News Archive August 2010

Germany - Fuhrländer's training initiative awakens interest all over the world

Whether in Africa, Arabia or Asia – Fuhrländer’s training programmes are much sought-after

SGS to Showcase its Wind Energy Services at the Husum Wind Energy Trade Fair 2010 in Husum, Germany

REpower: Inauguration of first wind farm with system certificate in line with German System Service Ordinance (SDLWindV)

Eskom proposes the first ever commercial scale Concentrating Solar Power plant in sub-Saharan Africa and the first utility-scale wind energy plant in South Africa under the Eskom Renewable Energy Investment Project

"We chose the WindTamer turbine to be a significant component of our green initiative at Destiny USA because of its efficiency, environmentally-friendly design and its aesthetically-pleasing appearance"

Latin America - Gamesa and Iberdrola to build a 102-MW wind farm in Honduras

The new wind farm will consist of 51 Gamesa G87-2 MW wind turbines

China - Vestas receives order from leading Chinese wind energy developer

Vestas has received a wind power order from China Longyuan Power Group for 18 wind turbines of the V80-2.0 MW wind turbine.

Thailand - GE wind turbines selected for Thai wind energy development

Project to feature debut of GE 2.5-megawatt wind turbines in the country

Product Pick of the Week - The World of Shell Lubricants

Shell Lubricants is making a new portfolio of products available for its tough applications, particularly in hydraulic systems, blades, gearboxes, and yaw and pitch drives

Hungary - Iberdrola Renovables builds four new wind farms in Hungary

A benchmark company in Eastern Europe

August Friedberg Americas Inc. founded

July 2010, the August Friedberg Americas Inc., founded in the USA

The Haut-de-Conge wind farm, located in the Champagne-Ardenne region, is Enel Green Power France’s second largest wind power plant in the country. The company’s total wind energy capacity now reaches 92 MW

One visible testament to the increased interest in wind energy is the amount of wind power capacity currently working its way through the major transmission interconnection queues across the country

Afghanistan - New Zealand company bringing wind power to the troubled country

"I got started in renewable energy during a holiday in North Pakistan in the mid-90s,"

A standard ABB industrial regenerative drive enables the wind turbine to generate the maximum amount of wind power at all times and in rapidly changing wind speeds

Product Pick of the Week - 10MW Aerogenerator X © Wind Power launched by Wind Power Limited

Launched by Wind Power Limited - The Aerogenerator X is twice the power and half the weight of Wind Power’s original Aerogenerator design

Improvement in consolidated profit to EUR 2.9 (2.3) million. Increase in order books to EUR 2.3 billion. CEO Richterich: “Three quarters of the sales target of around EUR 1.2 billion already secured”

Denmark - Wind power Vestas sends employees into the future

Vestas Technology R&D sends some of Vestas’ brightest minds on a mission into the future

Its ambitious renewables targets and regulatory framework make the US the wind energy market with the strongest growth potential for Iberdrola Renovables

USA - Wind Energy advocates renew their push for clean enjergy Jobs

The American Wind Energy Association issues the following statement from Denise Bode, AWEA CEO

China - Timken wins US$26 Million wind energy contract supplying Goldwind

Timken to provide engineering, advanced bearings, condition monitoring and services for Goldwind platforms in China with broader, global opportunity

WIS – The next generation of operational management

REpower Systems AG announces business figures for first quarter of 2010/11 (April 1, 2010 – June 30, 2010)

Sales EUR 213.1 million Operating result EUR 1.5 million Net earnings EUR 1.8 million

Study identifies significant wind power potential in Oman / Wind speeds comparable to recorded wind speeds at inland sites in Europe where large numbers of wind turbines are installed and operational

Product Pick of the Week - FloDesign aims to expand wind turbine business

If everything goes according to the plan, the company will establish a new benchmark for other wind energy technology companies to look up to and aspire to

