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Largest wind farm in south east Asia to be developed
Mott MacDonald, a leading management, engineering and development consultancy, has successfully supported financial close as independent engineer for the first utility-scale wind farm in Thailand, which will also be the largest wind farm in south east Asia. The consultancy is working on behalf of lenders Kasikorn Bank PLC and Siam Commercial Bank PLC. The 207MW wind farm is being developed by Wind Energy Holding Co. Ltd, in the hillside area o... [more]
Natural Power to provide Commercial Back Office Support Service on Hall Wind Farm for RidgeWind
Natural Power has just been appointed to provide Commercial Back Office Support Services on Hall Wind Farm for renewable energy development company RidgeWind. The service will see Natural Power delivering financial and commercial administration services during the construction phase of the wind farm, which is due to begin on 16th January 2012. Hall Wind Farm is located approximately 5.5km north of Beverley and 14km west of Hornsea and is set to c... [more]
Natural Power partners with Welsh firm Ecology Matters to widen ecology offerings
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh based ecology consultants, Ecology Matters. This agreement widens Natural Power’s resource and expertise in onshore and offshore wind farm ecology issues, allowing the companies to work together in order to further develop their respective and mutual expertise. Natural Power’s Welsh office in Aberystwyth has consented 40MW in Wale... [more]
Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in instalments on the energy bill. The Green Deal... [more]
Launch of the wind farm portfolio information system - WindManager™ in the US from Natural Power
Natural Power has recently released WindManager- a groundbreaking wind farm portfolio information system increasing profitability of wind farm operations - to the US market at the AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance & Reliability Seminar in San Diego, California. WindManager is a turbine independent system based on latest international standards such as IEC 61400-25 and RDS-PP. The system is scalable from a single wind farm to large mult... [more]
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Joining forces to help fine-tune wind technology
Wind-turbine manufacturer Gamesa, a Spanish company with U.S. headquarters in Langhorne, is working with the Department of Energy to transform wind-power technology, making it cheaper and more reliable.
Wind power sector eager to deliver on B.C. power promise
As Christy Clark’s Liberals tie British Columbia’s economic future to an unprecedented natural gas boom, proponents of the province’s renewable energy resources hope for an opportunity to join in. B.C., predisposed to both massive and small-scale hydroelectric power development, has been one of the world’s laggards in terms of wind energy.
Going with the wind
The wind blowing across the prairie is a familiar part of living in this area, a force of nature. A perfect storm seems to be brewing to make it something more, to make wind energy important as an economic development force. The American Wind Energy Association released fourth quarter 2011 results recently that showed Illinois moving from fifth to fourth in the nation in wind power generation ...
Wind power: why the MPs have written to the Prime Minister
As more than 100 MPs have written to David Cameron to protest about subsidies paid to wind farm industry, we explain why wind energy has become so controversial.
Obama opens door to offshore wind power along mid-Atlantic coast
The Obama administration today unveiled plans to boost US offshore wind power by opening up four new wind-leasing regions for wind turbine power generation.
Wind power: Renewable resource, or another corporate scam?
In telling the story of a small-town political fight over wind power, Laura Israel's fascinating documentary "Windfall" at first seems like another entry in the long laundry list of post-"Inconvenient Truth" doomsayer environmental films. Indeed, "Windfall" has some of the rural, homespun feeling of Josh Fox's Oscar-nominated "Gasland," which helped ignite a national debate over the natural-gas ...
Growing Demand for Wind Power Generation Creates Many Jobs
London, 30 January 2012 - Wind power has become one of the most rapidly-growing markets in the global energy industry, creating a significant number of jobs in times when other industries are experiencing financial instability, a new report by industry analysis specialist GlobalData has found.
Mass. firm acquires Oklahoma wind developer
A Massachusetts-based utility company says it has invested about $23 million of late-stage development capital to own the majority stake in a firm developing a wind power project in Oklahoma.
Wind power industry could lose sails if key subsidy is not renewed
Minnesota's wind power production capacity grew by more than 500 megawatts last year. This year could be just as good, with just as much turbine construction as in 2011. But if Congress declines to renew a key federal subsidy for wind energy — the industry could nose-dive in 2013.
Lowell wind foes descend on Vt. Statehouse
Opponents of a wind power project being built on a ridge in the northern Vermont town of Lowell have come to the Statehouse to express their concerns to lawmakers.
