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Great Britain; Green Britain

A bumper crop of more than 1,200 new wind turbines will spring up throughout Britain’s countryside over the next twelve months. Onshore there are 763 onshore wind turbines slated to be erected this year, adding to the 4,366 already in operation, and harvesting the wind. If you add those turbines that have been approved, but not… Read the rest

Green Google

Google this: Spinning Spur Wind Project, Oldham County, Texas. You’ll see that the company famous for its ubiquitous search engine has purchased a 200 million dollar stake in this 161 Megawatt wind farm in West Texas. The farm has 70 turbines and produces energy sufficient to satisfy the needs of 60,000 homes. The wind farm started… Read the rest

£44 million Wind Power investment Northern Ireland

At the tail end of last year the Northern Ireland Utility Regulator announced that more than £44 million has been set aside for renewable energy generation and infrastructure creation in the north and west of Northern Ireland. This will be a major boost to reaching the target of 40% of electricity demand being provided from renewable… Read the rest

Nuclear Reactor Costs Rise- Wind Power Cheaper?

It’s bad news for the new reactor under construction at Flamanville, France. Costs have risen dramatically and the delays are close to unacceptable. Originally it was scheduled to be completed this year for a cost of €3.3 billion, but the cost of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) doubled in 2011 to €6 billion and completion was… Read the rest

November Sees New Record for UK Wind Power Generation

For those living in the UK, did you feel the earth move at 3pm on 6 November? No? Or maybe a slight sweet smell of success on the breeze? Well despite the UK coalition Government’s appearance of blowing hot and cold on windpower beyond 2020, the facts are that a new record for the maximum output… 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

The Two Faces of UK Conservative MP on Wind Power

Conservative UK Member of Parliament, Chris Heaton-Harris, was exposed as two-faced this week when he was secretly filmed undercover footage revealed significant differences between his public and private criticisms of wind power. You may recall that Heaton-Harris was the organiser of the letter signed by 101 Conservative MPs urging the Prime Minister to end onshore wind… Read the rest

Pride in London Pride

“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

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

The Real Cost of Windpower

I must confess to sometimes getting very exasperated with the grumbles and complaints voiced by some consumers, politicians, economists, and of course the fossil fuel lobby, when they point to the fact that windpower is more expensive than traditional carbon-generating fuels. It’s like saying that advertising and programmes to ween people of cigarettes are expensive, and… Read the rest