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New 170MW Onshore Wind Farm for India

The company Inox Wind (which is a subsidiary of Gujerat Fluorochemicals) has secured a contract to provide wind turbines for an onshore wind farm in the vicinity of Ratlam and Mandasaur districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. Inox Wind has a deal (worth around $150m) from Singapore-based company Continuum Wind Energy to provide wind turbines for a… Read the rest

BT Buys 50% Output from Scottish Wind Farm

BT, the giant communication company, has agreed a £300m deal to buy enough energy to meet the needs of all its Scottish operations for the next 20 years from a wind farm being completed in the Borders. The company will buy 50% of the electricity generated by the 48-turbine Fallago Rig scheme near Lauder, which is… Read the rest

Vestas Seal Deal with First Wind for Oakfield Wind Farm, Maine.

Vestas Wind Systems have won a 148-megawatt order from First Wind Holdings Inc. in Maine. This is the Danish manufacturer’s fourth project with this U.S. developer. The order is for 48 V112 3-megawatt wind turbines, which are rated at just over 3 megawatts each. It’s the second stage for Vestas, under a wider 718-megawatt agreement with… Read the rest

GE Win Contract for 400MW Texas Wind Farm

New Generation Power Texas (a diversified global developer, investor, owner and operator of energy infrastructure assets in the areas of Utility Scale Power Generation) has signed a contract with GE for the supply of 235 wind turbines and related services for their 400 Megawatt Texas Wind Project. Clearing and construction at the site began at the… Read the rest

Businesses See Sense in Wind Power Investment

A few weeks ago the Scandinavian home furnishing colossus, Ikea, announced plans to build a wind farm on property it owns in Illinois. This is just one example of how shrewd businesses are using green energy sources such as solar and wind power to reduce running costs and add to their profits. Oh, and of course… Read the rest

Number of UK Onshore Wind Turbines: 4,400 or 30,000?!

How can there be such a discrepancy between the figures quoted in the title? The answer lies in what you call a wind turbine when doing your sums. The lower figure, most commonly quoted for reference in the wind industry, 4,400, is made up of larger wind turbines. The smaller number, over 30,000 according to new… Read the rest

Farmers for Wind

I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of onshore wind turbines on their land. When you do some background research you tend to find that the farmer is in fact a pro-fossil fuel hack who has adopted Wurzel credentials for a day to get off another anti-wind… Read the rest

Renewable Energy Islands

While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are doing their bit for reducing the carbon footprint. Let’s look at El Hierro and Eigg. El Hierro is the smallest of the Spanish Canary Islands and located off the coast of Africa. … Read the rest

Siemens Notch up Second Project in Peru with Cobra Energia

Cobra Energia, the Spanish wind developer, has awarded Siemens Energy another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by an additional 97MWs. The Tres Hermanas wind power plant will include a combination of 25 Siemens direct drive SWT-3.0-108 wind turbines and eight geared SWT-2.3-108 units (pictured below). The contract also includes six… Read the rest

UK Conservative Party Will End Onshore Wind Power Subsidies if Re-elected in 2015

The U.K. Conservative Party has finally gone public with a policy many political commentators thought would be coming. They will end all subsidies to onshore wind power if they win the next UK election, a move that the industry said would end deployment of the country’s cheapest form of renewable energy. The Conservatives (who with the… Read the rest