Furniture and Turbines Do Go Together!

Sarah Dinola
We reported a few months ago about IKEA’s interest and investment in wind energy:   . It seems that it wasn’t just a flash in the pan… Ikea’s has made another wind farm purchase  just three months after the last. How long before each Ikea furniture store has a signature turbine in blue and yellow on its… Read the rest

New Wind Farms for The Phillipines

Colin P
A very small percentage of the total energy output of the Phillipines is from wind power, but the country wind energy sector has significant potential and could provide over 70GW of power.  The 33 MW Bangui Bay wind farm (unusual in wind farms in that it is on the beach) is the only operating wind farm… Read the rest

European Wind Turbine Manufacturers Turn Corner

Sarah Dinola
After three years of losses, shutdowns and lay-offs, European wind turbine manufacturing giants such as Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems, Germany’s Nordex, and Gamesa  appear set for declaring pre-tax profits. This has led to much anticipation and investors are now driving up their share prices. Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that shares in these corporations have risen… Read the rest

Two New Wind Farms for Northern Poland

Colin P
The Polish wind power plant developer and operator PEP S.A. ( which stands for Polish Energy Partners S.A.) has commissioned Siemens to build two wind power plants in Northern Poland. The delivery of the turbines to the first wind project will start next year, in May.  The plan is for 18 Siemens model SWT-2.3-108 wind turbine… Read the rest

Brighton Builds Biggest Blade

Sarah Dinola
The longest wind turbine blade ever made in the United States has been made at Vestas Wind Systems’ blades factory in Brighton, Denver, United States. The first few prototypes, each just a few feet short of 200 feet, are leaving the factory, bound for Houston. There they will be loaded onto ships to take them to… Read the rest

INVEST IN GREECE WIND POWER – From the Origins of Democracy to the Future of Wind Power!

Ultra N
Invest In Greece Now! Greece has attracted a fair bit of negative press over the last months largely due to the effects of the recession and the austerity measures demanded of its beleaguered citizens by its Government and the European Union. However the birthplace of democracy is also a place of optimism and opportunity. Particularly if… Read the rest

The World’s Biggest Turbine

Colin P
Is there going to be a limit to how large wind turbines are going to get? Or will there come a point where despite the lightness of the material used for the blades, and the efficiency of the gearbox, the law of diminishing returns sets in, and it becomes too expensive to manufacture, transport to site,… Read the rest

Pride in London Pride

Colin P
“London Pride”, the London Array offshore wind farm, situated just off the Kent coastline, South East England, has begun operations, albeit at a modest level. The first one of 175 wind turbines has begun generating energy and supplying it to the UK national grid. Richard Rigg, London Array Project Director, noted the most recent milestone being… Read the rest

UK Coalition Government Must Display Leadership

Colin P
The UK coalition Government of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, led by David Cameron, boasted of their green credentials when they came to power.  About to introduce an energy bill into Parliament in the next few weeks, it is essential that the Coalition shows its political leadership, and its grasp of economic analysis, and listen to what… Read the rest