The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) has released a comprehensive guidance document for the planning and development of wind power projects in Canada.

G.E. Energy Financial Services will invest an undisclosed amount in Invenergy Wind LLC’s 110.4-megawatt Gratiot County wind power project in Michigan.

Vestas has received a 65 MW wind energy order from Green Mountain Power for 21 V112 wind turbines for the Kingdom Community Wind power project near Lowell, Vermont.

Teco is increasingly recognized by Chinese wind energy companies for cutting-edge generator technologies and innovative customer services.

EDP?s Timber Road II Wind Farm is a 99-megawatt wind turbines facility outside Payne. This is the first commercial, large-scale wind energy project to open in Ohio.

Solarhybrid will take over the 2.25 GW concentrated solar power pipeline and build them with solar energy photovoltaic, not the originally planned solar thermal tech.

Canada, which now has wind turbines in all 10 provinces, will end 2011 with about 5,400 MW of total installed wind farm capacity.

While the wind farm will occupy 175 acres, more than 2,000 acres of prime animal habitat will also be conserved as mitigation for any wildlife effects.

Vestas has received an order to supply 129MW of capacity to Sweden’s biggest wind farm. The wind power order, from Swedish developer Arise Windpower, is for 43 of Vestas’ V112 3MW wind turbines.

The growing need for efficient power supply units in appliances will be a key driver for rectifiers. Solar Inverters used in solar PV generation will drive the demand for Power discretes.

NRG Energy, a New Jersey power company, announced that it wanted to commercialize V2G technology developed by Willett Kempton, a professor at the University of Delaware.

With a series of wind energy orders from wind farm customers around the world, the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine has already won more than 1 GW of firm and unconditional wind power orders.

Finavera Wind Energy announces a grid connection agreement has been signed with Eirgrid for the 105 megawatt Cloosh Valley Wind Farm in County Galway

Arise Windpower is one of Sweden’s leading companies in onshore wind energy. Its business concept is to sell electricity generated at the company’s own wind turbines.

Masdar is currently implementing major projects such as the 100MW Shams-One concentrated solar thermal power plant in the UAE, as well as international projects including the 1,000MW London Array offshore wind farm.

BP has announced it will add to its already substantial wind energy holdings in the USA with a blade signing ceremony for the 419 MW Flat Ridge 2 wind farm to be constructed near Wichita, Kansas.