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		<title>Babcock &#038; Brown Unloads Wind Energy</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Global investment firm Babcock &#038; Brown on Monday announced that it has sold off wind assets to Magnum Capital for &#36;1.46 billion.
The portfolio includes 515 mega watts of operating windfarms in Portugal and an additional 156 mega watts of wind farms under construction. The sale, effective immediately, will go toward paying off debt.
“We are pleased to be announcing the sale of this portfolio,” Babcock &#038; Brown&#8217;s Antonino Lo Bianco said in a statement.
Babcock &#038; Brown  in February announced plans .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>French wind farm firm Theolia blown off course</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ * Sells German wind farm to Meinl for 81 million euros 
* Cannot confirm 2008 EBITDA target 
* Drops power output targets 
* Cash position dropping 
* Cuts headquarter staff numbers by half 
PARIS, Nov 17 (Reuters) &#8212; French alternative energy firm Theolia announced a strategy turnaround on Monday as it scales down its ambitions and reduces costs to focus on cash generation amid the financial crisis. 
The firm, which on Friday reported flat nine-month sales of 85.1 million .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>B&#038;B sells wind farm assets for &#36;2.2b</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Babcock &#038; Brown Ltd (B&#038;B) has sold wind farm assets held by B&#038;B Wind Partners in Portugal for &#36;2.23 billion and will use some of the proceeds to pay down debt.
The assets were sold to a consortium of investors led by Magnum Capital.
B&#038;B said it would earn &#36;285.82 million in net proceeds from the sale of its 50 per cent share of the portfolio.
This represents a price above book value and will be used to pay down project debt secured .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BP drops wind farm and renewable plans in Britain</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The law firm Eversheds sent us this email:
“It is reported today that BP is to drop its wind farm and other renewable schemes in Britain to concentrate its spending programme on the US. Michelle Thomas, head of the Clean Energy and Sustainability team at international law firm Eversheds, comments:
“The news that BP has dropped all plans to build wind farms and other renewables schemes in Britain has been suspected for a while. This ties in with shareholder pressure generally in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin urged to speed up energy projects</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany’s energy regulator is urging politicians to speed up the approval of infrastructure projects to ensure that the country can avoid a looming threat of power shortages. 
In an interview with the Financial Times, Matthias Kurth, president of the Bundesnetzagentur, said Germany must do “everything possible to get these things delivered in time” and ensure it was no longer “possible that it takes 10 years to roll out a grid”. 
Germany urgently needs new energy transmission grids because of a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Founding of the European Platform Against Windfarms &#40;EPAW&#41;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Paris today, on the occasion of the international demonstration against wind farms, German, Belgian, Spanish and French federations and associations have founded the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW). 
This project has received the support of colleagues from 16 countries representing several hundred federations and associations.
The founding members of this platform have agreed to make the following declaration:
1) Ecological deception and financial scandal
It has now been proved that industrial windpower does not reduce CO2 emissions and therefore does not contribute .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind fuels gas</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Georgia, a vital link between Europe and the energy resources of Central Asia, energy security is back at the top of Europe&#8217;s agenda. For years now, many Europeans thought that a major part of their future energy security might come from wind turbines and solar panels. Industry, too, has suggested that this may be the case: At this summer&#8217;s World Petroleum Congress in Madrid, most major oil and gas companies presented new plans for big renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>German experts deem wind turbines lethal for bats</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German animal campaigners are alarmed by the number of dead bats being found near wind turbines and have called for restrictions on generators in areas with high populations of the nocturnal mammal. 
&#8220;The bats are not only being clobbered to death by the turbines, but can also suffer from collapsed lungs due to the drastic change in air pressure,&#8221; said Hermann Hoetker of the Michael Otto Institute for wildlife and the environment. 
Hoetker, an ornithologist and expert on bats at .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Theolia to keep more wind power for itself in Germany</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Theolia plans to change strategy in Germany by producing more power for its own account rather than developing wind farms and then selling them to third parties, Jean-Marie Santander, chairman of the French renewable energy company, told Les Echos newspaper. 
The switch is aimed at taking advantage of an planned 18 percent increase in prices paid in Germany for wind power, effective next January, he said.
&#8216;With these new prices, it will be in our interest to keep the power plants .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Negative vibrations: Fraunhofer develop &#34;anti-noise&#34; to silence wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[If wind turbines clatter and whistle too loudly, they are only permitted to operate under partial load to protect the local residents – but this also means a lower electricity output. An active damping system cancels out the noise by producing counter-vibrations.
