New Energy Projects for Wales
The Infrastructure Planning Commission is to work with the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and other consenting bodies to decide nationally significant infrastructure project applications in...

CPUC Approves New Solar Research Grants
US - UC San Diego is getting a half-million dollars to study ways to improve solar power in cloudy conditions.

REG Applauds Tax Credit Reinstatement
US - Renewable Energy Group has applauded the US Senate’s passage of a bill containing the reinstatement of the biodiesel blenders’ tax credit, a critical piece of energy independence and green...

Wind Power for Puerto Rico
PUERTO RICO - Windmar Renewable Energy has been given the go ahead to build a wind farm on the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.

Go-head for 1101 Wind Turbines
SWEDEN - The Swedish Government has given the go-ahead to Markbygden Vind AB to build and run up to 1101 wind turbines of a total height of a maximum of 200 metres in the Markbygden area of Piteå...

Wind Energy Bosses Call for Strong RES
US - Leading wind energy industry executives have called on Congress to pass a strong national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) as the best way to save and create US jobs.

Enhanced Renewable Energy Target Scheme
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Government’s Renewable Energy Target scheme will be enhanced to provide greater certainty for households, employees and businesses within the renewable energy industry,...

Ontario’s Landmark Green Energy Plan Delivers
CANADA - The future will be brighter for many businesses in Ontario as more than 500 new green energy projects, most of them solar power installations, have been approved.

Small Farms to Receive Energy Grants
US - Iowa farmers with small to midsize operations are able to apply for grants to demonstrate energy efficiency and conservation measures or how they are using renewable energy from their farm...

AMSC Receives $10 million Order from China
CHINA – American Superconductor Corporation has received an order for $10 million worth of wind turbine core electrical components from China’s CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute...

Wind Farm Expansion Under Way
JAMAICA - Work started this week on Jamaica's $49 million Wigton Wind Farm expansion project.

First Solar in Power Deal with PG&E
US - First Solar has reached a power purchase agreement to supply Pacific Gas and Electric Company with renewable electricity from a 300MW photovoltaic solar power plant that it is developing...

ClearFuels to Develop Tennessee Biomass Plant
US – ClearFuels Technology and Hughes Hardwood International have put forward plans to develop a commercial scale biorefinery to produce renewable jet or diesel fuel.

Mexico Leads Renewable Energy Field
MEXICO - The wind farm is located in the state of Baja California and took a total of 350 million pesos. Mexico intends to rank among the 15 countries with greater production of renewable energy,...

SAIC Awarded Biomass Engineering Agreement
US - Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) wholly-owned subsidiary, R.W. Beck, has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Golden...

Funds for University Wind Turbine Research
US - The University of Dayton Research Institute and their partners in a number of wind-energy programs funded by state, federal and private sources have been awarded $270,000 in Ohio Third Frontier...

Norway Pushes Forward with Wind Power Plans
NORWAY - Norway has joined nine EU countries in an initiative to mdevelop off shore wind power.

Sinoma to Build Wind Farm in Gansu
CHINA - China National Materials Group Corporation Ltd or Sinoma, an enterprise administered by the central government, has signed a strategic agreement with the Jilin government to build a pilot...

Acciona Wins Mexican Wind Farm Contract
MEXICO - Three wind farms with a capacity of 304.2MW are to be built in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Biofuel Station Opened in Queenstown
NEW ZEALAND - The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority has thas launched New Zealand's first public biodiesel consortium and refuelling facility at Queenstown.

Call for Long Term Biofuel Tax Credits
US - The US biodiesel industry is hopeful that it will get a $1 a gallon tax credit that expired last year restored.

Moves to Restrict Clean Energy Grants Attacked
US - In the wake of a new report revealing that a clean-energy grant programme in the stimulus has paid out more than $1 billion to foreign manufacturers, US Senators Charles E. Schumer, Bob...

EU Injects New Life into Electricity Interconnection
EU - The European Commission today allocated over €903 million to electricity interconnection projects as part of its broader European Economic Recovery Plan, injecting new impetus into long...

First Wind Farm for Venezuela
VENEZUELA - The first wind farm in Venezuela will be installed in June and July this year.

Daewoo Shipbuilding to Build Canadian Wind Farm
CANADA - South Korean ship building company, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, who diversified into wind energy last year, is to set a joint venture for a wind farm with the Canadian...