News Archive May 2011

Siemens AG: Germany’s first commercial offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 1 goes into operation

Siemens wind turbines supply clean electricity to over 50,000 households

Troutman Sanders LLP: Washington Energy Report

Vestas Wind Systems A/S: Interim financial report, first quarter 2011

Outlook remains unchanged. Turbine yield improved. Safety strengthened.

Belt-like flexibility for very large shafts: Flexible magnetic tape encoder for speed and position feedback

Windfair-Interview with Dirk Behrends, Service Manager Voith Industrial Services GmbH

Dear Newsletter Subscribers, Welcome to issue #1 of the redesigned Windfair Newsletter. The newsletter comes to you with a completely new structure. There is a weekly editorial, interviews with Windfair members, industry news and several attractive

Windfair-Interview with Theo Knaus, International Industrial Segment Manager Wind Energy, Baumer Management Services AG

Airborne turbines spinning at high altitudes and using nano-tube cable tensioning ropes to send wind energy generated energy directly to power households and busineses - Is this the Future of wind energy?

Intellifast GmbH: New electronic torque wrench with integrated ultrasonic measurement of the clamp load

European Wind Energy Association (EWEA): Call for abstracts deadline extended!

The call for abstracts for EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 has been extended until 9 May

Peikko Group Oy: PEIKKO AND ENERCON TO EXPAND THEIR COOPERATION

China - The World’s 3000th clean wind energy project under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism

A wind power plant in China with 41 wind turbines is to become the three thousandth project to be registered under the CDM

Norway - Thirty-one wind turbines to be erected in the Norwegian Municipality of Farsundsta Wind Farm in Norway

The wind energy plant will consist of thirty-one wind turbines and have an installed capacity of 102 MW

China - Intense price competition in a buyer's market

Chinese wind turbine makers in the past were mainly focused on competion with wind energy leaders such as Vestas and GE in the fast-growing domestic wind farm market

Germany - 2nd project to be implemented under the Green GECCO joint venture

Further joint venture wind energy projects are still to follow this year

Wind Works Power's wind power plants, named "Whispering Woods" (10 MW) and "Ganaraska" (20 MW), will be located in Southern Ontario's Oshawa region and able to supply electricity to approximately 60000 homes

The wind power project still needs a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit before construction can begin and the company must choose a wind turbines vendor

Vestas - American Wind Technology, Inc.: Vestas receives 102 MW order for California project

Vietnam - Approx. 28,000 square km of the country has an average wind speed of over 7m per sec

Draft of a long-awaited incentive policy for wind power to be passed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Government this month

New Study - Brazil Wind Power Market Outlook 2016 - Wind Energy Installed Capacity, Forecast, Generation, Power Plants, Market Share of Equipment Manufacturer and Regulations

SGS Industrial Services: SGS to Present its Renewable Energy Services in its First Attendance at Offshore Wind China 2011 in Shanghai and Wind Power Asia 2011 in Beijing

Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC): Renewable energy can exceed global demand, according to UN report

According to the Polish Wind Energy Association, Poland is seeing the construction of wind farm plants with a capacity over 500 MW, however, mostly with foreign companies playing the main role

With a hub height of 135 m (443 ft), rotor diameter of 126 m (413 ft) and a total height of 198 m (650 ft), this large model can generate up to 7 Megawatts of power per turbine

China - Gamesa finalises wind power deal with China Resources New Energy Group

150 Gamesa G90-2.0 MW wind turbines to be delivered in the second half of 2011

01dB-Metravib (AREVA Group)

Gearing up for Condition Monitoring

ABE Kunze Engineering GmbH issues certificates for new and existing wind parks acc. German system Service Ordinance (SDL) and Technical Guide 8 with the final recommendation by the expert panel of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDE

Windfair-Interview with Daniel Geißbauer, Technical Sales and Distribution, Eibl DHT GmbH

Windfair-Interview with Dr. Hartmut Sauer, General Manager of AHC Oberflächentechnik GmbH

The European Wind Energy Association has argued for fixed targets for 2030. A binding 2030 renewable energy target could take the EU’s power sector to 100% renewables by 2050

