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South Africa offers hope
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: While Egypt dominates the Middle East and African wind markets with 550MW online, the big buzz among the sector during the COP17 climate summit in Durban was host country South A...
Windpower Monthly's round-up of 2011
As Windpower Monthly winds down for the end-of-year holidays, we leave you with a round-up of some of 2011's best read — if not most important — wind-energy stories from both the magazine and the webs...
Energy oasis or mirage?
Vast desert areas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) offer the prospect of a formidable sustainable-energy source for a growing population, the promise of much-needed jobs for the region's you...
Rising above the political woes
Since Windpower Monthly published its last report on the Mediterranean markets two years ago, the situation on both sides of the sea has undergone major change.
Private players wait for signs of stability
Scores of investors, from private-equity infrastructure funds to large utilities, have contributed to the wind-energy markets on the Mediterranean's northern shores, helping to propel Spain, Italy and...
Policy discord puts wind rush on hold
SOUTH AFRICA: Major industry players have been flocking to South Africa, anticipating a wind boom that could see installed capacity rise from 200MW to 4.5GW in the next eight years. But with the count...
Market Status: Northern Africa and Middle East - Political turmoil and long-term goals dominate
MIDDLE EAST: North Africa and the Middle East look set to continue their steady progress in 2011, with many of the region's governments supporting ever higher renewable energy targets and introducing ...
Market Status: Sub-Saharan Africa - Hope and uncertainty as countries take first steps
AFRICA: Sub-Saharan Africa is showing promise, with a number of projects across the region looking set to come off the drawing board and big players starting to move in.
African governments develop continent's renewables resource
AFRICA: Less than a third of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has access to electricity, according to the World Bank. These 600million people living in 47 countries consume less electricity than S...
Market Status: Turkey - End to policy stalemate promises wind boom
Turkey has once again doubled its installed wind capacity year on year to reach 807MW at the end of 2009, adding 424MW to the existing 383MW.
Market Status: Tunisia - Strategy to encourage more private investment
No new wind power capacity was added last year to the 54MW already turning in Tunisia. However, work has started on a major installation which will add 120MW to the country's installed capacity around...
Market Status: Egypt - Banking on private sector to keep momentum going
EGYPT: Egypt added 66MW of operating wind capacity in 2009 with the completion of a 120MW installation at Zafarana on the Gulf of Suez.
Market Status: Israel - Premium price rise coming as country slowly wakes up
ISRAEL: Israel had been expected to see an increase in wind capacity in 2009, but as is the case in other countries where wind power is just beginning to take off, the process has taken longer than ex...
Emissions Programmes: Alternative carbon finance for Turkey
Carbon markets have become an important source of finance for clean energy worldwide. Turkey has been unable to generate revenue through UN-supervised schemes, but has found alternatives outside the U...
Sub-Saharan Africa report: African air stirred by winds of change
Strong winds, a severe power deficit and plenty of good reasons to become less dependent on fossil fuel make sub-Saharan Africa a natural market for wind power. With donor aid behind them, some big pr...
Domestic wind power grows oil exports
While the Middle East and North Africa are more obviously associated with oil, gas and solar power, much of the region also has a good wind resource, coupled with plenty of space in which to install t...
Morocco shortens the short list
Just two developer consortiums are now left in the running to supply Morocco with its long mooted 200 MW of wind power. With vast tracks of open land and lots of wind, a visionary dream is being paint...
AID TO EGYPT FALLING ON BARREN MARKET
Ten years ago when Egypt began to discover its huge wind resource, generating capacity was in short supply. However, with construction of three fossil fuel plant and with more new fossil generation on...
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