July 3, 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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WINDMILL TAX BREAK MAY BE EXTENDED: BUT FUNDS NOT PROPOSED FOR
BETTER POWER LINES

  A tax break that has helped spur the development of windmill farms
  in Washington state could be extended for five years as part of
  the new Senate energy bill, Sen. Maria Cantwell said Wednesday.
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SENATE DEBATES RENEWABLE ENERGY PROPOSAL

  Senate Democrats who want to require utilities to produce more
  wind- and solar-generated electricity faced a headwind of
  political heat Thursday from Southern Republicans and power distributors.
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WINDS OF CHANGE

  Western Wisconsin may never be a wind energy mecca like southwest
  Minnesota, northwest Iowa or the Dakotas.
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KENYON WIND PROJECT GETS GO-AHEAD

  Construction of nine wind turbines in Goodhue County is expected
  to begin this summer now that a state commission has approved a
  final site permit for the project.
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'OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN WIND ENERGY IN JORDAN IS MORE PROMISING NOW'

  The opportunity to invest in wind energy in the Kingdom is more
  promising now than before, the World Bank said in a statement
  issued on its website this past week.
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DESPITE APPEAL OF WIND ENERGY, PROJECTS HAVE FOES

  Stetson Mountain is more ridgeline than mountain, running like a
  backbone for six miles through the rolling hills that dominate
  Washington County's northernmost border with Canada.
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WIND ENERGY STIRS STRONG FEELINGS IN WESTERN N.C.: CONCERN OVER
VIEWS PROMPTS BLOWING ROCK COUNCIL TO BAN WINDMILLS, EVEN IN BACKYARDS

  The Blowing Rock Town Council has become the first local
  government in Northwest North Carolina to ban windmills.
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WIND FARM IDEA STALLS OUT IN HOPKINTON; TEST DEVICE REMOVED

  The town was ready with open arms, but a wind farm isn't blowing
  in.  The sparsely populated town was home to a wind project test
  tower since 2005, but the instrument is gone, and so is the interest.
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BUREAUCRATIC GLITCH HOLDS UP WIND DEAL

  Plans to bring electricity to Columbia next month from a wind farm
  in northwest Missouri might be delayed until early 2008.
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COUNTY TO PUBLICIZE WIND FARM REGULATION OPTIONS

  Attention St. Lawrence County towns. Here's what you should know
  about wind farms: The county Planning Board and Environmental
  Management Council are close to publicizing wind farm regulations
  towns can adopt.
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WIND FARM DEVELOPERS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TAX BREAK

  Federal tax benefits for wind power development may be scheduled
  to lapse next year, but wind farm developers proposing local
  projects are unfazed.
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HARNESS THE WIND

  There has been plenty of buzz surrounding North Dakota's wind
  energy industry recently. This morning, the Public Service
  Commission is holding a public hearing at the Cavalier County
  Courthouse regarding a $225 million, 159-megawatt wind farm near
  Langdon, N.D.
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DENMARK'S GREENTECH ENERGY SYSTEMS A/S ACQUIRES ITALIAN WIND ENERGY PROJECT

  Danish wind energy investor Greentech Energy Systems A/S said on
  Monday  (18 June) that it has agreed to acquire a 90% holding in
  the Italian  project company Bonorva Windenergy Srl.
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MERIDIAN PLAN FOR 100 EXTRA TURBINES OUTRAGES WIND-FARM

  Opponents of Meridian's large- scale Central Otago wind farm are
  outraged after learning that the state-owned enterprise has not
  disclosed plans to almost double the number of windmills.
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WIND FARM WON'T INTERFERE WITH RADAR

  Both sides in the debate over the 130-turbine wind farm proposed
  for Nantucket Sound claimed vindication yesterday in a federal
  report that designates a buffer zone around military radar.
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TOWERS OF WIND POWER, MADE IN PA.: A SPANISH FIRM'S BIG INVESTMENTS
IN PENNSYLVANIA ARE A SIGNS OF THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF RENEWABLE
ENERGY IN THE RUST BELT

  If wind energy ever plays a big role in Pennsylvania's economy, a
  little-noticed 2003 recycling conference in Bilbao, Spain, may
  merit some of the credit.
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NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY SERVICES EXPANDS RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO WITH THE
WHITE CREEK WIND FARM

