Wind

New energy agreement applauded, sets 50% wind target for 2020

Thursday, 29 March 2012 Toby Price Denmark is continuing to make use of its EU presidency to lead by example in the clean energy space. It has just announced an ambitious energy agreement, taking it a decisive step closer towards a society ...

Europe

EU wind market grows, but slowed by flagging onshore segment

Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price EurObserv’ER has released its latest wind power barometer showing that cumulative wind power capacity in the European Union (EU) at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW, up on the figure of 85.0 GW registered at ...

Vattenfall to turn wind into gas

Friday, 09 December 2011 REM Swedish utility Vattenfall, the world's second biggest offshore wind operator, has announced its participation in a project to turn wind energy into hydrogen gas via electrolysis. In effect, the project ...

Baywa buys Austria’s Ecowind to expand in Eastern Europe

Tuesday, 23 August 2011 REM

German agricultural products group Baywa AG has purchased a 90 percent stake in Austria’s Ecowind GmbH to expand in the growing East European wind energy market.

Gamesa sells Polish wind farm to RWE Innogy

Thursday, 13 January 2011 Gamesa has announced the sale of a 32-MW wind farm in Poland to Germany’s RWE Innogy The site, developed and built by Gamesa’s wind farm division, is equipped with 16 Gamesa G90-2.0 MW turbines. ...

Spanish government authorises 9,000 MW of renewable power

Friday, 18 December 2009 Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has published the registry of pre-assignation of remuneration for renewable energy projects, and in doing so has approved 338 installations with a ...

Renewable energy stocks surge after the Government draft, however the wind industry announces "a battle"

Saturday, 02 December 2006 Renewable energy company stocks hiked last Wednesday in the Spanish Stock Exchange, after the Government presented the draft of the new Royal Decree which will update the RD 436/04 to regulate the retribution ...