Vestas lands order for the largest wind power project in Australia - with the new V112 turbine now released for sale both on and offshore

The world is opting for wind power - manufacturers are opting for Friedberg

Husum WindEnergy, Hall 5, Stand 5C05

SGS to Showcase its Wind Energy Services at the Husum Wind Energy Trade Fair 2010 in Husum, Germany

Europe - Wind power instruments get bigger and better

There is a booming demand of wind power today and all wind energy equipment manufacturers are gearing up to meet the demand and take advantage of it

Argentina - 90 MW Tornquist Wind Farm in the planning

Tornquist, in the province of Buenos Aires , having a fleet of sixty wind turbines with ninety megawatts, will cost $ 200 million.

MobileCal, Inc. accredited through A2LA becoming the world’s first mobile alibration laboratory and the world’s first A2LA accredited lab for hydraulic and pneumatic torque wrenches on Friday, August 6, 2010.

Sewer inspection light and easy

A particular coating for aluminium alloys allows the construction of light-weight and easy-to-clean sewer inspection systems

SGS to Exhibit its Wind Energy Services at the Eolica Expo Mediterranean 2010 in Rome

MSC.Software Presents Simulation Tool AdWiMo to Improve Wind Turbine Modelling

CAE provider announces all-in-one simulation solution AdWiMo for Advanced Wind Turbine Modelling

AMBAU opens fifth plant in Dessau

Components for the wind power industry will be produced on a site of 37,300 m² in the future

WinDrive goes Husum

HusumEnergy 2010 Premiere

A VERY BUSY SEPTEMBER MONTH FOR METEODYN

Development at major South African wind farm delayed by uncertainty over standard power purchase agreement guiding the sale of private power in South Africa

South Korea - Samsung completes wind power plant on Geoje Island

The facility on Geoje Island off the country's south coast has the capacity to produce wind turbines that can generate 500 megawatts annually

SmartSignal to Present at XXI World Energy Congress

Will Discuss Breakthrough Advances in Predictive Diagnostics and Work Management

Hilma extend their range of clamping elements and locking cylinders for wind turbines

For varied tasks, high clamping and locking forces

Compiled by Vestas and Chinese research institute SGERI, it explores the most suitable solutions for a large-scale integration of diffused wind energy and other resources of energy generation

Kyrgyzstan - Wind power has a fair potential for wind energy development

Although there has been minimal wind development activity, Kyrgyzstan has a fair potential for wind energy development.

Husum WindEnergy, 21 to 25 September 2010, Hall 1, Stand 1E11

Smart sensors ensure safe operation: Sensor solutions for wind turbines

Malaysia - Where wind energy power is already churning

`I'm sure Malaysia can do anywhere from 500-2,000 MW of wind energy and be competitive about it'

Wind energy development in Tanzania started about 3 decades ago when some windmills were installed at several locations in the country to pump water for human and animal consumption and in a few cases for irrigation

Documented in a report released this week by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, the study, “Statistical Aspects of the Energy Economy in 2009,” provides a wealth of interesting detail without a lot of editorializing

Catch the Wind Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Quarter marked by start of commercialization phase of operations, corporate re-domestication and capital raise

Catch the Wind Signs Agreement with AWS Convergence Technologies

WeatherBug® Professional to test wind measurement capabilities of Vindicator® LWS

China is the largest wind energy market in 2009, more than doubling its capacity from 12.2 GW in 2008 to 25.8 GW, adding a staggering 13.8 GW of capacity

USA- Governor Christie signs New Jersey Offshore Wind Economic Development Act

"This percentage would be developed to support at least 1,100 megawatts of generation from qualified offshore wind power projects"

Mexico - Eoliatec to install first wind farm in Jalisco

With an investment of over $ 100 million, the company Eoliatec of Mexico will install the first wind farm to be built in Jalisco.

