Vestas has received the third order for V112-3.0 MW wind turbines from TuuliWatti Oy within less than a year. This time for delivery of 10 units for the Tervola project.
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A comprehensive review of public health studies conducted near wind turbines in the United States and Europe was released recently in Massachusetts.
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Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has been awarded a contract by project developer ABO Wind for the construction of a further two wind farms with a total of 13 N117/2400 onshore turbines. Located in the German regions of Central Hesse and Franconia, the planned farms will be going on grid this year after the project finance has been finalised. With two wind farms already under construction and also located in Central Hesse and Franconia, the project volume being jointly executed by Nordex and ABO Wind will thus rise to 51.2 megawatts this year. (Keep reading…)
WinWinD has won a tender for buying project rights of the Myllykangas Wind Park near Kuivaniemi in the Northern Finland. The agreement was signed with the developer Metsahallitus, a Finnish state-owned company.
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Effective from December 31, 2011, REpower Systems SE has acquired by purchase the remaining 49% stake in PowerBlades GmbH from SGL Rotec GmbH & Co. KG, a majority company of SGL Group. PowerBlades, headquartered in Bremerhaven, was founded in 2007 as a joint venture for the production of rotor blades for wind turbines. Since the beginning of the cooperation, REpower has held 51% of PowerBlades GmbH while SGL Rotec had 49% of the shares. The transaction is subject to the usual antitrust approval.
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Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex recorded new orders of around EUR 400 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 (Q4/2010: EUR 306 million), translating into a 32 percent full-year increase in new business to EUR 1.1 billion in 2011 (2010: EUR 836 million). Originally, Nordex had projected growth of 20 percent to EUR 1 billion. In November 2011 following its favourable performance in the previous quarters, the Company raised its guidance for new business to the figure now reached. (Keep reading…)
RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave & tidal industry, has criticised a report published by the thinktank Civitas for failing to understand how wind power works as part of the UK’s electricity generation system.
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RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave & tidal industry, has praised National Grid’s handling of the large volumes of electricity generated by wind farms over the festive season.
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Suzlon Wind Energy Corp., the North American subsidiary of Suzlon Group the world’s fifth largest wind turbine maker*, today announced the sale of 57 Suzlon S97-2.1 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for a large wind energy project located in the western United States.
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The largest Nordex wind farm in Ireland to date is to be installed as of August 2012. The project is called “Garracummer” located in county Tipperary and is to go on grid with 17 N90/2500 machines. The customer is the state-owned utility Bord Gais Energy. Bord Gais have engaged Nordex to build the foundations, supply the turbines and commission them, as well as to provide Premium Service for a period of 15 years. (Keep reading…)
Vestas has received an order from a joint venture consisting of Arise Windpower AB and Platina Partners Ltd. for delivery of another 23 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine to the Jädraås wind power park in Sweden.
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Vestas has received an order for 17 units of the V112-3.0 MW turbine for Poland. The contract comprises supply, installation and commissioning of the turbines as well as a 12-year service and maintenance agreement with the solution AOM 5000 (Active Output Management), which is Vestas’ new service product optimising wind power plant output and minimising customer risk.
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Vestas, the world leader in wind energy, has received two orders from key account EDF Energies Nouvelles for delivery of 19 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for the Gargano wind farm in Apulia, Italy, and for 12 V90-2.0 MW turbines for the Eckolstädt wind farm, in Thüringen, Germany, for a total capacity of 62 MW.
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Vestas has received an order for 18 units of the V90-3.0 MW wind turbine for the UK. The contract includes supply, installation and commissioning of the turbines as well as a service agreement with an availability warranty.
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Vestas has received an order for a total capacity of 50.4 MW, consisting of 28 units of the V90-1.8 MW wind turbines for a wind power project in Nooriabad in the Jimphir region of Pakistan. The contract comprises supply of the turbines, supervision of the installation on site, commissioning as well as a VestasOnline® Business SCADA system and a two-year service and availability agreement.
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Vestas has signed an order for a total capacity of 24 MW for the Greneville wind power plant, which will be located in the northeast of Orleans in the Région Centre, one of the regions with the best wind resources in France and a current total wind generating capacity of 540 MW.
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Vestas has signed an agreement for a total capacity of 254 MW for projects in Brazil. The order comprises 127 units of the V100-2.0 MW for the following wind power complexes: Campos dos Ventos and São Benedito – both of them located in Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil.
