The 6 GW mark was reached with the completion of the Ormonde offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Cumbria, which is now outputting up to 120 megawatts, enough to power 67000 homes.

The wind power company is also building wind turbines farms in another nine countries: Spain, Mexico, USA, France, Honduras, Brazil, Romania, Kenya and Bulgaria

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two nationwide resource assessments showing the waveenergy and tidal energy potential.

Dominica and Saint Kitts and Nevis should work to become centres of excellence and a hub for training and technical assistance in geothermal energy development.

Algeria is a highly suitable solar energy source for Europe, photovoltaic and concentrated solar power, which in turn, thanks to this agreement, will be able to benefit from Western technology.

Solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy and vast empty lands. This is the State of Nevada (USA), a privileged location for renewable energy generation and development.

The wind turbines will be deployed at the planned 42 MW Pant-Y-Wal wind farm near Rhondda in South Wales and the 52.5 MW Baillie wind farm near Thurso on the north coast of Scotland.

The state-owned power company has abandoned its six-year fight to build the $2 billion, 176 wind turbines Project Hayes wind farm on the Lammermoor Range. NZ has committed to having 90% of renewable energy by 2025.

China and the United States are two of the world’s biggest markets for solar power, wind energy and other renewable energy technology.

?There is no evidence for a set of health effects from exposure to wind turbines that could be characterized as a “Wind Turbine Syndrome,? the report declared.

First Wind has been approved by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to expand its wind energy generation capacity in the Pine Tree State.

Leaders to Evaluate Merits of Concentrated Solar Power, Photovoltaic, and Concentrated Photovoltaic as US Increases Large-Scale Solar Power.

DOE will provide up to $10 million to university-based projects over five years to develop and demonstrate innovative heat transfer fluids for use in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power energy systems.

World Wind Energy Association – WWEA’s Small Wind World Report will be launched: 700 000 small wind turbines have been installed worldwide.

Angola wants to install 100 wind turbines with 50 MW near the city of Tombwa in Namibe province, under the impulse of renewables such as solar energy and wind power.

Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has signed a deal to supply an additional 50 MW of capacity -its G97-2.0 MW wind turbines to Chinese wind power company Longyuan for a wind farm.

This wind power project, which currently is in construction in Henry County, Ill., will feature 50 General Electric 1.62-megawatt wind turbines.