Wind energy in South Africa has an eventful past: once celebrated as a new trend market, its expansion came to a virtual standstill after a change of government. But for some time now, South Africans have again been relying on the power of the wind. This now aöso benefits the country in the fight against the Corona virus.

South Africa is one of the African countries worst affected by the Corona pandemic. When the first wave reached the country in spring this year, the government imposed a lockdown, which also affected the construction work for the Kangnas wind farm.

The 140 MW wind farm is located just over 50 km east of the city of Springbok in the province of Northern Cape. Construction work on the project had already been underway since 2018 and could ...

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The latest Public Attitudes Tracker, published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, shows 80% of people support the use of renewable energy, while only 3% oppose it.

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The key recommendation is to overhaul the slow and complex permitting procedures. This is the main bottleneck for new wind farms.

The key recommendation is to overhaul the slow and complex ...

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Nordex Group received a 63 turbine order for the Delta4000 series N149/4.0-4.5. The name of the project and developer have not been disclosed.

Next summer Nordex will start to deliver and install the turbines for this project in Texas. The turbines are to be supplied in a project-specific operating mode of 4.8 MW, resulting in a total output for the wind farm of 302.4 MW.

Nordex has a growing portfolio in the U.S. of 3.7 gigawatts in turbines sold in Texas alone.

Turbine manufacturer Vestas has secured a 50 MW order for ERG wind project Sandy Knowe. The project will be located in Scotland and will feature 14 V112-3.45 MW turbines in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode.

With this deal, Vestas strengthens its presence in the UK onshore wind market, where the manufacturer today has installed more than 2,000 wind turbines with a total capacity of more than 4 GW. The project confirms onshore wind energy’s increasing competitiveness in the UK at a time when renewable energy is setting new records providing almost 40 percent of the ...

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Located 195 km from the nearest point on the UK’s North East coast, the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm is sited on the shallow central area of the North Sea known as Dogger Bank.

Prysmian Group, world leader in the ...

GE Renewable Energy has been selected by European Energy as the supplier for three windfarms in Lithuania

GE Renewable Energy announced today that it has been selected by European Energy as the supplier for three windfarms in ...

The trend in energy generation in coming years points toward increasing complexity, which brings new challenges in monitoring and overall management.

More and more countries are committed ...

Prysmian Group confirmed with improved score, to 86 points from 84 points in 2019, in the ELQ Electrical Components & Equipments on the Dow Jones Sustainability World index

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GE Renewable Energy announced that its Haliade-X 12 MW prototype has received a full type certificate from DNV GL

GE Renewable Energy announced today that its Haliade-X 12 MW prototype, ...

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