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Will Airborne Wind Power Finally Fly in 2021?

GreenTechMedia

The German company SkySails Power last month announced that its energy kite concept would be taking to the skies this year in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius. Before shuttering, the formerly secretive Makani made all its airborne wind know-how available online. Was Makani trying to achieve too much, too soon?

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Could wind power's economic benefits have been underestimated?

Business Green

The study is part of an ongoing £2.75m research programme attached to the offshore wind project that is exploring the impacts of offshore wind power installations on local economic ecosystems and communities.

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Alberta’s Wind and Solar Regulations Put More Than 6,000 Jobs at Risk, Critics Say

DeSmogBlog

The province has outlined 13 new regulations limiting wind and solar projects near agriculture land and other proposed “protected” areas. These include the creation of 35-kilometre buffer zones intended to protect what the province has termed “pristine viewscapes” from wind power development.

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Green day unravelled: Pundits respond to policy package

Envirotec Magazine

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. A central plank was the policy paper “Powering Up Britain” , which presented plans for tackling energy security and net zero.

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Scotland: Locogen and European Energy partner to deliver 800MW of onshore wind capacity

Business Green

The joint venture is the latest of a flurry of onshore wind development activity in Scotland, after the government removed a major barrier to new projects earlier this year when it announced that schemes could compete for clean power contracts alongside other clean energy technologies in future state-backed auctions.

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'It's working': Clean energy supplies nearly 80 per cent of power in Britain on Saturday

Business Green

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. National Grid ESO data published yesterday reveals that wind power produced more than half of British electricity generation on Saturday, bringing renewables' share of overall supplies to 60 per cent.

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Siemens publishes advice for businesses on steps to decarbonise

Envirotec Magazine

Generate “green” electricity on site, which involves power generation with low-carbon technologies like solar PV, wind power, bioenergy, etc. These steps are designed to reduce indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy. Shift to low-carbon heat. This can result in a drastic decrease in emissions.