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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...

Windicator quarterly update: industry share price performance

The wind power industry's miserable start to 2010 continued into the second quarter as a slew of weak earnings figures meant that stocks continued to haemorrhage value.

Analysis - Europe boosts R&D to maintain dominance

EUROPE: Europe is in danger of losing its lead on wind technology and must act now to safeguard it, says Ditlev Engel, president and CEO of Danish manufacturer Vestas. He was speaking as the European ...

Conference Report Offshore: The Stockholm Declaration

A total of 29 recommendations for action in four policy areas to enable offshore wind power "to provide a significant contribution to European energy supply at low costs" make up the Stockholm Declara...

A limited world energy outlook

The International Energy Agency is once again being widely criticised for underestimating the potential of renewable energy. If the recommendations contained in its latest World Energy Outlook report ...

Answers trickle in on bird death report

Formal responses from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to charges that a 2004 report it commissioned on bird deaths in Altamont Pass is deeply flawed in its scientific approach and resulted in t...

Defence comes first and foremost

Britain is the only country where military interests pose a major barrier to wind development. Pressured by government, the country's defence authorities are now working with the wind industry to asse...

The real cost of integrating wind

Integration of wind into power systems is as much an economic as a technical challenge. A clear understanding of how much reserve generation is needed to maintain system security is a vital part of th...

Natural evolution from nuclear

France's only home-grown manufacturer of large wind turbines, Jeumont SA, has begun mass production of its first model, the J48. The company is hoping the technology behind this 750 kW machine will en...

On track as the cheapest in town

By 2020 wind power will be the cheapest option for electricity generation of all the technologies, with lower costs than the fossil fuel sources. This bullish projection has just emerged as part of th...

German offshore plans in costs trap

Germany's grand plans for 12 GW of offshore wind power are forcing the country to face economic facts. Wind plant at precious coastal locations are unwelcome, but way offshore nobody can afford to bui...

Fading fears about fluctuations

Evidence is mounting fast on both sides of the Atlantic that the wind is a much more stable source of energy than many utilities have realised. Fluctuations in output are proving to be nowhere near as...

Boom for remote applications in Alaska

Wind turbines are set to become almost as common as caribou in Alaska's remote, cold-weather communities north of the Arctic Circle. Experience gained from operating wind turbines there so far could a...

Sustain '99: Wind in a sustainable league of its own

Drawing together all forms of renewable energy under one 17,500 square metre roof in Amsterdam, this year's World Sustainable Energy Fair, SUSTAIN '99, provided a useful opportunity to assess the heal...

Research funding looking good

Wind energy now seems set to dominate the European Commission's funding of energy research and technology development (RTD) in the non-fossil fuel arena. No other single category has had so many proje...

Europe sets three per cent goal for wind

Wind power has been allocated a key role in new proposals for doubling the percentage of renewable energy use within the EU to 12% by the year 2010. The proposals -- contained in the European Commissi...

California goes competitive

The California electricity market--larger by far than the markets of most European countries--goes competitive this month. Wind energy has four years of partial protection to conduct a giant scale exp...

WIND AT THE HEART OF EUROPEAN BUDGET SCANDAL

An investigation is underway into allegations that European Commission (EC) officials have falsified documents and hijacked some 20% of Europe's renewable energy budget. Wind energy and solar power ar...

EUROPE BOOSTS RENEWABLES

The European Union is strongly supporting renewables in its Fourth Framework Programme. The Non Nuclear budget gets only 20% less than nuclear energy does for research, technology and demonstration --...

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