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  • Pure Power - Wind Energy Scenarios Up to 2030
    May 2, 2008 - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

    In its latest report the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) outlines the road towards large-scale wind energy. Presenting three development scenarios for 2010, 2020 and 2030, the report examines in detail the probable impact on electricity, greenhouse gas emissions and the EU economy.

  • New Ohio Law Expected to Spawn 5,000-7,000 MW Wind Market
    Apr 28, 2008 - Wind energy Weekly

    Following unanimous Senate concurrence with an Ohio House bill, legislation to establish a 12.5%-by-2025 renewable electricity standard (RES) is headed to the desk of Governor Ted Strickland (D). The governor is expected to sign the bill, but has offered no public statement regarding the final legislation.

  • Rock Port declares itself 100 percent wind powered
    Apr 19, 2008 - The Associated Press

    Officials in this northwest Missouri town christened a four-turbine wind farm this week, making Rock Port the first U.S. city to get all of its electricity from wind power.

  • Environmentally Friendly Wind Generator Available for Rural Africa
    Apr 16, 2008 - Voice of America News

    An environmentally friendly source of energy is now available in Africa. A wind generator is on display in Cape Town, South Africa and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was created by the California-based group "Pac-Wind," which was founded to meet the need for generator systems that are practical, quiet and reliable and can operate in low wind.

  • Texas Study: Benefits of Wind Transmission Outweigh Costs
    Apr 11, 2008 - Michael Goggin - AWEA - renewableenergyworld.com

    A long-awaited study identifying the transmission infrastructure needed to link wind-rich areas in western Texas with population centers in the central and eastern parts of the state concludes that such transmission could be built at modest cost to ratepayers.

  • EU's Piebalgs says grid infrastructure needed quickly for offshore wind energy
    Mar 31, 2008 - Thomson Financial News

    BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said a maritime grid infrastructure must be developed quickly for the development of offshore wind energy.

  • Government gives green light to micro wind
    Mar 12, 2008 -

    BWEA, the trade association representing the UK’s micro- and small-wind industry, today welcomed the Govt’s decision to relax planning rules for onsite household wind turbines.

  • Portugal's rush to renewables places it in front line of EU's energy makeover
    Mar 11, 2008 - Barry Hatton - The Associated Press

    Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula.

  • Texas Study: Benefits of Wind Transmission Outweigh Costs
    Apr 11, 2008 - Michael Goggin - AWEA - renewableenergyworld.com

    A long-awaited study identifying the transmission infrastructure needed to link wind-rich areas in western Texas with population centers in the central and eastern parts of the state concludes that such transmission could be built at modest cost to ratepayers.

  • China's Guangdong to build nation's largest off-shore wind farm
    Mar 3, 2008 - Xinhua

    South China's Guangdong Province plans to build the nation's largest off-shore wind farm, in a bid to quench its power thirst.

  • Helping developers map out renewable energy source
    Mar 3, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Angel Gonzalez - Seattle Times

    Remember the thrill of checking out your house from outer space with Google Earth? Now a Seattle company wants you to know whether there's enough wind to power it with renewable energy.

  • State Seeks to Test Windy Areas
    Feb 28, 2008 - Deseret News

    In an effort to enhance the state's wind energy program, the Utah Geological Survey is looking for participants to help determine the best potential sources of wind energy around the state.

  • China To Build 400 Wind Towers To Survey Wind Resources
    Feb 27, 2008 - iNSnet.org

    China will build 400 wind towers of 70 meters and 100 meters high in regions where there is abundant wind energy to carry out a detailed survey and evaluation of the country's wind resources and potential. Gansu Weather Bureau's Wind and Solar Energy Evaluation Center will be responsible for building 17 70-meter high wind towers and two 100-meter high wind towers in Gansu's Hexi Corridor, Baiyin and Qingyang, to offer data support for the region's wind power plant construction.

