Rival wind-power fund PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio focuses more on wind-farm operators.
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Among them was a one-year extension of the tax credit, with slight modifications that would allow wind-farm developers to claim the credit for projects that begin construction by Jan. 1, 2014.
It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.
Powys said it screened its first meeting - about wind farm plans - in July 2011 when 1, 500 watched followed by subsequent debates viewed online by 3, 000 and 10, 000 people respectively.
The condor has begun to re-colonize its historic range in the Tehachapi, a territory that is also undergoing a wind farm-building boom that has attracted investors like Google.
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This week EDF Renewable Energy officially unveiled the 140-megawatt Pacific Wind farm in the Tehachapi-Mojave region of Southern California and the nearby 143-megawatt Catalina solar power station.
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Wind data is being gathered for a possible wind farm nearby--a project that, if it were to move ahead, would surely spark a fight with environmentalists, who for 15 years have asked Congress to designate the Alvord a wilderness area.
But anti-wind farm campaigners have long disputed claims that wind turbines help reduce carbon emissions.
The Calgary team collected carcasses of hoary and silver-haired bats killed at a wind farm in south-western Alberta.
Campaigners say a 14-turbine wind farm planned near Selby in North Yorkshire would "decimate" nearby villages.
Their destination is Bradwell on the Essex coast, where RWE Npower renewables are building a 10-turbine wind farm.
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The 62-turbine wind farm would be sited at Nant y Moch near Aberystwyth.
Plans for a 21-turbine wind farm in Carmarthenshire have been rejected despite falling in an area outlined for wind energy projects.
The Scottish government has approved plans for a 96-turbine wind farm on the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire.
In partnership with Canadian architect Ayrie Cunliffe, The Loreto Bay Company hoped to incorporate a seawater desalination plant and a 500-acre wind farm.
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The company built a 120-turbine wind farm amidst the cow pastures.
Perhaps the most ambitious proposal comes from Blue H, which wants to build a 420-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, roughly two dozen miles from Martha's Vineyard.
Western Australia's Alinta is the latest big energy distributor to expand its "green" output, announcing Tuesday it will take power from a 90-megawatt wind farm to be built near Geraldton.
But again, understanding, Mike, that the process that the President announced was the beginning of that process because there are a host of legal things that have to happen -- I made mention of the wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts -- I think the paper said today that was -- this is basically a nine-year decision.
The five-year effort may help many wind farm projects that are on hold because of so-called "radar clutter" concerns.
Obama denied permits for a privately held China firm to build a wind farm in green-as-can-be Oregon.
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The licensed site for the wind farm is 76-sq-mile (200-sq-km), but the development may not necessarily cover the whole area, Mike Unsworth, Navitus Bay project manager, said.
Other planned projects which have fuelled a demand for building workers include a proposed 30-turbine offshore wind farm at Scarweather Sands, off Porthcawl, the proposed development of film studios at Llanharan, near Bridgend and city centre developments in Swansea.
Three of the Welsh governments Tan 8 areas - the six-year old policy to encourage wind farm developers to bid for planning turbines in seven strategic areas of Wales - are in Powys.
Now the council has moved to clarify advice offered to wind farm opponents and would-be developers.
The world's largest operational offshore wind farm is the 175-turbine London Array.
The locations and numbers of offshore wind turbines in the London Array wind farm were altered to take account of red-throated divers.
Pacific Hydro already runs Australia's largest wind farm, a 35-turbine, 52-megawatt development that is spread over a number of grazing properties at Ararat in western Victoria.
The offshore wind farm was the runner-up.
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An aircraft pilot has said he is "seriously concerned" for the safety of low-flying aircraft if a wind farm is built near Bristol.
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