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The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) will observe Wind Week 2009 with a variety of exhibits, tours and other events at more than 20 wind farms across the country. Events are scheduled to run from 13 through 21 June. Wind Week 2009 follows on last year’s BWEA Wind Weekend.
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Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy for the delivery of 80 wind turbines for its Butendiek offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The offshore project, with a capacity of 288 megawatts, is expected to be commissioned
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Siemens today laid the cornerstone on a new wind turbine manufacturing plant being built in Lingang New City in Shanghai. Set to begin operations in the second half of 2010, the €60 million facility will produce turbines both for the Chinese market and for export. “Siemens is expanding its commitment
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Scottish Power has week officially switched on its Whitelee wind farm, which is Europe’s largest onshore wind power project. The initial 140 turbines on the site near Glasgow will produce up to 322 megawatts of electricity — enough to power more than 180,000 homes and eliminate 500,000 tonnes
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Local residents are being invited to hear more about E.ON’s plans for a new onshore wind farm near Knottingley at two exhibitions to be held in Knottingley and Leeds on 27 and 28 May. The proposed Ferrybridge wind farm would feature up to nine turbines with a generation
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A professor of applied physics at Trinity College Dublin has identified suitable locations on Ireland’s west coast that could support “hydro storage reservoirs” for safe and economical harnessing of wind energy. Igor Shvets’ findings have enabled the roll out of a new breakthrough national energy project: Spirit of Ireland.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing Turkey with a €45 million loan for the construction of the largest wind farm in the country. The project will help Turkey promote clean energy and reduce its dependency on imported fuel sources. The EBRD financing will be used to
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As Siemens expands its wind power activities in Germany and Europe, it’s now established its European headquarters for wind power sales and project execution in Hamburg. At the same time, the firm is also upgrading its Bremen location to serve as its European headquarters in the service business. The
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Loughborough-based Iskra Wind Turbines today launched its new company brand — Evance — and announced four new European resellers for its small wind turbines. The company says the rebrand to Evance — a blend of “energy” and “advance” — was developed to “provide a communications platform that will support the company’s aggressive expansion
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The global demand for small wind technology continues to grow, and the UK has come out as the world’s largest exporter of wind turbines in the 50-kilowatt and smaller division, two recent studies have shown. A global study released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) shows significant international
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Researchers from the University of Alcala and the Complutense University in Madrid have invented a new method for predicting the wind speed of wind farm aerogenerators … using knowledge generated from systems that simulate the workings of animals’ nervous systems. A combination of weather forecasting models and artificial neural networks, the
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A plan to replace a long-time British wind farm with a new nuclear plant is eliciting loud protests from the public, according to The Guardian. The German energy firm RWE has proposed building a nuclear power station at a site in Cumbria that’s currently home to Windcluster’s Haverigg
