Top 10 Wind Power Stories of the Week

August 2nd, 2011 by Zachary Shahan

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Some top wind power news of the week from around the internet. For more, check out our Wind Energy category. (Note: we’ve got 2 big wind energy stories coming today or early tomorrow morning.)

Interactive: Powering the Nation with Wind [Climate Central]
EIA: Subsidy Rate For Wind Power Has Dropped 90 Percent [Think Progress]
How an Offshore Wind Farm is Built [Guardian]
Navajo Nation about to Become Partner in Arizona Wind Farm, Get Its First Wind Farm [The Arizona Republic]
Offshore Wind Energy Potential Boosted During Heat Wave, Data Shows [Climate Central]
Atlantic Wind’s New Wind Farm in Eastern North Carolina Moving along Fast [HamptonRoads.com]
EU Offshore Wind Power Shows Solid Growth in First Half of 2011 (EWEA) [Wind Today]
Offshore Wind Interest Growing in South Carolina, Potential is Huge [The State]
UK Sails ahead in Offshore Wind Power [Guardian]
A Fresh(water) Look at Wind Power [Climate Progress]

More top wind energy stories we missed? Drop a comment below.

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Anonymous

“Energy producers expect European wind power generation to triple by 2020, with tens of thousands of new, ever-bigger wind turbines springing up, an industry body said Tuesday.

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), which groups energy giants with wind interests and also many involved in nuclear or gas-fired electricity generation, released its figures in a new report aiming to influence EU energy policy after 2020.

By the end of last year, the ‘Pure Power’ report said, wind power produced about 5.3 percent of demand across the EU’s 27 states, some 182 Terawatt hours (TWh). Its share is tipped to reach 15.7 percent by 2020, or 581 TWh.”

http://news.yahoo.com/european-wind-power-output-tipped-treble-2020-report-181227341.html