Within a week the wind turbine manufacturer Kenersys Europe has closed an additional contract for Sweden: Three turbines Kenersys K100 provide a wind farm of 7,5 MW in Sweden and will be delivered and installed this year at the community of Bralanda (Västergotaland Province) at the western banks of lake Vänern for project developer Vänervind [...]

Vestas has received an order from E.ON Vind Sverige AB for delivery of 16 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine. The order has a total capacity of 32 MW to be installed in Nybro, Lilla Edet and Öringe. Delivery of the turbines is scheduled to be completed in 2011. The contract includes supply, installation [...]

Vestas has received an order from Näsudden Väst Invest, Slitevind AB and Stugyl AB for delivery of 21 units of the V90-3.0 MW wind turbine. The order has a total capacity of 63 MW and the turbines will be installed in Näsudden, located on the island of Gotland southeast of Sweden. Delivery and installation of [...]

The first offshore wind park in the lake Vänern was inaugurated yesterday near Gässlingegrund in Sweden. The wind park of ten three megawatt WinWinD turbines was inaugurated by the Swedish prince Carl Philip.

Nordex has signed a frame work agreement with the municipally-owned utility Skelleftea Kraft AB, Skelleftea, to supply a total of 118 turbines in the N100/2500 series. The project concerned is “Blaiken”, which with 250 megawatts (MW) is to be the largest wind farm in Sweden, and the two forerunner projects “Jokkmokksliden” (25 MW) and “Storliden” [...]

The Royal Swedish Academy’s Energy Committee Wednesday said it expected a massive expansion of wind power in the decades ahead. “Globally, it looks set to rise from 260 TWh of electricity in 2008 to an estimated 5,000 TWh in 2050. This represents an annual average increase of 8 percent,” said the committee in a statement, [...]

In order to strengthen WinWinD’s position in the Swedish market, Winwind Sweden AB has been established with offices in Stockholm and Karlstad.

Suzlon Wind Energy A/S (SWEAS), the international business arm of Suzlon Energy Limited – broke new ground with its first order in Sweden. The order from Triventus AB, the highly respected wind power developer and consultant in Sweden, comprises of two S88-2.1 MW wind turbines. The 4.2 MW Assjö project, located 150 km from Göteborg [...]

Offshore wind power and wave energy foundations can increase local abundances of fish and crabs. The reef-like constructions also favour for example blue mussels and barnacles. What’s more, it is possible to increase or decrease the abundance of various species by altering the structural design of foundation. This was shown by Dan Wilhelmsson of the [...]

A malfunction on a Vestas wind turbine in the town of Falkenberg on Sweden’s southwest coast could have resulted in tragedy, as one of the structure’s large blades flew off and landed on a track used by hikers. Yesterday’s incident follows a similar one this weekend near Esbjerg, where a defective axel caused all of [...]

GE Energy and Swedish wind developer Arise Windpower AB today announced that GE’s most advanced ecomagination-certified wind turbine technology will make its Nordic debut in Sweden, a country with the highest renewable energy target in the European Union. The move further enhances GE’s global expansion of its 2.5xl wind turbine platform. GE will supply a [...]

In 2008, Vestas received an order for 100 MW for Sweden from Vattenfall Vindkraft Sverige AB, cf. company announcement No. 41/2008 of 28 August 2008. It has now been decided that almost 80 MW of the total order will be located in Stor-Rotliden, in the Åsele region in the northern part of Sweden. The Stor-Rotliden [...]

Swedish state-owned energy giant Vattenfall, the Nordic region’s largest utility, has offered to take over Dutch energy provider Nuon. Both companies announced in a joint statement that Vattenfall is buying a minority share of 49 percent within the next few months. Read more

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project offshore Margate, Kent, for GBP 35 million (US$54.8 million). On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of around 300 MW, the largest offshore wind farm in Britain. Vattenfall acquired the rights to build Thanet Offshore Wind from CRC Energy. The total [...]

AMEC has signed a framework agreement for a project in the UK wind energy market with Swedish company Vattenfall. In a related transaction, AMEC’s UK Wind developments business AMEC Wind has today been sold to Vattenfall for a total of £126.6 million. The sale does not cover AMEC’s interest in the Lewis development. Read more

For the second year in a row, Nordic Windpower, Ltd., the leading company manufacturing and selling innovative, two-bladed utility-scale turbines based proven Swedish technology, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Top 100 Winners. The top 100 award signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities [...]

                    Vestas has received an order for delivery of 100 MW for Sweden. The order comprises delivery of 50 units of the V90-2.0 MW turbine for various wind power projects in Sweden. Furthermore, the order includes the option to buy commissioning of the turbines, a VestasOnlineTM Business Scada solution as well [...]

                                                            Wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON and Markbygden Vind AB, an affiliate of project developers Svevind AB, Tavelsjö, signed a cooperation agreement to develop and install one of Europe’s largest interconnected onshore wind farm projects. On completion by approx. 2020, the installed [...]

                    Sweden’s government approved the building of the country’s largest offshore wind farm. They have authorized the building of a maximum of 108 wind turbines measuring at most 200 metres, and with a capacity of 860 megawatts. Although there are several giant wind farm projects in the works around the world, [...]

                    They are aiming to develop around 200MW of wind farm capacity in western Sweden, with the first wind farm scheduled to be in operation around 2011. Read more

                    Vestas has received an order for a total of 95.4 MW for Sweden. The order for the Havsnäs project consists of 45 units of the V90-2.0 MW turbine and three units of the V90-1.8 MW wind turbine. The contract includes supply, installation, commissioning, a VestasOnlineTM Business SCADA solution as well [...]

Nordic Windpower has selected Pocatello, Idaho, as the site for its new turbine manufacturing facility for the North American market. Read more