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AUDIO: Wind farm contracts 'unbelievably generous'

2013-01-14 14:00:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Families face higher energy bills because of the government's "shocking" blunders when it awarded new contracts for offshore wind farms, Margaret Hodge warns.

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EIB grants loan for largest offshore wind farm in German Baltic Sea

2013-01-14 10:00:00| Power Technology

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a financing contract with EnBW to grant a 500m loan to the largest offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

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United Kingdom: MPs say wind farm contracts are 'shocking'

2013-01-13 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Families could face higher electricity bills as a result of "shocking" blunders in awarding new contracts for offshore wind farms, a group of MPs has warned. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals worth 17bn, agreed with companies for transmitting wind power to the mainland, showed that the Government had failed to learn from earlier poor PFI contracts and the costs would eventually be passed on to consumers, the Public Accounts Committee said. A report published today looks at the "elaborate"...

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China Working to Cut Idled Wind Farm Capacity, Official Says

2013-01-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: China, the worlds biggest carbon emitter, is making progress in connecting idled wind farms to the electricity grid, helping to address a roadblock slowing the development of wind power. The issue is in the process of improvement, given the efforts made by grid companies, Jiang Liping, vice president of the State Grid Energy Research Institute, said in a phone interview on Jan. 10, without disclosing the connection rate. The adoption of wind power in China has been damped by the electricity...

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