The progress of the setting up of wind power projects in Sindh was reviewed as the Federal Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar visited the Sindh Secretariat and met with the Chief Secretary Sindh.

The projects ? a photovoltaic solar energy plant in California and a wind power in Oregon ? will be built on private lands and will use power lines that cross public lands.

Wind Risk was offered to all wind energy projects in Sindh. The AEDB has initiated various wind farm projects worth $1.6 billion in Sindh province. 10 wind turbines projects are at advanced stage of development.

Duckwitz, Germany-based Solarlite partnered with Thai Solar Energy company to manufacture and build the five-megawatt Concentrating Solar Power Plant.

The year 2011 has seen a significant growth with a number of new initiatives in the renewable energy sector: 3815 MW Grid Connected Wind Energy and Solar Power Added During 2011 in India.

Masdar has already handed a tender for a concentrated solar power plant to Abengoa of Spain and Total of France.

Vestas has received a wind power order for 17 wind turbines V112-3.0 MW turbine for a wind farm in Poland.

Wind power is consolidated in Argentina, with a wind potential of over two million megawatts. It produces wind turbines themselves (Impsa), or import Vestas wind turbines, as in Rawson wind farm.

Nordex has been awarded a wind energy contract for the assembly and installation of the Barbers 30 MW wind farm, comprising twelve N90/2500 wind turbines.

The wind energy industry is one of the fastest-growing consumers of fibre reinforced plastics in the world.

Developer Wind Energy Holding has unveiled plans to dominate Thailand’s wind turbines sector, announcing a $550m investment to build three new wind farm plants.

Vestas China has received a 48.6 MW wind power order for its V100 turbine from Datang Hubei Renewable Energy for a wind farm.

Installed wind power capacity rose to 1,626.5 megawatts in 2011 from 1,320.4 megawatts in 2010. Vestas accounted for 49 percent of wind turbines installed in Greece in 2011.

Grenada Electricity Services Ltd.(GRENLEC) is currently working on land control and enhancing the wind resource assessment programme, which includes five potential wind sites on Grenada.

In 2005 a study with support from GTZ to identify the wind potential in St Vincent analysed several sites: Brighton, Greggs and Ribish Point, which revealed to be the most promising.

Timor-Leste has abundant solar energy resources and some potential hydroelectric resources also. Some climatic and topographic data exists.

South Sudan will begin life as both a tremendously poor and under-served nation in terms of the services for its people, and a fantastically rich one in terms of resources and potential.

The state-owned Empresa de Agua e Electricidad (EMAE) has an installed capacity of 15.6 MW. However, actual generation is approximately 7.5 MW, due to frequent breakdown of generation units