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Baoding, China - Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a solar energy company, announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.

Seoul, South Korea / Irvine, USA / Luebeck, Germany – DeWind Europe GmbH, a subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd (DSME), announces the successful installation of its new 2 MW prototype D9.1 on Germany’s North Sea coast in Altenbruch/Cuxhaven (Lower Saxony).

Hamburg, Germany - The Nordex Group has been awarded a contract for the delivery and installation of an 80 MW wind farm.

Zurich, Switzerland – ABB has won orders worth over $100 million, to supply converter transformers and components for the Hami-Zhengzhou ultrahigh-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link.

Aarhus, Denmark - In July 2012 Vestas agreed with its lenders to defer the half-year testing of the financial covenants.

Paris - On the occasion of Mr. Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister’s, visit to Paris, the Areva group and Scottish Enterprise, a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on industrial site development for the manufacture of wind turbines in East Scotland.

Tokyo, Japan - Nokia Siemens Networks is working with Ballard Power Systems, Inc. to develop mobile networks that can continue to operate during power blackouts.

Åhus, Sweden - Danish DONG Energy and Swedish Malmberg Water will construct plants for upgrading of biogas in Denmark. The first plant will be built in Horsens.

Bonn, Germany / Brussels, Belgium - The current discussion on protecting European PV markets by imposing countervailing duties on Chinese solar modules and cells is splitting the industry.

Thun, Switzerland - In response to the ongoing challenging market situation in the photovoltaic sector, Meyer Burger Technology Ltd is accelerating and expanding its current consolidation and optimisation programme.

Erlangen, Germany - Siemens Energy has secured the order for the Jeffrey's Bay wind power plant with a capacity of 138 megawatts (MW).

Muenster – In 2011, Global CO2 emissions rose to a new record level of about 34 bn metric tons.

Washington D.C., USA - The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a new scientific report released that was commissioned by the World Bank.

Changzhou, China - Trina Solar Limited, an integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012.

Chennai, India - Gamesa has signed and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract to build the project and supply 47.6 MW to a wind farm from SJVN Limited, in District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.

Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas has received an order for a total capacity of 39 MW for the Matisse wind power plant in Italy and a 67 MW order from Umoya Energy for South Africa.

Xinyu City, China / Sunnyvale, USA - LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products, announced that it closed the share purchase agreement.

Paris - Continuing its drive to commission its major solar projects in France, EDF Energies Nouvelles announces the commissioning of Toul-Rosières solar power plant in the Lorraine region of eastern France, with an installed capacity of 115 MWp.

Reno, USA - Ormat announced that an Ormat subsidiary entered into an agreement with Geotérmica Platanares to acquire a late stage development geothermal project in Honduras.

Madrid, Spain - ACCIONA obtained a net profit of 114 million euros in the first nine months of the year, down 63.7% compared to the same period of 2011 due to the absence of extraordinary items.

Munich, Germany - TÜV Süd has won a contract tendered by Siemens Wind Power to test 30 wind turbines in the North Sea.

Portland, USA - Chris Brown has joined the company as Group Senior Vice President of Vestas and President of Vestas Americas.

Changzhou, China - Trina Solar Limited, manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, announced the following updates to its previous guidance for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.

Zörbig & Leipzig, Germany – In the first quarter of its new business year 2012/2013, VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG (VERBIO) reports group revenue of EUR 217.5 million (Q1 2011/2012: EUR 224.4 million), thereby falling short of the value in the previous year.

Eemshaven, Netherlands - RWE Innogy and Essent have inaugurated two Repower 6M wind turbines in the Dutch city of Eemshaven.