News Archive November 2004

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WWEC 2004 opened today

11/01/2004

World Wind Energy Award 2004 goes to German Minister for the Environment Jürgen Trittin and German Parliamentarian Hermann Scheer

Electricity for Iran to be produced by wind farms

11/02/2004

Approx. 6500 megawatts of the Iran’s power output is produced by wind turbines

Ooh, Ahh, Wow!

11/03/2004

British Wind Energy Association launches its first advertising campaign

2005 is expected to be a record year for U.S. wind energy sector

11/04/2004

Tax credit extension puts wind industry back to work

Windfarm shock for the Stewartry as turbine numbers go public

11/05/2004

Biggest ever development in Scotland

150 MW Wind Power Project in the Rushlake Creek area in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada underway

11/06/2004

SaskPower International Inc. and SaskPower are proceeding with plans

No development of wind farms in Tasmania/Austrailia after 2008

11/07/2004

Wind farms not in operation by 2008 will not be viable

Declaration maps out the future for offshore wind energy across Europe

11/07/2004

Laurens Brinkhorst, Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands: "give wind some wings"

NEG Micon is currently setting up a 250 MW wind energy project in Surajbari/India

11/08/2004

Installation of NEG Micon's largest and latest wind turbine with capacity to generate 1.65 MW planned

FKI plc withdraws from the wind turbine business

11/08/2004

FKI announces today its proposal to exit the DeWind turbine business it acquired in 2002.

Wind farms to rescue Hong Kong from toxic soup of smog?

11/09/2004

Government considering ways of phasing out the burning of fossil fuels

Too insensitive planning of wind farms can cause serious damage!

11/10/2004

Europe’s leading heritage conservation organisation criticised governments for causing serious damage to the environment

New questions arise with regard to wind turbine safety

11/11/2004

British government study finds out that wind farms wreak havoc with civilian and military radar systems

Wind energy industry in the UK welcomes the Welsh Assembly's TAN8

11/12/2004

Revisions are needed, if the wind target is to be reached

Offshore wind power plant in the USA debated

11/13/2004

Environmentalists favour the idea, but others call it downright ugly

US/Michigan discovery centre receives wind turbine in exchange for information.

11/14/2004

Turbine will generate electricity and information

UK study raises new questions with regard to wind farms

11/15/2004

New questions raised concerning wind turbine safety in light of a British government study

Launching of financial software Wind Invest Manager

11/16/2004

Calculation and Data Management of Wind Farms

Momentum building for wind energy in Nebraska/USA

11/16/2004

Public power system seen as main road block to Nebraska development

Finland –The country's largest windmill is currently under construction in Oulu

11/17/2004

Wind energy accounts for some 0.2 percent of Finland's electricity consumption

More efficient vertical wind turbines developed

11/18/2004

Wind turbines provide more power and reduce maintenance costs as compared to traditional models

Canada - Computers get green through wind power

11/19/2004

Aim is to power 20,000 computers by the end of 2005, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by about 4,000 tonnes annually

India - Vestas RRB to add 100 MW of wind energy to this more and more energy thirsty country

11/20/2004

Indo-Danish joint venture now generates 350 MW of power through its wind farms in seven states

Nordex expects increasing demand as a result of Kyoto

11/22/2004

First wind farm project financed via CO2 trading

EWEA and WindEnergy - International Trade Fair - continue successful cooperation

11/25/2004

"CLEAN ENERGY POWER 2005" (CEP), international exhibition and congress