August 8, 2007

Wind Harvest's "Wind News"
A compilation of story leads from around the world.
By:  Kevin Wolf <kwolf@windharvest.com>

Note:  These story titles and lead paragraphs predominantly come from Energy Central's daily posting of the world's energy stories. Others are sent to me by subscribers of Wind News.  Energy Central requires paid membership to read full stories.  You can often paste the headline into Google and find the original source of the story. You are welcome to share this with others. This is a free service from Wind Harvest.   Thank you. Kevin
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SALAZAR SEES WIND-DRIVEN TURBINE IN ACTION

  Harnessing the wind for clean energy that will reduce humanity's
  carbon footprint was the focus of U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar's visit to
  a rural electric company this week.
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GENERATING ENERGY CAN BE A BREEZE, KRUSE SAYS

  Andy Kruse closes his eyes and sees windmills in backyards across
  America. But Kruse and his partner, David Calley, who co-founded
  Southwest Windpower 21 years ago, are determined to bring their
  Skystream 3.7 to semi-suburban and rural neighborhoods and
  millions more homes than can now accommodate windmills.
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SIEMENS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES ERECTION OF 25 OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES
IN GREAT BRITAIN

  Siemens Power Generation (PG) has successfully completed
  installation of 25 wind turbines for the Burbo Offshore Wind Farm
  in Liverpool Bay. The turbines with a capacity of 3.6 megawatts
  (MW) each were erected in less than 1.5 months, well ahead of schedule.
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WIND FARM OPPONENTS FACE NEW BATTLE FRONT; COMPANY BEHIND
CONTENTIOUS SITE IN WALES EYES LAND IN NORTHUMBERLAND'S COQUET VALLEY

  A wind farm company behind one of the most controversial
  developments in Britain now has its eyes fixed on a Northumberland
  moor, The Journal can reveal.
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ENERGY EXPERT SAYS NO TO WIND FARMS; DEMAND LABELLED A PRODUCT OF
'FLAWED' SUBSIDY SYSTEM

  One of the country's leading authorities on renewable energy
  called yesterday for countryside wind farms to be abandoned as a
  viable power source for Northumberland.
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STUDY SAYS TOO MANY TURBINES

  A study  on wind farm development in north Northumberland,
  commissioned by the North-East Assembly, has found the area can
  accommodate up to 15 turbines - fewer than half the number
  currently being proposed.
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WINDFALL: TURBINES GENERATE TIDY SUM FOR LANDOWNERS

  For farmers and ranchers with a flat, breezy field and a contract
  with a utility company, a lucrative future could be blowing in the wind.
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TOWER OK'D FOR WIND PROJECT

  A meteorological tower for a proposed wind farm can be constructed
  in Waltham Township and, despite the landowner's objections, it
  must have features for aircraft safety.
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WIND TURBINES CREATE CASH FLOW

  Blowing wind spins giant wind turbines stretching skyward above
  the rolling plains of the Lower Arkansas Valley every day.
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GROUPS STORE RENEWABLE ENERGY TO USE ON RAINY DAYS

  Scientists and engineers are struggling to find ways around  a
  major obstacle to the growth of renewable energy: the fact that
  inexhaustible sources of energy, such as the sun and the wind, are
   undependable.
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LURC MEMBERS TOUR WIND FARM IN MARS HILL TO GAIN PERSPECTIVE

  Members of the Land Use Regulation Commission had a chance to see
  and hear some of the positives and negatives of wind energy on
  Thursday as they toured the Mars Hill wind farm in central
  Aroostook County.
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WIND BEHIND CITY'S NEW POWER PLAN: IF CONTRACT WINS OK, CONTROLLING
COST OF ELECTRICITY SHOULD BE A BREEZE

  Hoping to stabilize a $150 million annual electricity bill,
  Houston officials have negotiated a contract to ensure that a
  third of the city's power is generated by wind.
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ELECTRIC DEBATE: RENEWABLE-ENERGY BILL HAS SOME PEOPLE QUESTIONING PROVISIONS

  For years, environmental advocates have pushed for North Carolina
  to require its power companies to use a set amount of renewable
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WIND POWER GAINS FORCE IN PORTLAND

  A growing number of wind-energy companies are establishing
  themselves in downtown Portland, drawn by a rapidly expanding
  market for  renewable power, a skilled labor pool and the city's
  green welcome mat.
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WIND TURBINES BLOW INTO TOWN

  Standing tall above the small town of Mossburn, 29 wind turbines
  stretch into the sky unnoticed by those who live in their shadow.
  Reporters Evan Harding and Sarah Bedford recap the journey to
  create Southland's first wind farm.
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DEER ISLE: TOWN EXPLORES HOSTING WIND FARM

  A local company has joined with a Maryland-based energy business
  to investigate the potential for a small commercial wind farm on
  the island.
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OKLAHOMA STATE PANEL CHARGED WITH RETHINKING WIND POWER USE

  The Oklahoma panhandle has plenty of wind power-generating
  capacity, and more capacity is scheduled for the near future. Now
  if there was only a way to get all that power onto the electricity grid.
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HV-TURBO NOW TO BE KNOWN AS SIEMENS TURBOMACHINERY EQUIPMENT

  HV-Turbo A/S, based in Helsingoer, Denmark, has been renamed
  Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment A/S with immediate effect. This
  company, a manufacturer of compressors and air supply solutions
  was a subsidiary of the German Kühnle, Kopp und Kausch AG (KK&K)
  which was acquired by Siemens in late November 2006.
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WINDMILL PLAN IS IN JEOPARDY: A LAWYER FOR THE DEVELOPER SAYS THE
STATE'S PROPOSAL TO PROTECT BATS AND BIRDS IS TOO EXPENSIVE

  A state proposal for limiting bird and bat deaths at a planned
  windmill site in Highland County is so costly it could endanger
  the project, the developer's lawyer says.
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BORALEX ANNOUNCES THE START-UP OF A SEVENTH WIND FARM IN FRANCE

  Boralex Inc. ("Boralex" or the "Corporation") announces the
  start-up of a seventh wind farm in France.
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EDP WIND POWER GENERATION UP 58% IN H1 2007

  Portuguese utility Energias de Portugal has released its
  provisional volumes statement for the first half of 2007, which
  shows that its output from wind power generation grew 58% against
  the same period of 2006.
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PUGET SOUND ENERGY BOOSTS ITS CUSTOMERS' SUPPLY OF WIND POWER

  Puget Sound Energy (PSE) (utility subsidiary of Puget Energy
  (NYSE:PSD)) has moved another step closer to meeting its
  long-range  renewable-energy goals by securing a 20-year purchase
  of wind power.
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WELSH FIRM POWERS UP WIND FARM

  A south Wales-based renewable energy company has opened its first
  wind farm with a pounds 10m project in Scotland.
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PG&E ADDS 85 MEGAWATTS OF RENEWABLE WIND ENERGY TO ITS POWER MIX

  Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today it has entered
  into a 15-year agreement with PPM Energy, a developer of
  utility-scale wind power projects, to purchase renewable wind
  energy from the company's Klondike III Wind Project in Sherman
  County, Oregon.
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ILL WIND BLOWS FOR HOME MICRO-GENERATORS; ARCANE PLANNING
REGULATIONS AND SUBSIDY CUTS PREVENT ROOFTOP TURBINES FROM TAKING OFF

  Suppliers of mini-wind turbines and solar panels for the home have
  reported falls of up to 90 per cent in customer enquiries after
  the Government cut subsidies in May.
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