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Energy needs a reality check
Just as Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, launched a scathing attack on "useless and ugly" wind farms last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued an urgent warning on t...
Wind wings its way to better bird protection
WORLDWIDE: Wind power turbines threaten protected birds", "Dead birds unintended consequence of wind power development", "Russia's Putin says wind turbines kill birds".
UK focus: Nimby Britain looks out to sea
It should be one of the leading places in the world for wind power, but the UK has struggled to develop its onshore industry.
UK focus: Wind fails to make friends
The planning system in England and Wales has been blamed for keeping the UK's rate of wind development low.
Tide of opinion turns with the wind
Proposing an offshore wind farm for the playground of the privileged was bound to bring trouble, but nobody had foreseen how deeply and widely it would divide opinion or that it would lead to a winner...
Precedent setting battle off Cape Cod
Wind turbines are going offshore in Europe by popular request, but projects proposed for waters off the coast of New England have given rise to a storm of well orchestrated protest among the region's ...
An historical turning of the tide
Steeped in history and tradition, south east New England is being asked to consider something as radically new as a large offshore wind plant off Cape Cod. Opposition to this use of a major domestic e...
From grass roots to big business
One of the largest wind plant developers in the world built its fortune by going door to door in Denmark, offering shares in wind plant co-operatives. This is the story of how Jysk Vindkraft grew and ...
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...
The shining star of Navarra economy
Energ a Hidroel ctrica de Navarra is arguably the largest wind power developer in the world, with more operating capacity on its books than any other single entity. It is certainly the most dynamic. T...
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...
A small but lively newcomer
As a case study of the frantic melee of wind development in Spain, the small region of Asturias is a classic example. The government there is overrun with wind plant applications, with developers scra...
Green word sweeps churches of America
What started as a good idea is rapidly turning into a major mission for modern day churches of all faiths. More and more are signing up to buy green power as a way of saving the Earth -- and thus mank...
United States Northeast provides new role model
America's north eastern states are showing themselves to be some of the most progressive in the country in making sure that electricity market deregulation also makes renewable energy available to all...
Renewables a godsent opportunity for religious communities
Electricity market pundits on both sides of the Atlantic have suggested that popular demand for green power could yet create the great market breakthrough for renewables. To judge by developments in t...
A small step for clean energy
Global warming is enough of a possibility--and enough of a hot-button public issue--that energy bosses need to sit up and take notice. But with nuclear as a panacea to environmental ills there is no n...
The art of balancing planning priorities
The age old system of land management in Britain is failing to cope with wind development. While most people favour greater use of wind energy, the infamous planning process is preventing them from ge...
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...
Optimism fired by political good will
Public recognition by the new Labour government of wind energy's wide popularity in Britain despite the publicity antics of a small anti wind farm lobby inspired this year's annual industry conference...
Dutch wind set fair for liberalisationWithin the framework of some of the most advanced plans for electricity market liberalisation yet seen in Europe, a budding shoot of green renewable energy
Within the framework of some of the most advanced plans for electricity market liberalisation yet seen in Europe, a green renewable energy policy has emerged in the Netherlands. Not only does the poli...
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