The European Investment Bank will be helping fund a new multi-million dollar wind farm on the Vanuatu island of Efate. The wind farm is being built by Unelco Vanuatu part of the International GDF-Suez Energy Group.

Through the company Claro y Cia, its Chilean subsidiary, Energy Pattern U.S. group wants to enter the market of wind energy in Chile. The investment amounts to U $ S 288 million.

A worldwide survey of wind energy by the Stanford University concluded that harnessing one fifth of the earth?s available wind energy would provide seven times as much electricity as the world currently uses.

With the improvement in safety and performance, as well as the decrease of cost, power lithium-ion batteries begin to display strong vitality. It will bring relevant enterprises a prosperous future.

Boralex has arranged financing with BNP Paribas for its new wind farm in France. This 9.2 MW wind farm located in the department of the Somme nearby sites already operated by Boralex will have four Enercon E82.

China Wind Systems, a supplier of forged products and industrial equipment to the wind power, announced plans to expand its recently completed state-of-the-art forged product facility with a new production line.

In 2008, North American wind power generation capacity passed the 27 gigawatt (GW) mark by adding almost 9 GW from the year before, which represented the largest individual gain of any region in the world.

SGS supported RWE with Owner?s Representative Services in establishing its first Wind Farm in Poland, consisting of 18 wind turbines.

At the end of 2008, about 2,819 MW of wind energy capacity was installed, an increase of 625 MW over 2007. This is a 33% increase from 2007 to 2008.

Installed wind capacity in Spain reached 16,740 MW in 2008 with the addition of 1,609 MW. Expectations for the Spanish wind energy industry for 2009 are very high, with 18,500 MW of total capacity will be installed.

The United States has entered a new energy era, ending a century of rising carbon emissions, with a dramatic 9 percent drop in U.S. carbon emissions over the past two years and the promise of further huge reductions.

The country has 28.1 Megawatt installed capacity of renewable energy (excluding large hydropower), consisting mainly of wind power. Colombia has an estimated wind power potential of 21 GW just in the Guajira.