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Worlwide wind capacity increases in 2010 at the lowest growth rate since 2004
A few days ago the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) released the World Wind Energy Report 2010 which introduces the latest data on worldwide wind capacity. According to the report worldwide capacity reached 196,630 Megawatt, out of which 37,642 Megawatt [...]
Wind Energy: Brazil is investing in Vesta’s wind turbines.
Vestas has recently received an order for generating a total of 86 MW in Brazil. The project consists of 37 units of wind turbines (21 units of V100-1.8 MW, and 16 of V90-3.0 MW). The projects will be located in [...]
Europe´s largest onshore wind farm to become even bigger
Scotland has a wonderful landscape, but is a rainy, cold, and very windy land. Most of people live in urban areas (over 3 of the 5.2 million inhabitants of the region). In fact, Scotland has one of the lowest population [...]
Fuller Wind Turbine
The Fuller Wind Turbine was developed about 5 years ago with an investment of £215,000. It harnesses the viscosity of air over the rims of thin discs to generate energy. This way, a housing is able to swivel in a [...]
June 15th: Global Wind Day
On June 15th 2009, European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), in cooperation with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), created the Global Wind Day, to be celebrated from then on on that day. Across the globe numerous public events will be [...]
Renewable Energy – a choice Sweden is taking further each day
Sweden has for years been working to lower its dependence on fossil fuels for energy, while investing and developing renewable energies. Last week, the Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson announced that 2,000 new wind turbines will be built during [...]
Lolland Island combines wind energy and fuel cells
We’ve seen in a couple of previous posts how Denmark is making great progress in advancing towards a more sustainable future. Today we’ll analyze the case of Lolland, a Danish island that is combining wind power with fuel cells to [...]
Samso: 100% renewable energy island
It seems like a school project, or a game, too perfect to be real. Yet it does exist; Samso Island, in Denmark, uses nearly 100% renewable energy. In 1997, it won a competition launched by the Ministry of Energy of [...]
First US data center powered by the wind
A small ISP (Internet Service Provider) and hosting company in Illinois has become the first data center operator to be powered entirely by wind energy. The company is called Other World Computing (OWC) and is located in Woodstock, Illinois. It [...]
