News Archive January 2010

Denmark - Vestas enters into several supply agreements with Global Wind Power

Vestas will supply up to 140 MW of wind turbines for farms located in Romania and Bulgaria

USA - AWEA’s 2010 wind energy trends

Renewable energy trends and indicators to watch in 2010

DONG Energy and Siemens enter into a new supply agreement regarding offshore wind turbines Siemens to deliver wind turbines and grid connection for Offshore Wind Farm Lincs in UK

First Modern Wind Park in Romania goes into Operation

Vestas receives 140 MW order for Bulgaria and Romania

UK wind industry welcomes Beauly-Denny power line decision

EWEC 2010: programme overview now available

Conference programme reflects wind's response to multiple challenges

A Special Invitation from Eric White of AWS Truewind, LLC

AWEA's Wind Project Profitability and Reliability Workshop Program Chair

European offshore wind power set to increase tenfold

UK - ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall to develop major offshore windfarms off the coast of East Anglia

'East Anglia Array' will have the potential to generate approximately 7.2GW of renewable energy

UK - New offshore wind farm licenses are announced

Successful bids for nine new offshore wind farm zone licenses within UK waters have been announced.

Tunisia - 2 wind power plant installations planned

Wind farms of El Haouaria in the Cap Bon area will be soon beefed up by 2 other plants in the governorate of Bizerta

The Danish Green Grid Symposium, which takes place February 22-26 in Copenhagen, is intended to provide participants with insights on key strategic aspects of implementing a secure and smart transmission infrastructure

Germany - REpower appoints Suzlon as sales agent for US and Australia markets

Agreement to accelerate REpower’s growth in these markets

Italy - Wind power up 30 pct in 2009

Installation in 2009 was 1,114 megawatts

REpower appoints Suzlon as sales agent for US and Australia markets

EWEA - Oettinger and Hedegaard face European Parliament hearings this week

Information from the European Wind Energy Association

The manufacturing investment tax credits, used to open, expand or re-equip a facility, are intended to grow domestic manufacturing capacity for wind power and other technologies

The company was one of a series of firms which have been given the go-ahead to develop nine new offshore wind farms, paving the way for expansion in renewable energy around the UK's shores

Oettinger and Hedegaard face European Parliament hearings this week

USA - Wineries turn to wind energy

Producers look beyond solar for other forms of renewable energy

Europe - Germany, and its neighbours plan offshore power grid

North Sea Offshore Grid Initiative - Plans to build a gigantic offshore power grid intended to bundle up existing and future projects

Under a state law, any surplus of renewable energy generated by municipalities on municipally owned sites may now be sold to the utility serving the area

Member of the Week - Superwind GmbH: Small high quality wind generators for professional use

New at the Hamburg Boat Show 2009: Silent Power - Extremely silent rotor blades

Product Pick of the Week - Aerocam from Broadstar

Compared to a conventional three-blade turbine, the AeroCam has more wing area working to produce power, but in a significantly smaller package

Product Pick of the Week - Small is Beautiful: The Helix wind turbine

Helix Power’s Weinbrandt sees a small wind turbine on every rooftop

Antarctica - Three new wind turbines provide enough renewable, clean electricity to cover the entire New Zealand operation

In Antarctica renewable energy protects the environment, saves diesel, and saves money

USA - Adobe Systems goes for wind power

"I told him it's not just art"

EWEA - European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009

Update

European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009

AWEA - Minnesota Power Buys North Dakota Transmission as Part of RES Strategy

Purchase of a 465-mile transmission line running from wind-rich North Dakota finalised

AWEA - With Strong Funding Support, Nordic Windpower Focuses on Community Wind Space

With its rather uniquely sized 1-MW turbine, the company is focused on the community-wind segment of the industry

AWEA - Pioneering Wind-Wildlife Leader Brought Everyone to Table

Reflecting on the life of Iberdrola Renewables’ Andrew Linehan, the pioneering leader in the area of siting and wildlife issues

REpower to supply 20 wind turbines for its first project in Minnesota

Dynamics embedded softly

Technical Conference „Drivelines in wind power installations - requirements for gears, couplings and bearing

USA - Bus company to use wind power

$68K savings in energy costs possible

UK - More than 215 MW of onshore wind energy approved in Scotland

"These schemes are good for Scotland's low carbon economy and further examples of the action we need to take now to tackle climate change"

Brazil - New economic stimulus measures announced

Maesures include exemptions and reductions of taxes

Sweden - Suzlon Energy wins order from Triventus AB

The order comprises of two S88-2.1 MW wind turbines

Canada - Vestas wins $97 million wind-turbine order

Order for 18 turbines from Canadian utility TransAlta Corp. received

Product Pick of the Week - Triton Wind Profiler

"Remote sensing is changing the way the industry measures wind and uses information"

Offshore Wind and Transmission - Hamburg, Germany: 30-31 March 2010

Strategies for commercially successful deepwater wind parks and a transnational supergrid

China - '70% homemade' rule for wind turbines dropped

Rule stipulates that more than 70 percent of the wind turbines in use in China must be produced domestically

USA - Within the next 20 years, 5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity planned for Main

“In the coming weeks, I will submit legislation to continue our aggressive pursuit of offshore wind energy”

Maldives - President visits a wind turbine manufacturing facility

Possibilities of setting up wind power projects discussed

Europe - Offshore wind energy sector 'grows 54% in 2009

Region now has 828 operating wind turbines in total

Italy - Enel to acquire US wind company

More North American joint ventures in renewable energy planned

Abu Dhabi - Wind power for the world's most sustainable, zero-waste, car-free, carbon-neutral city?

City will use wind energy and futuristic travel pods

Korea - Companies invest C$7bn into renewable energy in Canada

Single-largest investment in renewable energy in Ontario

Pakistan - HHI strikes deal to supply 30 wind turbines to 50 MW wind farm

Project estimated to be worth $52.7 to $70.2 million and is planned to start in 2011

Product Pick of the Week - Aircraft subcontractor trys its luck in the wind energy market

Wichita firm finds niche in small wind energy

Mexico - The I.A.D.B. guaranteed US$ 101 million in credits to partially finance wind energy developments

New wind parks will be able to satisfy 4% of the country’s electricity demand

AWEA - Wind Energy News Roundup

United Technologies closes on Clipper investment / Researchers apply aviation technology to wind power

Europe - EastEuro Link's second annual SEE Wind Energy event

"A critical analysis of South East Europe's wind energy market is needed"

Hydratight Part Numbering

REpower announces preliminary results for first nine months of fiscal year 2009/10

PNE WIND AG SELECTED TO PRESENT AT THE 2010 CLEANEQUITY MONACO CONFERENCE

Portugal - 10 GW of wind energy until 2020?

MEGAJOULE’s executive board member Miguel Ferreira attends last week’s workshop at APREN in Lisbon

Sweden - Winwind establishes offices in Stockholm and Karlstad

Former cooperation with Dynawind AB will continue and be developed especially through improved service offerings

Europe's premier wind energy event goes to Poland

Journalists are invited to the annual European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition (EWEC 2010), Warsaw, 20-23 April.

New 2009 European and global wind energy statistics

Wind industry says yes to regional initiatives, but final aim is a European single market by 2015