Despite a buoyant European offshore wind market, offshore construction & installation contractors that fall short of budget and technology challenges risk falling by the wayside.

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Turbine reliability must step up a gear if wind power is to expand in line with ambitious targets.

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Vestas, the world’s leader in producing high-tech wind power systems, this week launched an advertising campaign to highlight the potential for new clean energy jobs being created in rural and regional Australia.

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Back in the early days of the modern wind industry, farm equipment manufacturers in Denmark played a key role in developing the sturdy large-scale machines installed in the 1980s. Maybe that’s why wind seemed like such a good fit for a company like John Deere, the world’s largest farm machinery manufacturer. Or maybe it’s better left to the energy companies.

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Egypt plans to add about 1,425 megawatts of electricity to its national grid next month from a number of new power generation units, pan-Arab Asharq Al Awsat daily reports Monday citing Hassan Younis, the country’s minister of electricity and energy.

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REpower Systems AG, in which Suzlon Energy Limited is a majority shareholder with over 90 per cent holding – officially inaugurated a new technology center at Osterrönfeld, in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, Germany, on the 25th of August at the hands of the Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Minister President Carstensen and the REpower Executive Board. The new centre will bring together around 470 employees, from the fields of Research and Development, as well as Technical Support and Services, earlier spread across offices in Rendsburg, Büdelsdorf and Husum.

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The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) and the New Brunswick government will partner for the organization of a wind energy seminar on September 22-23 2010 in Moncton, NB. Entitled “Growing Wind in Atlantic Canada: Cooperative Solutions for Regional and Export Opportunities”, the seminar will look at solutions to maximize the development of the wind industry in the Atlantic region as provinces seek to develop wind and reap the social, economic and environmental benefits that this development brings.

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Back in 2008, Xcel Energy began testing a one-megawatt wind energy battery-storage system, using NGK Insulators Ltd.’s sodium- sulfur (NaS) battery technology. The objective was to demonstrate the system’s ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed, and to assess the viability of greater wind penetration on Xcel Energy’s system.

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With North America’s Western Interconnection serving more than 77 million people – many of whom are located in coastal load centers – burgeoning demand for peak-hour electricity is increasingly sourced from renewable sources such as wind power.

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A new government study shows that Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources. The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There also was a decline in natural gas use and increases in solar, hydro and geothermal power according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The negotiations following last week’s announcement of layoffs in Denmark have now been concluded. 154 employees in Vestas Nacelles and Vestas Blades are expected to be laid off.

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Vestas has received an order for 24 units of the V82-1.65 MW wind turbine for the Phase 1 of the Harpanahalli Wind Farm project in the State of Karnataka, South India.
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The Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein officially inaugurated the new technology center of REpower Systems AG today in Osterrönfeld in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district. Minister President Carstensen and the REpower Executive Board cut the red ribbon and symbolically opened the building. The opening ceremony was attended by more than 100 guests of honor. Around 470 employees, primarily from Research and Development, Technical Support and Service, are accommodated at the new research and technology complex. Previously, these departments were located at sites in Rendsburg, Büdelsdorf and Husum.
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AAER Inc., has become an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc.  Pioneer is continuing the former business of AAER through its subsidiary Pioneer Wind Energy Systems, Inc.

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New business continues to pick up at Nordex. The wind turbine manufacturer has now obtained new orders in two major markets. In China and Portugal the company will be delivering 40 turbines in the proven 1.5 and 2.5 MW series in the course of this year.

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As the burgeoning wind and solar power markets continue to expand, industry value chains are looking to adopt measures to sustain anticipated growth. For many component producers, the market growth rate will translate into a need to increase existing capacities, build new plants and spread out to new geographies.

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The new factory will produce up to 100 units of power generators per month with a rating of up to 2.5MW.

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act, a law that will help spur the development of a vibrant offshore wind industry in the state.

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Corus, Europe’s second largest steel producer, has announced its plans to construct a new £31.5-million manufacturing plant to produce steel monopile foundation structures for offshore wind turbines.

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Anticipated public spending cuts resulting from a record public deficit could prove detrimental to UK’s wind industry.

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China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation, one of the three nuclear power firms in China, said in a press release Tuesday that its Guangdong Taishan wind farm has begun to generate electricity August 14. This is the company’s first wind farm in South China.

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Vestas, the world’s leader in producing high-tech wind power systems, announced today it will move its North American sales and service headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Depot Building at 1417 NW Everett St. in Portland’s Pearl District. Gerding Edlen Development, Inc., will transform the sturdy structure, vacant since 2001, into one of Portland’s newest and distinctive buildings. Construction is expected to begin in October 2010. Vestas plans to occupy the space in early 2012.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel today commenced her “energy tour” in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. During a visit to Nordex’s rotor blade production plant in Rostock, she will be conducting talks with representatives of companies active in the wind power industry. The background to this tour, which will be continuing over several days, is the energy policy, the main elements of which the German federal government plans to announce at the end of September.

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Wind turbine manufacturer Clipper Windpower, Inc. has been selected to join a powerhouse consortium of industry and academic leaders to help reach the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal of achieving 20 percent wind power nationwide by 2030. The consortium’s mission, made possible through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, supports research to advance production of wind-generated energy. Clipper’s 2.5 megawatt Liberty turbine will be the centerpiece of a full-scale field site at the University of Minnesota’s UMore Park property in Rosemount, MN.

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RenewableUK, the country’s leading renewable energy trade association, has today welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister’s plans for a Green Deal, as an important step in maximising employment and business benefits in the renewable energy sector.

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Vestas, the world leader in wind energy, has received two orders from China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power (CGNWP) for a total of 87 units of the reliable and productive V52-850 kW turbine. These 74 MW will be located near Taishan City, Guangdong Province.

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Vestas generated second-quarter revenue of EUR 1,007m, a drop of 17 per cent relative to the second quarter of 2009, realising an EBIT of EUR (148)m, against EUR 78m in the second quarter of 2009. The EBIT margin thus declined from 6.4 per cent to (14.7) per cent as a result of the expected very low capacity utilisation in the wake of the credit crisis. Net working capital stood at 25 per cent of expected annual revenue, against 12 per cent the year before. The second-quarter order intake was 3,031 MW, which was the highest level ever recorded and on a level with the order intake for the whole of 2009.

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With the commissioning of two demonstration turbines at the “Grevesmuehlen” site near the production plant in Wismar (Baltic Sea, Germany) Kenersys has reached a further milestone in its expansion strategy.

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ACCIONA Energy will receive up to 13.79 million Canadian dollars (10.28 million euros at the present exchange rate) over ten years from the Government of Canada as an incentive for the Lamèque wind farm that the company is now building in the province of New Brunswick (Eastern Canada).

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