  • Texas power grid operators narrowly avoid rolling blackouts
    Feb 27 - R.A. Dyer - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas

    Operators of the Texas power grid scrambled Tuesday night to keep the lights on after a sudden drop in wind power threatened to cause rolling blackouts, officials confirmed Wednesday.

  • Lassoing Panhandle Wind - Oilman Plans Huge Complex
    Feb, 2008 - Gary Stern - energy central

    Boone Pickens is nobody's fool. Pickens, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion and is ranked as the 131st wealthiest person in the United States by Forbes, is not prone to invest in pipe dreams. Then why is Pickens, who runs BP Capital Management, a private equity firm, and Mesa Power, building a 4,000-megawatt wind energy facility in Pampa, Texas, in the Panhandle section about 70 miles from Amarillo, which could cost as much as $10 billon?

  • China posts 95-per cent growth in wind power generation
    Feb 8, 2008 - BBC Monitoring

    China made remarkable progress in wind power development in 2007 and the industry will expect further regulatory boost in the coming years.

  • FERC approves incentive rates to accommodate renewable energy projects
    Feb 8, 2008 - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Documents and Publications/ContentWorks

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today granted Xcel Energy Services, Inc.'s request for incentive transmission rates as part of its plan for six transmission upgrades to meet state renewable energy generation standards and serve increased power demand in the Upper Midwest.

  • Spain a pioneer in wind power
    Feb 6, 2008 - EFE

    Spain, the United States and China were the world leaders last year in wind power, an alternative energy source whose global installed capacity grew 27 percent, according to Global Wind Energy Council, or GWEC, figures.

  • The Denmark Challenge - Lessons from an Emerging Wind Power (pdf)
    January/February 2008 - Martin Rosenberg - Illustration by Stan Shaw - EnergyBiz

    The people of Denmark have a story to tell in their own Nordic unassuming way. You hear it from quietly proud Per Volund, an engineer, as he takes a group of Americans out on a small boat to tour the Middlegrunden wind farm in Copenhagen harbor. Volund, the vicechairman of the cooperative that runs the 20 turbines, pointed out at the arc of units standing in the tides one recent wintry day, providing the Danish capital with 4 percent of its electricity since 2000. “We solved all the problems to make it happen and proved that this is possible and not too complicated,” he said.

  • Islands Seek Aid for Subsea Green-Power 'Export' Link
    Jan 30, 2008 - The Scotsman

    FUNDING is being sought to build a subsea power cable to take green energy from the Western Isles to England and southern Scotland.

  • U.S. Wind Power Surges 45%, Again Shatters Records - AWEA
    Jan 21, 2008 - Wind Energy Weekly

    Shattering all of its previous records, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 MW in 2007, expanding the nation’s total wind power generating capacity by 45% in a single calendar year and injecting an investment of over $9 billion into the economy, AWEA announced January 17.

  • Enel, GE Soar to New Heights at Texas Wind Farm with Tallest Turbine Towers in US
    Jan 10, 2008 - Business Wire

    SNYDER, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enel SpA, through its subsidiary Enel North America, Inc., announced today the completion of a wind farm in Texas with the tallest utility-scale wind turbines in the United States as well as investments by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE (NYSE: GE - News).

  • Wind Energy Center requires transmission line
    Jan 6, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kevin Bonham Grand Forks Herald, N.D.

    The $250 million Langdon Wind Energy Center near here could not begin to deliver wind energy throughout eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota without a new $10 million transmission line.

  • More Farmers Seeing Wind As Cash Crop
    Dec 11, 2007 - Chicago Tribune

    At a time when most people choose to avoid the harsh winter winds that roar past corn stubble and whip up billowing dust clouds over table-flat fields, farmers in the Thumb of Michigan now talk about catching the wind and all the money that comes with it.

