Vestas has received an order for the Maida project in Italy consisting of 17 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine to be installed in the Calabria region.
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Nordex SE will be unveiling the third generation of its 2.5 MW turbine series – the Gamma generation – at the European Wind Energy Conference EWEC in Warsaw on April 20 – 23, 2010. Comprising the N80, N90 and N100 wind power systems, this efficiency class combines the latest research and development with technical know-how and experience from a decade of producing and operating multi-megawatt turbines to meet today’s market requirements.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced today it’s committing $117 million in stimulus money to finance the construction of a 12-tower wind farm in Kahuku.
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In May 2009 the Annual General Meeting approved the conversion of Nordex Aktiengesellschaft into a public limited company in European law. Since 4 March 2010 Nordex AG has been registered as Nordex SE (“Societas Europaea”) with the registry court of Rostock.
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As turbines emerge from their warranty phase, wind farm operators face the stark reality that operation and maintenance costs will embark on a steep, upward trajectory, before leveling off over the next five years. What strategies can be deployed to mitigate these costs?
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LM Glasfiber has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a new customer, Envision, a leading Chinese wind turbine manufacturer. The agreement comprises a firm blade supply contract of minimum 2,000 MW for Envision’s wind turbines, starting with their 1.5 MW turbine. As a result of the agreement, LM Glasfiber will establish its fourth manufacturing facility in China, in Jiangyin, close to Shanghai. Production in the new factory is on track to begin in Q2 this year.
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“The wind energy industry can no longer afford uneven component quality, long lead times for component replacements, and the high costs attached to catastrophic wind turbine failures” states a recent report by Wind Energy Update, an independent business intelligence company.
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Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL), the world’s third leading* and India’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, has won a major order from Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (GSPL) to set up, operate and maintain its 52.5 MW wind energy project in the Rajkot and Porbandar districts of Gujarat. The project will be supplied in 35 units of Suzlon’s model S82 – 1.5 MW wind turbine generators, and is scheduled to be completed and commissioned by July, 2010. The power generated from this project will be purchased by Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited under a long term PPA with GSPL.
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The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) today expressed its serious disappointment with the federal government’s failure to expand and extend its very successful ecoENERGY for Renewable Power Program in the 2010 federal budget. Despite its expressed desire to harmonize climate change and clean energy policies with the United States, the federal government is now clearly moving in the opposite direction with respect to efforts to attract wind energy investment and jobs.
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The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today issued the following statement from AWEA CEO Denise Bode:
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The European Commission’s ‘Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ published today contains grid and market commitments that will boost the growth of wind energy in Europe says the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
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WinWinD, a Finnish manufacturer of wind power plants, has made an agreement with Brevini, one of the world’s leading gear box manufacturers, concerning main gear units to be supplied for WinWinD’s three-megawatt wind power plants.
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Amidst generally weak market conditions, the Nordex Group again achieved an increase in sales in 2009 according to preliminary calculations, closing the year with a substantial net consolidated profit. Consolidated sales climbed to EUR 1,183 million (previous year: EUR 1,136 million). As expected, however, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) declined to EUR 40 million (previous year: EUR 63 million) due to higher structural costs. Accordingly, the personnel expense ratio widened from 6.9 percent to 9.2 percent. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Nordex achieved a EBIT margin of 5.3 percent for capacity utilization reasons on sales of EUR 369 million. Consolidated net profit for fiscal year 2009 came to EUR 24.2 million (previous year: EUR 49.5 million).
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Gamesa’s G10X 4.5 MW wind turbine took the prize in the sustainable development product category at the 7th European Business Awards for the Environment 2009-2010 in Spain.
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Danish company Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s leading supplier of wind power solutions, today announces the opening of the Vestas Information Technology (IT) hub in the Philippines, one of its four IT centres across the globe including Denmark, Singapore and the USA.
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The European Commission’s ‘Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ published today contains grid and market commitments that will boost the growth of wind energy in Europe says the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
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The Spanish firm which owns ScottishPower has chosen Glasgow as its global base for building offshore wind farms.
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As fossil fuels continue to diminish and climate change poses an ever-increasing threat, scientists around the world are searching for new and more efficient methods of generating energy. Wind energy is one of the more promising alternative energy sources and Norwegian scientists are currently in the development stages of what promises to be the world’s largest wind turbine. As if creating the biggest wind turbine in the world was not enough, it also floats. Current plans for the world’s largest wind turbine have the machine standing 533 feet tall.
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Lake Turkana Wind Power Ltd — the largest wind power project in Africa and Kenya’s most ambitious green energy venture yet — has just achieved a major breakthrough with the Spanish government stepping in with a $150 million (€110 million) offer to finance construction of the transmission line.
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The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday asked a key historical preservation panel to weigh in on a proposed Cape Cod project that would be the nation’s first offshore wind farm.
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An offshore North and Baltic Sea electricity grid could be in place within 10-15 years, but its development is being slowed by political and regulatory differences between countries bordering the North and Baltic Seas, according to a report published by the OffshoreGrid consortium. The European Commission-funded consortium – made up of eight organizations* – stated that offshore wind farm developers, operators and traders see a harmonization of electricity market and electricity transmission rules across Europe as essential for the future offshore grid.National and EU policy makers, being more cautious, would rather opt for making the existing support schemes compatible.
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Independent wind energy analysts have been working with Wind Energy Update to determine exactly how much turbine operators and investors can expect to invest in operations and maintenance over coming years – and how such costs can be mitigated.
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The New Zealand Wind Energy Association today welcomes the release of the new Acoustics – Wind farm noise Standard, saying it will ensure people who live near new wind farms are not exposed to unreasonable levels of sound.
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The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Community of European Shipyards’ Association (CESA) are calling on the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the building of new ships to serve the expanding offshore wind energy market over the coming years.
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Today the European Parliament voted on a draft Council Regulation on the notification of investment projects in energy infrastructure within the European Union. EWEA said that today’s vote in the European Parliament better reflects the reality of investments in today’s electricity sector than the Council proposal. The European Council proposed notification of investments in wind farms larger than 20 MW, ignoring the large number of onshore wind farms which are below 20MW in size. Instead the Parliament proposes that investments in wind projects of more than 5 MW onshore, and 20 MW offshore, would have to be notified to the European Commission.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released new estimates of the U.S. potential for wind-generated electricity, tripling previous estimates of the size of the nation’s wind resources. The new study, which was carried out by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and AWS Truewind, finds that the contiguous 48 states have the potential to generate up to 37 million gigawatt hours annually. By contrast, total U.S. electricity generation from all sources was roughly 4 million gigawatt hours in 2009. The estimates show the total energy yield that could be generated using current wind turbine technology on the nation’s windy lands. (The estimates show what is possible, not what will actually be developed.)
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By focusing on actively managing working capital (synchronising production and delivery) and implementing an ambitious efficiency programme (which has already saved 150 million euro), Gamesa significantly improved margins in its core wind turbine manufacture division in 2009: the EBIT margin was 7.2%, above the company’s guidance (6%-7%) and a notable 140 basis points higher than in 2008 (5.8%).
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Vestas welcomes today’s announcement from the Australian Government on reforms of the legislation underpinning the 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target.
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Vestas, the global wind energy leader, has received an order of 48 MW from Inner Mongolia Huitong Energy Zuozi Wind Energy Co. Ltd, a subsidiary to Shanghai Huitong Energy Co. Ltd, which is a new customer for Vestas and a new entrant in the Chinese wind energy industry. With this new order, Vestas is starting a new partnership with a customer that is dedicated to delivering clean, sustainable energy based on a solid business case.
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