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A total of $1.1 billion in new financing will flow to six African countries to assist them in developing renewable energy and preparing for the consequences of climate change.

Gov. Jack Markell, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine agreed Nov. 10 on a tri-state partnership for the deployment of off shore wind energy in the Mid-Atlantic coastal region.

LLOYDS Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and BNP Paribas teamed up with the European Investment Bank yesterday to pour £1.4bn of financing into onshore wind projects in the UK.

Objections to wind turbines, speciously citing 'democratic reasons', have a historical precedent – and they were wrong then, too

Last week, events on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean emphasised how energy and climate change issues will dominate the 21st century as the world begins to reduce its destructive dependence on oil, gas and coal.

The fate of Kenya’s largest green energy project hangs in the balance after a potential financier pulled out of the deal.

The UK is blessed with some of the best renewable sources of energy – wind, wave and tidal – in Europe. Although at just 2.5 per cent of total generating capacity, we have barely begun to exploit them. Of these resources, wind is the most developed, with 8 gigawatts of wind capacity either installed or granted planning consent.

Wind energy in Spain reached a new record last night, providing at its peak 45.1% of Spain’s total electricity demand – 2.1% greater than the previous record set in November last year. Spanish electricity grid, Red Electrica, said that today’s record is a first since it was sustained over several hours during last night. Between 00.40 and 06.20 on 5 November wind met over 40% of electricity demand.

The project, the third phase of the Blue Canyon Wind Farm, is situated on 7,000 acres near the small towns of Apache in Caddo County and Elgin in Comanche County. The environmental benefits are equivalent to taking 30,000 cars off of the road.

A decision on whether to list Nantucket Sound on the National Register of Historic Places is now in the hands of the National Park Service. The decision must come within 45 days and is not subject to appeal.

A survey in Rhode Island shows that 89% have positive opinions on the use of wind turbines to generate electricity, but 50% rate the cost of wind as an important issue and 44% say noise is an important consideration.

The collaboration of CTW and AXYS provides the capabilities to measure wind speed and direction, more accurately and at less expense than existing methods.

NREL and Siemens Power Generation "flipped the switch" starting the blades on a Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbine installed as part of a cooperative research and development agreement for testing turbine aerodynamics, structure and reliability.

Risø DTU has produced a detailed map of the wind resources in South Africa showing the best locations for wind turbines and is a prerequisite for funding wind farms.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering a £300 million funding boost for companies bidding to connect offshore wind farms to the UK electricity grid.

"We, the Wampanoag people, who opened our arms and allowed people to come here for religious freedoms, are now being threatened with our religion being taken away for the profits of one single group of investors"

The 18-20 wind turbines at Sikka l-Bajda (together with those at Hal Far and Bahrija) would generate close to 40 percent of the clean energy Malta needed to reach the 2020 EU-imposed targets.

As part of the first High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP) Conference to be held jointly at California State University Chico and the Cleantech Innovation Center at Oroville on November 5 and 6, attendees will get a unique demonstration of the vast potential of the new emerging forms of clean energy generation. On hand and speaking at the conference will be inventor Doug Selsam who will show a "superturbine" energy generator named Sky Serpent(TM). The Sky Serpent is among a class of new, ultra-light, ultra-efficient power generators that operate high in the earth's atmosphere.

German wind turbine manufacturer BARD Engineering GmbH is working in conjunction with Australian manufacturer Enerpac to develop technology allowing its offshore turbines to operate above water.

The Maldives hopes a new $US200 million wind farm project will help make the low-lying archipelago carbon-neutral by 2020.

Wind energy is practically inexhaustible as well as available almost everywhere and wind energy investment is a low-risk investment. The cost of electricity generation is stable over the lifetime of a wind turbine and there are no fluctuating fuel costs - and the access to wind cannot be restricted by third parties.

Harvard University announced today (Nov. 2) that more than 10 percent of the electricity consumed on its Cambridge and Allston campuses soon will be supplied from a wind farm in northern Maine. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, this agreement will make Harvard the largest purchaser of wind power by a university or college in New England.

The rights to build wind farms off the coast of Britain up to 50 times the size of the biggest present plants are expected to be handed to consortiums of major utilities, with the prize Norfolk field likely to go to Scottish Power and Vattenfall.

"People talk about oil lakes under the ground, but we have the same [energy resource] in the sky. There's a lot of wind energy up there. It's astonishing. And it's free. It makes sense to tap into that free source."

Credit the stimulus and the Chinese for making the next big Texas wind farm happen. A 36,000-acre wind farm scheduled to come online in 2011 is both the largest Chinese investment in U.S. renewable energy and a significant opportunity to export wind turbines to the U.S.

The company responsible for supplying Northern Ireland's water and sewerage infrastructure intends to move into the renewable energy market. Northern Ireland Water has asked for companies interested in building and operating wind farms at three sites in NI to submit a tender by 1 December.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Thursday China will drop a requirement that most of the components of wind power-related equipment be made in China.

$1.5 billion wind farm in Texas, paid for by Chinese banks and to be supplied with Chinese-made wind turbines. The first sizeable export order for Chinese wind turbines. When built next year, it will add to Texas’ stature as the biggest wind-power state in the U.S.

Nick Hyslop, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets said: “It’s clearly a much better market than it was. The UK wind market is recovering and good projects have more chance of getting money.”

While it may not be news to cleantechnica readers that climate change will kill more members of more species than wind turbines, it is interesting to see the actual figures comparing bird loss from climate change versus from wind turbines.