Wind

CoreMarine and CENER Collaborate on Floating Wind 

Tuesday, 17 September 2019 REM CoreMarine and the National Center for Renewable Energies (CENER) have signed a collaboration agreement to promote engineering services in the marine wind industry sector. The agreement focuses on the ...

Oklahoma wind megaproject boosts third quarter clean energy investment

Friday, 06 October 2017 Robin Whitlock

Seven giant wind projects in the US, Mexico, the UK, Germany, China and Australia helped global clean energy investment to jump by 40 percent in the third quarter of 2017.

Acciona and KKR partner in global renewable energy business

Thursday, 03 July 2014 Robin Whitlock Global infrastructure, water and renewable energy group Acciona has partnered with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) to develop one of the largest operating international renewable ...

Australia

Australian wind power now cheaper than coal and gas

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 Robin Whitlock

New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has found that unsubsidised renewable energy is now cheaper in Australia than electricity from coal and gas

South Africa

Vestas, Suzlon and Acciona: winners in South Africa

Thursday, 24 May 2012 Toby Price The South African government has announced the preferred candidates for its second wind, solar and hydropower tender. Wind power fared the best, with seven projects totalling 562 MW being selected. The ...

Spain

First small wind turbine blade test bench opens

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Toby Price Spain’s Centre for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources, CEDER-CIEMAT, has opened a facility for testing small wind turbine blades, and monitoring and analysing their performance to optimize industrial ...

Spain

New wind legislation threatens €13 billion of investments, 16,500 jobs

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 Toby Price The Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE) has warned that if a royal decree is passed in its current draft form, 69% less new wind energy capacity will be installed in the various regions between now and ...

Big output from innovative small turbines

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 Toby Price Bayer MaterialScience, a member of the German Bayer Group, has installed a revolutionary new small wind turbine at its offices in Tarragona (Spain), which it uses "for test and presentation purposes". ...

World leader achieves record output in first quarter of 2011

Friday, 06 May 2011 Iberdrola Renovables, the world’s leading wind energy company in terms of installed capacity, produced 7,636 million kilowatt hours (kWh) at its worldwide renewables facilities in the first quarter ...

England

Landfill site to boast wind turbines

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 FCC’s UK subsidiary, Waste Recycling Group (WRG), one of the UK’s largest waste and resource management services companies, has been given the go-ahead to site two wind turbines at its closed ...