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Wind Energy News
NextEra Canada Completes Two Ontario Wind Farms
NextEra Energy Canada says both recently completed Ontario-based wind farms have started to produce power. The 60 MW Adelaide Wind Energy Center and 73 MW Bornish Wind Energy Center, both located in Middlesex County, Ontario, are providing ...
ThinkProgress
Justin Wilkes, the deputy chief executive of the European Wind Energy Association, told the Guardian that the IEA report shows that goal is inadequate. “Not only is a 27 percent target too low but it doesn't oblige member states to follow through,” Wilkes said.
Renewable Energy Growth Set To Slow Amidst Political Uncertainty
The renewable energy industry is expected to see a significant slowing over the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency, unless political and policy uncertainty is dealt with. These were the findings from the International Energy Agency's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
On Wednesday it will open the 20 megawatt Royalla Solar Farm – the largest solar plant on the national grid – and take bids for 200 megawatts of wind energy. "It's a fairly bleak prospect for the renewable energy industry without supportive governments," ...
$2b wind plan king hit
Hydro Tasmania, which cut 100 jobs and suffered a $70m hit when the carbon tax was repealed, produces 10,000 gigawatt hours of renewable water and wind energy a year. Westcoast Wind Pty Ltd chief executive Alex Simpson, the proponent of a $150 ...
Test site selection signals progress in Japan
The three sites involving offshore wind energy were selected based on a prior understanding with local stakeholders, such as the powerful fishing cooperatives that have legally binding rights to the waters where many offshore wind power facilities are to be ...
Wind Economics: Costs of managing variability are low
The AWEA briefing argues that the cost of integrating large conventional power plants on to the power system in Texas is more than 17 times larger than the cost of reliably integrating wind energy. This must of course be balanced by the fact that conventional ...
Viewpoint: The high cost of the lowest energy prices
In this environment the cost of wind energy is under greater scrutiny than ever before. The fact that wind plants receive non-market support often leads to the conclusion that wind energy is an expensive extravagance. Policymakers are scrambling to ...
Where will technology reduce costs next?
... beyond the turbine for development themes then I choose short-term weather forecasting. We have made spectacular progress in the last decade, but there are rich pickings in slight improvements in accuracy, making wind energy more and more reliable.
RES Americas -- Aiming for a transition
Her list of job titles includes: deputy CEO of UK-based parent RES Group, a leader in Europe's offshore sector; president of RES Canada; and chair of the board of directors of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Educated in Scotland, Zambia and ...
Technology continues to move the industry forward
The wind energy industry is driven by innovation like few others. It is a story of remarkable development, with the sector evolving from its initial pioneering role as a niche technology few people took seriously, to becoming the key driver of the energy transition ...
PennEnergy (press release)
In their project, they assumed that wind energy would account for the lion's share — in this case 60 percent — of power production. Approximately a fifth would come from photovoltaic systems, and ten percent would come from bioenergy. Hydropower and ...
Pitch-forking the Export-Import Bank could spare wind-energy credit
More precisely, could the death of the U.S. Export-Import Bank satisfy the blood lust of arch conservatives and allow the wind energy credit to live for another year or two? It's a bank shot, but such pool hall trickery is probably necessary this year, ...
