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  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: February 07 - February 14

    Feb 14, 2011

    Ontario not to proceed with proposed offshore wind projectsThis week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following organisations and companies: Ontario government; Department for Energy and Climate and Change & E.ON; Vestas; Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities; Gamesa Technology and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding; and the Offshore Wind Innovation...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 31 - February 07

    Feb 7, 2011

    Belfast Harbour, Dong Energy sign letter of intent for marine parkThis week’s Wind Energy Update newsbrief includes the following companies and organizations: Belfast Harbour, Dong Energy; European Wind Energy Association (EWEA); Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority; Gamesa; Atlantic Offshore Wind Consortium; Technip & Subocean Group; French Environment and Energy Management...
  • Post-Warranty Wind Energy O&M: In-house, third-party, or OEM?

    Feb 4, 2011

    This growth is imminent. As we approach 2012, operating wind projects with a cumulative value of around $40 billion dollars will come out of their warranty periods. They will then require both a rigorous end-of-warranty inspection and then an on-going O&M aftercare strategy going forward. 
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 24 - 31

    Jan 31, 2011

    This week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Ofgem; Alston & EDF; AWEA; RWE nPower, Bladt Industries and EEW Special Pipe Construction; Van Oord and Typhoon Offshore; and Vestas.
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 17 - January 24

    Jan 24, 2011

    2010 sees up tick in offshore wind energy financeThis week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: European Wind Energy Association; North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative, Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan & the European Commission; Gamesa, Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Forth Ports PLC; Spanish Wind Energy Association, Gamesa...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 10 – January 17

    Jan 18, 2011

    This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: Dong Energy, Scottish & Southern Energy, PGGM, Dutch Ampère Equity Fund & Triodos Investment Management; Maryland Offshore Wind Task Force; Gamesa, Western Wind Energy Corporation & UniSource Electric; RWE Innogy; Vestavind Offshore, Reinertsen, Vattenfall, Technip, ViciVentus, AF Gruppen...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 10 - January 17

    Jan 17, 2011
  • Post warranty crisis: A changing direction for wind

    Jan 10, 2011

    The US wind industry has reached a utility scale wind capacity of 36,698 MW, with many of the turbines fast approaching the end of their warranty periods.
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 03 -January 10

    Jan 10, 2011

    Cape Wind seeks project financeThis week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Cape Wind, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Grid; Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation and Freshwater Wind; Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and American Superconductor; RWE Innogy, Linnhoff Offshore AG and...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 27 - January 03

    Jan 4, 2011

    US: Offshore leasing process begins off Massachusetts This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: American Wind Energy Association; The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement & the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Moray Offshore Renewables, EDP Renewables, SeaEnergy Renewables & The Crown Estate; Siemens &  ...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 13 - December 17

    Dec 17, 2010

    National Grid-Cape Wind PPA deal challenged This week's Wind Energy Update news bief includes the following comoanies and organisations: Associated Industries of Massachusetts, National Grid and Cape Wind; SET Venture Partners, Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-investment Fund (SCF), and NGenTec; European Offshore Wind Deployment Centr and Crown Estate, Vattenfall, Technip and Aberdeen...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 06 - December 13

    Dec 13, 2010

    EU countries to build common offshore electricity gridThis week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Belwind, Vestas and Van Oord; International Finance Corporation & China WindPower; UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Renewables Obligation; Consumers Energy, Heritage Sustainable Energy, Northern Power Systems & Michigan...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: November 29 - December 06

    Dec 6, 2010

    Atlantic states lag behind Europe and China in offshore wind This week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organsiations: National Wildlife Federation; Siemens; ABB; Narec & Natural Power; Skykon; Nordex & EverPower; REpower & Energiekontor U.K.; and Gamesa & Eolia Renovables. 
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: November 22 - November 29

    Nov 29, 2010

    This week's Wind Energy Update weekly news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement; C-Power consortium, REpower Systems, RWE Innogy, European Investment Bank & the German and Danish Export Credit Agencies, and Essent; Gamesa, Alstom Wind, Acciona Windpower, Iberdrola Renovables and Acciona Energía,Técnicas...
  • Weekly Intelligence: November 15 - November 22

    Nov 22, 2010

    This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Ofgem; European Wind Energy Agency; The Mersey Partnership (TMP); Douglas-Westwood & the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Broadwind Energy; Pipeline Engineering; Iberdrola Renewables and Bat Conservation International; and Vestas.

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