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Already a major player in the wind-turbine business, Siemens wants more. It’s just announced plans to invest more than $213 million (€150 million) to expand its wind business over the next two years. Among the projects those funds will support: * Two new research and development centers to be set
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Wells Fargo is teaming up with a Chinese wind power company to explore wind-energy development opportunities in the US. Working with Guodian United Power Technology Company Ltd., Wells Fargo will provide financial backing to help the firm build its wind-turbine distribution business and develop new wind farms in the US.
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Germany’s first commercial offshore wind farm, capable of supplying energy to more than 50,000 homes, is now in operation. The EnBW Baltic 1 wind farm was commissioned by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG and consists of 21 Siemens wind turbines, each with a capacity of 2.3 megawatts (MW)
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How does a company that began designing wind turbines in secret “to avoid ridicule” become the world’s largest wind-energy firm and winner of a $1.5 million prize for renewable energy innovation? Persistence certainly helps. And that was one of the things that stood out for the jury upon
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If they’re serious about boosting their domestic renewable energy capacity, US citizens had better hope that future offshore wind power projects won’t take as long as the one — the nation’s first — approved this week. US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the $1 billion
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A Spanish energy company has set its sights on making Romania home to the world’s “most ambitious” network of wind farms yet, now that it has received the go-ahead from the nation’s electrical grid operator. Iberdrola Renewables, a division of the energy firm Iberdrola, says the OK from
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After decades of sending manufacturing operations to cheaper labour markets overseas, could the West being seeing the first signs of a sea change? Is it possible the next great economic shift will be away from globalised markets and back to local manufacturing? What Forum for the Futures’ Hugh Knowles describes
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Britain’s announcement today that it had awarded development rights for 32 gigawatts of new wind energy puts the UK in a whole new region of the global renewables map, as you can see by the two graphics below. First, here’s how Britain stacks up today among the world’
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Living on an island nation gives people a unique perspective on their place in the world. Consider, for example, the island countries being threatened by rising sea levels thanks to climate change. Though tiny in size, their populations roared during the recent climate talks in Copenhagen to express their outrage
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Siemens Energy has received a €128 million order to connect the London Array offshore wind farm, potentially the largest of its kind in the world, to the power supply grid. Dong Energy, E.ON and Masdar — the wind farm’s owners — have already tapped Siemens to supply 175 wind turbines
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GE has won a $1.4 billion contract with independent power producer Caithness Energy to provide turbines and services for an 845-megawatt Oregon wind farm that would be the largest in the world. The Shepherds Flat project has already received most of the necessary government permits to operate and is
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Onshore wind farm developers in Britain could get access to as much as £1.4 billion in new funding to help them start construction over the next three years. Three UK-based banks began offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms during a forum in London hosted by Energy &
