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The deadline for bids for a tender to build a 250-megawatt wind farm on Egypt's east coast has been extended by a month to August 20, state news agency MENA said on Sunday.

China?s government today set benchmark prices for wind power, abandoning a public bidding system to help boost profitability at wind farms as the world?s biggest polluter seeks to boost the use of renewable energy.

GLENROCK, Wyo.--Walking across the former site of the Dave Johnston Mine here, about half an hour outside Casper, you'd never know that over the course of 42 years, 104 million tons of coal was taken out of the ground. But now, instead of having a heavy carbon footprint--and coal certainly does--these rolling hills have a green footprint. Today, the site is home to a 158-turbine wind farm that produces 237 megawatts of power, enough electricity for 66,800 households for a year.

The government will today demonstrate its willingness to exert influence over Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group by announcing ?1bn of lending to wind farm developers whose schemes have been becalmed by a lack of cash.

The government will today demonstrate its willingness to exert influence over Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group by announcing ?1bn of lending to wind farm developers whose schemes have been becalmed by a lack of cash.

The Government has just announced measures to improve siting decisions for wind farms: they are long overdue...

The UK's seas could provide enough extra wind energy to power the equivalent of 19 million homes, an assessment by the Government showed today.

The British Wind Energy Association predicted the industry will produce more U.K. power than nuclear reactors in the next decade and said competition and investment are needed to bring down costs.

Australia is to build its biggest wind farm to date near Broken Hill in New South Wales. The new $2bn wind farm - covering over 32,000 hectares - will have 600 turbines generating 1,000MW of green electric power, enough for 400,000 homes.

In-shore wind farms could on their own supply more than 40 times all the electricity consumed in the world, according to experts. Even operating at just a fifth of their full capacity, a global network of 2.5 megawatt wind turbines sited away from urban centres would easily meet global electricity demands, a study suggests.

A second phase of the London Array will bring its capacity to 1 GW. When complete, the London Array will be the world's largest offshore wind farm. The consortium expects to begin offshore work in 2011 and have the first phase of the project generating electricity by 2012.

Yesterday, the Memorandum of Understanding of the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP) was signed by the relevant Heads of State and the European Commission. This is a timely step underpinning the integration of large quantities of wind power in Europe, believes the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). The BEMIP is a step towards a future pan-European electricity grid in the Baltic region, and extends the successful Nordic electricity market rules to the three Baltic States.

China's potential wind power resources alone are sufficient to meet its entire electricity demand, the country's top wind power research institute has said.

A HEADTEACHER has moved to allay residents? fears over plans for a 49ft wind turbine in the playground of her school in Westcliff. Westborough Primary School wants to harness wind power to cut its electricity bill, but neighbours have voiced fears over noise......

Two Swiss energy companies will erect 40 wind turbines at a cost of SFr240 million ($221 million) in the Jura region, between Lake Neuch?tel and the Val-de-Travers.

Cleveland?WTWH Media, publisher of Design World, Wednesday announced plans for a new print magazine, Wind Power Engineering. WTWH plans to publish the magazine two times this year, with the debut issue appearing in September, and six times in 2010. It will have an initial circulation of 7,500.

Oman is looking into building solar and wind power plants to meet rising demand as the sultanate faces a gas shortage, a government energy official said.

A new report from the European Environment Agency has concluded that wind power's potential in 2020 is as much as three times greater than Europe's expected electricity demand, rising to a factor of up to seven times demand by 2030........

On 15 June, tens of thousands of people from around the world joined in celebrating the enormous benefits of wind power during the first ever Global Wind Day..........

If Hermann Oelsner had his way, statuesque wind turbines would dominate the landscape of the Western Cape, breathing fresh air into South Africa's beleaguered power industry.......

Measurements from wind towers across the midwest show average and peak winds may have been slowing since 1973

Greens today welcomed the announcement from Iberdrola, owners of Scottish Power, of plans for five more substantial wind farms to follow their success at Whitelee, Europe?s largest wind project........

A 66ft-high (20m) wind turbine has been built to try to help provide green power for up to 36 small firms.

The European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) 2011 will be held in Brussels from 4 to 7 April, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) announced today......

Germany?s Siemens (NYSE: SI) broke ground last week on a new wind turbine production facility in Shanghai's Lingang New City, signifying the company's entry into China?s wind power market.......

The Danish Wind Industry Association has just published the annual industry statistics for 2008 which show that the industry last year had a 5.7 billion Euros export of wind technology and had 28,400 employed in the sector at the end of 2008.

Scotland moves step closer to target of generating 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020......

Siemens is greatly expanding its wind power activities in Germany and Europe. As part of this expansion, Siemens has now established its European headquarters for wind power sales and project execution in Hamburg, Germany.

A global study released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today, flagged up significant international growth in demand for small wind technology. BWEA's own figures released last week recognised the UK as the world's biggest exporter of turbines in the sub 50kW division, last year deploying 4.7MW in international markets......

GERMAN ?VORSPRUNG durch Technik? (advancement through technology) has done it again. German chancellor Angela Merkel has laid the foundation for a ?milestone? renewable energy plant that answers the big question surrounding wind energy: what happens when it isn?t windy?