  • Britain seeks to build enough wind turbines to power all UK homes by 2020
    Dec 10 - Raphael G. Satter - The Associated Press

    Lopngdon - Britain unveiled plans Monday to generate enough electricity through offshore wind farms to power every home in the country by 2020, increasing production more than 60-fold and changing the look of the country's coasts.

  • Sweden proposes fourfold increase in windmills - to up to 6,000
    Nov 30, 2007 - The Associated Press

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's energy officials on Friday proposed a more than fourfold increase in wind power, which would mean building thousands more windmills in the Nordic country - in a move to meet EU goals for increasing renewable energy.

  • Fortis and BBVA to Lead $185 Million Senior Secured Financing for New 164 MW Wind Farm
    Nov. 30, 2007 - /PRNewswire/

    NEW YORK - Fortis and BBVA, today announced that they have been selected to be Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers for a $185 million Senior Secured Financing that will support construction and operation of NedPower Mount Storm LLC (the "Project"), a new 164 MW wind farm in Grant County, West Virginia. Shell WindEnergy, a division of Royal Dutch Shell , one of the largest wind farm owners in the world, and Dominion one of the largest producers of energy in the U.S., are sponsoring the Project and will own it on a 50/50 basis. Fortis will also act as Administrative Agent and Security Agent for the Project.

  • Iberdrola Renewable's Unit IPO Set For Dec 13
    Nov 22, 2007 - Dow Jones News

    MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Shares in Iberdrola Renovables, the renewable energy unit of Spanish power utility Iberdrola SA (IBE.MC), are set to start trade Dec. 13, in one of the biggest initial public offerings in Spain.

  • State's Largest Wind Farm, Transmission Line Dedicated
    Nov 13, 2007 - Business Wire
    Minnesota's largest wind farm and the state's largest transmission line built to carry wind power into the Twin Cities were dedicated today and will soon become fully operational, subject to final approvals by the regional transmission operator.

  • Wind farm supporters say coal-plant decision dooms their projects
    Nov 12, 2007 - The Associated Press

    As many as 13 potential wind-farm projects in western Kansas could be in danger because of the state's decision to reject two coal-fired generating plants near Holcomb, proponents of the wind farms said.

  • Wind energy trade group raises forecast
    Nov 08, 2007 - AP

    U.S. wind energy providers are on track to add 4,000 megawatts of generating capacity in 2007, enough new electricity to power more than 1 million homes, the industry's trade group said Wednesday.

  • Government of Canada Invests in Canada's Largest Wind Energy Project
    Nov 8, 2007 - Marketwire

    The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, was at the Prince Wind Energy Farm today to announce more than $53 million in funding, over ten years, for the largest wind energy project in Canada. Minister Clement, speaking on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, was joined by Mr. Harry Goldgut, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Power, to make the announcement.

  • U.S. Winds Morph into a European Power Play: EU Firms Are Attracted to Open Space and Generous Subsidies for Green Energy
    Nov 8, 2007 - International Herald Tribune

    The European Union has taken the lead on many climate change issues - from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol to passing laws to require and encourage the development of renewable energy. Why, then, are so many European energy companies looking to invest in the United States?

  • Italy to Build 500 New Wind Plants
    Nov 7, 2007 - Xinhua News Agency
    Italy plans to build 500 more wind plants to become the biggest producer of wind energy, Italian NewsAgency ANSA reported on Tuesday.

  • Wind Turbine Supply Will Catch Up with Demand - Panel
    Nov 6, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly

    lobal supply and demand for wind turbines and related components should begin to balance out in 2009 and into 2010, although the industry value chain is still significantly hindered by policy uncertainty, said panelists in a session that tackled supply chain issues at the AWEA 2007 Wind Energy Fall Symposium.

  • Wind and Solar Energy: Renewable Energy to Create Thousands of New Jobs
    Oct 26, 2007 - Business Wire

    Rhone Resch, President of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and Randy Swisher, President of the American Wind Energy Association, guests at separate Executive News Roundtables sponsored by Energy Policy TV, said the renewable energy industries will be large creators of new jobs in the U.S. in the coming years. Videos of their appearances are available at no cost on Energy Policy TV's Solar and Wind Channels, respectively.

