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Germany's E.ON AG, the world's largest utility by sales, and Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass, said in a statement they have signed a multi-year 240,000 metric ton annual wood pellet supply contract starting in 2013. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Chicago-based E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, a subsidiary of E.ON AG (Xetra: EOAN) of Germany, one of the world’s largest energy companies, this week announced it ordered 112 of Vestas' V100-1.8 MW turbines for an undisclosed American wind-energy project. The specific model of turbines is designed to provide maximum capture of wind at lower speeds.

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Over the past few years, E.ON AG (OTC: EONGY), Germany's largest utility, has been swallowing European wind farm operators and expanding its portfolio of holdings in the UK, Spain and Portugal.

A Spiegel report, on offshore wind turbines in the North Sea, is inspiring, giving advocates for clean, renewable energy hope that the future will generate loads of clean energy sources to reduce the world’s current dependence on polluting and destructive fossil fuels. 

Finland, one of the top users of renewable energy sources in the world, plans to increase renewables from the current level of 25% to 38% by 2020.

Energy company, E.ON (OTC:EONGY) has announced its Robin Rigg offshore wind farm, located in the United Kingdom, has completed its final phase of testing and is now up and running at full capacity.

The immensely huge solar energy project DESERTEC has not been consumed by the ever-present sand storms of inaction.

In Britain, a large coalition of scientists, companies, organizations, celebrities, and citizens have joined together in the 10:10 campaign--an initiative to reduce carbon emissions.