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With 20% of the world's population, China now consumes 10% of the world's energy. This would suggest that just to come up to the international average, China will need to double its energy consumption. With an economy growing at 9% per year, China is on track to do just that, and consequently they are developing every source of energy they possibly can.
The five-year wind-farm development project, with an anticipated total generating capacity of 2,015 MW, will be located at five wind farms in New York, Texas, and South Dakota, the companies said.
A LEGAL bid to overturn the Scottish Executive's decision to grant planning permission for a giant wind farm was rejected yesterday.
Navitas will submit wind farm proposal - Woodford County project would have 83 turbines, cost up to $224 million
July 15, 2006 by John Sharp in Peoria Journal Star
July 15, 2006 by John Sharp in Peoria Journal Star
...even before the first turbine has been erected, Navitas officials already are planning for expansion. Davies said the company is looking north and west of the Benson area to add about 50 more 400-foot turbines.
Needless to say not everyone is impressed with the UK’s latest energy review.
Belsize Park's Ethical Man, Justin Rowlatt, is blaming the council for blowing his eco-friendly experiment off course.
As part of BBC2's Newsnight programme Mr Rowlatt has agreed to spend a year living as environmental a lifestyle as possible.
But Camden Council's planning department is making heavy weather of his efforts to install a £1,500 wind turbine on the side of his house in Park Hill Road.
Thunderstorm knocked out wind farm
July 14, 2006 by Wes Keller, Freelance Reporter in Orangeville Citizen
July 14, 2006 by Wes Keller, Freelance Reporter in Orangeville Citizen
A brief power outage around midnight Sunday, along with a shutdown of the Melancthon Wind Plant and predictions of record-setting storms on the horizon, might lend credence to sales pitches for high-quality surge protectors.
The wind plant went offline at about the same time as Sunday night's lightning storm apparently caused a brief outage of the electrical supply at Orangeville and elsewhere.
Hartsville wind farm ‘conflicts' raised: Rising attorney fees draw scrutiny
July 14, 2006 by Rob Montana, Staff Writer in Hornell Evening Tribune
July 14, 2006 by Rob Montana, Staff Writer in Hornell Evening Tribune
HARTSVILLE - Despite the absence of Supervisor Amy Emerson, Hartsville residents again questioned her impartiality in reference to wind farm issues.
National backs local generation to meet district’s energy needs
July 14, 2006 by John Jones in Gisborne Herald
July 14, 2006 by John Jones in Gisborne Herald
It just seems to be ludicrous at a time when New Zealand is crying out for new generation, when the world is seeking generation that is renewable, that you have a landowner that wants wind farms on the property, you have a company that is prepared to put the money up and you have a government saying no."
The principle of monopoly line companies not cross-subsidising their generation was sound. The practice of it was impractical.
Tsukuba, the town that prides itself as Japan’s most hallowed scientific research centre, is the site of perhaps the world’s worst electricity wind farm: in the 12 months it has operated, its windmills have consumed 43 times more power than they have generated.
Meridian Energy has applied for resource consent to build a wind farm on the Lammermoor Range west of Dunedin.
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KINGMAN – Construction of the area’s first wind farm is set for October, planting 15 200-foot turbines at a site behind the Nucor Steel plant.
Hursh: Wind-farm rejection to be added to court record
July 14, 2006 by Rob Baxter in Rockford Register Star
July 14, 2006 by Rob Baxter in Rockford Register Star
BELVIDERE — The fate of Boone County’s first wind farm may not be decided until Sept. 15 when the issue comes before Circuit Judge Gerald Grubb.
Boone County State’s Attorney Jim Hursh said Wednesday’s 7-4 vote against the Boone Heritage Wind Farm LLC proposal will be part of the court record as the judge renders his decision.
THE TEAM behind the proposed 600MW windfarm for Shetland has welcomed the government's energy review, published on Tuesday.
While leaving the door wide open for the nuclear industry to build new power plants, the 218 page document - www.dti.gov.uk/files/file31890.pdf - also offers lots of opportunities for those involved in the renewable energy sector.
...calls for electricity companies to achieve higher targets of power bought from renewable sources such as wind - and it comes just as work is about to start on the town's pioneering £6.5 million renewable energy centre at Ness Point.
The candidates for this fall’s Massachusetts gubernatorial election explained some of their solutions to the state’s environmental problems during the Gubernatorial Environment Forum at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium Wednesday night.
The project to make Tsukuba a self-sufficient showpiece for green energy has failed, heaping scorn upon the central government programme to test alternative sources. It is likely to be used as ammunition by sceptics elsewhere, including Britain, where the Government this week published its energy review. Tsukuba is now locked into a spiral of civil litigation, criminal investigations and an unprecedented attack on the academic reputation of Waseda University, Japan’s most respected seat of learning.
A STORM has broken out over proposals to erect wind turbines on a £2.5m new enterprise centre.
Township council setting setback requirements for wind turbines
July 13, 2006 by Sara Campbell in Lucknow Sentinel
July 13, 2006 by Sara Campbell in Lucknow Sentinel
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Twp. council is planning to pass a bylaw in August that would outline the setback requirements for wind turbines.
Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, recently announced details of the state's second offshore wind farm - a development off the coast of Padre Island National Seashore.