  • Internet-like energy system becoming reality
    Oct 9, 2007 - Paul Hanley - The StarPhoenix

    Several years ago, the futurist Jeremy Rifkin predicted the world would build an energy system that would resemble the Internet. The Internet is, of course, the worldwide, publicly-accessible series of interconnected computer networks that consist of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business and government information networks. People everywhere can link to the Internet, put information in and take it out.

  • Interstate Transmission Vision for Wind Integration
    Oct 9, 2007 - American Electric Power

    American Electric Power, working at the request of, and in partnership with, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), presents a high-level, conceptual interstate transmission plan that could provide a basis for discussion to expand industry infrastructure needs in the future. AEP believes that expansion of Extra High Voltage (EHV) interstate transmission systems provides increased reliability, market efficiency, environmental optimization and national security for the benefit of electric customers across the United States.

  • $5B windfarm planned for Australia
    Oct 8, 2007 - UPI

    A massive wind farm planned for southeastern Australia would provide as much electricity as a large coal-powered plant.

  • Texas CREZ Plan Could Become National Model
    Oct 8, 2007 - Wind Energy Weekly

    The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on October 2 issued an interim final order in its high-profile "CREZ" case, designating five"Competitive Renewable Energy Zones" in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle and authorizing development of transmission lines needed to deliver electricity produced in those windy areas to customers throughout Texas.

  • Alberta 900 MW Cap on Wind Power Lifted
    Oct 4, 2007 - Randyn Seibold - RenewableEnergyAccess.com

    Alberta, Canada's self-imposed wind generation cap of 900 megawatts (MW) has been lifted following the government's completion of an interconnection and transmission study. Wind intermittency and maintaining constant balance between supply and demand within the provincial grid system were the major reasons cited for the cap.

  • Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.
    Oct 4, 2007 - RenewableEnergyAccess.com

    CREZ Plan could become national model. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) issued an Interim Final Order yesterday that could enable construction of up to 22,806 Megawatts (MW) of new wind power in Texas. A final order, transmission plan, and budget are still pending before the Commission but are expected to be finalized in early 2008.

  • Taiwan to Expand Its Wind Power Capacity
    Sep 28, 2007 - International Herald Tribune

    Taiwan may spend more than 100 billion New Taiwan dollars, or $3 billion, during the next three years to increase wind power capacity tenfold and cut coal and gas imports. "Renewable energy can help us reduce dependence on overseas resources," Wang Yunn-ming, the deputy director general of Taiwan's energy bureau, said Thursday.

  • Inner Mongolia Installs Wind Generators with 1000MW Capacity
    Sep 28, 2007 - SinoCast

    Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a pioneer of clean energy development in China, announces that the combined installed capacity of all wind power generator sets in the region exceeds 1000 megawatts, the biggest in the country.

  • China to Build Tens of Millions Kilowatt Wind Farms
    Sep 21, 2007 - SinoCast

    Beijing - China is likely to build 10,000-megawatt-class wind farms in the future, revealed Wu Guihui, deputy director of the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission at the Southern China International Energy Summit held in Guangzhou on September 19.

  • Researchers create N.S. wind map to assist growth of energy source
    Sep 18, 2007 - The Assciated Press

    The Nova Scotia government has mapped the province's wind potential and is hoping to lure investors to what it claims are some of the most promising wind sources in the world.

  • EDF enhances its wind energy capacity in Greece
    Sep 18, 2007 - Datamonitor

    EDF Energies Nouvelles has announced the entry into service of two new wind farms in Greece, developed by its Greek subsidiary EEN Hellas.

