Brazil, tenth for renewable energy investments
Tuesday, 13 December 2011 Luis Ini According to a report prepared by Ernst & Young, Brazil is ranked 10th in the list of most attractive countries for investments in renewable energy (renewable energy country attractiveness indices...
Latin America
Nestlé helping Mexico to grow wind industry
Monday, 10 October 2011 Toby Price The world’s largest food and nutrition group, Nestlé, is to invest in wind power in an effort to meet 85 percent of its electricity requirements in Mexico with wind energy. The Swiss multinationalâ...
Report: Spain targets 1,400 MW in new wind capacity annually to 2020
Friday, 23 September 2011 REM The Spanish government has set an annual target for installed wind power of 1400 MW between 2013-2020, according to a draft regulation sent to CNE, the energy sector regulator, by the Ministry of Indu...
Brazil
Wind power taking off, industry seeks long-term policy
Friday, 09 September 2011 REM Wind power deployment in Brazil is set to exceed 5 GW by 2013, a five-fold increase from the current installed capacity, according to a study undertaken by the Global Wind Energy Council in cooperatio...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 06/09/2011
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 REM • Debt-choked Greece seeks solar bonanza Reuters • South Korea $97 Million Renewables Fund to Spur Investment, Official Says Bloomberg • Tonga and New Zealand to construct solar power...
Brazil
The "sleeping giant" awakes as close to 2 GW of wind capacity rights auctioned off
Wednesday, 31 August 2011 REM Wind power was the largest contributor of new power capacity contracted at Brazil’s two power auctions this month. Out of a total of 3.9 GW of contracted projects, 1,922 MW went to wind power de...
Learning curve continues for offshore wind supply chain
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 REM Rapid expansion of the offshore wind industry, especially in the UK, means the associated supply chain is playing catch up; striving to streamline supply under pressure from wind farm developers to cu...
REM update
Our hottest articles to date
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 REM How time files! After the launch of our new look website and Twitter account in February, we’re already in August. Since the year begun, Renewable Energy Magazine has published over 820 articles...
Reliability and serviceability of drivetrains critical to offshore wind's success
Friday, 08 July 2011 REM As the offshore wind sector ramps up, and larger turbines are developed and more wind farms installed further out at sea, the service and maintenance of each component comprising the turbines becomes ...
Europe
EWEA: Wind energy could supply 50% of EU power by 2050
Thursday, 30 June 2011 REM A new European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) report to be published next month shows how wind energy can contribute very substantially to achieving the EU's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissi...