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Diana SRenewable Energy Systems (RES) Acquire Wind Farm Sites in the UK
RES took over the Bransford Bridge wind farm near Rugby in the English Midlands earlier this year. […]
Tag: Alternative Energy
By Colin H
Colin HTaiwan Government to reduce nuclear power
Japan’s parliament is about to approve a historic bill on renewable energy while Taiwan Government is to […]
By Colin H
Colin HA Fracked Up Future?
A number of Governments, including the United Kingdom and the United States, are granting licences to extract […]
By Colin H
Colin HAlternative Energy : Achievable Utopia or Fantasyland?
By In a recent article by Mark Delucchi and Stanford Engineering Professor Mark Jacobson argued that we […]
By Colin H
Colin HFrance Re-commit to Renewable Energies
On 16 May Jean-Marc Ayrault was appointed Prime Minister of France after the election of Francois Hollande […]
By Diana S
Diana SPrairie Chickens Safer Near Wind Farms
The effect of wind turbines on wildlife can cause anxiety to those with green credentials. However the […]
By Diana S
Diana SThe Future is Wind
Two important documents set out a future for wind that is challenging and exciting. The first is […]
By Colin H
Colin HGermany’s Renewable Energy Means Cheaper Electricity
It’s a good time to be a country adjacent to Germany these days. Data has just been […]
By Diana S
Diana SUK Coalition Government Must Display Leadership
The UK coalition Government of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, led by David Cameron, boasted of their green […]
By Diana S
Diana SRenewable Energy Islands
While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, […]
By Diana S
Diana SHighlights of Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference
The Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference took place earlier this month (October) in Edinburgh. There were many […]
By Colin H
Colin HGigha Watts Wind Energy to be Stored
The aptly named Scottish island of Gigha is going to be the centre of an experiment that […]
By Diana S
Diana SThinking Wind Power? Think Second-Hand Turbines.
While no-one can claim that the last two or three years of recession have been a boom-time […]
By Colin H
Colin HJellyfish Wind Turbine – What Happened To It?
What Happened To the Jellyfish Wind Turbine? Huge amounts of questions had been asked lately about what […]
By Colin H
Colin HTornado Generating Wind Turbine – A Revolution in Wind Turbine Design
This is the story of Raymond Ellis, a former Mechanical Drawing Student from Shorewood, Illinois, Inventor and […]
By Diana S
Diana SThe Transformation of Samso Island
Where is Samso? It’s a small island of just over 4000 people off the coast of Denmark […]
By Diana S
Diana SWind Farms are “Clean and Safe”
I guess this may seem like pushing at an open door for most of our visitors…. but […]
By Diana S
Diana SSiemens Direct Drive Turbines To Be Used in Minnesota 105 MW Project
The project with the name Bison 2 will be built by Minnesota Power in Central Dakota, using […]
By Diana S
Diana SIdle Wind Turbine in Portsmouth
People in Portsmouth are angry. Portsmouth is the historic South coast of England town where Sir Francis […]
By Colin H
Colin HFurniture and Turbines Do Go Together!
We reported a few months ago about IKEA’s interest and investment in wind energy: IKEA Portfolio. It […]
By Colin H
Colin HBritain Playing Grid Catch-Up
A failure to invest in Britain’s 70 year old grid has meant that the boom in its […]
By Colin H
Colin HCan You See a Wind Farm?
There is a real divide in most countries when it comes to support for renewable wind farm […]
By Colin H
Colin HCaught by the Wind – The Henk Lagerweij Story- So Far!
Introduction While the world of wind power may have its fair share of superb businessmen, entrepreneurs, innovators […]
By Diana S
Diana SMisreported US Study on Connection Between Wind Turbines and Global Warming
Liming Zhou led a team of researchers at the State University of New York-Albany looking at […]
By Colin H
Colin HCan You be a YIMBY?
We hear a lot about those who profess green credentials yet when it comes to siting a […]
By Colin H
Colin HEuropean Wind Turbine Manufacturers Turn Corner
After three years of losses, shutdowns and lay-offs, European wind turbine manufacturing giants such as Denmark’s Vestas […]
By Colin H
Colin HAlternative Energy – The Facts – Part 9 – Hydroelectric Dams
HYDROELECTRIC DAMS Hydroelectric dams produce electricity by using the dammed water to turn turbines. By opening the […]
By Colin H
Colin HFarmers for Wind
I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of […]
By Colin H
Colin HHarnessing Wind Power in New Ways
Dr Daryoush Alleai is an engineer and pioneer and founder of a company called Sheerwind, which has […]
By Colin H
Colin HGermany: Very Much Pro-Wind and Anti-Nuclear
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, rejection of nuclear power has become a cross-party consensus in Germany. That […]
By Diana S
Diana SHydrochina to Install Pakistan’s Third Wind Farm
Hydrochina will install 12 2.5MW wind turbines in the Tapal project in the northeast of Sindh province, […]
By Colin H
Colin HVestas Reports Strong Performance In Early 2010
Denmark’s Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine maker, is enjoying a large number of orders recently to […]
By Colin H
Colin HAlternative Energy – The Facts – An Introduction Into Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy – Part 1 The Future of Alternative Energy – “The future belongs to renewable energy […]
By Colin H
Colin HChinese Wind Power Companies Target Global Markets
BEIJING – China’s Goldwind Science & Technology Ltd. is one of the world’s biggest makers of wind […]
By Colin H
Colin HWindpower Intelligence: Global Market Report and UK & Ireland Investment Report 2010-2015
Windpower Intelligence: Global Market Report and UK & Ireland Investment Report 2010-2015 Global Market Report from Windpower […]
By Colin H
Colin HDefinition for Upwind – Downwind
UPWIND & DOWNWIND DEFINITIONS Confused about the definitions for ‘Upwind’ and ‘Downwind’?…or even argue with colleagues about […]