If wind energy converters are located anywhere near a residential area, they must never become too noisy even in high winds. Most such power units try to go easy on their neighbors’ ears, but even the most careful design .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader at E.ON urges Germany to keep nuclear plants</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Germany committed to reducing global warming gases while struggling to deal with soaring fuel costs, one of the giant energy companies in the country said Thursday that Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s coalition could only deal with both issues by extending the working life of the country&#8217;s nuclear plants.
Wulf Bernotat, chairman of the European energy powerhouse E.ON, said during an interview here that it was &#8220;questionable&#8221; whether Merkel&#8217;s government of conservatives and Social Democrats could realize its environmental ambitions without reversing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany wants to build 30 windfarms</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The German government wants to build up to 30 offshore windfarms in a bid to meet its renewable energy targets, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in an interview published Sunday.
Tiefensee told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the windfarms would be built in the Baltic and North seas and said some 2,000 windmills should soon be producing 11,000 megawatts of electricity.
The government is aiming to obtain &#8220;25,000 megawatts of energy from windfarms by 2030&#8243;, Tiefensee said.
&#8220;The rise in the oil .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No need of subsidies for wind energy cos: Tanti</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The billionaire Chairman of Suzlon Energy Mr Tulsi Tanti has said wind energy firms does not require subsidies, as the prices of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal are becoming more expensive.
Quoting Mr Tanti, the German business weekly WirtschaftsWoche said that wind energy does not need subsidies as the fossil fuels are turning more costly. Fossil energy fuels such as oil, gas and coal are turning more expensive,&#8230; therefore the wind ener gy needs no more subsidies,” the publication .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany&#39;s Windwarts Energie to build 20 MW wind park</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 09:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany&#8217;s Windwarts Energie plans to build a 20 MW wind park in Buren, in
the German state of Northrhine-Westphalia, the company said Friday.
The park is to consist of 10 turbines of 2 MW capacity each and is due to
take up operations in the first half of 2009, Windwarts Energie said.
According to the company, annual production is to amount to about 50 GWh,
equaling the supply for about 16,500 households.
Windwarts Energie said the location Buren&#8211;with an average wind speed of
7.2 meters/second&#8211;proved that there .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>German utilities, wind power industry dismiss govt&#39;s 2020 wind power target</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German utilities and wind turbine makers have dismissed the government&#8217;s goal of boosting off-shore wind power capacity to 15,000 megawatts by 2020, citing a lack of resources and transmission lines, Financial Times Deutschland said.
The goal, which is equivalent to 3,000 high-capacity wind turbines, is &#8216;not viable, neither from an economic nor a technological point of view,&#8217; the paper quoted a spokesman from German utility E.ON AG as saying.
The construction of off-shore wind parks is slowed down by a lack of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>German utilities warn of power bottlenecks due to wind integration &#8212; report</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German utilities are warning the government of bottlenecks in power transmission grids due to the difficulties of integrating higher shares of wind energy, Handelsblatt reported.
The paper cited reports on the state of transmission networks German utilities are required to submit to the German grid regulator by tomorrow.
The number of incidents has risen significantly over the past two years, the report said. Vattenfall Europe AG&#8217;s transmission unit recorded 155 days where the situation was critical on grids last year, and 28 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines installed on 120 meter high hybrid towers</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hamburg.- At the Iven site in the German state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Nordex has erected the first two N90/2500 turbines on hybrid towers. The hybrid tower comprises a concrete tower with a height of around 60 meters, which is mounted directly on the base at the location and then pre-stressed. It bears the three steel tower sections of the modular tower with a total height of a further 60 meters
With the technical progress being made in producing more efficient turbines, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly 19,000 wind turbines cover Germany: dotted across the countryside, nudging to the edge of cities and whirring alongside motorways.
They generate 5 percent of Germany&#8217;s electricity &#8212; more than in any other country in the world. But with the best plots already taken, there are now few spaces left where companies are allowed to build more. And it&#8217;s not just a German problem.
&#8220;There&#8217;s not that much empty land space,&#8221; said Steve Sawyer, secretary-general of the Global Wind Energy Council, which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>E.ON and RWE: damned duopoly</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love them or hate them, Germany&#8217;s two power giants keep the lights on
In an apparent victory for the little man, the burghers of Ensdorf this week successfully blocked plans by RWE, a huge German power company, to build a spanking new coal-fired power station in their back yard. But those Saarland villagers have won an incomplete victory. Germany needs to add about 35,000 megawatts (MW) of new capacity by 2020, plus another 16,000MW if its nuclear plants are to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden turns to a promising, but flawed, power source</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MALMO, Sweden: Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship recently, his face flecked by spray, Arne Floderus pronounced it a good day for his new offshore wind farm.
