Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell met this week with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and six other Atlantic coastal state governors to discuss [mappress] Source: examiner, February 20, 2010;
The meeting was hosted by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Friday afternoon in Washington.
GAMESA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BARD Holding GmbH for joint development and marketing of offshore wind turbines… Source: gamesacorp, February 18, 2010;
Siemens has installed its 1,000th wind turbine in the UK at the Gunfleet Sands wind farm off the coast of Essex. The turbine, number EO6, forms part of a total of 48 3.6MW turbines which comprise the Gunfleet 1 and Gunfleet 2 fields owned by Dong Energy, the world’s leading operator of offshore wind
While offshore wind farms are an important source of the world’s future renewable energy supply, the sea is a hostile environment for wind turbines, wearing down their parts with saltwater and high shaft speeds. The cost and effort to replace these components is high. That’s why a German parts manuf
Seven hundred offshore wind turbines are being proposed for Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair including 165 turbines north of Lakeshore and wind… [mappress] Source: windsorstar, February 18, 2010
China has opened the door to domestic wind power companies to begin developing the country’s offshore resources – but has effectively shut… [mappress] Source: environmental-finance, February 18, 2010;
BWEA (RenewableUK), the UK’s leading trade association, welcomed today’s announcement from US company Clipper Windpower on plans to build the world’s largest turbine blade in Newcastle, for its proprietary 10 megawatt (MW) Britannia wind turbine. Each Britannia turbine will be able to satisfy the an
Plans to build an offshore windfarm in the Firth of Forth that could create 700 jobs in Leith have been welcomed by politicians and locals. [mappress] Source: journal-online, February 17, 2010;
A wind power project on an island is OK, but turbines in the lake are not.The Jefferson County Board of Legislators’ Planning and… [mappress] Source: watertowndailytimes, February 17, 2010;
Deepwater Wind Rhode Island has hired David Muse as the company’s project director, where he will oversee the planning, logistics, procurement and management of the assembly and construction of the company’s planned offshore wind farms. Muse, a registered professional engineer in Texas, has more tha
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has issued an order approving a $1.36 million energy efficiency grant for a wind energy research project at Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC). MAREC, in partnership with the University of Michigan Me
The Energies Technologies Institute announced today that it plans to open the world’s largest open access indoor test facility for offshore [mappress] Source: greenwisebusiness, February 16, 2010;
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