate the manufacture of wind turbine rotor blades.
22 January, 2013
Germany’s Availon has signed a major contract with Japanese wind turbine maintenance firm EOS Engineering and Service for the supply of 80 wind turbine grid coupling contactors.
22 January, 2013
Despite the uncertain global economy, attendance figures for EWEA 2013 are up on 2012...
15 January, 2013
China has announced it will join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a milestone in international efforts to double the share of renewable energy worldwide by 2030.
15 January, 2013
A new publication from Elsevier, developed by the IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), explores six policy categories that are "essential" for the acceleration of renewable energy deployment.
15 January, 2013
E.ON has awarded Great Yarmouth-based Alicat Workboats a contract to build four new state of the art vessels to support its offshore wind generation portfolio. The first to be built will serve E.ON's 180MW Robin Rigg wind farm in the Solway Firth.
03 January, 2013
Two Californian wind energy projects have reached completion, bringing 300MW of new capacity onto the state’s grid, developer MidAmerican wind said on Monday.
03 January, 2013
The renewable energy industry’s new year has kicked off to a good start after the United States’ Congress extended the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) by one year as part of a package of measures to avert a “fiscal cliff” in the US budget.
03 January, 2013
Spain’s Iberdrola has selected offshore wind turbines from French giant Areva for its 400MW Wikinger offshore wind power project 35km off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast.
02 January, 2013
The UK’s state-backed Green Investment Bank (GIB) has struck its first deal in the offshore wind sector, contributing to a £224 million re-financing of OPW’s 24.8% stake in the 367 MW Walney offshore wind farm.
02 January, 2013