  • Everything is Big There: Texas Now Tops in Wind
    Aug 25, 2007 - Oakland Tribune

    Recent Texas developments suggest that California's lead in one alternative energy area may be gone with the wind. The wind turbine, that is. Last year, for the first time ever, an industry association reported that Texas surpassed California as the country's No. 1 generator of wind energy. Not only did the Lone Star State blow past the Golden State again in this year's report, but Texas regulators in July voted to designate eight zones for production of some 20,000 megawatts of wind energy.

  • Wind Power Stars in U.S. Renewable Energy Gains, EIA Finds
    Aug 21, 2007 - NGI's Power Market Today

    Preliminary numbers out from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) are enough to bring at least small smiles to the faces of environmentalists and conservationists.

  • Hydro Tasmania, CLP and China Datang to build wind farm
    August 15, 2007 - Angela Macdonald-Smith - Bloomberg News

    Roaring 40s Renewable Energy, a wind energy venture between Hydro Tasmania and CLP Holdings, agreed with China Datang to build what may be one of the world's largest onshore wind farms. The first 400-megawatt stage of the project, to be built by early next year, will supply enough energy for almost one million homes.

  • Inner Mongolia Plans 33,000 MW of Installed Wind Power
    Aug. 9, 2007 - MARKET WIRE

    Inner Mongolia is one of the provinces (regions) with the richest wind resources in China. However, utilization of wind power is quite limited.

  • Where the Wind Blows
    Jul 26, 2007 - Economist

    A grandiose plan to link Europe's electricity grids may recast wind power from its current role as a walk-on extra to being the star of the show

  • Siemens successfully completes erection of 25 offshore wind turbines in Great Britain
    July 10, 2007

    Siemens Power Generation (PG) has successfully completed installation of 25 wind turbines for the Burbo Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay. The turbines with a capacity of 3.6 megawatts (MW) each were erected in less than 1.5 months, well ahead of schedule. Following commissioning and connection of the offshore wind farm to the power grid the wind turbines will start commercial operation by the end of the year, supplying environmentally friendly power to more than 80,000 households. The Burbo offshore wind farm has a total capacity of 90 MW and will be operated by SeaScape Energy Ltd., a company owned by the Danish utility DONG Energy A/S.

    http://www.windfair.net/press/3628.html

  • Energy shifts are in the wind
    Jun 27, 2007 - Alex Shebar - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

    The proposed purchase of the parent of Rochester Gas and Electric could help New York state move toward achieving its renewable energy goals, participants in the deal said Tuesday. Iberdrola SA, a major Spanish utility, has agreed to pay $4.5 billion to acquire Energy East Corp., parent of RG&E, New York State Electric and Gas, and other Northeast power companies. Iberdrola is the world's top producer of wind power and provides other types of renewable energy, including solar and hydropower.

  • Opportunity to invest in wind energy in Jordan is more promising now
    Jun 15, 2007 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kahlid Neimat Jordan Times, Amman

    The opportunity to invest in wind energy in the Kingdom is more promising now than before, the World Bank said in a statement issued on its website this past week

    http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/generation/wind/energycentral.com/opportunity-to-invest-in-wind-energy-in-jordan-is-more-promising-now/index.shtml


  • Western states poised to meet 30,000-MW clean energy goal
    Jun 25, 2007- Wind Energy Weekly

    Western states are on track to surpass a 2004 goal of adding 30,000 MW of "clean and diversified" energy generation in the region by 2015, according to a report from the Western Governors’ Association.

  • Towers of wind power, made in Pa.: A Spanish firm's big investments in Pennsylvania are a signs of the economic potential of renewable energy in the Rust Belt
    Jun 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Jeff Gelles The Philadelphia Inquirer

    If wind energy ever plays a big role in Pennsylvania's economy, a little-noticed 2003 recycling conference in Bilbao, Spain, may merit some of the credit.

