Interest in wind power and other forms of renewable distributed energy generation has revived; large corporate investment has led to the development of larger wind turbines and utility-scale wind farm plants.

Pursuing its expansion in the wind energy segment in Europe, EDF Energies Nouvelles announces the commissioning of the 48 MW Vallata and the 74 MW Bonorva wind power plants in Italy.

As the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) reported, the 93,957 MW of installed wind farm capacity in Europe is already enough to supply 26% of Denmark?s electricity, and 16% in Spain and Portugal.

Colorado is home to several major wind farm developers and wind turbines manufacturing facilities, employing upwards of 6,000 workers statewide.

The Global Wind Energy Council annual market statistics published this week show that the wind turbines industry installed just over 41000 MW.

The chairman of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s biggest wind power maker of wind turbines in terms of revenue, will step down after the company said that its 2011 profits were substantially below target.

ABB has signed an agreement with FG Emvelo, an independent solar energy plant company, to develop concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plants at Karoshoek Solar Valley in Northern Cape province, South Africa.

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The full-scale production capacity of the Myllykangas Wind Power Park is 50 megawatts, with a maximum of 19 wind turbines located in the area.

AORA Solar, an Israeli developer of applied ultra-high-temperature concentrated solar power (CSP), launched its second-ever gas-turbine solar thermal power.

The first of 175 wind turbines to be deployed as part of phase one of the giant London Array offshore wind farm has been erected in the Thames Estuary.

The Bison 1 Wind Energy Center is the company?s latest wind farm located in New Salem, North Dakota. The farm includes 15 Siemens wind turbines.

2011 was a very challenging year for the wind power industry. The same applies to Vestas which had to issue two profit warnings and abandon its Triple15 targets.

The ambitious solar power projects, photovoltaic and concentrating solar power, modeled after the special economic zones will take off the ground from February 17.

The OPTS project is the result of an incubation process that took place within the Joint Programme on Concentrating Solar Thermal Power of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA).

Chinese wind turbines company China Ming Yang Wind Power Group has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with W. Power and A1 Development to build a 125 MW wind farm in Bulgaria.

Renewable energy sources (like wind power) and energy efficiency can help the southern U.S. meet what is expected to be growing future electricity demand.

US wind energy company AMSC had filed three civil lawsuits in Chinese courts against rival Sinovel Wind Group Co., which it accused of stealing wind turbines secrets.