International Business News - Wind http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Germany's Siemens aims to build on its leading position in offshore wind turbines to become the world's third-biggest supplier to the wind industry overall by 2012, a senior executive said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/siemens-aims-be-nowind-mill-supplier-2012.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:50:23 EDT Denmark on Thursday inaugurated the world's biggest offshore wind farm in time to serve as a showcase of its green technological prowess before a global climate conference in Copenhagen in December. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220634-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/denmark-showcases-world-biggest-offshore-wind-park.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090917/denmark-showcases-world-biggest-offshore-wind-park.htm Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:14 EDT Finnish utility Fortum and state-owned forest manager Metsahallitus plan to build some 18 wind power plants in Lapland at a cost of 70-80 million euros ($102-117 million), the firms said on Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/220194-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090911/fortum-says-planning-lapland-wind-power-project.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090911/fortum-says-planning-lapland-wind-power-project.htm Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:03:40 EDT Lobbyist pressure will not weigh on a U.N. panel's decision whether to award carbon finance worth about 100 million euros ($144 million) to Chinese wind power projects, said the chair of the panel on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/219926-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/un-panel-rule-on-144-million-china-wind-projects.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/un-panel-rule-on-144-million-china-wind-projects.htm Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:05:10 EDT U.S. electric utility Duke Energy said on Monday it plans to build a 200-megawatt wind farm, its ninth in the United States. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090901/duke-energy-build-wind-farm-wyoming.htm Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:19:36 EDT British private equity firm Terra Firma said it has bought Everpower Wind Holdings in a deal that a source said was worth around $350 million, looking to tap into the growing renewable energy sector. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090826/terra-firma-buys-everpower-wind.htm Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:02:49 EDT The outlook for oil seems to be brightening amid scant new reserve discoveries and declining reserves at the world's large oil fields. "We believe we're in a fundamentally positive market for oil in the 21st century," says Art Smith, president of Triple Double Advisors, who anticipates oil moving back into the three-digit price range within three to five years. In this exclusive inte... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090716/art-smith-believes-in-the-long-term-bull-case-for-oil.htm Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:15:01 EDT The Energy Report caught up with newsletter writer and analyst Lawrence Roulston, who recently launched the GreenTech Opportunities newsletter. In this exclusive interview, Roulston gives us his thoughts on developments that are happening in the alternative energy field, and ideas for profiting in a changing world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090702/lawrence-roulston-challenges-and-enormous-opportunities-in-alternative-energy.htm Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:23:58 EDT As 321gold.com founder Bob Moriarty sees it, those "black swans" darkening the horizon these days serve as harbingers of escalating chaos in financial markets. As he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, this particular breed isn't exactly unpredictable, but could be especially dangerous. What's an investor to do? Bob urges an ultra-conservative approach, and advises inv... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090522/bob-moriarty-where-to-find-cover-when-black-swans-swarm.htm Fri, 22 May 2009 16:47:20 EDT As 321gold.com founder Bob Moriarty sees it, those "black swans" darkening the horizon these days serve as harbingers of escalating chaos in financial markets. As he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, this particular breed isn't exactly unpredictable, but could be especially dangerous. What's an investor to do? Bob urges an ultra-conservative approach, and advises inv... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090522/bob-moriarty-where-to-find-cover-when-black-swans-swarm.htm Fri, 22 May 2009 16:47:19 EDT The "Sell in May" situation could arrive right on time this year, according to Roger Wiegand of Trader Tracks, who anticipates that all the economic machinations of the last year could create not only inflation, but potentially hyperinflation. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Roger suggests some alternate market plays for the lean summer months and explains why he believes the... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090521/roger-wiegand-look-for-major-selling-event-in-the-fall-and-oil-to-rise.htm Thu, 21 May 2009 16:51:36 EDT Byron King, Editor of Agora Financial's newsletter Energy & Scarcity, addresses issues of "chronic underinvestment in productive assets" in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report. How will more than six billion people manage on a planet with dwindling resources? Byron also offers insight into alternative energy sources. They aren't everything that some people think, but they... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090514/byron-king-investment-earthquake-in-the-energy-sector-ahead.htm Thu, 14 May 2009 15:54:24 EDT As Stansberry & Associates Investment Research founder Porter Stansberry sees it, cap-and-trade legislation is sure to drive up the price of coal. Coal-bed methane wells are producing so much natural gas that the economic incentive of shutoffs to sustain prices has vanished. The upshot, he tells The Energy Report, is continued weakening in natural gas prices and thus continued strengthening for co... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090507/porter-stansberry-sea-change-ins-natural-gas-industry.htm Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:57 EDT With the U.S. stimulus package in place and the politically contentious cap-and-trade program looming, one sector is poised to benefit from both measures. Calling it the "Rodney Dangerfield" of renewable energies, Greg Reid, director of Clean Technology at Wellington West Capital Markets, says geothermal doesn't get a lot of respect right now—but that's about to change. In this... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090416/greg-reid-geothermal-the-quot-sleeping-giant-quot.htm Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:37:01 EDT