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		<title>Greek authorities want to tap wind and solar energy, but islanders resist</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ While Greek authorities are taking steps to harness the country&#8217;s untapped potential in wind and solar energy, and to meet European Union targets on curbing the use of polluting fossil fuels, the residents of Aegean islands are opposing the drive, afraid that towering wind turbines will mar the natural beauty of their communities and offend the tourists on whom they rely. 
After years of foot-dragging, the government has drafted legislation to exploit Greece&#8217;s abundant renewable energy sources. 
&#8220;We are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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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>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>Bureaucratic hurdles thwart wind farm permit applicants and plans</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 10:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although Greece is one of the windiest countries in Europe, wind farms have been slow in coming. The country gets just 3 percent of its power from wind, compared to 30 percent in Denmark.
In 2007 125 megawatts of wind power were added to the arsenal, raising the total to 870 MW (0.93 percent of the world’s total), produced from 1,096 wind generators, widening the gap Greece must close before it meets its targets under the Kyoto Protocol.
According to a European .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Greece: is there a future for windpower&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to meteorology experts, Greek wind farms will need to provide 6,000 to 9,000 megawatts to meet EU-imposed renewable energy targets: would equal three-quarters of the the current generating capacity from all sources. Concerns over global warming.
Wind farms totalling between 6,000 and 9,000 megawatts &#8212; up to more than three-quarters of the country&#8217;s current generating capacity from all sources of energy &#8212; will have to be established if Greece is to meet its European Union emissions-cutting targets, according to meteorology .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet revolution in Greek alternative energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Applications for wind farms to generate 34,000 megawatts + of electricity is being consideration by Greek energy authorities. Is it pie in the sky?
Applications for wind farms that would generate more than 34,000 megawatts of electricity &#8212; almost three times the country&#8217;s current generating capacity from all forms of energy &#8212; are being considered by the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE).
At a time when the European Union is looking to strengthen its alternative energy policies and slash greenhouse gas emissions, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Debating the merits of energy from air</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The tiny Greek island of Serifos, a popular tourist destination, depends on its postcard views of sandy beaches, Cycladic homes and sunsets that blend sea and sky into a clean wash of color. So when a mining and energy company floated a plan earlier this year to build 87 industrial wind turbines on more than a third of the island, the Serifos mayor, Angeliki Synodinou, called it her “worst nightmare.”
She imagined supersize wind towers looming over the island, destroying romantic .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines whip up landscape concerns on Greek islands</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under pressure to cut reliance on pollution-generating fossil fuels for energy production, Greece is stepping up plans to build wind farms on some of its picture-perfect islands that locals fear could scare off tourism.
Since January, a number of Aegean islands have been earmarked to host the massive, modern windmills &#8212; islands of the sort used in the Greek tourist board&#8217;s TV advertisement showing young couples dancing on white-washed rooftops against a red-and-gold sunset.
The image draws millions of visitors to Greek .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms to be built on Greek islands</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under pressure to cut reliance on pollution-generating fossil fuels for energy production, Greece is stepping up plans to build wind farms on some of its picture-perfect islands that locals fear could scare off tourism.
Since January, a number of Aegean islands have been earmarked to host the massive, modern windmills &#8212; islands of the sort used in the Greek tourist board’s TV advertisement showing young couples dancing on white-washed rooftops against a red-and-gold sunset.
The image draws millions of visitors to Greek .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Las eólicas, rechazadas en las islas griegas [Wind turbines, rejected in the Greek islands]</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Varios proyectos de creación de parques eólicos en las islas griegas del Mar Egeo provocan la cólera de los habitantes, que temen repercusiones negativas para el medio ambiente y el turismo.
&#8216;No queremos eólicas que pasen de los 70 metros de altura, no nos oponemos a la energía verde, pero debemos preservar el paisaje de nuestras islas, que es único&#8217;, dice a AFP Dimitris Bailas, delegado de Gobierno de las Cícladas (sureste), uno de los destinos preferidos de los turistas.
Grecia, obligada .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Voltalia in 258 mw wind farm venture in Greece</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[French renewable energy company Voltalia said it has agreed to form a wind farm venture in Greece, Parivolt, with a local partner.
The first project by Parivolt, in which Voltalia has a majority stake, relates to the development of 20 wind farms with a total capacity of 258 megawatts.
Further projects are likely by the end of the year, it said.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Voltalia did not name the local partner.
Thomson Financial
Interactive Investor
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		<title>Greek wind power farms face protest</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greek environmental groups urged the government on Monday not to grant licenses for wind power parks on two Aegean islands, claiming they would damage the environment and affect income from tourism.
  Heavily reliant on fossil fuels, Greece wants renewable energy to cover as much as 20 percent of its overall energy consumption by 2010, with wind parks earmarked for the lion&#8217;s share of green power.
  Greece&#8217;s Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) is evaluating two separate applications to construct .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationists fight to keep wind farms off Skyros</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents on the remote Greek island of Skyros are engaged in a last-ditch fight to prevent the construction of one of the world&#8217;s largest wind farms on a protected nature reserve.
The plans have pitched the country&#8217;s largest landowner, the Orthodox Church, against the islanders. Conservationists, echoing the debate across Europe, are split between those keen to expand Greece&#8217;s renewable energy production and those who argue the destruction in this case would too great.
Skyros, in the northern Aegean is a breeding .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Farms Limited in Greece</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Environment and Public Works Ministry is in favor of developing wind farms on Greek islands but wants to place strict restrictions on such development.
The Greek islands, buffeted by winds for most of the year, have great potential as wind park locations. Ministry officials estimate that as many as 7,000 turbines could be installed, producing about 14,000 megawatts of energy annually. Private investors are fighting over prime locations.
The islands also happen to be among Greece&#8217;s major tourist attractions. An overdevelopment .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>PPC Teams With EDF on Wind Farm Project</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greece&#8217;s Public Power Corp. SA said Friday it will team up with France&#8217;s EDF Energies Nouvelles SA to develop wind farms as part of its broader strategy to expand into renewable energy production.
Through their renewable energy subsidiaries, PPC and EDF will jointly build wind-generated power facilities with total power of 122 megawatts, scheduled for completion by 2009, the company said in a statement.
According to the statement, PPC&#8217;s board of directors also approved a six-year plan for PPC Renewables, which targets .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Vestas enters into a frame agreement with EEN</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vestas has signed a frame agreement with EDF Energies Nouvelles (EEN) for a total of 200MW for wind power plants in France, Greece and Italy.
The wind power plants will be delivered during 2008 and 2009, and the frame agreement furthermore includes an option for delivery of an additional 200MW per year in the years 2008 and 2009. The contract comprises supply and commissioning of the wind turbines as well as installation of Vestas&#8217; SCADA system VestasOnline. The supply includes the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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