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Posted: over 13 years ago

UK: Anglesey Offshore wind farm will ruin the view from Llandudno’s West Shore and Deganwy

A MASSIVE wind farm off the coast of Anglesey will ruin the view from Llandudno’s West Shore and Deg...

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USA: $300,000 for Worcester Polytechnic Institute for deep-ocean wind turbines research

With a three-year, $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation, a research team at Worcester...

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Germany: 62 million order for an Offshore High Voltage Substation project

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division and Dutch consortium partner Keppel Verolme B.V. have...

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USA approves first offshore wind farm

A whole new way of generating electricity in the U.S. drew a big step closer to reality Wednesday, a...

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Canada: Wolfe Island offshore wind turbines cost 1.5 billion

The ex-Kingstonians planning to erect 60 to 90 wind turbines west of Wolfe Island in the waters of L...

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Europe: Are offshore wind farms genuinely more efficient?

In January 2010, wind farms in Germany had a generating capacity of 25,777 megawatts. This means tha...

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Wind potential in France is big but offshore wind development is slow

France enjoys Europe’s second largest wind potential, and the wind resource is well distributed. Wit...

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USA: Sen. Kerry Supports Cape Wind with one condition

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said today he would support Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind far...

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GWEC reports on Wind Power in China

China (excluding Taiwan) was the world’s largest wind energy market in 2009, more than doublin...

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Siemens, Areva and GE explore offshore wind in India

MUMBAI: It’s the latest and among the fastest growing sectors within global energy, and has al...

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UK: Fast dealing in wind farm applications

Wind farms are much easier to build in Britain than in most of the rest of Europe, according to a st...

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Aarkstore reports about “Offshore Wind Farm Manufacturing Worldwide “

The global move to offshore wind farm development is enabling nations to accelerate wind energy adop...

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Europe: Consumers electricity prices reduced with wind energy

A review by independent consultancy Pöyry AS, entitled ‘Wind Energy and Electricity Prices’, asserts...

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UK: Activists against 1000 wind turbines off North Wales coast

PLANS to build 1,000 wind turbines off the North Wales shoreline have been slammed by activists as “...

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USA: Gov. Jennifer Granholm to speak at Michigan Wind Energy Conference

She’ll speak Wednesday morning at a conference sponsored by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy A...

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USA: Governor O’Malley to develop offshore wind farms in Chesapeake Bay

SALISBURY, Md. – Governor Martin O’Malley has been working for a while now to develop a ...

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USA: Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force has less than two years to address all concerns

The group led by Cuyahoga County in Ohio that plans to put wind turbines in Lake Erie can’t di...

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Canada: Executive committee sidelines motion opposing offshore turbines

Wind turbines off the Scarborough Bluffs could kill birds, foul the water, wreck the waterfront and ...

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