Wind power news articles 
Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government’s flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in instalments on the energy bill. The Green Deal... [more]
Launch of the wind farm portfolio information system - WindManager™ in the US from Natural Power
Natural Power has recently released WindManager- a groundbreaking wind farm portfolio information system increasing profitability of wind farm operations - to the US market at the AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance & Reliability Seminar in San Diego, California. WindManager is a turbine independent system based on latest international standards such as IEC 61400-25 and RDS-PP. The system is scalable from a single wind farm to large mult... [more]
Campbell Scientific selects ZephIR wind lidar technology for US wind market
Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI), with more than 35 years of world-class measurement equipment experience, has today announced the selection of wind lidar system ZephIR 300 as the company’s remote sensing solution for providing the US wind energy market with accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm development project. ZephIR 300, provided by Zephir Ltd., a subsidiary of renewable energy group Natural Power, has demonstrated high qual... [more]
Carbon free energy system presented at Energy Roadmap 2050
In March 2011, the European Commission published the overall decarbonisation roadmap covering the whole economy. All sectors, power generation, transport, residential, industry and agriculture, were analysed. The Commission has also been preparing sectoral roadmaps, among which the Energy Roadmap 2050 is the last one, focusing on the whole energy sector. In order to cut emissions by over 80% by 2050, Europe's energy production will have to be... [more]
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
Other Wind power news and reviews
BPA proposes compromise in wind power halt
The federal agency that regulates much of the electrical transmission in the Northwest proposed a compromise Tuesday in a dispute with wind producers who were forced to shut down last spring, when heavy runoff produced too much hydroelectric power.
Why Wind Power Doesn't Work
This is an interesting little chart showing the energy generation system in the UK today. It also shows why wind power doesn't work as a solution to the UK's energy demand. As you can see wind is providing only 0.1% of the electricity demand of the country today (to be strictly
China Ming Yang to Supply Turbines for Bulgarian Wind Projects
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Ltd., a Guangdong-based wind turbine manufacturer, agreed to supply machines on 125 megawatts of projects in Bulgaria.
Research and Markets: China Wind Power Converter Industry in 2012: Forecasts, Production, Key Players, Market Data ...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2012 Deep Research Report on China Wind Power Convert
Chile's Wind Turbines: Are They Dangerous for Blue Whales?
The energy-starved country needs wind power, but environmental critics say it will mar the landscape and harm wildlife
Could the Wind Turbines of Chile Harm Blue Whales?
The energy-starved country needs wind power but environmental critics say it will not only mar the landscape but harm the wildlife
MY Signed EPC Contracts for 125 MW Wind Power Projects in Bulgaria, and Shipped First Batch of Wind Turbine Generators
ZHONGSHAN, China, Feb. 7, 2012/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited ("Ming Yang" or the "Company") (NYSE: MY - News), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, ...
California hits wind energy milestone: About 5 percent of power from wind
California now gets about 5 percent of its electricity from wind power, according to data released Tuesday by the California Wind Energy Association.
Improved wind turbines under way
Wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa, a Spanish company with a manufacturing plant in Ebensburg, Cambria County, is working with the Department of Energy to transform wind power technology, making it cheaper and more reliable. If the project is successful, it could lead to the next generation of wind turbines, officials said.
Bonneville Power Administration proposes to split the cost of wind farms power cuts
BPA's proposal is the latest bid to end a dispute that began last spring. At the time, the federal power marketing agency dealt with a massive runoff and resulting surge in power production by cutting off wind farms' transmission and substituting free hydropower to satisfy their scheduled energy deliveries.