  • Texas oil tycoon plans largest wind farm
    June 20, 2007 - The Associated Press

    2,000 turbines over 200,000 acres at cost that could reach $6 billion
    LUBBOCK, Texas - Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas.

  • Opportunity to invest in wind energy in Jordan is more promising now
    June 15, 2007 McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kahlid Neimat Jordan Times, Amman

    The opportunity to invest in wind energy in the Kingdom is more promising now than before, the World Bank said in a statement issued on its website this past week

  • Mexico's State Power Utility To Build Lines For Wind Projects
    May 16, 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's state-owned electric utility Comision Federal de Electricidad, or CFE, said it plans to build transmission lines to carry power from private wind-driven projects under way in southern Mexico.

  • India Sees Wind as Partial Answer to Its Perennial Energy Shortages
    May 14, 2007 - New Delhi - Voice of America News/ContentWorks

    The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a 100-megawatt wind energy plant in India as part of a drive to promote renewable energy sources in Asia. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, India has emerged as the world's fifth-largest producer of wind energy.

  • Tax Credits, Transmission Lines Considered Key For Wind Farms
    May 14, 2007 - By Dirk Lammers - The Associated Press

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D Companies looking to build large wind farms and the electrical transmission lines to carry the power need more stable tax credits if they're to invest in the alternative energy source, a Department of Energy official said Monday.

  • NAEG Reports Breakthrough for its Wind and Solar Projects
    April 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall

    FOREST HILLS, N.Y. - Native American Energy Group, Inc. (the "Company," or "NAEG") (Pink Sheets: NVMG), an independent energy company, reported today that the newly proposed construction of a 203-mile-long transmission line tying Alberta into the U.S. power grid in Montana may be the solution that allows NAEG to tap the potential for wind and solar generation in Montana.

  • Power Plan Sets Lofty Wind Goal
    Apr 25, 2007- Missoulian

    When Bill Drummond caught wind of the notion that energy analysts were considering ways to blow a whopping 6,000 megawatts of wind power onto the regional grid, he thought it was so much pie in the sky. No way, he thought, can that much wind power be generated and transmitted in the Pacific Northwest. "But today," Drummond said, "I'm convinced it may be on the low end" - not only of what's possible, but of what's likely.

  • Wind energy cuts Taiwan CO2 emissions by 250,000 tons a year
    Apr 22, 2007 -- BBC Monitoring

    The number of wind turbines along Taiwan's west coast now surpasses 100, and the renewable energy generated by these units is sufficient to prevent the emission of 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, energy officials said Sunday.

  • California regulator approves transmission projects for wind power
    March 28, 2007 Refocus

    The California Public Utilities Commission has approved two projects to construct transmission to reach areas with high potential for green power resources.

    http://www.re-focus.net/articles/general/news/070328_california.html

  • Spain's wind energy generation reaches new high, exceeding all other forms
    Mar 20, 2007 The Associated Press

    Taking advantage of a particularly gusty period, Spain's wind energy generators this week reached an all-time high in electricity production, exceeding power generated by all other means, the nation's electricity network authority said Tuesday in a statement.

  • Two Oil Giants Plunge into the Wind Business
    Mar 2, 2007 - The Boston Globe

    Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative-energy field.

  • Wind Farms Caught in a Catch-22 Situation
    Mar 1, 2007 Energy Central

    The Press; Christchurch, New Zealand: Wind-farm proposals will not be able to provide much-needed power to the rest of New Zealand unless Central Otago has new transmission lines, Transpower says.

  • New Zealand utility plans $2 billion in green projects
    Feb 28, 2007 - Refocus.net

    Contact Energy will invest NZ$2 billion to develop green power from wind and geothermal facilities over the next five years.

  • NYRI official: project could lead to more upstate wind farms
    Feb 27, 2007 Devlin Barret - The Associated Press

    A high-voltage transmission line running through Central New York could spur the creation of environmentally friendly wind farms across the state, according to an official with the company that hopes to build the line.

