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CHINA: Huaneng Renewables has revealed one of its wind turbines caught fire in a wind farm in Inner Mongolia, killing two engineers.

POLAND: Spain's Aldesa Energia Renovables has won a tender to build a 90MW wind farm in Resko, Poland, for PGE Energia Odnawialna (PGE EO), renewable arm of Polish energy utility PGE.

GERMANY: The construction of an offshore grid in the German part of the North Sea cannot be implemented under current regulatory system, according to European grid operator TenneT.

FRANCE: Nine wind power projects totalling 95MW (see table) have been selected by the French government to help Corsica and its overseas territories reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

FRANCE: Maia Eolis has handed Repower a 250MW supply agreement for French onshore projects to be built between 2012 and 2015.

CANADA: Gamesa has won an order from Saturn Power to supply 10MW to a project in Ontario, the manufacturer's first deal for a Canadian project.

UK: A UK government-backed consortium of companies, including BP and Rolls-Royce, is considering testing a floating wind turbine platform at the Wave Hub wave energy site on the south coast of England.

ITALY: Vestas has secured a deal from Tozzi-owned TRE&Partners to supply 56MW for a project in Apulia.

CHILE: Ireland-based developer Mainstream Renewable Power has inked a new 50/50 joint venture with China’s Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology of Beijing for a wind project in Chile.

UK: Eight new wind farm support vessels are to be built in Singapore by Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine for UK offshore vessel operator Njord Offshore.

MOROCCO: The Belgian-Dutch developer WindVision has made its first move outside Europe with the establishment of a subsidiary in Morocco.

FRANCE: A French government committee has warned on the consequences of "intermittence" caused by renewable energy.

GERMANY: Venture capitalist Ventizz Capital has signed a deal with German construction company Hochtief to jointly develop offshore wind farms.

UK: SgurrEnergy, David Brown and the University of Strathclyde are to launch an offshore training and development centre.

DENMARK: Vestas has announced plans to nominate current Sony Ericsson president Bert Nordberg to replace outgoing chairman Bent Carlsen.

UK: Cable manufacturer Prysmian and Siemens have been handed a €1.1 billion deal to build an undersea connection between England and Scotland to handle the additional power supplied by renewable energy.

UNITED STATES: Plans to build the Cape Wind 468MW project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, took a big step forward after the state PUC made the merger of two utilities NStar and Northeast Utilities conditional on signing a power purchase agreement with the wind farm.

UNITED STATES: Plans to build the Cape Wind 468MW project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, took a big step forward after the state PUC made the merger of two utilities NStar and Northeast Utilities conditional on signing a power purchase agreement with the wind farm.

UNITED STATES: An extension of the expiring US production tax credit {PTC) failed to make the cut as Congressional negotiators sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for millions of unemployed workers.

CHINA: AMSC's legal battle against Sinovel has received a boost after a Beijing court denied the Chinese company's motion to transfer one of the lawsuits.