Ask me a year ago what my primary focus in life would be today, and even I would not have been able to foresee just how important global renewable energy investment news would become in my day-to-day work life. But my career trajectory has followed quite clearly the rise in … [continued]
International wind energy leader Vestas Wind Systems has announced that it has received an order to provide wind turbines for the 310 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya, Africa — a project that Vestas claims will be the largest wind power project in Africa upon completion. The Lake … [continued]
Danish group Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s premier wind turbine maker, released its third quarter earnings report for investors Thursday, and is showing strong and continued growth over the first 9 months of the year, as well as compared to a year previously. Revenue and profit are both up, despite a drop in … [continued]
Global wind energy giant Gamesa has announced that it will be providing wind turbines for nine wind farms located in the northern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, at the same time as Vestas Wind Systems announced that they were pulling out of a previously “firm and unconditional” order … [continued]
On Day 2 of my cleantech tour of Germany, one of the big events was the WindEnergy Hamburg 2014 trade fair. It is reportedly the largest wind energy conference in the world, and it is being held in Hamburg for the first time (with a slightly different name, of course).. … [continued]
Wind turbine maker Vestas has lead the development of stealth wind turbines, which interfere much less with air traffic radar systems.
By Patrick Foot, financial markets writer at IG – a leading provider of CFD trading, spread betting and live forex prices* This earnings season has seen several major stories play out, with battles raging in several technological sectors and Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Google all taking centre stage. On Thursday July … [continued]
One of the world’s largest wind energy manufacturers, Vestas Wind, reported healthy second quarter earnings for 2014, and is now waiting on DONG Energy’s final investment in a UK offshore wind project which would require the Vestas 8 MW turbines. Vestas reported a strong turnaround from their second quarter earnings a … [continued]
Global prospects for wind power are rising despite disappointing 2013 numbers, say analysts at Navigant Research. Although the wind industry worldwide added 36,134 MW in 2013, for the first time in nearly a decade, new installed wind power fell below that of the year before. The graph below indicates a 20% … [continued]
RenewEconomy The debate over the future of Australia’s renewable energy target should properly be fought out in the public arena, among politicians, and in the mainstream media. Both seem disinterested, so the real fight is happening behind close doors, in the in-camera sessions of the RET Review panel and within … [continued]
