Wind Power

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 5 reports

Google's Makani Buy Could Take Wind Energy to Higher Levels

Google X Labs, the not-so-secret-but-secretive facility that works on cutting edge projects, has bought airborne wind turbine developer Makani Power, which announced the news on its website. Makani uses tethered aircraft that fly in figure 8s to generate ... [Published TechNewsWorld - 22 mins ago]

Entities: Wind Power, Google Inc, Makani Power Inc, Google X Labs

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Paying off NIMBYs: Tilting opinions

ONSHORE wind, the cheapest form of renewable energy, attracts many enthusiasts. Those who live close to planned wind farms are rarely among them. In April fully 82% of the public told pollsters for the Department of Energy and Climate Change that they ... [Published The Economist HK - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Wind Farms, Renewable Energy, Onshore Wind, Wind Turbine

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Natural gas power plant starts construction in Wyoming

The power plant is scheduled to begin operations in late 2 ... [Published Penn Energy - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Power Plant, Natural Gas, Construction

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 2 hours ago - 21 reports

Google Inc

Clean Energy From Wind Turbines On Kites? Google Thinks So.

A Makani Airborne Wind Turbine launches in Alameda, CA | Photo: Makani PowerIt sounds like a flight of fantasy: mount wind turbine generators on gigantic kites, then fly them a thousand feet off the ground to generate power. But one company pushing this ... [Published KCET - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Wind Turbine, Makani Power Inc, Google Inc

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

ENEL SpA

ENEL Increases Ownership Stake In Chisholm View, Prairie Rose Wind Farms

ENEL Green Power North America (EGP-NA) signed an agreement to purchase, from a GE Capital subsidiary, an additional 26% of the company operating the 235 MW Chisholm View wind farm for approximately $47 million.EGP-NA has also signed an agreement to purchase, ... [Published North American Windpower - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Wind Farms, ENEL SpA, GE Capital Corp, Consortium

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica SA

Gamesa bags 130 MW order from CLP India

MUMBAI: Wind turbine maker Gamesa today said it has bagged a contract from CLP India for supplying 65 Gamesa G97 turbines of 2 MW each at its Jath wind farm in Maharashtra.Besides supplying turbines to CLP, a power company, Gamesa will also be responsible ... [Published Economic Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica SA, India, Wind Farms

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 3 reports

Fact not fiction: Renewable energy is safer than nuclear power

Blogpost by Justin McKeating - May 23, 2013 at 18:05 Add commentTake a look at what Jan Bens, chief of Belgium’s nuclear watchdog FANC, had to say about wind turbines the other day:"The harbour of Antwerp is being filled with windmills, and the chemical ... [Published Greenpeace USA - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Reactor, Wind Farms

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 4 reports

Research and Markets: Opportunity in the Renewable Energy Business in India 2013

You are here: Home >> SPi World News >> World Market Sector NewsResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8dk2rb/opportunity_in) has announced the addition of the "Opportunity in the Renewable Energy Business in India ... [Published SPi World News - 9 hours ago]

Entities: India, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Industry

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 6 reports

“Phenomenal Interest” Boosts Sales at Battersea Power Station Site, Developer Says

Nearly all of the apartments and townhouses planned for the first phase of the Battersea Power Station development in London had been sold thanks to “phenomenal interest” from buyers, the project’s developer announced on Monday, May 20.The Battersea Power ... [Published Invezz - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Power Plant, Employees Provident Fund, Sime Darby Bhd

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 4 reports

Capital Dynamics invests in Northern Ireland wind farm

Capital Dynamics, a private asset manager, has invested in a 21-megawatt (MW) onshore wind farm project in Northern Ireland.Capital Dynamics holds a 100 per cent ownership stake in the project called the Dunmore wind farm.Capital Dynamics has commenced ... [Published Private Equity Wire - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Capital Dynamics AG, Wind Farms, Northern Ireland, Onshore Wind, Wind Power

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 3 reports

Enel raises stake in 435MW wind projects through $81m agreement with GE

Enel Green Power North America (EGP-NA), a renewable energy company, has increased its stake in two wind energy projects, which now total 435MW through an $81m deal with conglomerate GE.The deal includes 26% stake purchase in 235MW Chisholm View wind ... [Published Energy Business Review - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Wind Farms, ENEL SpA, Enel Green Power SpA, Francesco Starace, Enel Green Power North America Inc

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 4 reports

Nebraska Sales Tax Exemption Bill Moves To Legislature

Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a measure that would remove a barrier to the development and export of wind energy in the state.The bill, L.B. 104, would provide a sales tax exemption for the purchase of turbines, towers and other wind-farm components ... [Published North American Windpower - May 22 2013]

Entities: Wind Power, Steve Lathrop, Dave Heineman

Quotes

"Turbines would not be acceptable in this location for landscape reasons. The people of Norton and Knighton Council strongly object - 93 per cent of Norton residents have already signed that they do not want turbines on Stonewall Hill and they are dismayed by this further application" the site states

Bid to put wind turbine on local landmark [Published My Radnor.co.uk - 24 mins ago]

Principle Power is the company spearheading this movement, that they say would benefit thousands. "What we're proposing to do is 30 megawatts, so five wind floats with six megawatt turbines on them" said Kevin Banister, the vice president of the company. "30 megawatts is enough for 10-12,000 homes."

(New) Could wind energy be coming to the south coast? [Published KCBY.com - 1 hour ago]

"With the conventional power sector suffering due to severe shortage of fossil fuels, renewable sources of energy have assumed an even greater importance. This project reinforces our commitment to adding 200-300 MW every year. We look forward to sustaining our growth in this sector" CLP India Director, Business development, Mahesh Makhija said

Gamesa Acquires Order From CLP India [Published Industry 2.0 - 1 hour ago]

"Thailand is a rich source of solar energy, because it has longer hours of sunshine than other leading solar technology-inventing countries" said Mr Wang

NED expects to see sunny days ahead [Published Bangkok Post - 1 hour ago]

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Google's Makani Buy Could Take Wind Energy to H... [Published TechNewsWorld - 22 mins ago] Google X Labs, the not-so-secret-but-secretive facility that works on cutting edge projects, has bought airborne wind turbine developer Makani Power, which announced the news on its website. Makani uses tethered aircraft that fly in figure 8s to generate ...
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