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Thursday, August 07, 2003

News briefs from Wind Power Monthly:
WIND.ALERT FOR AUGUST 2003 FROM WINDPOWER
MONTHLY

Here are your summaries of the top stories in the August 2003 issue
of Windpower Monthly. For a descriptive list of this month's full
contents just go to http://www.windpower-monthly.com/current

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Special Issue: Annual Article Index 2002-2003
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A fascinating overview of the world of wind power over the past year
is presented in this special article index issue. Much more than a
simple categorisation of headlines for the 966 stories published in
Windpower Monthly in the past 12 issues, the index contains
abstracts for all major articles. As such it provides subscribers with ...
(Go to http://www.windpower-monthly.com/current,#focus to read
more about this article)

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News from the world of wind
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The summer recess in the northern hemisphere has not been a quiet
one for the global wind business. Announcements of government
initiatives and major new projects last month, particularly in the UK,
North America and Ireland, contributed to the growing feeling that
2003 will go down in history as the year of the lull before the wind
power storm. Windpower Monthly's news coverage in this vacation
season brings you ... (Go to
http://www.windpower-monthly.com/current,#news to read more)

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Six gigawatt of offshore wind
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With up to 6 GW of offshore wind projects ready at the starting
blocks, the UK government’s launch last month of ambitious
proposals for the next generation of offshore developments has the
industry buzzing. Twenty-nine wind power developers are being
invited by government to compete for site leases for development of
huge offshore wind plant in three strategic areas. It appears that
quality, not price, will sort the winners from the losers.

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Ontario leads with massive mandate
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The Ontario government is to introduce a green power standard
(GPS) that will add 3000 MW of new renewables capacity to the
Canadian province’s electricity system by 2014. Wind is expected to
take the lion's share. Ontario is the first of Canada's provinces to take
up the challenge laid down by federal government when it introduced
its Wind Power Production Incentive last year in the expectation that
provincial governments will play their part with pro-renewables
legislation.

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Series of new projects in United States
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Announcements of projects from Texas to Wisconsin to Washington
pushes up the number of wind power megawatts to come online this
year by almost 300 MW. Meantime, the line-up for construction next
year and in 2005 is growing ever longer, with news last month of
another 540 MW moving toward the starting blocks. We report on the
projects, the developers and the turbine suppliers in the August
issue.

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Ireland grants series of major wind plant contracts
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Onshore wind has scooped 90% of contracts awarded by the Irish
government under the latest round of its Alternative Energy
Requirement program. Onshore wind accounts for 280 MW, offshore
wind for 50 MW, with the remaining 35 MW going to biomass and
small scale hydro. And it doesn't stop there. The government has
plans to award another 140 MW of wind contracts if it can get EU
approval. We report, too, on the company that scored well over half
of the wind contracts granted so far.

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"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
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The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
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The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
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agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
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