Wind Energy News
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5 Jan 2009 at 11:14am
Why focus on development around just one major fuel source, oil, when you can reap the benefits of two? Steamy Houston is beginning a new love affair with one of the most powerful companies in the wind-power industry, Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company has decided to...
6 Jan 2009 at 9:17pm
GREENFIELD ? Town supervisor Dick Rowland wants to make his town the first in Saratoga County to boast wind turbines, and local officials are working to get new laws in place to facilitate wind farm development.Town officials formed a Wind Power Advisory Committee last year to help study local...
6 Jan 2009 at 1:35am
Aluminum electrolytic capacitor maker Lelon Electronics has cut into the wind power market, having received orders from one wind power system maker totaling NT$70-80 million (US$2.12-2.42 million) for 2009.
6 Jan 2009 at 12:30am
China's nuclear and wind power investment soared in 2008, while investment in coal-fired plants declined year-on-year, said China Electricity Council on Jan 5.
4 Jan 2009 at 4:03am
Enough wind energy to power up to 37,800 homes hit the electrical grid in Montana this year, and production could be double that over the next year if planned expansions and new projects in the pipeline come to fruition in 2009.
6 Jan 2009 at 10:12am
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Grain farmer Mike Doyle has grown to love the big, spindly wind turbines that rise from his central Illinois prairie. Their blades, many more than 100 feet, cut the wind with a low, rhythmic whooshing noise. Not too long ago, he admired a rainbow arching over them.
4 Jan 2009 at 7:10pm
GUIMARAS, Jan. 5 (PNA) ? It?s almost definite that a wind power will soon be established in Guimaras province. Guimaras Gov. Felipe Hilan Nava said Trans Asia is bent on pursuing the project that can generate around 15 to 20 megawatts.
4 Jan 2009 at 10:14pm
The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska will attempt to construct what may be the first wind energy project on American Indian soil in Kansas. The tribe will work with Enertech of Newton, Kan., on plans to install wind generators in the summer.
5 Jan 2009 at 10:41pm
GREAT FALLS - The nation's credit crunch could slow the planning of brand- new wind farms in Montana this year but shouldn't stop facilities that are further along in the planning process, developers and state regulators said.
4 Jan 2009 at 9:30am
MANILA, Philippines--The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded three pre-commercial wind power development contracts to Alternergy Philippine Holdings Corp., a local firm identified with former energy secretary Vince Perez.