Wind

-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UK

More than 1,800 homes in Northwest Ohio are powered by wind thanks to Ohio’s first large scale community wind project—part of a new, growing trend in alternate energy.

-What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
-Norway plans the world's most powerful wind turbine
-It’s Green Against Green In Mojave Desert Solar Battle

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China's Growth
-India
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

-Windfarm boost for north-east industry
-China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy
-Government to reward renewable energy homes with higher feed-in tariffs
-IMF plans $100bn injection into economy to fund energy efficiency
-Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year
-Powering a Green Planet: Sustainable Energy, Made Interactive

I went on a visit of the port site in Zeebrugge where the foundations for the Belwind offshore wind farm (the financing of which I worked on) have been stored before their installation and wanted to give you a glimpse of the kind of logistics that entails and what kind of problems can happen (and how they are solved).

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and Production
-Venezuela
-China continues to grow
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

-Do soot emissions mean that wood heating causes global warming?
-Bavarian prince hits resistance over plans for giant solar park
-Companies team up with Abu Dhabi over green jet fuel
-Hybrid Cars Won’t Save Much Oil

Oil prices began the year with a rally, reaching nearly $84 a barrel as temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere required the heating to be turned up a notch.

-Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
-Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Coming Soon
-Wood Heating and Energy Literacy

Because many of the proposals for adaptation to climate change require further extensive release of greenhouse gasses, they will only make climate change worse.

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

-The UK Power Generation Expenditure Forecast 2010-2030
-How many cyclists does it take to power a hairdryer?
-Energy bills could rise to more than £2,000, says Ofgem
-Solar industry ‘in limbo’ as grants dry up

Not deterred by the international financial crisis which became widespread in 2008 or by the many recessionary patterns that grip most country economies, financial engineers are massing in København to prepare for the next wave. This one is about the commercial opportunities which renewable energy technologies, country climate funds and sectoral mitigation programmes promise to contain.