The government in the Australian state of Victoria has granted approval for the Golden Plains Wind Farm. If the federal government agrees, this will be Australia's largest wind farm after completion.

The plans sounded gigantic: The largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere with a capacity of 800 to 1000 MW was to be built in the Golden Plains district in the Australian state of Victoria. Onshore, mind you. In Europe, wind farms of this size are only known offshore.

However, as more and more voices were raised warning of the environmental impact of a wind farm of this size, the planning was somewhat reduced. But the dimensions still remain huge: In four ...

The outlook for the U.S. wind energy industry looks bright at the moment - more than 23GW in new capacity forecast over the next two years. But there is some danger lurking in unforeseen supply chain bottlenecks which could lead to...

Clean energy investment exceeded $300 billion once again in 2018, but there were contrasts between different types of renewable energy

Global clean energy investment totaled $332.1 billion in 2018, down 8% on 2017. Last year ...

A report in 'Nature' magazine indicates that it is still possible to reach the 1.5°C laid out by the Paris Agreement

Committed warming describes how much future warming can be expected from historical emissions ...

In a new report launched last week, the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation says the geopolitical and socio-economic consequences of a new energy age may be as profound as those which accompanied the shift from biomass to...

The 80 MW wind farm in New York was developed by EDF Renewables North America

EDF Renewables North America announced today that the 80 megawatt Copenhagen Wind Project is fully operational and delivering electricity. The wind farm consists of 40 wind turbines manufactured by Vestas and is located in Lewis and Jefferson counties in upstate New York. The produced electricity will be delivered to the Narragansett Electric Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Grid via a 15-year PPA.

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Wind energy and wildlife in the immediate vicinity - that's no longer a contradiction in terms. Fortunately, the days when wind turbines were a death trap for many birds and bats are over, as animal protection systems become better and better.

Actually, the artificial nesting boxes around Crystal Rig wind farm in Scotland were intended to provide a new home for long-eared owls. The boxes were hung as a bird protection measure, as the construction of the wind farm meant that some parts of the resident forest had to be cleared. When employees of the energy ...

GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind have agreed to install the prototype of the Haliade-X 12 MW in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam (NL) during summer 2019.

GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and ...

Czech utility CEZ has acquired eight wind farms in France

ABO Wind has sold a second project portfolio of French wind farms to CEZ. 70 percent of the supplier is owned by the Czech government and it is among the ten largest ...

The developer has installed two wind farms in the state of Victoria. Construction work has now finished on the company's first projects ever in Australia

The project sites are amongst the windiest in the state of ...

The German project developer obtains permission and remuneration in tender process

The way is paved for the first ABO Wind project in Tunisia: The Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has recently handed ABO Wind Department ...

Through NEO Network, ACCIONA will gain access to market reports alongside increased reach and exposure to the corporate buying community

ACCIONA Energy and Schneider Electric today announced that the world-leading ...

The manufacturer signed a contract with Repower Renewables to install turbines with a 140 metre rotor diameter

Senvion has concluded a contract for the largest rotor turbine in Italy. The order by Repower Renewables ...

Order intake in 2018 reaches 4.75 GW which is a growth of 73% compared to 2017

With a volume of 1,679 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, also in the fourth quarter the Nordex Group posted a high order intake (Q4 2017: ...

It's another major contract in one of the fastest growing wind markets in the world

In December, the company signed a contract with an independent power producer to ...

Q4 2018 secures healthy order book for the coming year

Senvion today announced turbine order intake of EUR 1.52bn in 2018, on the back of a healthy order intake in Q4. In comparison, the total order intake and the ...

PNE AG has completed the Gerdau-Schwienau wind farm repowering project, installing six new turbines

PNE AG has completed the “Gerdau-Schwienau” wind farm repowering project on time before the end of the year. Six ...