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Entries for February, 2012

Capricorn Ridge wind farm began operating in 2007

General Electric’s (GE) GE Energy Financial Services Company (GE Energy Financial Services) on Tuesday announced that 225 million to 662.5 MW of installed wind turbines manufacturers capacity located in West Texas Capricorn Ridge wind farm investment, jointly with JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPM)dollars.
A subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Florida Energy will continue to be the major [...]

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wind power continues to be the renewable generation technology

This represents an increase of 21%. Today, about 75 countries worldwide have commercial wind power installations, with 22 of them already passing the 1 GW level.
“Despite the state of the global economy, wind power continues to be the renewable generation technology of choice,” says GWEC Steve Sawyer. “The year 2011 was tough, but the long-term [...]

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Small wind turbines park is put into use

El the Arrayán wind power park plans to build in the Coquimbo Region of Chi in northern coastal areas, a total of 51 wind turbines, installed capacity of 115 MW. In accordance with the relevant contract, the park is 80 per cent of generating capacity (about 2.8 million kilowatts) will be supplied to the Los [...]

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wind power continues to be the renewable generation technology

The global wind industry installed just over 41,000 MW of wind power in 2011, bringing the world’s total installed capacity to more than 238,000 MW, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reported.
That represents a 21 percent increase, with an increase in the size of the annual global market of just over 6 percent. Today, about [...]

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Canada’s largest market for wind power generation

China is also growing at the fastest pace, having added 18,000 MW of wind power in the past year.
GWEC secretary general Steve Sawyer said wind installations are also growing quickly in new markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He said growth rates will not be maintained, however, “unless there is a global price on [...]

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Sinovel, China’s largest wind turbines maker

Sinovel, China’s largest wind turbine maker, will put a set of 6-megawatt (mw) wind turbines into operation off the coast of Shanghai in what is claimed to be the world’s first large-scale commercial application of such powerful offshore wind turbines.
Sinovel will supply Huaneng Renewables, a leading Chinese wind farm developer, with 17 units of 6-mw [...]

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