By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters UK) - German utility E.ON EONG and Denmark's DONG have agreed to buy Royal Dutch Shell's RDSa stake in London Array, one of the world's largest planned wind farms, lifting a threat it might be cancelled. The companies said on Monday...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone BX plans to invest more than 1 billion euros ($1.57 billion) in a project to build wind farms in the North Sea to generate electricity, people familiar with the matter said. Blackstone plans to take a...
GE Energy Financial Services is committing USD100m in project finance to develop three new wind farms in New York State. The GE business unit will invest as a non-managing member in partnership with Connecticut-based wind energy developer Noble Environmental Power. Noble will build, operate and manage the wind farms,...
CEZ is bidding against E.ON, Gaz de France and Romania’s Petrom for a wind farm in Romania-owned Polish investment fund Continental Wind Partners, and says it will invest EUR800m (USD1.3bn) in developing the project if it is successful. The Czech utility wants to increase the farm’s capacity from 345MW...
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil prices will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years if the United States fails to reduce its dependence on foreign imports, billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday. The United States imports...
Schneider Power Inc. announced today that it hasentered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding ("MOU") for anestimated C$22 million ($21.8 million) in project equity financing withEnergy Farming Ontario LLC ("EFI") a subsidiary of German wind projectdeveloper Energy Farming International AG to construct and commission 36.5MW of Ontario wind farms. Under...
Kansas wind farm will produce 100 MW of renewable energy MADISON, Wis., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Westar Energy Inc. and BP Alternative Energy have begun construction of the Flat Ridge Wind Farm site in Barber County, Kansas. The project commencement was celebrated with a groundbreaking ceremony on...
LONDON -- The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) today announced it has formed a partnership with Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH, founded in 1990 by Joachim Falkenhagen, to complete the development and construction of Meerwind, one of the North Sea's largest wind farm projects. The project, which will be located 80 kilometres off...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB:WNEA) has been rated a Buy by BrokerBank Securities, Philip Wright, CFA. The full report is available via download at https://brokerbanksecurities.com/ Anyone interested in receiving the report via email or updates regarding WNEA research should e-mail ppwright@brokerbanksecurities.com with "WNEA" in...
Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AEHI) has announced the formation of Energy Neutral, Inc. Energy Neutralassists homeowners, businesses and farmers to reduce their electricitybills by operating with minimal or no reliance on the electrical grid. Thecompany's primary service consists of evaluating homes, businesses or farmsfor conservation and renewable energy potential;...
ENERGY RESOURCE-15 July 2008-Construction Begins on Flat Ridge Wind Farm in KansasC2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Westar Energy Inc. and BP Alternative Energy have begun construction of the Flat Ridge Wind Farm site in Barber County, Kansas. The Flat Ridge Wind Farm will use 40 Clipper 2.5...
HOLYOKE, Mass. -- A new $8 million loan agreement with the Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation brings PeoplesBank support and encouragement of renewable energy to a total of $14.5 million since December 2007. The financing allowed the Cooperative to acquire the assets of a proposed 15-megawatt wind project in the...
A QUARTER of Ireland's homes are being powered by the wind - but that could be ALL of them in just five years' time. During the windiest days of last year, 500,000 of the 1.9million houses connected to the electricity grid, were powered by the wind....
New studies pin blame for decline on farm pesticides There may have been nothing quite like it since Mr Toad escaped from jail disguised as a washerwoman. But a century after Kenneth Grahame's 1908 classic Wind in the Willows, the warty amphibians have been found to be...
T Boone Pickens was the ultimate Texan oil tycoon. Then he saw the light: the green light. Now he's at the forefront of a revolution that has turned the Lone Star state into the US's biggest producer of wind power. And, he says, that's just the start. By Leonard Doyle...
TRIMONT, Minn. -- IBERDROLA RENEWABLES and Great River Energy announced today that construction has begun on the 99-megawatt Elm Creek Wind Power Project in southwestern Minnesota. The project, expected to be commercially operating by the end of the year, will provide enough energy for 29,000 homes each year. ...
Pressing the presidential candidates into giving thumbs up or down on energy development and policy in the middle of a campaign will produce commitments generated by expediency instead of sound judgment ("McCain + Obama = a valid energy plan," Editorial, July 3). The abysmal lack of attention to...
CALGARY, Alberta, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortis Merchant Banking today announced it is leading a $75 million senior secured with AIM SOP Phase I LP, a wholly owned sub of AIM Powergen Corporation ("AIM"). AIM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Renewable Energy Generation, a publicly listed company on...
Researched by Industrial InfoResources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The international character of therenewable energy industry is illustrated by a project to develop a1,650-megawatt portfolio of wind farms in China's Inner Mongolia autonomousregion. The project was launched by Arcapita Bank (Manama, Bahrain), aninternational investment corporation, in a joint venture withSingapore-based...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- With a goal of investing $6 billion in renewable energy by 2010, GE Energy Financial Services surpassed the $4 billion mark today by investing in New York State's three newest wind farms. The unit of GE (NYSE: GE) will invest a total of $100 million in the...
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