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Obama On Course To Decrease Dependance On Imported Oil

President Barack Obama says shifting the U.S. away from imported oil and toward cleaner forms of energy will add momentum to a trend that has led… Read the rest..

Water – The Business Risk To The Power Sector

When wind energy critics tell us about how intermittent, unreliable, expensive, noisy, dangerous to wildlife, or aesthetically unappealing energy created from wind is, they forget to… Read the rest..

44MW Vestas Turbines To Be Installed On New Swedish Wind Farm

On course to become the worlds largest wind turbine supplier, Vestas has received a new order of 22 wind turbines V90-2.0 MW for a new project… Read the rest..

Still Skill Shortage In UK’s Wind Industry

Despite the doubling of jobs in just 2 years in the UK wind energy sector, the Wind Industry still faces a skills shortage. According to a… Read the rest..

Tesco – Third-Largest Retailer In The World Is To Power UK Distribution Center With Wind Turbines

Two 2.5MW wind turbines on 90 metre towers will provide 50% of the retailers factory/distribution centre to join the global trend for businesses to reduce carbon… Read the rest..

Siemens Direct Drive Turbines To Be Used in Minnesota 105 MW Project

The project with the name Bison 2 will be build by Minnesota Power in Central Dakota, using 35 3MW SWT-3.0-101 Direct Drive Turbines by Siemens. The… Read the rest..

Turkey Hill Ice Cream Churned By Wind Power

Turkey Hill can be added to the growing list of companies who rely on alternative energy to power their product lines. They announced that a quarter… Read the rest..

Chinese Wind Turbine Companies Rising Up The Ranks In World League

With the Global Wind energy Council ( GWEC ) prediction on Tuesday that world wind power capacity will more than double by 2015 – growing to… Read the rest..

Vestas opens R&D test centre in Chennai

Vestas has opened a state of the art test centre for wind turbines in Chennai, therfore again expanding its technology R&D capabilities.
The new test centre… Read the rest..

Upwind – Downwind – Definition – What is Upwind? – What is Downwind?

UPWIND & DOWNWIND DEFINITIONS Confused about the definitions for ‘Upwind’ and ‘Downwind’?…or even argue with colleagues about the exact definitions? Well, then here we’ll explain in… Read the rest..