News Archive December 2010

CanWEA Celebrates the Arrival of Wind Turbine Towers Made with 100% Ontario Steel

Ontario’s First Major Wind Energy Project under the Green Energy Act Demonstrates Growing Economic Benefits for Ontario

Mexico - Acciona wind turbine installed for the World Climate Summit in Cancun

Mexican President Felipe Calderón inaugurated the turbine. The 1.5 MW machine incorporates Acciona Windpower technology

USA - Helix wind turbine renderings as part of Philadelphia Eagles Renewable Energy Project

80 Helix Wind Turbines planned to be installed on top of Lincoln Financial Field

LM Wind Power Blades will deliver its 61.5 meter blades for the 48 REpower 6M type wind turbines which will be installed as part of phase II and III of the Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm

Although the country leads the Balkans when it comes to wind power, it is a relative newcomer to the sector. Its first wind farm with a total capacity of 5.95 MW was installed in 2004 on Pag

Since 1993, the Poul la Cour Prize has been awarded to individuals who have pioneered the development of wind power and have achieved exceptional results in the wind community

New wind turbine blade factory in Tillsonburg creates more jobs and economic benefits for Ontario

Helps position Ontario as a leader in building the North American green economy

CATCH THE WIND FILES AGREEMENTS

Siemens well on track to become one of the world’s top three providers of wind turbines New factories in China and the U.S. secure strong footprint in the most important wind markets

USA - Mass Megawatts Wind Power Goes Horizontal in Its Blade Design

Mass Megawatts Wind Power announces a new blade design for the patented Multi-Axis Turbosystem

SMart Wind has submitted a Scoping Report to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) detailing the proposed approach to the development of the first offshore wind farm projects in the 4 GW Hornsea Zone, UK

The quietrevolution wind turbines can utilise winds from all directions unlike traditional HAWTs which need to track the oncoming wind

Canada - Bridgepoint secures Ontario-based Development Equity for large Ontario Wind Power Plant

Bridgepoint Group is pleased to announce that it has reached financial close for development capital for a 200+ MW Ontario wind farm

USA - Wind energy moving forward in Minnesota

Yusef Orest spent time watching crews prepare the way for 12 wind turbines to be erected on the open landscape south of Cosmos as part of the Adams Wind project

ACS, which has also made an all-share takeover bid for German peer Hochtief, said it would sell 1,056 MW of wind energy in Spain and 352 MW abroad as well as 349 MW of concentrated solar energy in Spain

Draka Offshore announced today they have been awarded the array cabling contract for the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm from Visser & Smit Marine Contracting

The CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and a contingent of wind industry experts from AWEA are taking part in this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico

Senegal - Construction of two wind farms with 175 MW underway

Senegal has started construction of two wind farms with a total installed capability of 175 MW, over a location on its northern coast

The new Siemens wind turbines nacelle plant in Hutchinson gleamed like a new car at Friday's official unveiling, with bright lights shining down from a four-story tall ceiling and fresh paint on all the fixtures

Another sales success in Poland

WKN Windkraft Nord closes 50 megawatts wind farm deal

USA - Vestas receives 43 MW wind energy order for the US

Vestas has received an order for 24 V90-1.8 MW wind turbines for a wind farm in Minnesota, USA.

PowerWind successfully enters the US market

Increasing the size of the wind farm, which could drive the projects price tag to $5 billion, would allow the renewable energy firm to sell electricity cheaper

USA - Certification Poised to Drive Small Wind Energy Growth

22 Wind Turbines Now In Queue; Incentive Programs Requiring Certification

Wind power industry calls for urgent progress in Cancún climate talks

Wind energy could produce more than 12% of the electricity needed globally by 2020, saving 10 billion tons of CO2 in the process, or 1.5 billion tons per year

Dramatic plans to erect up to 20,000 wind turbines and put millions of electric vehicles on the roads were unveiled yesterday by the Government’s climate experts

Brazil Windpower 2010: Timely event in a booming market

Poland - Report on the country's wind energy

The report noted that the wind energy market had definitely expanded even though investors still perceive investments in this sector as challenging

Hasan Köktas, Chief of EMRA, in an earlier issued statement said that the country currently generates 1,200 MW through wind energy and said that the year 2011 will call for more private investments in wind power sector

Onsemble says its proprietary network of high-quality, localized data inputs give wind-energy forecasters for the first time consistent access to real-time information needed to produce the most accurate wind forecasts possible

SGS to Attend Offshore Wind Logistics 2011 Conference in London

AWEA will be represented at the Power-Gen International conference next week in Orlando, Fla., with the session below focusing on wind organized by AWEA Business Development Manager Jeff Anthony

France - Reunion island aims for zero CO2

France's fifth largest wind power producer Aerowatt launched a 3.85 megawatt-wind farm on the small cyclone-prone French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean

Product Pick of the Week - windNavigator from AWS Truepower, LLC

Tracking wind resources and project performance

Denmark - New offshore wind turbines strategy from partnership Megavind

Megavind’s vision is to maintain Denmark as a globally leading hub in wind power

Aside from the traditional uses of OSV in the maritime and oil & gas industries, interest in OSV is rising exponentially in the growing offshore wind power indust

USA - Atlantic states lag behind Europe and China in offshore wind

A coordinated effort by government and the market is still needed to propel proposed wind projects along the US' Atlantic coast across the finish line

USA - Nordex bags another order from EverPower

Contract includes a five-year maintenance and service agreement, as well as the delivery, commissioning and testing of the wind turbines

Exhibition Ticker - Wind Power Asia / Part of Clean Energy Expo China

22-24 June 2011, CNCC, Beijing

“We are happy to expand our collaboration with REpower Systems within the offshore wind market and support REpower’s strong focus on innovative wind solutions..."