Iberdrola Renovables, with more than 11,400 MW of installed capacity at the end the first half of 2010, already owns a Brazilian wind farm, Río do Fogo, with installed capacity of 49 MW

Australia plans to build the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013 / Part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean energy sources is vested in wind, solar, waves, geothermal energy and bioenergy

Germany - Visit by Angela Merkel to Nordex in Rostock for talks on energy

Merkel conducts talks with representatives of companies active in the wind energy industry

Vestas, the world’s leader in producing high-tech wind energy systems, will move its North American sales and service headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Depot Building at 1417 NW Everett St. in Portland

Redstone College, a Denver-based institution of higher learning, celebrated the first class to enroll in the school’s new wind power technology program yesterday with a special event held on the Broomfield campus

AWEA - FERC’S rejection of proposed discriminatory tariff on wind applauded

“We applaud the Commission’s decision to protect ratepayers and renewable energy sources from this discriminatory proposed charge ..."

The wind energy project will be implemented through an EPC contractor procured through an international competitive bidding process according to the World Bank’s Procurement Guidelines to be announced in October 2010.

BASF experts at “Husum WindEnergy” 2010

SGS Supports Manufacturers in Preparing for the New Construction Product Regulation (CPR)

Green Wind Energy has obtained a permit from the Ministry of Interior, the Public Utilities Authority, and Israel Electric Corporation for its plans to build a 14-megawatt wind farm in the Golan Heights

Germany - Nordex gets orders from core markets China and Portugal

Orders for 40 turbines / positive development in new business

Denmark - Risoe DTU to open a test centre for wind turbines at Østerild

A test centre for wind turbines at Østerild in north-western Jutland will ensure Denmark’s leading position within wind energy

Germany - Fuhrländer's training initiative awakens interest all over the world

Whether in Africa, Arabia or Asia – Fuhrländer’s training programmes are much sought-after

REpower Systems AG inaugurates new technology center on the Kiel Canal

Product Pick of the Week - Mobile trailer-mounted wind turbine by WindTamer

WindTamer Announces Delivery of Innovative Mobile Trailer-Mounted Wind Turbine

Spain - Barlovento, veteran of 1,000 wind farm assessments uses Second Wind's Triton

Spain's Barlovento wind energy consultancy was an early booster of remote sensing in wind farm planning

French government to launch a tender for contracts totalling 10 billion euros (12.6 billion dollars) to build 600 offshore wind turbines around the French coast

The 183-megawatt, 122 wind turbines project comprises 11 wind farms, spread across 10,000 acres of active and inactive farmland in southern Idaho’s Magic Valley

Renewable energy consultant MEGAJOULE is now operating its 200. met mast in the district of Viseu in Portugal. Altogether MEGAJOULE has operated met masts in 7 countries including Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, East Timor and South Africa

Committed to the development of 39.6 MW wind farm at Harapanahalli - Karnataka, powered by Vestas V82 - 1.65 MW wind turbines. Takes CLP India’s total wind power portfolio to 485.6 MW.

Iberdrola has been awarded a contract of 109.5 megawatts of wind power to be generated in nine wind farms in the Northeast. They do not say who will be the supplier of wind turbines

South Africa - Sustainable electricity production option

As South Africa begins to unlock the potential of alternative energy, the simplicity of wind farm technology holds obvious benefits

Saving of water is very important from a human rights perspective. Other sources of electricity, such as coal and nuclear, consume considerable quantities of water

Denmark - Wind energy can be produced and saved using a new technology

A project based on storing wind energy in giant synthetic air bags buried under sand dunes has proved to be a success

Germany - BASF at Husum WindEnergy 2010

For the first time, BASF will showcase its current portfolio for manufacturers of wind power plants at the “Husum WindEnergy” trade show

Nigeria - MAN’s Kano wind farm ready in 2011

30 megawatt wind power plant to be constructed in Kano State

SGS to Demonstrate its Professional Owner’s Representative Services at the DIREC 2010 in India