Wind

SGS to open Wind Energy Technology Centre in Tianjin, china

Monday, 30 May 2011

SGS Renewable Energy Services, a leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company will open its Wind Energy Technology Centre (WETC) in Tianjin, china on 13 June 2011.

United States

Charleston sees wind energy sector as foundation of its next historic chapter

Sunday, 22 May 2011 Dan McCue For most who try to envision the city of Charleston, South Carolina from afar, the images that come to mind are likely to be those of horse-drawn carriages plying historic downtown streets, of sundrenched ...

Gamesa signs MoUs for 900 MW of turbine capacity with three Chinese companies

Friday, 06 May 2011 Spanish wind power giant Gamesa has signed MoU with three Chinese companies -- Longyuan, china Resources Power (CRP) and Datang – which, when finalized over the next several months, will result in ...

Global wind capacity could rise to 1,500 GW by 2020

Thursday, 05 May 2011 On the occasion of the inauguration of the china (Shanghai) International Wind Energy Exhibition and Conference CWEE2011 in Shanghai, the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) has launched the World Wind ...

Latin America

Development funding driving wind growth in Latin America

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 Toby Price Around Latin America, funding from several development banks and foreign investors is enabling an increasing amount of wind capacity to be installed. The Dominican Republic, Argentina and Brazil are among ...

Spain

Germany loses top spot in European wind output league table

Tuesday, 12 April 2011 Toby Price The beleaguered wind industry in Spain is fighting back after it was knocked sideways two years ago by damaging legislative changes that led to an exodus of companies in search of new markets in the US, ...

China

18.9 GW of new wind power added in 2010

Thursday, 07 April 2011 china added 18.9 GW of new wind power capacity, thereby reaching a total installed capacity of 44.7 GW. This figure, which was published today by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the Chinese Renewable ...

New Zealand to host wind energy conference

Monday, 28 March 2011 The 2011 New Zealand Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition will be held 12 and 13 April, 2011 at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington, NZ. The conference will highlight the achievements of New Zealand's ...

china and EU influenced by nuclear disaster, wind could benefit

Friday, 18 March 2011 Toby Price The European Commissioner in Charge of Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, signalled at the EWEC 2011 conference this week that European Union (EU) decisions on commissioning new nuclear capacity will be ...

Global wind market falters for first time in 20 years

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 Toby Price For the first time in 20 years, growth of the global wind power market has stumbled by 5.8% to 35.7GW in 2010 (37.9GW in 2009), says EurObserv’ER in its latest Wind Barometer released this month. ...