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Wind turbine manufacturers
Enercon www.enercon.de
Gamesa Eolica www.gamesa.es
GE Energy www.gepower.com
Nordex www.nordex-online.com
REpower Systems www.repower.de
Siemens www.powergeneration.siemens.com
Suzlon www.suzlon.com
Vestas www.vestas.com

Climate change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) www.ipcc.ch
Hadley Centre for Climate Change www.metoffice.gov.uk
NASA climate change resources www.nasa.gov

Government (and related) organisations
Energy Savings Trust (promotes sustainable, efficient energy use) www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
Carbon Trust (promotes low carbon technologies in business and public sector) www.carbontrust.co.uk
Sustainable Development Commission (watchdog for sustainable development) www.sd-commission.org.uk
Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG) www.praseg.org.uk
Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly DTI) www.berr.gov.uk
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) www.defra.gov.uk
Ministry of Defence www.mod.uk
MoD Defence Estates www.mod.uk
National Air Traffic Services www.nats.co.uk

Wind industry associations
British Wind Energy Association www.bwea.org
The British Wind Energy Association is the trade and professional body for the UK wind and marine renewables industries. Formed in 1978, and with over 310 corporate members, BWEA is the leading renewable energy trade association in the UK. Wind has been the world's fastest growing renewable energy source for the last seven years, and this trend is expected to continue with falling costs of wind energy and the urgent international need to tackle CO2 emissions to prevent climate change.
European Wind Energy Association www.ewea.org
German Wind Energy Association www.wind-energie.de
Renewable Energy Association www.r-e-a.net
Scottish Renewables Forum www.scottishrenewables.com
World Wind Energy Association www.wwindea.org

Information and statistics on renewable energy
RE Stats www.restats.org.uk
UKWED (BWEA's wind energy database) www.bwea.com/ukwed
Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) www.berr.gov.uk
Feed In Tariff www.decc.gov.uk

Organisations promoting renewable energy
Embrace www.embracewind.com
Energy North East www.energynortheast.net
Future Energy Yorkshire www.fey.org.uk
Centre for Sustainable Energy www.cse.org.uk
Regen SW www.regensw.co.uk
Renewables East www.renewableseast.org.uk
South East of England Sustainable Energy Partnership www.SEE-Stats.org
Yes to Wind www.yes2wind.com
This site was produced by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF, with the aim of providing information and resources for the public to support wind farm proposals locally.