Energy company E.ON has today announced that the first power had been produced by its Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth. Ian Johnson, Robin Rigg Project Manager, said: “This is fantastic news”.

The company celebrated its most recent Northwind 100 installation in Kensington, Prince Edward Island where the turbine will completely power the town’s wastewater treatment plant.

Near the city of Sulaimaniyah the company installed 2 wind measurement masts to collect wind data for the local Government of Sulaimaniyah.

Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica has entered into two new agreements with the company ENEL Unión Fenosa Renovables for the supply of twenty-six Gamesa G87-2.0 MW wind turbines (52 MW).

GE Energy today signed an agreement to supply up to 101 of its 2.5xl wind turbines to CEZ Romania for Cogealac, the second phase of the Fantanele wind project.

EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris:EEN) announced the commissioning of the Canton de Bonneval and Veulettes wind farms, both located in the northern half of France with respectively 24 MW and 8 MW in installed capacity.

Ramco Energy PLC is to sell off its oil and gas interests and focus solely on its offshore wind power operations. Ramco’s subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables Ltd (SERL) has secured a net 456 MegaWatts of offshore wind farms.

Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. said Monday its wholly owned subsidiary Showa Shell Solar Co. will build a third plant for thin-layer photovoltaic cells in Miyazaki Prefecture at a cost of 100 billion yen.

Oerlikon Solar and Tianwei have completed one of mainland China?s largest thin-film solar panel factories, which in the first phase could produce 500,000 thin-film solar modules totalling 46 MW per year.

Leveraging its low-cost thin-film process, U.S.-based First Solar Inc. is set to surpass its crystalline competitors to become the world?s largest producer of Photovoltaic (PV) cells in 2009, according to iSuppli Corp.