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RESEARCH CONTRACT
Three companies have together won a contract to look into administrative structures for community involvement in renewable energy projects. The research contract, worth 50,000, has been awarded by the Energy Technology Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry. The study will be conducted by Ray Mitchell ...
Wind Wire: France - Offshore industry to get research centre
The centre will administer public and private-sector projects focusing on technologies that are not yet commercially mature, with the long-term goal of creating an industrial cluster in France. It will come under the responsibility of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. ...
Wind industry urges more speed on recovery plan funding
Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee on the European Economic Recovery Plan ... welcome boost for growth in the new offshore wind industry, but to be fully effective the funds need ... is the voice of the wind industry, actively promoting the utilisation of wind power in Europe and worldwide ... of the world wind power market, plus component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables ...
INDUSTRIOUS BUT NOT INSPIRING
were few and far between. The good news was that many of the industry's technical problems seem ... Europe's premier wind event of the year was a tame affair. More industrious than uplifting ... of the wind community this decade. For an industry currently installing more wind power plant in more new ... was greeted by industrious nods of agreement all round. Some 200 technical papers were presented during ...
Little need for more research
It is very reasonable for the wind energy industry to be optimistic, but it must be realistic too ... had not -- and no one else had -- there would not have been the steel industry as we know it today. The wind industry requires steel and other metal products as much as the rest of us. It is probable ... to be metallic ores. It is very reasonable for the wind energy industry to be optimistic, but it must ...
Offshore research network
Industry and academia have come together to promote research into offshore wind and to share information. The UK Offshore Wind Energy Network (OWEN) numbers 90 members from universities and research ... to identify the research needed by industry in all areas connected with developing the UK's offshore resource ...
Bird research jeopardised
The collapse of Kenetech is jeopardising research into one of the leading obstacles to further ... research, said at the recent AWEA conference that Kenetech had invested $500,000-$750,000 annually into avian research and mortality mitigation. With the demise of Kenetech, that programme is now ...
Research program launch
A new research program has been launched by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to fund research into renewables to the tune of 3.5 million a year. The EPSRC has invited outline proposals from academic institutions for research focusing on medium to long term issues. Solar ...
Cinderella life for wind research
industry with useful results on research into areas such as turbine noise and aerodynamics, he says ... the industry has a fairly good understanding of how a single turbine interacts with wind flows, more research ... Compared with the level of public spending on research and development of other energy technologies ...
new green centre will research coal
The premier research group in Australia is poised to build a A$25 million renewable energy research ... Australia's premier research group, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is poised to build a A$25 million renewable energy research and demonstration centre ... system of the 1960s, after which it left renewables research. The coal industry contributes to 40 ...
Researchers tackle gearbox failure
are occurring at wind farms all across the country," says Jim Johnson, a senior engineer at NREL. Researchers ... a spectrum of industry participants -- including gearbox makers, wind farm operators and lubrication ... without fear of legal repercussions. NREL researchers modified a pair of older gearboxes to simulate ...
Research funding looking good
Wind energy now seems set to dominate the European Commission's funding of energy research ... or Long Term Energy (Joule III), which runs from 1994-1998. Under Joule III, 45 wind energy research ... of roughly equal importance in the field of EU energy research in the early stages of Joule III. Rational use ...
Biggest concerted research effort yet
The European wind industry will unveil detailed proposals for future research priorities under ... of wind generation Biggest concerted research effort yet The European wind industry will unveil detailed ... research, the wind industry has never had such a concerted effort," he says. "Before, the Commission ... The European Commission's plan to dedicate research funds to doubling the size of wind turbines ...
Wind takes hit in Bush budget request -- Industry expected to shoulder costs of research
The US Department of Energy's technology research priorities moved markedly in the direction ... fiscal year 2004 budget. The president's proposal for wind energy research totals $41.6 million out of a ... Association (AWEA). Wind is not the only renewable technology hit. Biomass and geothermal research are also ...
Major merger in Spanish industry
companies in the financial, industrial, educational and distribution sectors. Joint sales of the industrial ... of MCC, especially in its industrial and international projection," Mart’nez says. A four year strategy ... mainly on resources, research and development and promotion of new wind projects. Ecot cnia's sales ...
Industry challenged to collaborate
setting up a trust to fund research into environmental impacts and capture overseas information ... this fund and levering it up as far as possible," said Parrish. "Perhaps the industry can dig deeper in its ... ." Parrish promised that if the industry made solid progress on his proposed collaborative approach by spring ...
Uncertainty forces industry to hibernate
and research displays. Tingate and White both see Australia's 2% renewable energy quota as providing ... have seriously reduced the interest shown in wind and other renewable energy technology by the industry ... of a drop in the wholesale price of electricity of 10-30%, it is easy to see why White sees an industry ...
Industry seeks government conviction
from renewables research and development centre NaREC in the north-east of England. This will require ... . The positives show that the framework for growth is in place. "At the same time, the industry must be realistic ...
BULLISH AMERICAN INDUSTRY
of the market uncertainty caused by ongoing deregulation of the power industry in many countries. prototype ... The deregulation of the power industry in much of the world is far from being regarded as a daunting prospect by larger wind companies in the United States. They are talking bullishly -- saying ... the company, but a report issued in November, researched by Hank Hermann of small Wall Street firm WR Lazard ...
American industry radically reshaped
In a series of seismic shifts in America's wind industry, Zond is not only being bought by power industry giant Enron, but is behind the million dollar purchase of the largest technology asset of bankrupt ... for the project, startled industry observers. Of that total, $1.8 million is to be up front cash while $1 ...
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