India?s big gains in the solar power sector, Concentrating Solar Thermal Power and photovoltaic solar energy, have been catching the world?s attention of late.

Spanish wind power manufacturer Gamesa said on Friday it expects to sell between 3 and 3.5 gigawatts of wind turbines in 2012, of which it has already 1.0 gigawatts commited as of November.

Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. (RES Canada) completed the 99 MW Greenwich Wind Power Project, located on the northern shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, with 43 Siemens wind turbines.

GE today announced that it is working with Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to investigate ways to improve wind farm productivity and efficiency.

Bulgaria is on the verge of becoming the world’s leading solar power producer with large international solar energy projects and significant solar potential equal to that of Northern Spain and exceeding Germany by 10 ? 15%.

China plans to increase the combined installed capacity of its offshore wind farm sector to 5 gigawatts by 2015 and 30 gigawatts by 2020.

Once completed, the overall wind energy installed on the island by Enel Green Power will rise to over 250 MW.

Gamesa is set to be awarded an EPC contract for Lesotho’s first wind energy facility, a 25-35MW project to be built at Letseng-La-Terai.

China will surpass Germany in offshore wind farm capacity investments by 2018, second only to the U.K., finds a recent report from MarketResearch.com.

Last year, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB 1048 to encourage the development, ownership and operation of renewable energy facilities for exporting wind power from Nebraska.

Aid to cut the price of gasoline, gas and coal rose by more than a third to $409 billion as global energy prices increases, compared with $66 billion of support for biofuels, wind power and solar power.

The 104 MW of power delivered from the 52 wind turbines in the total Mangue Seco wind farm installation cost 424 million reaials ($244 million).

The DOE Offshore Wind Initiative invests $43 million in 41 projects across 20 states over the next five years to speed technical innovations, lower costs, and shorten the timeline for deploying offshore wind energy systems

Solar power is perhaps one of the most expensive renewable energy technologies today, but developments are underway to make it cheaper and more economical.

Wind power supports 75,000 jobs today across the U.S. and the promise of 500,000 American jobs in manufacturing, construction, engineering, development and other fields less than 20 years from now.

On Oct. 29, the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette carried a story concerning a large number of bird fatalities at a West Virginia wind farm. The following is a letter to the editor from American Wind Energy Association.