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Gamesa and the New & Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) signed a contract that has the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer to supply wind turbines for Egypt’s Gabal el Zeit wind farm. Located about 400 km south of Cairo, the 200 MW project is funded by German’s KfW Development Bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the EU through its Neighborhood Investment Facility (NIF). In 2010, it was also reported that Japan had granted a $432-million soft loan for the project.
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A big year is in store for the wind power industry in 2012, both in the policy arena and out in the field. With the Production Tax Credit (PTC), wind power’s key policy incentive, set to expire at the end of the year, industry members and advocates will be pushing for a PTC extension so that the industry can grow to nearly 100,000 jobs just four years from now. Meantime, developers will be busy getting wind farms built and online by year’s end.
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ACCIONA Energy’s wind park at Golice has just entered service in Poland, the first installed by the company in the country. It represents an investment of around 223 million zlotys (57 million euros at the current exchange rate). Its 38 MW of installed capacity will generate clean electricity equivalent to the consumption of around 40,000 Polish homes and will avoid the emission of 77,625 metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere per year.
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Nordex has now passed a major milestone towards the series production of the N117/2400 onshore turbine: On 16 December 2011, it installed the first version of this model at the “Stadum” citizens’ wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein. With a rotor diameter of 117 metres and a rotor sweep of 10,715 square metres, the N117/2400 is the most efficient IEC-3 turbine in its class. (Keep reading…)
Nordex USA, Inc. announced a new order from developer WKN USA, LLC, a BayWa Group Company, for its 30 MW Mozart Wind Farm. The 12 Nordex N100/2500 wind turbines on 80 meter towers will be located about 60 miles northwest of Abilene, Texas, in an area that led the country in wind energy installations over the last decade. The N100’s proven performance record makes it an excellent fit for the site’s IEC Class IIa wind regime. (Keep reading…)
DONG Energy has acquired a 33.3% stake in the first two offshore wind projects in the Hornsea zone from SMart Wind, the 50/50 joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens’ Financial Services unit, represented by Siemens Project Ventures GmbH. The wind projects, Heron Wind Ltd and Njord Ltd., have a potential total capacity of up to 1GW.
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This calendar year, Siemens won six contracts for offshore wind farms with a total capacity of about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) – enough to supply clean electricity to more than 1.4 million homes. The latest success was the award of the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, for Amrumbank West GmbH, a subsidiary of E.ON AG. Siemens has brought in two additional orders each from Germany and the UK. It also got its first offshore wind project in China – an entry into one of the world’s most promising markets for the use of offshore
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The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) issued the following statement today as Congress finalized year-end legislative activity without taking action to extend the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC). (Keep reading…)
The European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 shows that a high renewables energy mix – with 97% of the EU’s electricity consumption met by renewable energy, including 49% wind power in 2050 – would have the same “overall energy system costs” as any other decarbonisation or business as usual scenario.
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RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave & tidal industry, has welcomed research by the Committee on Climate Change which shows that rising gas prices are the major cause of rising household energy bills – and that support for renewable energy plays a very minor part.
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The approval of resource consent for a wind farm in Canterbury has been welcomed by Eric Pyle, Chief Executive of the NZ Wind Energy Association. “The approval of the Mount Cass wind farm by the Environment Court is a much needed boost for the supply of electricity to northern South Island and the environment,” he says.
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Vestas has received an order from Stena Renewable AB for 32 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine. The order has a total capacity of 96 MW and the turbines will be installed in Lemnhult situated in the municipality of Vetlanda, Sweden.
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Siemens and Shanghai Electric intend to set up two new joint ventures to form a strategic alliance for the Chinese wind power market. Corresponding agreements were signed on December 8, 2011, in Shanghai by the two companies. The aim of this alliance is to better serve China as the world’s largest wind power market. In each of the two joint ventures, Siemens will have a stake of 49 percent and its Chinese partner Shanghai Electric 51 percent. One of the joint ventures will be engaged in R&D and production of wind turbine equipment for the Chinese market and for Siemens’ global supply network. The second joint venture will be responsible for wind turbine equipment sales, marketing, project management and execution as well as service in China. Siemens is thus continuing with the regionalization of its wind power business in key markets, and Shanghai Electric will further improve its core competitiveness. The agreements are subject to the approval of the anti-trust authorities.
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