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Wind power may be coming to Limestone and Carrollton, N.Y. (13-03-2007)
Change is in the wind in the village of Limestone and town of Carrollton. Both municipalities are looking into providing cheaper electricity service to residents by utilizing windmill energy.
From Zwire

Parañaque turning to alternative energy sources (12-03-2007)
The Parañaque City government is now turning to alternative sources of energy to effectively serve its residents. Nelson Lacambra, spokesperson of Parañaque Mayor Florencio Bernabe, said the city government is presently working on streetlamp projects that run on solar and wind energy.
From ABS-CBN

Council's planning its own wind farm (11-03-2007)
A cash-strapped council could help to ease its financial problems by offering land it owns to wind farm developers.
From Icnewcastle

Suzlon to enter into solar, biodiesel (10-03-2007)
Private major Suzlon Energy Ltd. says it plans to enter into the solar and biodiesel sectors in the next four years. Our move to diversify into solar and biodiesel would produce the right synergies with its existing business in the wind energy space, said Tulsi Tanti, chairman and managing director of the company. He said vacant land available at the company's wind farms could be used for putting up solar panels with a capacity of 10 to 20 megawatts.
From Earth Times

Areva may raise offer for REpower to e126/share (08-03-2007)
Areva, French nuclear power plant developer, is likely to raise the offer price for German-based REpower Systems AG topping the 126 euro per share offer of Suzlon Energy and Martifer, a unit of Mota Engil SGPS.
From India Times

Siemens wins wind power deal (07-03-2007)
German engineering giant Siemens said on Tuesday that it had secured contracts worth euro 440m to build two off-shore wind parks in Britain.
From Fin24

Webster considers wind power (06-03-2007)
Webster Town Supervisor Ron Nesbitt says the town could potentially reap big savings by installing a wind turbine at the Phillips Road water treatment plant. A test tower went up in December to determine if the conditions at the plant are right for wind energy. Right now, it costs the town about $200,000 a year to power that facility using electricity.
From NBC

Wind power can work around birds (05-03-2007)
Rising energy prices, national security concerns and global climate change have us all taking a hard look at energy options.
From Daleware Online

Suzlon bid for REpower approved (03-03-2007)
Suzlon Energy, the world’s fifth-largest wind turbine maker, has received the approval from BaFin, the financial markets regulator in Germany, for its $1.35 billion offer to buy out Portugal-based REpower Systems. Suzlon’s all-cash offer for REpower valued the German firm at 1.02 billion euro, or 126 euros per share, which was about 20% higher than the offer by France’s state-owned nuclear group Areva made on February 5.
From The Economic Times

Green energy industry attacks government rationing of grants (02-03-2007)
Britain's renewable energy industry last night accused the government of presiding over a farce after a scramble for heavily rationed grants for solar panels and wind turbines led to one month's allocation being snapped up in little more than an hour.
From The Guardian

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