LONDON (Reuters) - Wind power provided 20% of the electricity consumed in Europe last year, but the capacity built during the year was less than half of what is needed to meet the European Union's ...

The John Muir Trust (JMT), one of Scotland's leading conservation bodies, has challenged the common assertion that wind farms run at an average of 30 per cent capacity over a year. A study carried out ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whirling wind turbines send critics into a spin. “Diabolical forests of metal” they fume, challenging bullish ...

Green energy companies are scooping up millions of pounds in subsidies by artificially capping the power their wind turbines produce, according to a damning report. A gaping loophole in the Government ...

Climate change will cause wind farms to eventually get less efficient because the warming planet is changing the way wind currents move around the globe. Winds that traverse the northern hemisphere ...

The company is investing a minimum of €2.4m over the next five years to cut emissions by 10 per cent from cow to carton. Article continues below And it is not just emissions from its factories which ...

According to Britain's politicians, covering the landscape with wind farms is still the future. Last month Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, promised a "seismic shift" to wind and other non-carbon ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When oil soared to almost $150 a barrel in 2008, the drive to develop new ways to generate renewable energy ...