A wind farm project in southern Scotland has been rejected at appeal for the second time. The scheme at Garcrogo Hill and Barmark Hill, near Corsock in Dumfries and Galloway, would have involved ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/14/wind-farm-project-loses-appeal-for-second-time/
After first leasing office space in downtown Dysart more than two years ago, the Virginia-based company Apex Clean Energy – better known by its commercial wind energy project name, Winding Stai...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/09/apex-pulls-the-plug-on-tama-county-wind-project/
A wind farm project proposed for the Cassel and Innerkip areas of East Zorra-Tavistock ended before it began Wednesday after East Zorra–Tavistock council declared the township an “unwilling h...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/08/east-zorra-tavistock-rejects-proposed-wind-farm-project/
Alberta, which produces most of Canada’s crude oil, will ban renewable power projects on prime agricultural land and erect buffer zones to ensure wind turbines do not spoil scenic views, the pr...
Orsted A/S withdrew from an agreement with regulators in the US state of Maryland to sell electricity from a big offshore wind farm it’s planning to build in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s the late...
An application for planning permission to build a wind farm at a Northern Irish beauty spot has been refused. The Department for Infrastructure (DFI) has issued a Notice of Opinion to refuse plan...
A wind farm situated at what has been described as a “gateway to Scotland” has been refused. Community Windpower wanted to build 45 turbines along the A7 corridor between Langholm and Tevioth...
A judge has ordered the removal of a wind farm in Osage County and set a trial for damages in a win for the Osage Nation and its Mineral Council, which, along with the federal government, have be...
A Norwegian company that hoped to build the first wind farm in the Gulf of Mexico has ceased operations and canceled plans to bid for a wind lease area off the coast of southwest Louisiana. Havfr...
Residents of the Bennington County town of Stamford fought back against an aggressive, well funded-wind tower proposal and won on December 7, when the developer announced it had dropped the proje...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/12/15/town-rebuffs-wind-turbine-developer/
Campaign groups successfully argued that the turbines were causing harm to birds and residents. A windfarm in southern France has been ordered to close due to noise complaints from residents and ...
A developer has withdrawn plans to build the first utility-scale wind project in Vermont since 2017. Norwich Solar announced last week that its plan for a single 500-foot-high wind turbine in Sta...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/12/13/wind-power-developers-abandon-proposed-stamford-project/
Dans un arrêté daté du lundi 11 décembre 2023, le préfet de l’Indre a rejeté le projet de parc éolien porté par le promoteur VSB énergies nouvelles, qui prévoyait l’implantation de...
Despite efforts the LEEDCo board announced a temporarily pause to the Icebreaker Wind project. The nearly 15-year effort to bring the first freshwater offshore wind farm in North America to Cleve...
The Department of Energy is revoking $37 million previously awarded to the six-turbine Icebreaker wind project, which has been in the works since 2009. On Dec. 8, after 14 years of small victorie...
A pilot project to bring wind power to Lake Erie has been put on hold amid rising costs and other challenges that have delayed progress and dimmed its chances of success. The Lake Erie Energy Dev...
A developer considering a 2.2-megawatt wind power project in Stamford has announced it won’t continue in the permitting process before the Vermont Public Utility Commission. Norwich Technologie...
Shell’s finance chief said on Thursday the firm had exited a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the planned SouthCoast windfarm off the coast of Massachusetts, agreeing to pay a penalty rather ...
The Danish energy company, Ørsted, announced Tuesday they would be pulling out of the billion-dollar project to build wind turbines off the New Jersey coast, a week before an election in which o...
Renewables developer Ark Energy has dumped plans to build a 50MW wind farm in north-western Tasmania, saying it will focus instead on its portfolio of larger projects, including another three win...
Plans for a new wind farm in the Iowa Great Lakes region hit a major roadblock Wednesday night. Opponents of a proposed wind farm in the Iowa Great Lakes region credit a grassroots effort for put...
Ark Energy’s controversial Western Plains wind farm proposal for Stanley appears to be dead in the water. Circular Head Council Mayor Gerard Blizzard has confirmed the council had received noti...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/10/26/western-plains-wind-farm-at-stanley-taken-off-table/
Plans for a new wind farm on the Dava Moor south of Nairn have been turned down by Highland Council. At the latest meeting of the local authority’s south planning committee councillors were una...
Sweden’s Land and Environment Supreme Court has rejected Statkraft’s planned wind farm in Tribbhult, Västervik municipality. The judgment follows the municipality withdrawing its previous ap...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/08/21/swedish-court-rejects-tribbhult-project/
The government of Sweden has rejected Vattenfall’s application to build an offshore wind farm at Stora Middelgrund off Sweden’s west coast, citing ”negative effects on the environment” an...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/07/28/sweden-nixes-vattenfalls-offshore-wind-project/
The state’s largest utility company has decided not to move forward with a massive offshore wind project in Rhode Island, arguing that rising costs have made the deal too expensive for ratepaye...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/07/19/ri-energy-rejects-plan-for-1000mw-offshore-wind-project/
Statnetts anlegg ved Straumvatnet i Sørfold kommune, innenfor Duokta reinbeitedistrikt i Nordland stengte reinbeitedistriktets flyttlei. Nå har Hålogaland lagmannsrett avsagt en enstemmig dom...