  • Transmission Loop to Bring 4,200 MW of Wind Energy to Texas
    Feb 19, 2007 renewableenergyaccess.com

    A consortia backed by Airtricity has committed to the construction of a 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission 'loop' in the Texas Panhandle Plains region: The $1.5 billion 'Panhandle Loop' will be a 800-mile 'looped' transmission project bringing 4,200 megawatt (MW) of wind energy to more than one million homes.

    http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=47485
  • Report: Windy S.D. not reaching its potential
    Feb 12, 2007 The Associated Press

    South Dakota should start working hard on wind power because it's the worst of the major wind resource states in churning out wind energy, according to the author of a study about future energy needs.

  • Developer Eyes California to Buy Canadian Wind Energy
    Jan 22, 2007 California Energy Markets

    Katabatic Corp. is hoping California will have an interest in buying power generated from the 3,000 MW Banks Island wind project slated for a 120-mile parcel of land along the northwest coast of British Columbia.

  • Largest Onshore Wind Farm Given the Green Light
    Jan 20, 2007 The Independent, London

    Scottish & Southern unveiled plans yesterday to build the UK's largest onshore wind farm - capable of powering a quarter of all homes in Scotland - in the Shetland Islands.

  • Wind for Power Has Big Hurdle: It Doesn't Blow on Demand
    Dec 28, 2006 Interntional Herald Tribune

    Wind, almost everybody's best hope for big supplies of clean, affordable enectricity, is turning out to have complications.

  • Canada's cutting-edge energy model
    Dec 21, 2006 The Christian Science Monitor

    ELMIRA, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - If you want a glimpse of this province's energy future, drive the winding country roads to its eastern tip, take a left at the sign for the village of Elmira, and follow the red dirt track to the right. You can't miss it. Ten wind turbines stand along the trail, each 26 stories tall, with blades as long as 125 feet. When workers finish the last one this month, the new Eastern Kings Wind Farm will generate 30 megawatts of electricity - 7.5 percent of the province's power - by harnessing the strong winds that buffet the island's northern shore.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1221/p06s01-woam.html

  • Southern California Edison Signs Largest Wind Energy Contract in U.S. Renewable Industry History
    Dec 21, 2006 - Business Wire

    New renewable contracts will supply SCE customers with equivalent of two major power plants.
    ROSEMEAD, Calif., - Southern California Edison (SCE), the nation's leading purchaser of renewable energy, today signed a ground-breaking wind energy contract that will provide the utility’s customers with a major new source of emission-free power.

    http://www.edison.com/pressroom/pr.asp?id=6487

  • Experimental Wind-to-Hydrogen System Up and Running
    Dec 14, 2006 - NREL Press Release

    Xcel Energy (NYSE:XEL) and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory today unveiled a unique facility that uses electricity from wind turbines to produce and store pure hydrogen, offering what may become an important new template for future energy production.

    http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2006/485.html

  • Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50% by 2025, Mostly Offshore
    Dec 5, 2006 - RenewableEnergyAccess.com

    Findings released from eight-year study on offshore wind farms in Denmark show projects "operate in harmony with the surrounding environment."

  • National Audubon Society Shows Support for Wind Power
    Nov 13, 2006 - Wind Energy Weekly

    National Audubon Society Shows Support for Wind Power Pointing to the link between global warming and the birds and other wildlife that scientists assert it will kill, the National Audubon Society said that it "strongly supports wind power as a clean alternative energy source."

    http://www.forasenergy.com/article_audubonsociety.php

  • Wind energy development a boon to rural areas - Wind farms spell big benefits for small towns
    Oct. 25, 2006 - Canadian NewsWire

    WINNIPEG, Manitoba – An increasing number of small rural communities, many facing economic challenges, are now tapping into one of Canada’s truly bountiful resource, wind, and reaping the benefits of harnessing a clean and renewable power source. Two new case studies released today by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) show that wind energy is helping to boost the economy of rural communities through local investments, job creation, land lease fees, new local tax revenues and tourism income.