  North American Energy Services Company (NAES), a broad-based
  provider of services to the power generation industry, announces
  that it has signed an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) agreement
  with White Creek Wind I, LLC.
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COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY'S DEWIND ANNOUNCES ORDER FOR D8 WIND TURBINES

  Composite Technology  Corporation (CTC) (OTC Bulletin Board: CPTC)
  announced today that its  subsidiary DeWind Inc has received an
  order from Seawind International's  subsidiary, Enerserve Limited,
  (Seawind), for five 2MW DeWind D8 wind turbines  for delivery to
  one of their projects in Chile.
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BENSON WIND FARM TO RESTART PERMIT PROCESS

  Iberdrola, a Spanish company that purchased the 79- turbine Benson
  Wind Farm, will start the application process over to have taller towers.
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SSE TO SUPPORT CHINESE WIND FARMS AND PURCHASE CERS

  UK utility Scottish and Southern Energy has finalized the first of
  four agreements with GD Power Development, a subsidiary of Chinese
  power player China Guodian Corporation, to support the development
  of four new wind farms in northeast China.
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CAPE RESIDENTS SAY WIND FARM PLAN DOESN'T HONOR SETBACKS

  St. Lawrence Wind Farm has proposed turbine locations short of a
  1,000-foot setback the company pledged to honor, mapping some
  industrial windmills closer to properties that are not
  participating in its project.
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GROUP RENEWS FIGHT AGAINST TOWN LAW ON WIND ENERGY

  A citizens group is renewing efforts to strike down the Wind
  Energy Facility Law adopted last November by the Town of
  Centerville in Allegany County.
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HYDRO AND SIEMENS COOPERATE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR FULL-SCALE
DEMONSTRATION OF FLOATING WIND TURBINES

  The Norwegian energy company Hydro and Siemens Power Generation
  (PG) have entered into an agreement to cooperate on technology to
  develop floating wind turbines based on Hydro's Hywind concept.
  Siemens will deliver the first wind turbine for the demonstration
  unit which will be positioned off the coast of Norway.
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PENDLETON WIND FARM BLOCKED:; PSC ENDS 1 1/2-YEAR EFFORT BY DEVELOPER

  The West Virginia Public Service Commission has denied a proposal
  to build a wind-power plant in Pendleton County, ending a
  year-and- a-half-long effort by developers.
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AN UGLY BATTLE OVER CLEAN POWER

  The wind blows so hard over these desert ridges that it topples
  outhouses. It whistles through the high steel towers strung with
  cables that carry electricity west to light the cities of Puget Sound.
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AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION BOARD INCLUDES BP, JPMORGAN, XCEL
ENERGY-DEMONSTRATES INDUSTRY BREADTH

  Four new members joining the American Wind Energy AssociationÂ’s
  (AWEA) Board of Directors symbolize the growing trend toward
  large, well-known corporations joining the emerging wind power industry.
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SSE BACKS FOUR NEW WIND FARMS IN CHINA

  Scottish & Southern Energy is to back four new wind farms in China
  as part of its carbon reduction programme.
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SSE BUYS CARBON CREDITS FROM CHINESE WINDFARM

  Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) has taken a step towards cutting
  its environmental impact by buying carbon credit certificates from
  a Chinese windfarm company.
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U.S., DANISH LABORATORIES TO COOPERATE ON WIND ENERGY RESEARCH

  The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy
  Laboratory (NREL) and Denmark's Risø National Laboratory,
  Technical University of Denmark (DTU), signed an agreement today
  to cooperate closely on improving wind energy technologies.
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MOWER COUNTY MULLS FIFTH REQUEST FOR WIND FARM

  A Mower County resident is seeking to build what he calls the
  first farmer-owned wind farm in the region.
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COMMERCIAL WIND ENERGY ORDINANCE WINS APPROVAL

  The Hamburg Town Board passed a commercial wind energy ordinance
  Monday night, making a few changes in the proposed law and
  clearing the way for BQ Energy's proposal for six turbines near
  the Lake Erie shoreline to advance.
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HEARING SET FOR LIVINGSTON CO. WIND FARM

  A hearing for the first power company wanting to build a wind farm
  on Cayuga Ridge in Livingston County could be scheduled later this summer.
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CLAYTON COMMENT TIME ON WIND FARM EXTENDED

  The town of Clayton has extended the public comment period on the
  Horse Creek Wind Farm's environmental impact statement to July 15.
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