Carpinteria, California (PRWEB) December 22, 2008 — Clipper Windpower, Inc. (“Clipper”) today announced an agreement between Rolling Thunder I Power Partners, a joint development partnership between Clipper and BP Wind Energy, wherein NorthWestern Energy (NYSE:NWE) will purchase 25 megawatts (MW) of wind power from a wind project currently under development in Hand County, South Dakota, for delivery to electric customers in the State.

“BP is pleased to be developing another project with Clipper Windpower as part of the strategic alliance the two companies signed in July 2005,” says Robert Lukefahr, President, BP Wind Energy

Dont tell me all wind deals are dead or they cannot get financing (BOONE PICKENS), check out Suzlon big wind for their REPower group.
MUMBAI: Suzlon’s subsidiary REpower is likely to bag the world’s largest wind turbine contract of 1250 mw in the next couple of months.

According to sources, REpower’s potential customer — Germany-based utility company RWE — has bought the rights of the largest planned wind farm off the German coast, which could support a total wind energy output of 1250 mw.

Bharat Parekh, analyst with DSP Merrill Lynch, said REpower and RWE had on February 21, 2008, signed a pact providing for the negotiation of framework agreements with a volume of up to 1900 mw involving 250 offshore wind turbine generators (WTG) of the 5M/6M type and approximately 200 further onshore WTGs of the 2 mw class.

RWE is among Europe’s five largest utilities that are active in the power generation and transmission businesses. It also has interests in the sale and trading of electricity and gas, according to the company’s website.

Parekh said, there are three conclusions which could be drawn from the current deal.
First, it will improve the visibility of REpower’s order pipeline; second, it will position REpower as a significant play on offshore with 5/6 mw turbines and third, it will validate Suzlon’s thesis for the REpower acquisition.

What ever happenned to T Boone Pickens big plans for thousands of megawatts of wind power in Mid Texas area???? Did Boone spend alot of his own money on his online army and now what????? Will wind power survive the current economic demise of the credit crisis???? I have lots of questions but not many answers but know for sure that Boone’s online army is just plain DEAD. No action on PickensPlan after gaining over a million online army recruits in wind energy and natural gas. Now what for the men and women of the PickensPlan????