    http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/New_releases/CanWEA_Release_-October25(1).pdf

  • FPL Energy dedicates 735 MW Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center – the world’s largest wind farm
    Oct 19, 2006 - Business Wire

    FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE: FPL) today hosted about 200 guests near Abilene to dedicate the world’s largest wind farm – the 735 MW Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center located in Taylor and Nolan County, Texas.

    http://www.fplenergy.com/news/contents/101906.shtml

  • FERC Eyes Transmission Reforms That Could Help Wind
    Oct 16, 2006, Wind Energy Weekly

    On October 12, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held a hearing to examine reform of the 10-year-old Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) which govern the rates, terms, and conditions of transmission service in much of the country. AWEA was represented on a panel by Don Furman, Senior Vice President of PPM Energy, who said, “The biggest impediment to investment in wind generation is the lack of adequate firm transmission capacity.” This hearing comes after two rounds of comments on draft rules in a reform effort that the Commissioners and the industry see creating new services and new opportunities for transmission, especially in the West.

    http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_article.cfm?id=72837027

  • China and India trying to harness the power of wind
    Sep 19, 2006 - Angela Macdonald-Smith - Bloomberg News

    Global scramble to develop alternative sources of energy has industry executives focusing on emerging markets
    China and India are accelerating development of wind power, luring companies including the turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, as restrictions hamper wind farm construction in traditional markets like Australia. A venture, partly owned by CLP Holdings of Hong Kong, earlier this year scrapped more than $400 million of projects in Australia, where quotas on renewable energy have almost been met, in favor of China and India. Vestas Wind, the world's biggest wind turbine maker, and Suzlon Energy of India, Asia's largest wind turbine maker, are expanding in China.

    http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/19/bloomberg/sxwind.php

  • Govt to optimise utilisation of renewable energy source
    Sep 18, 2006 - Business India News

    Bangalore - Government has stepped up efforts to make India, holding fourth place in wind energy generation after the US, Germany and Spain, scale up the ladder by optimum utilisation of renewable energy sources, a top official of Union Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources said.

    The capacity of wind energy generation in the country is 5,600 mw, V Subramanian, Secretary, Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources told a news conference after the annual general body meeting of the Wind Power Association (WPA) here today.

    http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=23553

  • Energy companies blown away by wind farm demand; Turbines gain an air of popularity
    Sept 15, 2006, Adam Wilmoth, Business writer

    Oklahoma's power companies continue to convert one of the state's most abundant resources into environmentally-friendly electricity.

    http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/index.asp?layout=articleXml&xmlId=508045199

  • Wind could install 1,200 GW to meet shortfall in fossil fuels
    Sept 14, 2006, Jessica Woolliams - Refocus Weekly

    The world's wind industry could install 1,200 GW of turbines by 2030 to meet the shortfall in oil and gas supplies, suggests the Global Wind Energy Council and Renewable Energy Systems.

    http://www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/forumtopic/wind_could_install_1_200_gw_to_meet_shortfall_in_fossil_fuels

  • Wind's Economic Value
    September 11, 2006 - Ken Silverstein, EnergyBiz Insider, Editor-in-Chief

    Xcel Energy's experience with wind energy is whipping up support for alternative fuels. A new study says that energy consumers in Colorado will save more than $251 million over the next 20 years because of the utility's current fleet of wind plants.

    http://windenergynews.blogspot.com/2006/09/winds-economic-value.html

  • Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center Now Largest Wind Farm In The World
    September 8, 2006, Clean Edge News

    FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, announced that as of the end of August it had completed 662 megawatts of the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas, making it the largest wind farm in the world. When the last phase of the project is complete later this month, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center will have a total capacity of 735 megawatts.

    http://www.cleanedge.com/story.php?nID=4297