In his inaugural speech for his second term in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has upped the ante, promising to show global leadership on climate chang
23 January 2013David Hopwood
EWEA 2013 is just a few weeks away. So what can conference delegates expect to be the main topics up for debate?
23 January 2013David Hopwood
Almost half of all new generating capacity installed in the United States during 2012 was renewable, a new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis
22 January 2013Rachel Parkes
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have embarked on a €8 million research programme whi
22 January 2013Rachel Parkes
Composite materials and services supplier Gurit has announced a further expansion of its UK automotive parts manufacturing site, to double its capacity by
22 January 2013Amanda Jacob
General Motors introduced its seventh generation Chevrolet Corvette at the North American International Auto Show (NIAS) in Detroit in January. The vehicle
21 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
21 January 2013Amanda Jacob
GKN Aerospace has delivered the first production aircraft set of composite winglets to Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast, for the new Bombardier CSeries aircra
17 January 2013Amanda Jacob
Despite the uncertain global economy, attendance figures for EWEA 2013 are up on 2012...
15 January 2013David Hopwood
The US Federation Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it will conduct a comprehensive review of the Boeing 787’s critical systems, including t
15 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The British Marine Federation (BMF)'s most recent research shows that the marine industry is showing stability and has maintained a consistent level during
15 January 2013Amanda Jacob
Boeing has announced the purchase of a building in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA, which will focus on fabrication of composite horizontal stabilizer componen
14 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
14 January 2013Amanda Jacob
GE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are beginning work on a new wind
10 January 2013Amanda Jacob
MAKE Consulting's Wind Turbine Trends 2012 report provides an overview of the global wind industry’s technology trends, focusing on new product development
10 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a partnership between industry and the UK government, has announced the appointment of Blade Dynamics to develop a
8 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
7 January 2013Amanda Jacob
The Premier Composite Technologies (PCT) conceived and built Premier 45 performance cruiser made its debut at the BOOT 2013 trade show in Düsseldorf in Jan
5 January 2013Amanda Jacob
Danish energy group DONG Energy and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, also of Denmark, have entered into a cooperation agreement that will see them work to
3 January 2013Amanda Jacob
E.ON has awarded Great Yarmouth-based Alicat Workboats a contract to build four new state of the art vessels to support its offshore wind generation portfo
3 January 2013Rachel Parkes
Two Californian wind energy projects have reached completion, bringing 300MW of new capacity onto the state’s grid, developer MidAmerican wind said on Mond
3 January 2013Rachel Parkes
The renewable energy industry’s new year has kicked off to a good start after the United States’ Congress extended the wind energy Production Tax Credit (P
3 January 2013Rachel Parkes and Gail Rajgor
Spain’s Iberdrola has selected offshore wind turbines from French giant Areva for its 400MW Wikinger offshore wind power project 35km off Germany’s Baltic
2 January 2013Rachel Parkes and Gail Rajgor
Reinforced Plastics would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year.
1 January 2013Amanda Jacob