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• Gamesa cuts 394 jobs in Spain Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - SPAIN: Gamesa is to cut 394 jobs at three of its Spanish blade factories in response to market conditions....
• Carbon Trust launches offshore prediction study Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - UK: The Carbon Trust has unveiled a £2 million research project, aiming to improve prediction accuracy, cut financing costs and optimise wind farm layouts....
• Egypt resumes wind expansion with auction Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - EGYPT: Egypt is consolidating its post-Arab Spring resumption of wind deployment with a state request for proposals (RFP) to build, own and operate a 250MW wind project in the Gulf of Suez....
• Dong installs final Anholt turbine Windpower Monthly (2 days ago) - DENMARK: The 111th and final turbine was installed yesterday at the 400MW Anholt offshore wind farm....
• Sany wins 153MW Ethiopian contract Windpower Monthly (2 days ago) - ETHIOPIA: Chinese wind turbine maker Sany has won a contract to supply 153MW turbines to the Adama wind farm in Ethiopia....
• Siemens worldwide B53 turbine curtailment Windpower Monthly (2 days ago) - UNITED STATES: Siemens is curtailing all turbines worldwide using its B53 blade after one broke off a SWT-2.3-108 turbine in California....
• Siemens worldwide B53 turbine shutdown Windpower Monthly (5 days ago) - UNITED STATES: Siemens is curtailing all turbines worldwide using its B53 blade after one broke off a SWT-2.3-108 turbine in California....
• Swedish Strawscaper Harvests Energy from the Wind With a Kinetic Hair-Covered Shell Inhabitat (5 days ago) - Every once in a while an idea comes along that is so unlike anything before that it defies reference. Take Belatchew Lab Architecture’s Strawscraper, a skyscraper covered in hair that can harness the energy of the wind. The building looks as though it belongs...
• Nordex wins 50MW Pakistan deal Windpower Monthly (5 days ago) - PAKISTAN: Nordex has received a 50MW order from Fauji Foundation for a project in the province of Sindh....
• Swedish Strawscaper Has a Hair-Covered Shell to Harvest Energy from the Wind Inhabitat (5 days ago) - Every once in a while an idea comes along that is so unlike anything before that it defies reference. Take Belatchew Lab Architecture’s Strawscraper, a skyscraper covered in hair that can harness the energy of the wind. The building looks as though it belongs...
• Gamesa attains Brazilan local sourcing accreditation Windpower Monthly (5 days ago) - BRAZIL: Gamesa has received the latest local sourcing accreditation issued by Brazil's development bank four months ago....
• Shale gas fan Moniz confirmed as US energy secretary Windpower Monthly (5 days ago) - UNITED STATES: Former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Ernie Moniz has been confirmed as US energy secretary by the Senate....
• Eskom hands Siemens 100MW deal Windpower Monthly (6 days ago) - SOUTH AFRICA: Siemens has won the 105MW supply deal for utility Eskom's demonstration project at Sere, north of Cape Town....
• Netherlands plans 6GW for 2020 push Windpower Monthly (6 days ago) - NETHERLANDS: The Dutch government has published plans to build up to 6GW of wind power in order to meet its EU 2020 targets....
• Militants stop 396MW Marena project in Mexico Windpower Monthly (6 days ago) - MEXICO: Militant opposition in Mexico's Oaxaca region has caused the 396MW Marena Renovables project, one of the largest projects in Latin America, to be postponed....
• Cable fault shuts down Vattenfall offshore project Windpower Monthly (6 days ago) - SWEDEN: Vattenfall's 110MW Lillgrund offshore wind farm in has been offline since Tuesday as a result of a cable fault....
• Engineers design, test taller, high-strength concrete towers for wind turbines ScienceDaily (7 days ago) - Engineers have designed and tested a concept for concrete towers to replace the steel towers used for wind turbines. The concrete towers could be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the better winds at 100 meters or higher....
• New VisionAIR Vertical Axis Wind Turbine to Debut at Beijing International Garden Expo Inhabitat (7 days ago) - Alternative energy company Urban Green Energy (UGE) has announced the launch of its new vertical axis wind turbine, the VisionAIR. The turbine was the result of over a year of dedicated testing at UGE’s research and development facility and according to the company, and it...
• UK considers financial help for Scottish island projects Windpower Monthly (7 days ago) - UK: The UK and Scottish governments are considering either an increase in financial support, or a cap on transmission charges, in effort to make wind farms on Scottish islands financially viable....
• Storage power plant on the seabed ScienceDaily (7 days ago) - A group of scientists aims to store electricity at the bottom of the sea. The energy will be stored with the help of high water pressure....
• Nordex boosts turbine sales by 30% Windpower Monthly (7 days ago) - GERMANY: Nordex managed to raise year-on-year turbine sales for the first quarter of 2013 by almost a third, despite its US business falling by more than half....
• GGOWL and Fluor settle Greater Gabbard legal battle Windpower Monthly (7 days ago) - UK: The consortium behind the 500MW Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm and engineering firm Fluor have settled their legal dispute over the project's construction....
• Announcing the Lighten Up LED Lighting Competition Winners! Inhabitat (Tuesday, 14 May) - After weeks of submissions and an intense week of online voting, we’re excited to finally announce the two winners of Inhabitat’s Lighten Up! Lighting Design Competition. We received hundreds of entries featuring projects that employ LEDs in innovative and interesting ways, ranging from a colorful art installation that...
• Sinovel loses second chairman in two months Windpower Monthly (Tuesday, 14 May) - CHINA: Sinovel chairman Wei Wenyuan has resigned from the company after only two months in the job....
• Iberdrola finishes 400MW Wikinger study Windpower Monthly (Tuesday, 14 May) - FRANCE: Iberdrola has completed a programme of geotechnical studies for its 400MW Wikinger offshore wind farm....
• Repower wins 82MW community contract Windpower Monthly (Tuesday, 14 May) - GERMANY: Repower has been awarded a EUR 90 million contract from Bürgerwindpark im Kirchspiel Medelby to supply 82MW across four projects....
• SheerWind’s INVELOX Wind Turbine Can Generate 600% More Energy Than Conventional Turbines Inhabitat (Monday, 13 May) - US-based wind energy company SheerWind just unveiled the INVELOX – a tunnel-based wind turbine that can produce up to 600% more power than traditional wind turbines. The company states that after extensive field-testing, their new INVELOX turbine “significantly outperforms the traditional turbine” and could...
• Capital constraints force Vattenfall EOWDC reduction Windpower Monthly (Monday, 13 May) - UK: Vattenfall is to reduce its stake in the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) due to "constraints on capital"....
• Kazakhstan to build utility-scale wind farm Windpower Monthly (Monday, 13 May) - KAZAKHSTAN: Samruk-Green Energy plans to invest up to $94 million in building of Kazakhstan's largest wind power plant....
• Repower COO Tanti to rejoin Suzlon Group Windpower Monthly (Monday, 13 May) - GERMANY: Repower has hired Nordex's chief procurement officer Lars Rytter to replace Vinod Tanti in the role of chief operating officer....

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