http://www.WindNewsPortal.com/Latest Wind energy and Wind technology news articlesenWind News PortalWind News Portalhttp://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10862.htmlMon, 6 Feb 2012 16:11:22 GMTUkraine seeks to reduce its current dependency on gas imports. To address the issue, a number of initiatives are being taken which are aimed at boosting energy efficiency, introducing energy saving technologies and renewable energy resources. The feed-in tariffs effective since April 2009, rank among the highest in Europe, which considering the saturated European market, makes Ukraine especially l ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10857.htmlFri, 3 Feb 2012 06:38:41 GMTMott MacDonald, a leading management, engineering and development consultancy, has successfully supported financial close as independent engineer for the first utility-scale wind farm in Thailand, which will also be the largest wind farm in south east Asia. The consultancy is working on behalf of lenders Kasikorn Bank PLC and Siam Commercial Bank PLC. The 207MW wind farm is being developed by W ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10848.htmlMon, 30 Jan 2012 12:45:26 GMTNatural Power has just been appointed to provide Commercial Back Office Support Services on Hall Wind Farm for renewable energy development company RidgeWind. The service will see Natural Power delivering financial and commercial administration services during the construction phase of the wind farm, which is due to begin on 16th January 2012. Hall Wind Farm is located approximately 5.5km north of ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10845.htmlFri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:38 GMTLeading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh based ecology consultants, Ecology Matters. This agreement widens Natural Power's resource and expertise in onshore and offshore wind farm ecology issues, allowing the companies to work together in order to further develop their respective and mutual expertise. Natural Power's Wels ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10839.htmlTue, 24 Jan 2012 12:34:17 GMTClimate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government's flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10768.htmlTue, 17 Jan 2012 06:14:43 GMTNatural 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 ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10461.htmlThu, 29 Dec 2011 06:47:33 GMTCampbell 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 ener ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10450.htmlMon, 19 Dec 2011 06:10:15 GMTIn 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 ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10451.htmlFri, 16 Dec 2011 11:50:54 GMTGreenpeace 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 acti ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article10445.htmlTue, 13 Dec 2011 07:23:03 GMTThe 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 ... [more]