Named after the Aesop fable in which the sun persuades a man to take off his coat after the North Wind fails to do so, the policy sought to engage the North.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
By contrast, the North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition managed to muscle Senate Bill 747 into the state legislature in about three months.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.
Veterinary experts are now increasingly worried that the disease could cross the North Channel, carried either by the wind or by people.
The company bidding to develop a wind farm off the north Devon coast is reviewing its plans after concerns voiced by local people.
The wind-power lobby has won a potentially game-changing victory in its full-court press to unlock the vast offshore wind resource off the coast of North Carolina.
When the wind blows in the Netherlands, wind power can flow north.
But Hoyer says the EIB is also investing in big projects in stronger economies, such as wind farms in the North Sea, because it's important for the institution in maintaining its AAA rating.
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The Fleet continues to wind its way north, ending up at Hampstead Heath, the ponds of which were actually formed by a damming of the river in the 18th Century.
In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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The country has 16, 000 wind turbines, mostly concentrated in the north of the country, near the border with Denmark - including the biggest in the world, owned by the Repower company.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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Mr Thompson said tests of the wind power on the north coast at Chouet had been successful.
Wind works well in the North Sea or Texas, but not on rooftops.
Over time the issue will loom larger if North and South manage to hash out measures to wind down tensions and reduce the mutual military threat.
"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.
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Die-hards can spend up to 15 hours climbing the glacier's almost vertical north face, but moderate hikers prefer this wind-whipped, 90-minute scramble, where the spectacular views more than compensate for any burning thighs.
The provinces of Navarra and Rioja in the north-east of Spain now rely on wind farms for 50% of their electricity.
The wind is currently coming from the north-west, pushing the slick towards the mouth of the gulf and away from danger.
Green energy company Ecotricity, who applied for permission with Honda, said the wind turbine originally proposed towards the north side of the site, closest to people's houses, would not now be included in the scheme.
Meanwhile, GNER was forced to cancel all services between Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the north east of England, Yorkshire and London's King's Cross after the wind and snow brought down overhead lines in the Borders.
Police and the Highways Agency are continuing to monitor wind speeds, which could force the closure of the Sheppey Crossing in the north of the county.
They turned down the application by ABO Wind UK Ltd to site eight turbines, each 125m high, on land north west of the village of Roberton.
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The four wind turbines would be built in an area north of Catshead Woods on farmland at Sudborough.
This would link offshore wind farms in the Atlantic ocean and the Irish, North and Baltic seas with customers throughout northern Europe.
The Rhiannon wind farm would be around 19km (12 miles) north-east of Anglesey and cover an area the size of the Isle of Man.
If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.
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