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Kenya to get Africa’s biggest wind farm
07 Aug 2009
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
Some 365 wind turbines will be installed in desert around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya to create the biggest wind farm in Africa. Once completed in 2012, the farm will have a capacity of 300 megawatts. The £533 million (USD895 million) project, backed by the African Development Bank, will have a quarter of Kenya’s current installed power and one of the highest proportions of wind energy to be fed in a national grid anywhere in the world. The German consortium working on the project has leased 66,000 hectares of the world’s largest permanent desert lake. Extreme temperatures generate extreme winds and this is the reason wind farms have great potential in Africa.
Wind power now seems to be the best choice for many countries in an effort to switch to renewable energy sources. Wind power is attractive in both economic as well as environmental regards. It delivers not only economic development benefits, but it’s also a safe source for the China’s (and the rest of the world’s) [...]
€18.85 million investment to develop wind farms in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
10 Jun 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
The EBRD is providing an equity investment of €18.85 million to Freenergy AS, a leading Estonian investor in renewable energy in eastern Europe, to boost the volumes of green energy generated in the Baltic states. By taking a 35 percent stake in Freenergy, the EBRD will support the company’s plans to upgrade and further develop [...]
Chile – Renewable energy target attracts developers… even though there isn’t a green tariff
11 May 2009
by Peter Richards - Category: News
Chile is by far South America’s most stable economy. As a growing economy, the country requires electricity to power GDP growth, however Chile has been facing energy supply problems since 2004 when Argentina began reducing natural gas supplies. Argentina’s cuts in natural gas (typically during the winter months of June, July and August) have a [...]
In November 2006, the UK Foreign Ministry offset their 2004 air travel emissions via CERs from a 10MW South African wind farm developed by Genesis Eco-Energy. Now more than two years later, Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a joint venture deal for the development of 500MW of wind power in South Africa. Mainstream’s founders are [...]
After three days at the RETECH conference one leaves the United States with a sense of jubilation from all the talk about the new energy economy. While the bailout and newly proposed budget are providing light at the end of the tunnel, the question remains: “How long is the tunnel?” T. Boone Pickens’ wind farm can’t [...]
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