A 30-mile-an-hour wind was twirling the fingerlike blades of a turbine 380 feet above his head. Around him, a field of turbines rotated in a synchronized ballet that, when fully connected to an electrical grid, would generate enough power to light 60,000 nearby houses.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve created a new landmark,&#8221; said Floderus, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany at odds with UK on renewable goals</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany wants European states to meet their own renewable energy targets as much as possible, rather than pay other countries to do it for them, deputy environment minister Matthias Machnig said.
Britain favours the latter trading approach.
Both Germany and Britain see huge economic opportunities in the fight against climate change, and a chance to make the 27-nation European Union more energy independent and efficienct as it tries to cut carbon emissions.
But the sharing out of tough, EU-wide targets to install renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>An ill wind blows across Germany</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The towering wind turbines stretching across the German countryside have in recent years emerged as a key symbol of the nation&#8217;s pioneering role in promoting renewable energy.
Now, two decades after the first wind park was opened in Germany, the country&#8217;s rapidly growing alternative power sector has stepped up its global drive, with an offshoot of Hamburg-based Conergy AG planning to build Australia&#8217;s biggest wind park near Broken Hill in NSW.
Riding a global wave of concern about oil prices and climate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany alarmed by Brussels&#39; renewable energy plans</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany is concerned that European Commission legislative plans will harm its system of subsidy policy for renewable electricity, resulting in a loss running to billions of euros.
German daily Financial Times Deutschland reports that Brussels is planning to create a trading system for green electricity based on a system of pre-set quotas for EU member states.
The plan is to be unveiled in December as part of a overall package laying out how member states will ensure that 20% of their energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Wind Power</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines continue to multiply the world over. But as they grow bigger and bigger, the number of dangerous accidents is climbing. How safe is wind energy?
It came without warning. A sudden gust of wind ripped the tip off of the rotor blade with a loud bang. The heavy, 10-meter (32 foot) fragment spun through the air, and crashed into a field some 200 meters away.
The wind turbine, which is 100 meters (328 feet) tall, broke apart in early November .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting at windmills</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I was aboard the MS Deutschland cruising the Baltic Sea in northern Europe for the KCI  Investment Cruise. Leaving from the German port of Travemunde, we stopped at a total of seven countries in 11 days. In several of these countries, we had the opportunity to meet with the commercial attaches at the US Embassy as well as local business leaders.
Not surprising, energy was the topic of considerable conversation both in our onshore meetings as well as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>German govt to cut subsidies for solar power, pay more for wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Subsidies for Germany&#8217;s solar industry will be cut back more than previously announced to free up funds for offshore wind power plants, sources close to the German environment ministry said.
The government plans to increase the maximum subsidy for wind power to 0.11-0.14 eur per kilowatt hour from currently 0.09 eur, the sources said.
The changes will also force solar power firms to increase the profitability of their facilities if subsidies are cut.
German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel is expected to make a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy companies make wind power a top investment</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to E.ON, the world&#8217;s largest companies are investing in wind power, the best-performing energy in the past year.
Led by Vestas Wind Systems and Iberdrola of Spain, utilities and governments in the United States, China and Europe will spend as much as &#36;150 billion on wind projects in the next five years, according to CLSA Research. Lawmakers are providing financial incentives because windmills are non-polluting and cost less than solar projects.
&#8220;Wind has the biggest potential to meet .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Who owns the wind&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 10:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[With a growing number of wind power stations in Germany, a new kind of legal case is rearing its ugly head. The crime: stealing wind.
It&#8217;s an offense not mentioned in the bible or the statute books. But in a broader sense it is about theft, even when the booty itself is invisible. But it is still a major problem for the German legal system, including a court in Leipzig that is currently hearing a case involving a dispute between the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;˜German feed-in system no model for Europe&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Apr 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The German feed-in system has been very effective in increasing renewable power but it is not a long-term option for Europe, says Till BÃ¶hmer of the German Electricity Association. 
The German feed-in system, called the Erneuerbare Energieen Gesetz (Renewable Energy Law or EEG) guarantees producers of sustainable power a fixed price per kWh fed into the grid. Since the introduction of the EEG in April 2000, the amount of renewable energy in Germany has more than tripled. Last year saw .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>German Environment Minister wants to triple &#34;renewables&#34;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Feb 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said renewable energies could meet around 16 percent of total energy supply by 2020 &#8212; triple the current amount.
At a presentation of a study on expanding renewable energies in Berlin on Tuesday, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said such an expansion of renewable energy sources would not be difficult and has &#8220;great potential&#8221; for providing jobs. Gabriel said the alternative energies would be a &#8220;major success story.
