Giant offshore wind farm to light up North Wales

Plans for a 250 turbine offshore wind farm off the coast of North Wales that will be provide clean electricity to power the equivalent of 680,000 homes have been given the go ahead by the UK government. The 750MW Gwynt y Mor development by Npower Renewables will lie eight miles off the coast between Llandudno and…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 3, 20081Comment

Energy

Take off for Europe’s largest wind farm

Europe's largest onshore wind farm, with 120 wind turbines, has been completed and switched on in Portugal. France's EDF Energies Nouvelles said the final tranche of the Ventominho wind farm, with 240MW of total capacity and a single point of connection to the grid, is now fully operational. The wind farm is a set of five interconnected…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 2, 20080Comments

Energy

UK’s REH bags Polish wind farm deal

AIM-listed Renewable Energy Holdings (REH) has signed a deal to develop a wind farm site in Poland. The site, in the mountainous region of Kobylany in South East Poland, will be have a generating capacity of up to 30MW, says REH. Poland currently has around 350MW of total installed wind power capacity. REH has entered a conditional…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 1, 20080Comments

Energy

UK world leader in offshore wind

The UK is now the world leader in offshore wind generation. With 597MW of fully constructed wind farms the UK now has the potential to power the equivalent of 300,000 homes. This achievement has been made after building work finished at Centrica’s Lynn and Inner Dowsing farms near Skegness. This farm is currently the biggest wind…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 21, 20080Comments

Energy

Spiralling costs and delays hit UK wind farms

Wind energy industry leaders will this week warn Prime Minister Gordon Brown there is little chance of achieving the government’s goal of wind generating a third of all UK electricity by 2020. A report in The Observer says: "Planning delays, long delivery times, escalating costs, 10-year hold-ups in connection to the national grid and technical problems in…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 21, 20080Comments

Energy

Green light for massive UK offshore wind farm

The government has given the go ahead for one of the UK's largest offshore wind farms, near Walney Island off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. The 500MW 'West of Dutton Sands' (obviously not many people turned up for the brainstorming session to come up with a name) wind farm will be made up of up…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 5, 20081Comment

Energy

Shell leaves London Array wind farm in disarray

Is it Greenbang, or does Shell also remind you of a cartoon baddie? How about the Hooded Claw? Remember him? He was the cloaked fiend who endlessly chased Penelope Pitstop. Greenbang could imagine Shell tiptoeing around, wearing a billowing cloak, a shiny top hat, twirling its moustache and occasionally pausing to emit bursts of eldritch…

ByThe Global ViewMay 6, 20081Comment

Smart Cities

Lewis wind farm plan finally gets binned

The UK has a slew of famous Lewises. The most famous is probably Inspector Morse's hangdog assistant. The second the questionable Bonfire loving Sussex town. Third maybe that lass off Pop Idol. But somewhere in the list of illustrious Lewises, there's the Scots town. A town that almost boosted its Lewis rankings by having a whacking…

ByThe Global ViewApril 23, 20081Comment

Energy

SSE gets spendy with £15 million pump energy buy

Greenbang reckons that the CEO of Scottish Southern and Energy must be lighting a cigar in his office and possibly treating himself to an extra spin in his wheely chair - that's how good a day it must be chez SSE, after the company scored an government approval for a wind farm in the north…

ByThe Global ViewApril 11, 20080Comments

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Giant offshore wind farm to light up North Wales

Take off for Europe’s largest wind farm

UK’s REH bags Polish wind farm deal

UK world leader in offshore wind

Spiralling costs and delays hit UK wind farms

Green light for massive UK offshore wind farm

Shell leaves London Array wind farm in disarray

Lewis wind farm plan finally gets binned

SSE gets spendy with £15 million pump energy buy

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