Wind power news articles 
Launch of the wind farm portfolio information system - WindManager™ in the US from Natural Power
Natural Power has recently released WindManager- a groundbreaking wind farm portfolio information system increasing profitability of wind farm operations - to the US market at the AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance & Reliability Seminar in San Diego, California. WindManager is a turbine independent system based on latest international standards such as IEC 61400-25 and RDS-PP. The system is scalable from a single wind farm to large mult... [more]
Campbell Scientific selects ZephIR wind lidar technology for US wind market
Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI), with more than 35 years of world-class measurement equipment experience, has today announced the selection of wind lidar system ZephIR 300 as the company’s remote sensing solution for providing the US wind energy market with accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm development project. ZephIR 300, provided by Zephir Ltd., a subsidiary of renewable energy group Natural Power, has demonstrated high qual... [more]
Carbon free energy system presented at Energy Roadmap 2050
In March 2011, the European Commission published the overall decarbonisation roadmap covering the whole economy. All sectors, power generation, transport, residential, industry and agriculture, were analysed. The Commission has also been preparing sectoral roadmaps, among which the Energy Roadmap 2050 is the last one, focusing on the whole energy sector. In order to cut emissions by over 80% by 2050, Europe's energy production will have to be... [more]
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
As a result of high costs, low demand, and recent disasters, global nuclear generation capacity falls
The latest Vital Signs Online (VSO) report from the Worldwatch Institute indicates that due to increasing costs of production, a slowed demand for electricity, and fresh memories of disaster in Japan, production of nuclear power fell in 2011. Despite reaching record levels the previous year, global installed nuclear capacity, the potential power generation from all existing plants, declined to 366.5 gigawatts (GW) in 2011, from 375.5 GW at the... [more]
Other Wind power news and reviews
Why Wind Power Doesn't Work
This is an interesting little chart showing the energy generation system in the UK today. It also shows why wind power doesn't work as a solution to the UK's energy demand.
Minnesota Power’s Bison 1 Wind Energy Center completed in North Dakota; Bison 2 and 3 up next
Renewable energy is flowing to the power grid from Minnesota Power’s newest wind farm near New Salem, N.D., where the company has commissioned 15 state-of-the-art wind turbines, co
Joining forces to help fine-tune wind technology
Wind-turbine manufacturer Gamesa, a Spanish company with U.S. headquarters in Langhorne, is working with the Department of Energy to transform wind-power technology, making it cheaper and more reliable.
Improved wind turbines under way
Wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa, a Spanish company with a manufacturing plant in Ebensburg, Cambria County, is working with the Department of Energy to transform wind power technology, making it cheaper and more reliable. If the project is successful, it could lead to the next generation of wind turbines, officials said.
Generating Units of Coal-Fired and Wind Power Projects Completed Trial Run
BEIJING, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Huaneng Power International, Inc. ("HPI", the "Company") (NYSE: HNP; HKEx:902; SSE:600011) announced today that one 600MW coal-fired generating ...
US wind power shows strong growth in 2011
Wind energy continues to power ahead in the US. read more
Wind power generates 6% of EU electricity
Last year, there was enough wind power capacity in the European Union to generate six per cent of its electricity, according to the European Wind Energy Association.
Wind power sector eager to deliver on B.C. power promise
As Christy Clark’s Liberals tie British Columbia’s economic future to an unprecedented natural gas boom, proponents of the province’s renewable energy resources hope for an opportunity to join in. B.C., predisposed to both massive and small-scale hydroelectric power development, has been one of the world’s laggards in terms of wind energy.
Wind power industry could falter if subsidy is lost
NEAR LAKE BENTON — On the crest of Buffalo Ridge in southwest Minnesota the blades of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine can be heard better than seen as they slice through a thick fog. The machine
DGAP-News: Greenworld Wind Power Finalizes Carbon Credit Agreement for Hydro Project in Tanzania
DGAP-News: Greenworld Wind Power Co.Ltd. / Key word(s): MiscellaneousGreenworld Wind Power Finalizes Carbon Credit Agreement for HydroProject in Tanzania06.02.2012 / 11:49Greenworld Wind Power Finalizes Carbon Credit Agreement for Hydro Projectin …
