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Gamesa to manufacture Spain’s first ever offshore wind turbine
Monday, 22 April 2013 Robin WhitlockGamesa has shipped the components for its 5MW marine turbine to the Canary Islands thus beginning the process of erecting the first Spanish offshore wind turbine
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SEAT cars tested by Endesa
Friday, 14 December 2012 Robin WhitlockThe Spanish utility company Endesa is testing two SEAT electric vehicle prototypes as part of an EV pilot scheme
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6% tax on renewables could lead to exodus of wind companies
Monday, 17 September 2012 Toby Price The Spanish cabinet approved putting its new Energy Bill before Parliament on Friday. The new legislation sets out so called “fiscal measures for sustainable energy”, and is intended to “tackle ...
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Ángel Vadillo ends hunger strike but continues to fight on
Tuesday, 11 September 2012 Toby Price The Mayor of Alburquerque (Badajóz, Spain) ended his hunger strike on Saturday “but not the fight” he has been involved in for over 90 days in favour of renewables. Vadillo’s plight over the la...
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Hunger strike in defence of Spanish renewables
Thursday, 06 September 2012 Toby Price After the Spanish government ditched its support for renewables at the beginning of the year and introduced a moratorium on the feed-in tariffs for clean energy, the sector has grown increasingly weak...
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CSP breaks new summer record, reveals Protermosolar
Tuesday, 28 August 2012 Toby Price The world-leading Spanish concentrating solar power (CSP) industry broke a new record last month after Spain’s portfolio of solar thermal power plants met 3.23% of the nation’s daily electricity c...
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Government to charge renewables a toll of €850 million
Thursday, 05 July 2012 Toby Price Spain has gone from being one of the world’s most attractive renewable energy markets to a challenging place for clean energy projects to get off the ground and survive. First the Popular Party, whi...
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Vestas experiences second turbine fire in weeks
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 Mike McGovern Just weeks after a fire in the nacelle of a Vestas wind turbine in Germany caused by an electric arc, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer has had to put out another fire in a nacelle, this time on th...
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Vestas’ view of the world from Madrid
Thursday, 07 June 2012 REM Vestas maintains its position as leading turbine manufacturer and celebrates installing its 50,000th MW. Amidst a turbulent economy which has also affected the wind industry, Vestas looks to the futur...
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First Spanish-Korean renewable forum held in Madrid
Wednesday, 06 June 2012 Toby Price Korea is seen as “an opportunity for Spanish renewable energies”, and therefore the Madrid Science Park organised its First Hispanic-Korean Forum on Renewable Energy on 22 May; aware of the import...
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