Brownback’s summit came a day after BP announced plans to build Kansas’ biggest wind farm. Flat Ridge Wind Farm 2 will be the 14th, and the largest, wind farm by BP Wind Energy in the US.

Western Wind is a vertically integrated renewable energy production company that currently owns over 500 wind turbines and a solar power with 165 MW.

In Great Britain, MECASOLAR supplied 2.9MW in fixed structures for a project developed in Wales. Thee company has announced more deals in the British market to supply solar trackers for various PV solar energy projects.

The use of salt, rather than oil, to transfer the heat generated from the concentrated sunlight, allows Gemasolar to operate at temperatures of over 550 C, much higher than other concentrated solar energy plants.

Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) believes that the share of wind farm can increase from the current 250 MW (megawatts) – or 1 per cent of electricity demand – to 5,250 MW, or 17 per cent, by the year 2025.

A new book on the energy landscape by expert Daniel Yergin has some positive words about wind energy, calling it “one alternative that can deliver today.”

GE?s advanced 2.5-100 wind turbine technology is now powering Suncor Energy?s Kent Breeze Wind Power Project, a 20-megawatt wind farm located west of Thamesville, Ontario.

GE Committed to Growing Its Presence in Canada?s Active Wind Energy Industry.

The provincial government of Quebec approved the construction and operation of a C$350 million ($331.3 million), 150 MW Massif du Sud wind farm in Canada.

A new ?14 million centre to develop next-generation offshore wind power technology in Scotland has been officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond and Jorge Calvet, CEO of Gamesa.

Abengoa SA, Spain’s largest developer of concentrating solar thermal power plants, will sell 300 million euros ($395 million) of new shares to First Reserve Corp. to reinforce its capital.

The Brazilian National Electricity Agency has chosen Abengoa to develop three wind power plants with a total of 64MW in a joint venture with Banco Santander Brazil.

Acciona passes the figure of 200 wind power plants installed in Spain. With the entry into service of Peña Nebina (Zamora), the company now has 5,976 MW wind turbines installed.

The wind turbines of the 3.4M104 type are to be installed in a wind farm near Zeewolde (Province Flevoland).

SEFORGE has announced major new turbines orders from the wind power totaling over Rs. 200 crore.

John Graham, president and CEO of BP Wind Energy, said, ?The Flat Ridge 2 Wind Farm is an investment of approximately $800m and demonstrates BP?s continued commitment to the state of Kansas.

Vattenfall has signed a 122 MW wind power deal with Repower for a wind farm in the Netherlands. Repower will supply 36 M104 3.4MW wind turbines for the wind farm, which will be located near Zeewolde, in Flevoland.

Why use solar energy? Because heating water using sunlight is potentially much cheaper than heating it by burning natural gas, which is how it?s done in the oil rich San Joaquin valley now.

IKEA announced that it has purchased two wind farm plants with a wind power output of 28 MW in the Podkarpackie region of southern Poland