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According to the EWEA - 577 MW added off shore wind power capacity in 2009, which is 54% more than the 377MW added in 2008. This year a further 10 wind farms are due for completion adding an expected 1000 MW.

ACCIONA increased its attributable wind power capacity in Spain by 1,308 MW in 2009 to almost 4,000 MW. Strengthening the company's prominent position in the ranking of wind power asset owners in Spain, with a market share of 20.9%.

The start up of these five new plants reinforces IBERDROLA RENOVABLES’ presence in France, which after Spain and the UK, has become the company's second largest European operation

GE has received a $1.4 billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy. The Shepherds Flat project marks the US debut and largest single global order of GE’s 2.5xl wind turbines. In total 338 turbines will be installed in 2011 and 2012.

New report believes Wind power could meet 20 percent or more of electricity demand in the eastern United States by 2024.

A wind farm on Ross Island in Antarctica is expected to cut diesel use by nearly 500,000 litres a year at Scott Base and McMurdo Station. The wind farm has now been officially opened by foreign minister Murray McCully.

Samsung Group will buy up to 250,000 tons from Ontario's steelmakers to build wind farms across the province, and will take advantage of tax incentives to use Ontario steel.

Samsung Group will buy up to 250,000 tons from Ontario's steelmakers to build wind farms across the province, and will take advantage of tax incentives to use Ontario steel.

New report believes Wind power could meet 20 percent or more of electricity demand in the eastern United States by 2024.

Around the world, wind is a booming, $40 billion-a-year industry that is growing at 30 percent a year, energy expert Richard Stuebi of the Cleveland Foundation said. ''It's the biggest, fastest-growing industry on the planet . . . and everyone wants to be part of it,'' he said."

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a £100bn programme to build thousands of offshore wind farms.

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Subocean Group work specialises in laying seabed cables between offshore turbines and to the shore.

The new facility, based in Bahia, will be dedicated to the assembly of wind turbines with an annual capacity of up to 300 MW per year. The estimated investment is R$ 50 million (approximately €20 million).

The new name and logo will enable us to become more instantly recognised, more memorable and stronger in terms of identity and perceived purpose.” Maria McCaffery MBE, BWEA Chief Executive

Glasfiber expects to produce enough blades for 600 turbines for Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd.

The first 100 wind turbines took about three years to bring online, but the next 100 should be operating in no more than two years.

Turbines in the mountains between Tehachapi and Mojave could generate up to 800 megawatts.

COP15 has the full list of all press conferences from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at this one place.

The executive board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ruled that the 10 projects contravened the key principle of "additionality".

"The project will play an important role in helping the province reach its goal of becoming electricity self-sufficient by 2016, while also providing major economic benefits to B.C.'s north-coast communities," said Paul Taylor, NaiKun Wind's president and CEO.

Set for completion in 2012, the London Array is expected to have a total generating capacity of 630 megawatts and could eventually be expanded to up to 1,000 megawatts, or 1 gigawatt. That capacity could provide enough electricity for 750,000 British households, or about one-fourth of the population of Greater London.

All LIVE and recorded press conferences from Copenhagen Climate Conference are available for viewing at this one link. COP15 is SO well organised - hopefully the end result will be just as good.

Secretary Salazar has been a strong proponent of exploiting the vast potential for offshore wind generation off the US East Coast, in pursuit of President Obama’s “25% by 2025” initiative.

Some potential buyers say turbines are too noisy, while others say “they’re so gorgeous,” Key said.

Enel Green Power, through its subsidiary Enel Latin America BV, has signed an agreement with SoWiTec Energias Renovables de Mexico Ltd., an affiliate of the German developer SoWiTec international GmbH, to develop a number of wind power projects in Mexico for a total capacity of up to 1,000 MW.

Energy ministers from Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg promised to develop a new offshore power grid to link up electricity produced from sea-based wind power turbines

We share the world’s hopes for a deal, but suffer a special frustration: we know that wind energy provides a ready-made solution to climate change. We have the technology, working already, to provide a key alternative to polluting fossil fuels.

President Mohamed Nasheed pledged to make the Maldives carbon-neutral within a decade by moving to solar and wind power.