GWEC in press

Recharge News Twenty Questions with the Global Wind Energy Council boss What defining events from your earliest years have shaped your views? Growing up in the US in the 1960s: the two Kennedy and King assassinations; watching the Chicago ’68 events on TV; the moon launch in 1969; and of course the Watergate hearings in […]

Renewable Energy World In the face of a four-year wind growth stagnation and an energy market that has seen oil fall to its lowest price in years, with robust policy to address climate change, wind power could supply close to 20 percent of global electricity demand by 2050. Under an advanced policy scenario — the

The Hindu The main benefit of going offshore is that wind conditions are known to be steadier and less seasonal and provide power close to load centres compared to onshore For long, Tamil Nadu has not been able to tap the vast potential of wind energy a long coastline offers. While onshore wind farms, mostly

StreetInsider.com General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced it will supply one of the world’s largest power generation companies—China’s Huaneng Corporation—with 55 units of GE 2.75-120 brilliant wind turbines, to be installed at the Huaneng Dali Longquan wind project in the Yunnan province of China. The project will provide 151 megawatts of power, making it GE’s largest

Tampa Bay Times President Barack Obama devoted a portion of his State of the Union address to talking up America’s energy trends, including being a leader in our own energy production. “We believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil and protect our planet,” he said. “And today, America is No. 1 in oil

Virgin Unite As an innovative floating wind turbine is launched off the Portuguese coast, and the Germans start touting wind farms to tourists, we asked Morten Albaek, Group SVP & CMO of Vestas about the state of the wind energy industry, and a little about himself too. Vestas is the world’s leading wind power company,