India plans an agency to oversee the development of offshore wind farms as the country’s best sites on land fill up, prompting it to promote projects at sea. The Ministry of New and Renewable energy will seek cabinet approval soon to set up the agency, the government said today in a statement, citing Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah. India is already Asia’s biggest wind-turbine market after China i ...

General Electric International (GE) and the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV) recently signed a contract to develop a wind grid code to increase renewable power sources in Vietnam. Funded by a technical grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), a team from GE will conduct an assessment of the country’s current wind power capabilities and strategies for expansion. The firm lo ...

During the last few decades, countries have shifted their focus to new and renewable energy sources to meet their soaring demands while capping greenhouse gases emissions. After hydropower, wind is their safest bet. The world today perceives wind power as an environment-friendly technology with the potential of solving problems of both energy and environment. Although the use of windmills by humans dates ba ...

Increasing price of non-renewable energy sources, growing energy consumption especially from emerging countries, pro-wind regulatory environment for wind projects and increase in utility scale wind energy generation farms have put the world at 197 GW installed capacity at the end of 2010. In, 2010, 37.6 MW of wind turbines were installed; mounted with 70,579 blades, valuing market size of $6.8 billion. Asia ...

ONAHAMA PORT, Japan (AP) — Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore. The wind farm near the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is to eventually have a generation capacity of 1 gigawatt from 143 turbines, though its significance is not limited to ...

REpower Systems SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group - the world's fifth-largest* manufacturer of wind turbines - will change its name in 2014: thereafter the company will be called Senvion. REpower has been using its name under licence since 2001. The rights belong to a Swiss company that is now using this name itself. Therefore the external corporate design will be gradually changed. The Hamb ...

China Longyuan Power has been awarded bids for two wind power projects totaling 244MW by the Department of Energy, South Africa (DOE) under the third round of the South African government's Renewable Energy Procurement Programme. To be jointly developed by China Longyuan Power, Mulilo Renewable Energy and Black Community Company, the two projects are the 100MW De Aar Phase I and 144MW De Aar Phase II North ...

HSBC Holdings, Europe's biggest bank, is looking to buy stakes in companies engaged in wind and solar ventures in China and India as it builds up its renewable energy portfolio, a bank official said."The Asian market is now becoming more attractive from an investor's perspective," said Siobhan Smyth, managing director and head of renewable energy project and export finance at HSBC. "Within Asia, we are seri ...

Suzlon Group subsidiary REpower Systems SE has installed its 5,000th turbine, located near Buchen in the Neckar-Odenwald district, Germany. In total, REpower has so far installed more than 9.6 GW of capacity, enough to supply more than 18 million people, or the entire population of the Netherlands, with electricity. “We are delighted that we contribute to a clean energy supply as a reliable partner with pro ...

After a year-long courtship, Vestas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have tied the knot in a union the two companies hope will help topple Siemens as the industry's number one offshore player. The two companies revealed few details about the plan when it was announced last month. In essence, a joint venture will be set up based around selling Vestas' V112 3MW and upcoming V164 8MW to the offshore marke ...