Wind Power News: Romania
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CEZ to build biggest onshore wind park in Europe
Czech power group CEZ plans to build a 1.1 billion euro wind park in Romania, the largest of its kind in Europe, in a move to offset emissions from dirtier coal-fired power plants.
CEZ said the two-stage, 600 megawatt project would be built around 17 km (10 miles) north of the Black Sea port of Constanta and would be around twice the size of the next biggest onshore wind farm in Europe.
Just over half the wind park . . .
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Wayward wind
Wind energy is attracting massive investment, but uncertain laws, land ownership disputes and low capacity on the power grid are holding back development
After a long time in the wilderness, renewable energy has finally become fashionable in Romania.
Last year the country produced twice as much energy from alternative sources compared to 2006, but the figures do not make for green friendly reading.
Only 0.07 per cent of Romania’s power was generated by renewable energy resources in 2007.
From this 84 per cent . . .
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Romania bill vetoed; Wind-energy development to benefit
Romania’s president has refused to sign a bill into law that he says cancels the right of pre-communism owners over their property, that decision would help to remove one of the obstacles to developing wind energy in that country.
President Traian Basescu said Friday that he is returning to Parliament the law it recently adapted because it amounts to a “re confiscation” of private property that was seized by the Communists.
After communism ended in 1989, Romania began a long struggle with . . .
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100 wind turbines in Dobrogea, GE’s biggest contract in Europe
NEPTUN – At the end of last year, General Electric signed an agreement with Good Energies for the delivery of 100 wind turbines to a 250 MW project in Dobrogea.
‘A hundred turbines of next year’s production, each of 2.5 MW, will be reserved for the Romanian project. This is the largest GE project in Europe,’ Carmen Neagu, GE CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and R. of Moldova, told a press conference, quoted by Mediafax. Good Energies develops wind power generation projects . . .
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Enel spends 24m euros to tap into wind power
Enel, the Italian utilities giant with the biggest portfolio in the domain of electrical power distribution and supplying on the domestic market, is starting its first renewable energy generation project, aiming to produce wind energy.
“Over the next 3 years, the company will invest 24 million euros in a greenfield wind energy project in Tulcea,” stated Brunello Botte, chairman of Enel Electrica Dobrogea and Banat.
“The company that is going to handle this project is called Enel Wind and will manage all . . .
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