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Power transmission operators in Texas have formed a consortium to build $5 billion worth of new power lines to carry wind power from the western and panhandle regions of the state to urban centers in the East, according to a Reuters report.

The European Technology Platform for Wind Energy (TPWind) has unveiled in its latest Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) that wind power has the potential to meet 28% of the EU consumer’s demand for electricity by 2030.

New German wind power capacity additions in 2009 should rise again after stabilising this year at 2007 levels, industry association BWE and equipment makers group VDMA said on Wednesday.

Canada’s biggest carbon-dioxide emitter, plans to add 66 megawatts to its Summerview wind farm in southern Alberta to meet rising demand for power.

The Middle East’s largest wind turbine has begun producing electricity on Sir Bani Yas island off the western coast of Abu Dhabi.

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