Latest Regulatory Delay Could Lead To Wind Project Cancellations

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The 2012 Green Power Leadership Award winners are listed below in the [read more] Vestas Renews Contracts With Italian Wind Energy Developer by NAW Staff, Sep. 25, 2012 Vestas says it has renewed four wind power service contracts with Italy-based IFRI-EL Green Power SPA for 192 MW of wind farms in Italy. The contracts include a 15-year service agreement with Vestas' latest Active Output Management 5000 service option, which consists of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and an energy-based [read more] Google-Backed 845 MW Shepherds Flat Wind Farm Now Online by NAW Staff, Sep. 24, 2012 The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm - one of the world's largest wind projects - is now operational and generating up to 845 MW of wind energy, developer Caithness Energy has announced. 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The project will include a total of 111 [read more] REpower To Supply Turbines For Wind Farm In Poland by NAW Staff, Sep. 21, 2012 Suzlon subsidiary REpower Systems SE has signed a contract with WSB Neue Energien GmbH to deliver and construct 22 REpower MM92 2.05 MW wind turbines, which will be installed at the Taczalin wind project in the Polish province of Lower Silesia. Construction and commissioning of the wind farm, which will [read more] Energy-Storage Companies Partner To Tackle Renewable Energy Integration by NAW Staff, Sep. 21, 2012 Energy-storage providers Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. and EnerDel Inc. say they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-market and cross-sell each other's product portfolios. Each company will now be able to offer a much broader line of lithium-ion-based energy-storage systems from individual cells and modules in order to complete [read more] NREL - Wind Deployment: Supervisor-Manager II, Project Leader Mainstream Renewable Power - Sr. Energy Analyst - North America To place an ad within WindJobs, contact Dave Mendelson at 1-203-262-4670 x248, or at mendelson@nawindpower.com   Please click HERE to subscribe to North American Windpower magazine.

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