News Archive April 2011

New Member on Windfair.net: DWC International Sales ApS

Category Suppliers: Anemometers and Wind Speed Measurement Tech.

New Member on Windfair.net: Green Power Generator Mfg Co Ltd

Category: Manufacturers and Distributors of small Wind Turbines

Join Siemens Energy in Hall 27, Booth E56 from 4–8 April to discover why our tomorrow really does start today. The Siemens highlights included a new 2.3-MW gearless wind turbines for low wind speeds, solutions for the connection of offshore wind farm plan

Wind turbines is making the most progress in Brazil. This country has many areas with tremendous potential for wind energy, combined with a growing electricity demand and solid industrial and grid infrastructure

“The real upshot is - the strong likelihood is - we’ll have less energy in the future, and it will be more expensive energy. We’re really looking at a different kind of society.”

The fact that wind power uses no water is good news for this water-stressed continent. 97% of the continent’s total wind farm installations are located in Egypt (550 MW), Morocco (286 MW) and Tunisia (114 MW)

Product Pick of the Week - Report from Wind Energy Update: Offshore Wind Installation & Construction Report

Essential analysis of the technologies and methods being used to build profitable Offshore Wind Farms

Top efficiency thanks to a 150-meter rotor and a nominal output of six MW / Direct drive for maximum reliability / Low logistic and operating costs thanks to modular, service-friendly configuration

Vestas has signed its first wind power order in 2011 with China Longyuan Power Group for 48 MW. The order consists of 24 wind turbines V80-2.0 MW which will be installed in Fujian

Ricardo Botelho, CEO of Energisa S.A. declares: “We are pleased to award this wind energy project to Vestas, the world leader in wind power technology ..."

REpower and juwi sign framework agreement covering up to 240 wind turbines

REpower’s biggest onshore framework agreement to date for Europe - Total generating capacity of up to 720 MW - Agreement signed at HANNOVER MESSE

Germany - New Nordex N117/2400 wind turbines for light wind conditions

The N117 is designed specifically for light wind farm sites, creating new wind power generating potential for wind farm locations across the country

Asia 2010 - Overall investment in wind energy highest on an international level

China and India add the gross part of wind energy in Asia - 31,1 % of global wind power capacity (61,2 MW)

Canada - Wind power potential in Quebec high enough to supply the entire North American Continent

690 MW of installed wind energy capacity installed in 2010 / Canada takes up 9th global position in terms of newly installed capacity

A new study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) released on behalf of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE)says that onshore wind energy alone can provide up to 65% of Germany's electricity requirements

As financial incentives make investment in small wind turbines highly attractive, more than 350 delegates gather to attend the World's largest get together of small wind exhibitors

USA - Americans learn from European wind energy sector

Is offshore wind power ever going to happen in your country? Is the American market for wind turbines really still growing?”

Denmark - Wings of predator birds influence the design of wind turbine blades for purposes of cost reduction

Wind turbines blades with flexible trailing edge flaps reduce the cost of wind power

China - Single largest driver for global wind energy development

In 2010, every second wind turbine that was added anywhere in the world was installed in China / Vestas is first to Sinovel in the Chinese market

AWEA and its Safety and Health Committee are collecting crucial data that promises to be of tremendous importance to the entire industry. But the industry must do its part to make that happen, AWEA said

Denmark - José Manuel Barroso visits wind energy Vestas

President of the European Commission to visit Vestas to learn more about the potential of wind power. Vestas began producing wind turbines in 1979

Via Expo Ltd.: Via Expo kindly invites you to visit the most significant event at the Balkans on renewables, energy efficiency, waste management and recycling.

Troutman Sanders LLP: California Legislature Passes 33 Percent RPS

European Ocean Energy Association: "Choosing the right ocean energy device for a given site: Application of the EquiMar Protocols" event and networking reception

With advanced technologies and new ideas originating from collaboration with partners in Denmark and Germany, aerodynamic experts at Green Power have designed blades that aim at supplying end-users with higher technical quality, efficient, safe and quiet

DNV - Type and Project Certification - Wind Farm Seminar

DNV would like to invite you to our Type and Project Certification - Wind Farms seminar

With a total production of 42,976 gigawatt-hours, according to the Spanish Wind Energy Association AEE Spain was Europe’s leading producer of wind energy last year;

Greece - Italian wind energy company launches a 28 megawatt wind farm

Once in full operation the wind turbine plant will produce 57 million kWh of wind energy per year

WWW.Windfair.Net - Special Online Editorial - A short look at Ocean Power I

Alternative Renewable Source to Contribute towards Nuclear Bailout?

AWEA - WINDPOWER 2011: Opportunity Knocks!

Why wait another minute and risk missing this opportunity? Register by Monday, May 20 for WINDPOWER 2011 to save!

EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

The call for abstracts closes on 4 May

WWW.Windfair.Net Special Online Editorial - A short look at Ocean Power II

Alternative Renewable Source to Contribute towards Nuclear Bailout? / Various Types of Ocean Power

Angola - Vestas to set up wind energy plant in 2012

Vestas becoming more and more active in Africa - Angola now and Mozambique to follow!

3rd International Conference on Rotor Blades for Wind Turbines

General Electric erects three of its 2,5-100 wind turbines in the city of Krzêcin in Choszczno County, West-Pomerania Province in cooperation with KSM Energia Sp. z o. o.

“The final design of the Atlas CTB (Concrete Tower Base) has features that will optimize existing steel-tower technology and place the focus on height”

AWEA - California demands even more renewable energy

AWEA applauds Governor Jerry Brown signing legislation requiring 33% renewable energy by 2020

Using High-Frequency Field Measurements and Time Dependant Computational Modeling for Wind Turbine Siting, spectral analyses of the simulations show a model accurately reproducing frequencies recorded at the mast

Spain - Gamesa achieves major qualitative leap in its trade relations with China

Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Longyuan, China Resources Power and Datang may culminate in contracts to supply 900 MW of wind turbines capacity

The offshore wind farm industry in the United States can certainly benefit from lessons learned by the European offshore wind power industry

Egypt, one of the windiest areas and the leading country in the Middle East in wind energy is set to begin constructing, in May, two of four wind farm stations in the Gulf of Suez

India - Gamesa Wind Energy receives financing from International Finance Corporation (IFC)

With 11 gigawatts of installed wind farm capacity, India is the fifth-largest wind power market in the world

“Vestas is delighted to have been chosen to work with our customer to add an additional 104 megawatts of wind power to the Canadian electricity market”

"REpower and its parent company are the third largest turbine manufacturer in the world and we are very pleased to be working with them once again," commented Dr Ingo Stuckmann, Wind Works' President and CEO.

Converteam supplies 1000th Prowind converter to REpower

South America - Installed wind power capacity in Brazil surpassed 931 MW by the end of 2010 as compared to around 341 MW in 2008

New Report - "Brazil Wind Energy Market Outlook 2016"

A common fallacy promoted by anti wind farm groups is that because wind turbines cannot replace fueled power plants (they're needed when the wind doesn't blow), wind energy has no value.

EWEA - Larger blades cut cost of offshore wind energy by 30%

There is huge potential for offshore wind farm to reduce carbon emissions. Offshore wind energy could be competitive with onshore wind power by 2020

The Cape Wind Project gets green light from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to begin construction—marking milestone for American offshore wind industry

Europe - Wind turbines of 20 MW now reality

1 x 20MW wind turbine can supply electricity to up to 20.000 households

African Wind Energy Association announces that the Minister of the South African Department of Science and Technology Mr. Derek Hanekom, will be the Guest of Honour at the Gala Dinner Tuesday evening 10 May 2011

Sweden - Oxygenation via offshore wind energy brings dead sea bottoms to life

A professor at Sweden's University of Gothenburg is planning a trial involving oxygenation with wind turbines

South Korea - Large Electronic giant to build wind energy farm in Saemangeum area

7.6 trillion Won (US$7.04 billion) will be invested on wind turbines and a production base for solar power batteries there by 2025

Windfair.net – Special Edition – Introducing Ducati Energia SpA

Micro Wind Energy Turbines par Excellence

SGS Industrial Services: SGS to Showcase its Services in New Delhi, India at POWER-GEN India & Central Asia 2011

The wind power order comprises 75 units of the 2 MW platform wind turbines for the following wind farm projects: Ventos de Sao Miguelm, Renascença I, Renascença II, Renascença III and Renascença IV located at Rio Grande

Troutman Sanders LLP: The CFTC Proposes Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements for Pre-Enactment and Transition Swaps

Evolutionary algorithms provide impetus for computer science research to source best wind turbine placement to increase wind farm productivity

Iran - A land in nuclear controvercy with 15,000 MW of wind power possible

"...wind power plants with production capacity of 900 megawatts should be installed annually"

Vestas receives 49 MW wind power order for V80 wind turbines and signs frame agreement for 250 MW in winf farm plants

The market for offshore wind farm in Europe is more developed than the North America offshore wind energy market because it takes advantage of a robust onshore wind turbines market

Canada - REpower signs 110 W contract for wind power projects in Quebec, Ganaraska and Whispering Woods

“Our cold-climate version of the REpower MM series perfectly suits the conditions we found at Canadian wind farm sites..."

Mexico - Sempra Energy imports wind energy

Construction on Energía Sierra Juárez 1 wind farm, located about 70 miles east of San Diego and just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, is expected to begin in 2012