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Wind energy associations met in Spain to call for a 2030 renewables target
Last week, CEOs of 12 national wind energy associations from across Europe met in Spain to unite their efforts in a call for a compulsory 2030 renewable energy target.
read more... 15/10/2013
UK: Wind projects and subsidies
The number of turbine projects granted planning permission has more than doubled over the last two years, from 83, in January to August 2011, to 188 during the same period this year, while critics of wind farms say they are inefficient and reliant on public subsidies.
read more... 14/10/2013
Enel Green Power has connected a new PV plant in Romania
Italian-based Enel Green Power (EGP) has connected to the grid the Colibasi photovoltaic (PV) plant, sited in Giurgiu, with a total installed capacity of 6.5 MW bringing the EGP’s Romanian installed solar capacity up to about 26 MW.
read more... 11/10/2013
Biggest solar park in UK to be built in North Wales
The Compton Group, a green energy developer is aiming to build the UK’s largest solar park in North Wales. The project is likely to see something like 180,000 panels erected over 220 acres on land near Deeside Industrial Park and would create enough green electricity from the sun to power about 11,000 households. The development could create more than 100 jobs during the construction phase and a small number of positions once ready.
read more... 10/10/2013
EBRD to finance three new wind farms in Poland
The EBRD is providing a long-term loan of more than 69 million euros to PEPSA, a group of three special-purpose companies fully owned by Polish Energy Partners S.A, aiming to support the construction and operation of three wind farms in northern and north-eastern Poland. They are Gawłowice with a total capacity of 41.4 MW, Rajgród with 25MW and Skurpie 37 MW.
read more... 09/10/2013