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Capital Wind Farm was officially launched by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, NSW Premier Nathan Rees and Minister for Climate Change, Senator Penny Wong yesterday. The Capital Wind Farm, the largest wind farm in New South Wales, is situated in Bungendore and will boost Australia’s wind power capacity by more than 10 per cent.

Every day scientists and inventors are searching new green sources of energy to combat global warming and energy crisis. The “Green Roadway” project, as it’s dubbed, aims to string wind turbine, solar panels and geothermal devices along the endless ribbons of pavement, where they’ll be linked to produce energy for businesses, homes and even roadside [...]

Adding wind turbines to already existing electrical towers is an idea proposes at the Next Generation design competition by the winner of this year. This project is called Wind-It. “Wind-it answers one of the greatest challenges to the development of wind power: where to site wind turbines.

World’s largest offshore wind farm will be built 12 miles away from the south coast of Kent, England. With an army of 341 wind turbines over an area of 90 miles, the 1 gigawatt offshore wind farm will produce enough energy to power 750,000 houses.

Over 195,000 of wind turbines will be installed in UK in the next 12 years, according to consultants on energetic matters, after the British government has guaranteed that people will have their own electricity. A grant program will be introduced for any household which adopt renewable energies such as wind, solar or biomass-based and will [...]

World’s largest wind farm, 909 MW, will be built in Oregon. The announce was made by the Utility company Southern California Edison(SCE) who plans to build the farm. This construction will be unique in world. The project, called Caithness Shepherd’s Flat will be located in Morrow and Gilliam counties in North-Central Oregon, and will have [...]

Vodafone announced that it successfully started generating electricity from wind energy to it’s mobile telephony network. The wind system allows the company to achieve reductions in CO2 emissions and energy consumption between 15 and 20%. The system is implemented in 32 Vodafone telecommunication bases from Portugal. Vodafone says that electricity generated by the wind turbine [...]

The company that administers the British waterways, intends to install 50 wind turbines and hydroelectric plants, along the canals and the rivers in the next five years. British waterways said that the plan would bring annual benefits of more than 1 million pounds. “If successfully develop this resource, the channels national network, could generate 10 [...]