Green Energy News

How Does Fracking Measure Up to Wind Power?

Let’s go back to basics: Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is produced through the decomposition and heating of organic matter over many hundreds of… Read the rest..

How to Retire Wind Turbines

While most people are focused on the creation of new wind farm sites, and deciding which are the most efficient new turbines to install there, what… Read the rest..

Danish Pensioners Support Offshore Wind Power!

Perhaps that’s a slightly misleading headline, but the fact is a Danish pension company (responsible for taking and investing pension payments from those in employment to… Read the rest..

KidWind

It has long been said that to win over the hearts of minds of adults in the future you need to educate the children now. Today,… Read the rest..

UK Government New Incentives for Wind Farms

The UK Government has presented new Wind Farm Planning Guidance which will enable local opposition to reject proposed wind farms. However the Government still considers that… Read the rest..

Gamesa Drop Plans for 5.5MW Platform

Gamesa has decided not to progress with the prototype construction of its 5.5MW turbine, and instead will concentrate on the 5MW machine being which is being… Read the rest..

Wind Power in Chile Gets a Boost

Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a US$1.4 billion joint venture with the private equity company, Actis, to develop 600MW of renewable projects in Chile. The… Read the rest..

British “Negawatts”?

While not being part of the British Coalition Government’s Energy Bill, an amendment was suggested which seems to have ruffled feathers in Parliament. It was a… Read the rest..

South African Factory to Produce Wind Towers

South Africa’s heavy engineering group, DCD is to build wind turbine towers at Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province. The facility, due for completion in January,… Read the rest..

Hydrochina to Install Pakistan’s Third Wind Farm

Hydrochina will install 12 2.5MW wind turbines in the Tapal project in the north-east of Sindh province, 150 kilometers from Karachi. Hydrochina is a subsidiary of… Read the rest..