USA - First Wind Secures $98M Financing For Rollins Wind Energy Project

Wind power project will create construction jobs, local tax revenues, work for small local businesses and clean energy for about 23,000 homes

Slow but measurable progress at climate talks in Cancún

“The ‘Smart from the Start’ Initiative for Atlantic wind will allow us to identify priority Wind Energy Areas for potential development, improve our coordination with local, state, and federal partners, and accelerate the leasing process,”

USA - Texas leads the US for wind energy installations, with 9,410 MW - Part I

“We have people out here who have been able to save their farm or ranch because of the wind income”

Azerbaijan - Vestas sells 16 wind turbines for wind park at Shurabad, just off the Guba highway, 55 kilometres from Baku

Second Power Park with the total capacity of 100 MVt is planned to be constructed in the vacinity

AWEA - Swimming upstream for wind: Denise Bode

"like a salmon swimming up a dam-laden river"

Africa - Egyptian group El Sewedy Electric is negotiating with Ghana to install a wind energy project

Sewedy plans to produce 300 towers in 2012 at its wind towers plant in Ain Sukhna on Egypt's Red Sea coast

"Being able to supply the best technology fit for Brazil's wind conditions is at the center of our continued success in the country's wind auctions"

REpower: Contract for 51 MW for wind farm project in US signed

USA - Texas leads the US for wind energy installations, with 9,410 MW - Part II

Texas - The wind star state

Africa - Wind power will open up the road for renewable energy in Senegal

Senegal aims at covering 15% of energy consumption from renewables by 2020

As part of the country’s 2010 Alternative Energy Auctions, GE announces commitments from four developers to supply more than 400 megawatts of clean, wind-generated electricity to Brazil’s renewable energy capacity

New plant for the hardanodising of large Aluminium parts

Europe - EU countries launch North Sea electricity grid

Promoters say will give Europe the opportunity to tap into an even bigger source of energy than the Middle East's oil capacity

Lesotho will begin construction next year of an $87 million wind farm, the first in the mountainous African kingdom, which will add as much as 30 megawatts to the nation’s electricity grid

Germany - Agreement signed by Wind Works Power Corp. to sell 20 MW joint venture wind energy project

Wind Works invested 100,000 Euros in the project in May 2010, and will receive a total of 190,000 Euros over a 12 months period

First Full Service Contract for wind energy Sites in Austria

Product Pick of the Week - Triton Sonic Wind Profiler

Program gets community wind access to better wind sensors

At the end of this year, Romania will most likely have three major wind energy projects, operated by CEZ (the Czech Republic), Energias de Portugal and Enel (Italy), with a 464 MW capacity

For the second period Miguel Ferreira will be integrated in the Wind Conditions working group. For the second call period from 2010 to 2013 only 150 experts where selected to be part of the European Technology Platform for Wind Energy

Nordex’ new manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas will produce the turbines. The contract includes a 10-year premium service contract, as well as the delivery, installation, commissioning and testing of 17 Nordex N100 turbines

USA - Michigan adds wind energy

If you’re going to go for renewable wind power, why not maximize the investment and build out the wind turbines in state?

Vestas has received an order for 25.5 MW consisting of 30 V52-850 kW wind turbines for the Cabeólica project to be located on the islands of Santiago, Sal, São Vicente and Boavista in Cape Verde

Converteam Delivers Innovative Direct Drive Electrical System to Schuler’s New SDD 100 Wind Turbine

USA - First Wind deploys Sewall’s ATLAS Enterprise GIS

“We are very excited about the release of the ATLAS system”

Bulgaria - Enercon to Participate for first time in the SE European Exhibition on EE & RES in April 2011

South-East European annual Exhibition / 13-15 April 2011 in Sofia

An estimated 200 MW of electricity are expected to be generated from wind power in the next few years as part of the efforts to meet the nation's 6000 megawatts energy demand

This is a great holiday present for the 85,000 American workers in the wind energy industry, tens of thousands of whom will now be able to get back to work in a sector that has been a bright spot in the recession so far

Product Pick of the Week - TYCOR® W, a unique engineered composite core material

DOE awards Webcore Technologies Phase III Xlerator Award for advanced wind technology development

In a bid to trigger critical upgrades to the UKs transmission network, UK electricity regulator, Ofgem, has introduced the biggest change to its regulatory framework in 20 years

ReDriven Power Inc. has closed a $5 million investment that will significantly increase its operations and help clear its sales backlog of almost 100 wind turbines as well as support the expansion of sales globally

REpower revises forecast for current financial year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

EWEA - Wind power could meet 12% of international power demand by 2020 and up to 22% by 2030

So that’s it for 2010. Seasonal greetings and a Happy New Year to all