Thomas Dolby performing Windpower on Top of the Pops circa 1982

www.ntv.co.ke There’s a wind of change that is literally sweeping across Marsabit County. Several companies both local and international have been licensed to begin construction of wind power plants around the vast county. The Marsabit County council has already allocated hundreds of thousands of acres of land to the national power generator Kengen and other private operators. NTV’s Rita Tinina reports on the development that could uplift living standards in the area.

Travis County will soon be home to several wind energy turbines.

Brian is a senior project manager with Vestas Offshore, and is involved with setting up wind turbines all over the world. For him, wind turbines and renewable energy are a good way of facilitating greener energy use worldwide.

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Just a physics project.

CityBus adding three wind turbines

Thomas Jensen, EU Consultant at the South Denmark European Office in Brussels, talks to EUX.TV’s Raymond Frenken at the European Regions Energy Days in Brussels about the offshore wind power cluster in the region Syddanmark, and about the potential to create new jobs in Europe in renewable energy. The Danish region plans to create some 45000 new jobs in offshore renewables by 2020.

This week, President Obama focused on securing our nation’s clean energy future, making stops at facilities in Maryland and Pennsylvania; met with Congressional leadership, hoping to avoid a government shutdown in the face of budget disagreements; and kept his eye on foreign policy, discussing world events with foreign heads of state.

More on this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Head of Sustainability, Kay Hope, is forced to stand her ground in light of the discovery that there may not after all be enough wind to power the much-vaunted Olympic Park wind turbine.