Wind

EU wind market grows, but slowed by flagging onshore segment

Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price EurObserv’ER has released its latest wind power barometer showing that cumulative wind power capacity in the European Union (EU) at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW, up on the figure of 85.0 GW registered at ...

Spain

Wind energy output reaches record high

Monday, 05 March 2012 REM Wind energy broke a record in February in spain with wind turbines achieing their highest-ever electricity output, generating a total of 4.890 GWh. According to provisional figures from Red Eléctrica ...

Honduras

Globeleq opens Central America's largest wind farm

Friday, 24 February 2012 REM

Globeleq Generation Limited (Globeleq), the emerging markets power company, has officially inaugurated Honduras’ first wind farm and the largest in the Central American region.

WWEA reveals 700,000 small wind turbines have been installed worldwide

Monday, 20 February 2012 REM The World Wind Energy Association will be hosting the 3rd World Summit for Small Wind (WSSW2012) next month, during which it will launch its Small Wind World Report, showing that 700,000 small wind turbines ...

Honduras

Largest wind farm in Central America switched on

Friday, 10 February 2012 REM Iberdrola Engineering, in a consortium with Gamesa, has started up the Cerro de Hula wind farm in Honduras, the largest in Central America. This new facility has a capacity of 102 MW and its official opening ...

Emerging markets are taking the lead as wind industry powers ahead

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 Toby Price The Global Wind Energy Council annual market statistics published this week show that the wind industry installed just over 41,000 MW of new clean, reliable wind power in 2011, bringing the total installed ...

Europe

Nearly a quarter of all new power capacity was in wind sector in 2011

Monday, 06 February 2012 Toby Price In 2011, 9,616 MW of wind energy capacity was installed in the EU, making a total of 93,957 MW - enough to supply 6.3% of the EU's electricity, according to figures published today by the European Wind ...

Gestamp Wind to developed 114 MW in wind projects in Brazil

Tuesday, 10 January 2012 REM Gestamp Wind, wind energy division of Gestamp Renewables (Corporacion Gestamp), has been awarded the right to develop five projects in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with a total capacity of 114 MW from ...

Iberdrola and Gamesa Éolica ink deal for wind turbine supply and maintenance

Friday, 23 December 2011 REM

Iberdrola and Gamesa Eólica have signed a new wind turbine supply and maintenance framework agreement, extending their current collaboration through to 2022.

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). ...