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Google Acquire Wind Power Company

You may recall that search engine supremo Google has invested in some novel innovations and technologies. The self-driving car and the wearable computing device being a couple of the wackier ones. But there’s nothing wacky about wind power and that’s where Google have invested in the past. But they’ve gone a step further now, by acquiring… Read the rest

Breakthrough in Storage and Re-use of Wind Power

The tricky problem of how to store wind and solar energy and re-use it at a later time, may be a step closer to a practical solution. This may make it possible for homeowners and energy companies to store and re-use or sell renewable energy, and not rely on it only being available when the wind… Read the rest

The World’s Biggest Turbine

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

Spotlight on Romania

Romania is likely to double its wind power capacity this year, as investors consider the attractive European Union- approved incentives for investment in renewable industry. It is expected that installed wind power capacity will increase to 2,100 megawatts by the end of 2012 in Romania, from about 1,000 megawatts at the end of 2011, said .… Read the rest

4th Annual Wind Power Conference Held in Turkey

Today is the second day of the 4th Annual Wind Power Conference, taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. A number of people have said “why Turkey?” Well, for the clever investor, Turkey represents a real jewel in terms of wind power development. For starters, its economy is growing, something to be noted in comparison with Europe and… Read the rest

National Geographic Showcases England’s Greenest Island

The Isle of Wight, 2 miles off the South coast of Britain, is a diamond shaped island that has some fine views, a fine annual music festival (the 1969 one featured the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan), an amazing castle (Carisbrooke), and is where my parents used to take me for holidays (Sandown and Shanklin)! … Read the rest

Enough Energy Available in Winds to Meet All of the World’s Demands

A detailed report was published last month in Nature Climate Change that concluded that there is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world’s demand. Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira examined the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, adding in the effects that high-altitude wind power could have on… Read the rest

Denmark Create High-Tech Wind TurbineTest Centre

6 October saw the inauguration of a state-of-the-art Wind Turbine Test Centre at Østerild, Denmark. It’s the world’s first purpose-built test site than can accommodate the tallest masted wind turbines produced today, under optimum wind conditions. Given that Denmark has but 7 years to meet its energy target of half of its energy consumption having been… Read the rest

250Mw German Coastal Wind Farm Developments Delayed by Porpoises

It’s generally agreed that the cost of building and commissioning off-shore wind farms is more than onshore wind farms. But the cost of German projects to build a massive wind farm is now going to cost a lot more, due to the danger to thousands of porpoises. The project will cover an area that is eight… Read the rest

Vestas Reports Strong Performance In Early 2010

Denmark’s Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine maker, is enjoying a large number of orders recently to come back from a very shaky 2009. Vestas announced last Wednesday that German company Nordwind Handels GmbH & Co. ordered 40 V90 turbines for installation in eastern Germany. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 MW. The contract includes… Read the rest