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Gamesa Ditches Virginia Offshore Wind Project

May 17, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Spanish wind-power company Gamesa is pulling the plug on Virginia. Gamesa’s first offshore wind turbine prototype was planned for installation off Cape Charles, Va., but now the company says it will cite the turbine in Arinaga Quay in the Canary Islands.Gamesa said it expects to begin installation of the G128-5.0 megawatt (MW)... [read more]

Conservative Confidential Memo: Wind Power the Next Target

May 14, 2012 by Nathanael Baker
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Conservative America's fight against the advancement of a new energy economy continues to evolve.  The latest development is a concerted campaign to discredit the wind industry and shift public opinion against the technology.A confidential memo published by The Guardian highlights a proposal crafted by John Droz, a fellow at the... [read more]

Replacing nuclear with wind power: Could it be done?

May 10, 2012 by Joseph Koblich
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Many people would like it to be theoretically possible to replace nuclear power with wind power, since the wind is a free resource. The way that I would like to approach the topic is to not discuss the source of power, but to discuss this question from the perspective of “intermittency.” Stating the question another way: Can an... [read more]

UK Wind Energy Industry Worth £548 million

May 10, 2012 by Vicky Portwain
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The UK onshore wind energy industry was worth £568 million in 2011 according to a report recently published by RenewableUK and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.The report “Onshore Wind, Direct and Wider Economic Benefits” by BiGGAR Economics showed that the industry provided around 8,600 green jobs in the UK last year. Of this... [read more]

On Wind Turbine Noise and Air Pressure Pulses

May 7, 2012 by Willem Post
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The von Trapp family came to Vermont, because it reminded them of Austria, where “the hills are alive with the sounds of music”. Those sounds will soon be replaced by the health-damaging infrasound and low frequency noise from 3 MW wind turbines on 2,000-ft high ridge lines, courtesy of GMP/Gaz-Metro-Canada. GMP’s 21 wind turbines... [read more]

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Blocking Clean Energy?

May 4, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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A study just published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that fossil fuel subsidies in some developing nations stand most in the way of clean energy. For a livable climate, developing nations must bypass the fossil age as they grow their 21st century economies.The paper, Assessing the costs of photovoltaic and wind... [read more]

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After Fukushima, will a new feed in tarriff solve Japan's energy issues?

May 3, 2012 by André Semmler
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A quick update on the status of Japan's FIT talks and its possible implications for the expansion of renewables. [read more]

US & UK to jointly finance floating wind turbines

May 3, 2012 by Clifton Yin
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Last week, the third annual Clean Energy Ministerial – a global forum for government ministers responsible for clean energy technology – came to a close, having led to the establishment of several notable initiatives on energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage-technology demonstration, and the sharing of data, among others. One... [read more]

The Latest Publication from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development: 'The Energy Mix'

April 28, 2012 by David Hone
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) held its annual company delegate conference in Switzerland this week. For the WBCSD Energy and Climate team the event marked the launch of the latest WBCSD publication “The Energy Mix”. This is a document that started life back in the middle of last year, originally as a response to the reaction from a number of governments to the events in Fukushima. The initial aim was to inform policy makers on the implication of sudden changes in energy policy, such as the decision by the German government to rapidly phase out the use of nuclear power. But as the work got going, the document took on a number of additional dimensions. [read more]

Wind Developers Have Same Problems as Keystone XL

April 27, 2012 by Amy Myers Jaffe
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One of the most prominent arguments against expanded oil and natural gas drilling and major infrastructure projects like Keystone XL is that the United States should for environmental reasons focus on production of energy from renewables rather than sustain the use of oil and natural gas. But the reality is that local community activists... [read more]

Clean Energy Rides Bucking Economy To Growth

April 25, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Reflecting on clean-energy performance in 2011, research firm Clean Edge released a report of the good, the bad and the not-too-ugly. Despite a turbulent economic year for most industries, combined revenue for the global solar, wind and biofuel industries rose 30 percent from $188 billion in 2010 to $246 billion... [read more]

Feed-In Tariff Sets Up Japanese Solar For Growth

April 23, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Like many other countries upping their renewable energy game, Japan is pulling out all the stops to encourage new growth from solar and wind power. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has to find other alternative energy solutions to nuclear, and is proposing a new feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to encourage solar and wind... [read more]

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Pitching Cleantech: Are startup competitions a good idea for energy entrepreneurs?

April 17, 2012 by Henry Spethmann
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More and more energy investors are giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their idea in so-called 'startup competitions'. Is there any value to these? [read more]

Clean Energy Investments Top $250 Billion in 2011

April 13, 2012 by Jake Schmidt
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In 2011, new clean energy investments rose to a record $263 billion – a 6.5 percent increase from last year.  The United States rose to the top in 2011 after having fallen behind China and Germany last year.  But the 27 countries that make up the European Union (EU-27) as a whole were still head and shoulders above the rest.... [read more]

Is hydropower necessary to make wind work?

April 9, 2012 by Michael Giberson
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From time to time a promoter of wind power will encourage the U.S. to follow Denmark’s lead and aim for a much higher levels of wind power on the grid. (Recently Denmark’s legislature established a goal of attaining 50 percent of its energy from wind power by 2020.)A working paper by Johannes Mauritzen explains one of the key factors... [read more]