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A 270-megawatt offshore wind project will begin rising up off British shores starting next year. Final investment approval has paved the way for the Lincs project to get under way, according to Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas. To be built at a cost of about £725 million,
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A newly launched £5.15 million research effort aims to solve the problem of radar interference from wind turbines, UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband announced today. Objections from aviation radar operators are one of the largest reasons that wind planning applications are rejected or withdrawn in the
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GCube, an insurer for renewable energy initiatives, has donated a used wind turbine nacelle (engine housing) to a community college in hopes of helping engineering students to better understand wind-energy technology. The Mitsubishi turbine nacelle, valued at $450,000, is now located at the Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne,
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Thousands of bats are killed by spinning wind turbines each year, but researchers in Canada believe they’ve found a way to reduce that death toll by up to 60 per cent without having a serious impact on wind-energy output. The secret: slowing turbine blades to almost a complete stop
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Siemens has agreed to supply Airtricity with turbines for a planned 350-megawatt onshore wind farm — possibly Europe’s largest — in southern Scotland. Airtricity is the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). The 2.3-megawatt turbines will go up at the Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire
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The world’s largest wind turbine blades — bigger than the Blackpool tower — will be made in Britain, Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband said this week. Announcing grants for three offshore wind-energy companies, Miliband told the TUC annual conference: “With strong government backing, the UK is consolidating its lead in
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Siemens has opened a new wind-power training centre in Bremen, Germany, that will offer broad-based programmes for both customer personnel and service technicians from around the globe. “We see service as much more than a regular look into the nacelle,” said said René Umlauft, CEO of the Renewable Energy Division
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Renewable Energy Holdings (REH) plc has acquired the Polish development company Gamar GL for €2 million. Gamar is fully permitted to build a 30-megawatt wind project in Kobylany in southeast Poland. “We are pleased that our work with Gamar over the past three years has resulted in the acquisition of
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The Crown Estate has today announced plans to offer Round One and Two offshore wind farm operators the opportunity to apply for area extensions. This offer is open for any Round One or Two project which is operational or under construction, consented and awaiting construction or currently awaiting determination of
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Developers of onshore wind farms could get access to up to £1 billion in loans over the next three years, under a programme that starts today run by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and three UK-based banks. The cash, part of the additional £4 billion of EIB lending to support
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Wales might fail to become “a Green Celtic Tiger Economy” because it’s not moving quickly enough to develop wind farms, according to the Welsch renewable business body BWEA Cymru. A report from BWEA Cymru — “Wind energy in Wales: State of the Industry” expressed concern over the lack of progress
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While the UK is staking its renewable energy future in large measure upon wind power, British bats might not have much of a future if we don’t find a way to prevent turbines from killing them … either outright through collisions or via sudden depressurisation that causes their blood vessels