He added that the production of electricity, heat and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>DeWind&#39;s Synchronous Wind Turbine Ready For Testing</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[DeWind Inc., a subsidiary of Irvine, Calif.-based Composite Technology Corp. (CTC), has completed the construction of the 2 MW DeWind D8.2 wind turbine at an offshore testing site in Cuxhaven, Germany.
The DeWind D8.2 turbine uses a hydrodynamic torque converter and a synchronous generator connected directly to the grid to produce power without using power electronics, the company says. Now that the turbines are installed, the engineering team at the site will run tests to certify the turbine.
&#8220;This is a major .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Megawatts of Controversy: EU Energy Plan Calls for Radical Emissions Reductions</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Dec 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has developed an energy policy plan for the coming years. Its highlights include ambitious climate protection goals, promoting more competition in energy markets and a possible rehabilitation of emissions-friendly nuclear power.
The document drafted by the European Commission bears the straightforward title: &#8220;An Energy Policy for Europe.&#8221; The word &#8220;Confidential&#8221; is stamped on each of its 25 pages.
There are good reasons for this. A small group of experts at the European Union headquarters in Brussels has spent months .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany eyes offshore wind</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Dec 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The German government and the country&#8217;s energy companies have launched a massive joint offshore wind park project aimed at overcoming the source&#8217;s technical insecurities.
Last month, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel gave the green light to build the first German offshore wind energy test park in the North Sea.
The German government funds the project, called Borkum West, with some &#36;65 million, used mainly for risk-minimizing measures and systems engineering, with an additional &#36;165 million invested by energy utilities Vattenfall, Eon, EWE, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Undersea power scheme unveiled</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Dec 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of four European energy companies on Friday revealed plans for a subsea electricity cable to bring more power from Germany to Norway from 2011.
The 700 megawatt (MW) cable which would boost power flows between continental Europe and the hydropower reliant Nordic region would cost 500 million euros (USD 659.8 million), the consortium said in a statement issued in Germany. The cost would be shared equally by Agder Energi and Lyse of Norway, EGL of Switzerland, and northern German .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Europe power outages blamed on Germany</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A chain of power outages that swept through Belgium, France, Spain and even touched Morocco was blamed Sunday on Germany, but experts were divided about the original trigger for the blackout that affected millions of homes.
The government of North Rhine Westphalia state, which was worst hit by the outage, said a load-balancing error after a surge of power from German wind-power turbines had played a role. Too much power entered the German grid and parts of it shut down.
The temporary .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany gives green light to new project for offshore wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel gave the green light to a project that will see the construction of 12 offshore windmills in the North Sea.
The move will go someway to reversing the country&#8217;s lag in the development of offshore wind farms, he said.
Each windmill will generate 5 megawatts of electricity and will be ready for commercial use at the beginning of 2008, Gabriel said. The farm will be located 45 km off the island of Borkum.
The scheme, which will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The highest wind turbine worldwide is erected</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Sep 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[windtech-international.com
In Laasow, about 20 km west of Cottbus, Brandenburg, the FL 2500/2,5MW, developed by the engineers of W2E Wind-to-Energy on the 160 meter SeeBa world-record-tower, will now produce green energy.
The estimated output of about 7 million kWh corresponds to the consumption of about 1,800 4-person households. High hub heights stand for steady and regular winds. Thus, it will be possible to render sites profitable which are not at 100 meter hub height.
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		<title>Plambeck Neue Energien AG receives approval for &#34;Gode Wind&#34; offshore wind-farm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2006</nww:date>
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Cuxhaven, August 28, 2006 &#8212; The Plambeck Neue Energien AG wind-farm projector (ISIN DE000A0JBPG2) today receives approval for the &#8220;Gode Wind&#8221; offshore wind-farm from the Federal Agency for Marine Shipping and Hydrography (BSH).
Thus, 80 wind-energy systems of the 5 MW class can be set up in the North Sea about 33 kilometres to the north of Norderney. The investment volume will amount .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Not Quite As Free As the Wind</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Aug 2006</nww:date>
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By Oliver Marc Hartwich
Johannesburg
CAPE Town has, with much fanfare, just embraced wind power, that green panacea of sustainable and clean energy. But we are most unlikely to hear of its cost, its inefficiency and, indeed, its damage to the environment. We will hear that wind power helps curb our greenhouse-gas emissions, makes the country less dependent on fossil fuels and energy imports and &#8212; the icing on the cake &#8212; also creates jobs. Surely this is the solution to many .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s wind farms challenged</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 20:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 May 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany is the world&#8217;s biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines.
It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country&#8217;s existing nuclear power stations.
The country&#8217;s great hope for is for a future of green energy, and in particular wind power.
However, some observers are now questioning whether all the investment in wind power makes economic sense.
Growing demands
Alsleben is a small .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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