BP’s U.S. renewable energy business has placed an order with Danish wind-power giant Vestas for 182 turbines which could cost upwards of $165 million, according to one estimate. 
Hydro and Siemens Power Generation have entered into an agreement to cooperate on technology to develop floating wind turbines based on the Norwegian energy company’s Hywind concept. 
Investors flocked to renewable energy industries in 2006 like never before, with capital seen streaming into the likes of solar, bio-fuels and wind rising to $100 billion, up $20 billion over 2005. 
Talisman Energy (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc. has announced first power from the Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project. 
Oilfield services outfit Oceanteam Power & Umbilical of Aberdeen will install the sub-sea cables on E.ON’s largest-ever U.K.-sector wind farm at Robin Rigg, it was learned Tuesday.
Germany’s thriving wind-turbine industry could face “irreversible damage” along with the economy if innovators like drive and control company Bosch Rexroth fail to find the engineers needed to keep expanding. 
A Norwegian environmental crusader and four Statoil carbon-dioxide managers will help direct the European Union’s drive to 20 percent less of the greenhouse gas from 1990 levels by 2020.
Norwegian energy developer Lyse has applied for a permit to build a NOK2.3-billion wind farm of 77 turbines across three municipalities of Soer Rogaland, an area targeted for gas-fired power. 
ScottishPower, working closely with the Scottish Executive, today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development.
A U.K. windfarm supplying enough energy for 415,000 homes was given the official okay on Tuesday, and oilfield contractor Fluor has won the construction contract. |
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A first-ever gas-and-wind-power offshore energy project was launched Friday by U.K. Energy Minister Lord Truscott, as Eclipse Energy’s 30 turbines gear up to generate power for 70,000 homes. 
Acciona Wind Energy Canada Inc. and Suncor Energy Products Inc. today announced they have started full-scale construction on their 76-megawatt (MW) wind power project near Ripley, Ontario. The Ontario Energy Board recently granted regulatory approval for the wind farm’s two substations and transmission line, completing the project’s key regulatory requirements. 
Future oil-company revenues in the United States took a blow late Thursday, as the new Democrat-lead House of Representatives passed the Clean Energy Act, which “rolls back subsidies and tax breaks for Big Oil”, the House speaker said. 
BP Alternative Energy North America Inc. expects to begin construction on five wind power generation projects in the US in 2007. Located in four states – California, Colorado, North Dakota and Texas – the projects are expected to deliver a combined generation capacity of some 550 megawatts (MW). |
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