The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) issued the following statement today as Congress finalized year-end legislative activity without taking action to extend the wind power Production Tax Credit (PTC).

The completion of the wind power factory, which will cover about 24,000 square metres is scheduled for June 2012 when the wind turbines plant will begin series manufacturing.

New offshore wind farm every 18 months. Of that, EUR2 billion will be invested in large offshore wind power projects in Europe. E.ON has already invested roughly EUR2 billion in offshore wind turbines.

Large utilities in Washington state will soon have to get at least part of their power from new renewable sources like wind power and solar energy.

Pennsylvania’s wind power industry continues to grow, as more ridges in Fayette, Somerset, Cambria and Blair counties become home to wind turbines with seven wind farm projects in three years and five under construction.

Lester R. Brown delved into the topic of solar energy for water and space heating. China had an estimated 168 million square meters (1.8 billion square feet) of rooftop solar thermal collectors installed.

Nordex SE, a German wind energy maker, won a wind turbines order from BayWa AG to supply its 30-megawatt wind power project in the U.S.

solarhybrid AG has started construction work on the Vega photovoltaic solar power plant in Italy.

Touted as the country?s biggest, a hybrid power generation system which uses solar energy and wind power has been inaugurated in western Nepal to help residents facing acute shortage of electricity.

United States houses more than 2,980,295 megawatts of geothermal energy.

Four dedicated channels: Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP), Photovoltaic Solar Energy (PV), Concentrated Photovoltaic Solar Power (CPV), and Operation and Maintenance (O&M).

German wind power association BWE has recently released two major new reports. ?Wind Energy Market 2011? focuses on the German and international wind farm markets and on wind turbines technology and service.

America’s first offshore wind farm is shelved, and sales of electric vehicles are missing targets. America’s wind power and solar energy industries are stuck in limbo, waiting anxiously if Congress will extend subsidies.

Presently installed wind farm capacity in Africa has with Egypt, the continent’s wind energy leader, a mere 550 megawatts (MW), Morocco has 286 MW of wind turbines and Tunisia has 114MW.

Meeting some of the over 200,000 people who make the European wind power industry tick.

Major wind energy projects in the pipeline include wind farm at Taiba wind turbines at Ndiaye and wind power at Saint Louis that will generate an extra 125 megawatts and 15 megawatts of electricity, respectively.