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- Maine commission calls for floating wind farm proposals
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US – Maine’s utilities commission has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for up to 30MW of floating wind turbines.
Photon International is reporting that similar to German module manufactures, German inverter manufacturers are feeling the heat from China as well. Even though 6 of the top 10 inverters solar worldwide are manufactured in Germany, the organization says component costs in Germany are much higher than those in China.
The tremendous growth of wind power in the United States is the result of several factors including state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) as well as the nation’s Smart Grid implementation, which requires the electric grid to accommodate and encourage increasing renewable resources.
Growth Energy, the coalition of U.S. ethanol supporters, today welcomed four new producing plants to its membership. The four new producers bring total plant membership up to 64 and will join Growth Energy’s 41 Associate Members and more than 18,000 individual Growth Force Members. Growth Energy is the largest coalition of ethanol producing plants in the United States.
Reports indicate France is mulling a 12% reduction in its feed-in tariffs. Analysts break down the reasons (not unexpected) and possible impact to regional solar efforts and individual vendors.
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US – Vestas Wind Systems today denied that it may cut its financial forecasts for the third time this year, according to reports.
SPAIN – Just 727MW of new installed wind capacity was put into operation in Spain during the first six months of 2010, against a half-year average of over 1000MW betwen 2004 and 2008.