After almost three years of hold on all projects to expand renewable energies, there was reason to hope that South Africa would finally make progress again in recent months. President Cyril Ramaphosa, in office since February 2018, had announced that the expansion would be relaunched. But now new problems are emerging.

The wind industry in South Africa has experienced an emotional roller coaster in the recent past. After the country was one of the most up-and-coming wind markets in the world from 2010 to 2015, expansion came to a virtual standstill under President Zuma. New hope did not emerge until last year, when Cyril Ramaphosa took over the presidency and when one of his first official acts was to ...

Developers in the U.S. purchased sufficient equipment to qualify 6.6 GW of new wind power capacity in 2018 for 60% production tax credits (PTC) under the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) safe harbor provision law, according to recent analysis...

Green Energy Markets produces the monthly Renewable Energy Index to assist the Australian community in understanding the role and contribution of ...

Iberdrola ordered 9.5 MW turbines from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind to be installed at the Baltic Eagle OWF

Following the commissioning of the Wikinger offshore wind farm at the end of 2017, Baltic Eagle is the second major offshore project of Spanish energy company Iberdrola in Germany. Baltic Eagle will have a total capacity of 476 MW spread over 40 square kilometres.

MHI Vestas will supply up to 52 V174-9.5 MW turbines. This is the first time that these turbines will be used. "We are very proud to bring our V174-9.5 ...

LDI from Austria with its long-term experience in Ice Protection Systems for Aviation as well as for Wind Turbines announces its 2019 price list for the LDI rotor blade heated mesh to be implemented during rotor blade...

On December 14, 2018, Vineyard Wind, LLC (“Vineyard Wind”) filed a Petition with FERC to waive the pro-rata proration requirements of the ISO New England, Inc. (“ISO-NE”) Transmission, Markets and Services Tariff (“Tariff”) so that...

Nordex will supply the wind project Syvash with turbines for 133 MW

By the end of this year, the manufacturer will install 34 turbines from the N131/3900 series for the construction of the first phase of the ...

The company will set up a production facility in Matamoros, in the state of Tamaulipas.

Moving forward, rotor blades totalling more than 1GW capacity per year will be produced there for both the local and global markets. ...

PNE has secured additional expertise, particularly in the area of wind turbine obstruction marking and on-demand night-time marking as required by aviation law.

The project developer PNE ...