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  • Wind Farms: Now We've Got the Biggest in Europe


  • Dakota Wind Issues Public Offering
    Dakota Wind Energy, LLC, a South Dakota community-owned wind development company, has announced an intrastate public offering of its securities. This offering is only open to South Dakota resident landowners who grant wind-related rights to Dakota Wind Energy.

  • Enel Plans Italy's First Offshore Wind Farm
    Italian energy major Enel is planning to install some 115 wind turbines off the coast of Sicily in what will be one of the first offshore wind projects in the Mediterranean. A request for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been delivered by Enel to the Ministry of the Environment and the Region of Sicily for the country's first offshore wind project.

  • UC San Diego Enacts Green Energy Initiatives
    University of California, San Diego, a university that considers itself to be one of the nation's greenest college campuses, has begun construction on a sustainable energy program that it says is among the largest in the nation by a university.

  • Distributive Wind Power Offers Solutions to Energy Crisis
    On May 12, 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report entitled "20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030."

  • Iberdrola Bids for Greek Renewables Firm
    Iberdrola Renewables has issued a tender offer for the outstanding equity in Greek wind power company the Rokas Group.

  • China's Wind Power Industry: Localizing Equipment Manufacturing
    When 2007 ended, China's installed base of wind power totaled just over 6 gigawatts (GW), earning the country fifth place among the world's largest wind energy producers (after Germany, the U.S., Spain and India), up from sixth place in 2006. Wind power industry statistics show that by the end of 2008, China's total installed base of wind power production will have reached 10 GW; some experts are estimating that by 2010, the total installed capacity for wind power generation in China will reach 20 GW and that by 2020 China's installed base of wind power will total 100 GW (current global wind installation is 94 GW).

  • Gore: U.S. Can Get 100 Percent Renewable Energy in 10 Years
    In an effort to get American citizens and policymakers to think more aggressively about combating climate change, former Vice President Al Gore challenged the U.S. to procure 100 percent of its electricity from renewable resources within 10 years.

  • Can the U.S. Reach 100 Percent Renewable Electricity in 10 Years?
    In Al Gore's speech this week in Washington, he said that the U.S. should strive toward getting 100 percent of its electricity from renewable resources in 10 years. Is it realistic to propose a target like that? -- Terry G., Berkeley, California

  • Renewable Energy Veterans Join Second Wind Inc. Board Of Directors
    Mark E. Haller of Haller Wind Consulting, LLC, and Jonathan H. Winer of Essex Hydro Associates, LLC have been elected to the Second Wind Inc. Board of Directors.

  • New Chinese Expansion From Gamesa
    Gamesa Corporation has entered into a new agreement with China Longyuan Electric Power Group Corporation for the supply of 405 Gamesa G5X-850 kW wind turbines totalling 344 megawatts (MW) of power.

  • Mass Megawatts Launches Manufacturing Facility in Pennsylvania
    Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. announced last week that the company has recently opened a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania. The new facility will be located near numerous planned projects in Pennsylvania and New York where several hundred megawatts (MW) of wind power projects have already been developed in the recent years.

  • Finavera's 300 MW of Wind Projects Move Forward
    Finavera Renewables Inc. announced last week that it has entered into discussions with a potential corporate investor from whom they have received a non-binding indicative financing proposal. The proposal is in connection with four wind projects currently being developed by Finavera Renewables in the Peace Region of British Columbia, Canada. According to the company, the investor would put up 100% of the equity requirements for each of the four projects awarded an electricity purchase agreement by BC Hydro pursuant to the BC Hydro Clean Power Call.

  • Noble Environmental Power Builds Michigan's Newest Windpark
    Noble Environmental Power, a leading wind energy developer, announced that construction on Michigan's newest windpark is underway. The Noble Thumb I Windpark is expected to generate 69 megawatts (MW) of clean energy using 46 GE 1.5-MW turbines.

  • CPUC Approves Two SCE Contracts
    The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved two renewable contracts for Southern California Edison (SCE). The contracts inculde both wind and solar power and total approximately 50 megawatts (MW).

  • Boralex Acquires 100 MW of Wind Power
    Boralex Inc. announced that it has acquired the rights for a wind project with a potential installed capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) in Ontario, Canada. This wind power project, located in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, will be submitted into the Ontario Power Authority's Request for Proposal III for 500 MW of Renewable Energy Supply likely due this fall.

  • Market Outlook: Renewables Make Good Financial Sense
    Renewables are of particular importance in Iceland. The country has no fossil fuel resources and today 72% of its primary energy consumption comes from renewable sources, as compared to the global average of 13%. The National Bank of Iceland, Landsbanki, has helped foster this industry by providing specialized financial support for renewable energy.

  • Cleaning the Transmission Process
    Things are adrift in places around the country. In the Northeast, for example, the states all have renewable portfolio standards while they also participate in a regional greenhouse gas initiative, all of which is meant to cleanse the air and cut global warming pollutants. The dilemma there and elsewhere is that the transmission line permitting process is tumultuous and impedes those goals.

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  • NASA Maps Reveal Wind Energy Sources
    Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool, global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite that reveal ocean areas where the wind resources exist to produce wind energy.

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