Spain: Wind energy growth and limits
The Spanish wind industry is planning to grow up to 20 to 30,000 MW installed power and they are seeking for offshore platforms, a possible indication that the best fields are reaching a peak in the country.
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Sweden: Nuclear out, wind in (no matter what the people say)
“Nuclear power has run out of steam.” That was prime minister Göran Persson’s conclusion earlier this month when the government announced the decommissioning next year of the Barsebäck 2 nuclear plant. A survey has now shown that most Swedish people think that Sweden should continue to use the nuclear power plants currently in use.
Crude Will Hit “$60 Before $40”
Energy tycoon Boone Pickens says “we’ve seen $40 oil for the last time” and expects “$10 natural gas” probably within “four months”
Brown Sees Short Path to Oil Independence
“With the price of oil above $50 a barrel, with political
instability in the Middle East on the rise, and with little
slack in the world oil economy, we need a new energy strategy,”
says Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, a
Washington, DC-based research institute. “Fortunately, the
outline of a new strategy is emerging with two new technologies.”
UK: Wind energy becalmed by the Nimbys
THE Government will fail to hit its target of generating 10% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2010, senior industry figures have told Financial Mail on Sunday.
Wind power can create thousands of manufacturing jobs in hard-hit states
Boosting U.S. wind energy installations to approximately eight times
today’s levels could create 150,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide, with
most jobs being added in the 20 states that have lost the most over the
past three years, according to a report released today by the Renewable
Energy Policy Project (REPP).
Ireland: Wind energy farm plan bites the dust
Plans by a North Cork based company, D. P. Energy Ltd., to develop a wind energy farm on the picturesque mountainside have been given the thumbs down by An Bord Pleanála, and the communities who fought a vigorous campaign against the project now believe it has finally been consigned to the pages of history.
Hydrogen-producing ship will use wind
Bremerhaven, Germany: A former coastal tanker is being adapted for a new role as a wind plant-fitted, hydrogen production ship. Following completion of the conversion scheme by the end of 2004, the 66 m Hydrogen Challenger will be put into service in the German Bight. It will lie off the wind-scoured Niedersachsen coast or in the vicinity of the island of Helgol, produce hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis, and transport the gaseous cargo to industrial buyers on the mainland.
Change in the Chinese Wind
The world’s largest wind power project will begin construction this month near Beijing, bringing green energy and cleaner air to the 2008 Summer Olympics and city residents coping with some of the worst air pollution in the world.
Q&A: The Future Of Energy
Newsweek Middle East regional editor Christopher Dickey and Forbes.Com editor Paul Maidment respond to queries from Forbes readers about the future of energy.
Turbulence over turbines in Cumbria
In the blustery northwest corner of Cumbria, wind farms are becoming part of the landscape.
UK: Tories to back wind farm protests
The Tories would change planning rules so central government could not overrule local objections to new wind farms, Michael Howard has said.