The Danish Energy Board of Appeal has notified Greater Copenhagen–based utility company Hofor that the permit for its Aflandshage offshore wind farm granted last autumn by the Danish Energy Age...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/07/09/bats-factor-in-danish-offshore-wind-farm-permit-loss/
The Danish Energy Board of Appeal has annulled the establishment permit for Hofor’s Aflandshage offshore wind farm, to be located off the Danish coast. The permit was issued by Danish Energy Ag...
An energy firm has dropped plans for giant wind turbines in a rural beauty spot in North Wales. Cardiff-based Bute Energy wanted to build an “energy park” on the hills between Betws yn Rhos, ...
Japanese trading company Sojitz Corp. canceled its plan to build a wind power plant in Hokkaido, amid soaring material costs and growing local criticism about the environmental impact of the proj...
Residents in South Conamara have won their battle against plans to construct a wind turbine near their homes. An Bord Pleanála last week upheld a decision made by Galway County Council to refuse...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/06/17/residents-win-battle-against-wind-turbine/
The Colombian unit of Italy’s biggest utility, Enel, indefinitely suspended the construction of a wind farm in Colombia’s north on Wednesday after a series of protests by local communities. T...
The construction of half a dozen turbines in Connemara has been rejected by planners on the basis that the area is not zoned for wind development projects. The proposed development was for the er...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/04/02/planners-turn-down-connemara-wind-turbine-project/
A wind power project that was being planned for an area in the County of St. Paul has been cancelled, according to information received by area residents from the potential developer, Northland P...
C’est sans doute le dernier clou dans le cercueil du projet éolien de Lachamp (Lozère), porté par la société Vents d’Oc Centrale d’énergie renouvelable, que vient d’enfoncer le Con...
The planning appeals board has refused planning permission for a 10-turbine wind farm in west Clare due to concerns about the potential impact on the hen harrier, a protected bird species. This f...
The Piatt County Board has declined a special use permit for a 300 MW wind farm that was proposed to be located in Goose Creek, Sangamon and Blue Ridge townships in northern Piatt County. “We ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/03/18/county-board-votes-no-on-wind-farm/
An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission to Coillte for the construction of a seven turbine 583 ft high wind farm for an upland site in Co Carlow. The appeals board ruling upholds a deci...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/03/17/coillte-refused-permission-for-carlow-wind-turbines/
Désillusion pour la société centrale éolienne Claire-Fontaine, représentée par Neoen, et son projet de faire émerger quatre aérogénérateurs à Wignicourt. La demande d’autorisation e...
[Five arguments were put forward by the Municipal College: the potential consequences on the health and well-being of residents close to the project (infrasound, noise pollution, stress and stres...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/02/13/ohey-dit-non-au-projet-eolien-de-coutisse/
A planned windfarm near Dufftown will not be built because the site is “not best suited” to one. The abandoned Glenfiddich Wind Farm development would have featured 11 200-meter turbines, ge...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/02/10/glenfiddich-windfarm-plans-abandoned/
La cour administrative d’appel de Nantes a rejeté ce mardi la demande d’annulation du refus de la préfecture du Finistère de délivrer à la société Phares un permis de construire pour u...
North councillors have remained resolute in their decision to raise an objection to a planned Sutherland wind farm. Members of the North Planning Applications Committee were asked by the Scottish...
Plans for three 413-foot high wind turbines which would have “desecrated” the setting of a nearby south Pembrokeshire conservation area have been turned down. The Rhoscrowther Wind Farm Limit...
A six-turbine windfarm for north Cork has been refused planning permission by Cork County Council. Annagh Wind Farm Limited lodged plans with the Council on December 2, 2021, for planning permiss...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/01/11/wind-farm-for-north-cork-refused-planning/
Trufant, MI – Rural voters delivered a crushing blow to plans for a 375 megawatt wind farm in mid-Michigan, where several local renewable energy ordinances were defeated across three townships...
The room erupted into cheers as Kay Weisenauer read the results to members of Crawford Neighbors United who had gathered at the Crawford County Courthouse on Tuesday night: A referendum vote had ...
Plans for a 27 turbine scheme at Whiteneuk near Corsock have been ditched. Swedish firm Vattenfall had been working on its proposal for several years and originally wanted to put as many as 35 tu...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2022/10/20/turbine-plan-is-scrapped/
Tá pobal Gaeltachta ag ceiliúradh ó d’fhogair an Bord Pleanála go bhfuil siad ag tarraingt siar ó chás a bhain le feirm tuirbíní gaoithe a lonnú i nGúgán Barra i gContae Chorcaí. B...