Sweden - Largest wind farm in the country to be erected by Nordex

Anti-icing system secures 150 MW wind energy order. Skellefteå Kraft places 3rd wind turbines order with Nordex

Meteodyn: UrbaWind small wind: wind assessment for community wind farm projects

New Member On Windfair.net: Leosphere

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AHC Oberflächentechnik GmbH: Coating to increase the friction of coupling sleeves in wind turbines

The wind farm, called Montes de Oro Wind power project will produce an output of 20 MW through eight wind turbines installed in an area of 105 hectares in Cañas, Guanacaste

Pakistan - Agreement for a 49.5 MW wind farm signed in Jhampir in the district of Thatta Sindh

The wind energy project will open doors for more Chinese investments in the sector

Wind power now supplies 2.3 gigawatts, or 0.4 percent, of Japan's energy. But the Japanese Wind Energy Association aims to boost that to 50 gigawatts by 2050

Germany - Wind turbines with Neodymium and negative environmental impacts are a thing of the past

REpower works against the negative impacts for the environment through the exploitation of Neodymium

UK - Vestas is to build a fully integrated offshore wind turbines manufacturing and installation facility

Commitment to the UK and to local job creation

Product of the Week - Wind turbine lubrication products

Worldwide lubricant demand estimated to reach 40.5 million metric tons in 2012

For extremely harsh environments: Robust encoders with design benefits for ultimate connection flexibility

India - Key destination for future wind turbines?

Gamesa to manufacture and sell its first G97-2.0 MW wind turbines in and to the Indian market

“Weather information must provide power purchasers with a forecast for tomorrow’s electrical production at hourly intervals”

Catch the Wind, Inc: CATCH THE WIND SIGNS SALES AGREEMENT WITH ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYMANASSAS

Latin America Wind Energy Association (LAWEA): NEWS

Windfair: Dr. Buddensiek, We are very happy to welcome you as the first trade magazine editor-in-chief to be interviewed in our redesigned newsletter. A lot of things have been declared since Fukushima regarding a worldwide expansion of renewable ener

Windfair: Mr. Coles, welcome to the Windfair Newsletter interview. Please tell us about Troutman Sanders. What is your company's role in the Wind Energy Industry?

UK - Partners for the development of rotorblades as long as nine Routemaster buses sought -after

The size of rotorblades plays an important role in reducing the cost of electricity generation using offshore wind turbines

With hundreds of wind turbines off East Anglia, constituting the second largest offshore wind farm project in the UK, is planned to generate up to 7.2GW of wind power

Exhibition Ticker - World’s Largest Annual Wind Energy Event, WINDPOWER 2011

Hosted by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) at the Anaheim Convention Center, the conference returns to the state where it all began

East Coast and Great Lakes wind turbines to be on the agenda when 20,000 wind power industry dealmakers meet next week in Anaheim, Calif. as the AWEA hires Christopher Long to serve as Manager of Offshore Wind Farm

Vestas has received a 200 MW order for 111 V90-1.8 MW turbines from Enel Green Power North America, Inc., for the Caney River wind-energy project in Elk County, Kan.

USA - GE delivers 338 GE 2.5-100 wind turbines to World's largest wind farm

Shepherds Flat wind power in Oregon is to generate 845 MW of wind energy and is expected to be completed in 2012

The US wind energy industry is expected to experience the second highest rate of revenue growth between 2010 and 2016. 9.3 gigawatts (GW) of new wind farm capacity was installed in the EU last year

Topic of the Week - The Status Quo of US Wind Energy Development

Largest development currently under construction is owned by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) in Washington State

PowerbyProxi announces successful trial of the Proxi-Ring™ 480, a contactless slip ring that provides wireless power and data to pitch control systems that drive blades in wind turbines

With the goal of 25 GW of electricity from offshore installations by 2030, wind could replace 20 nuclear power stations. Therefore, Germany is focusing heavily on offshore wind for its future energy supply.

The evidence points to this: not only is onshore wind power cheaper than nuclear, its costs will decrease over the coming years, whereas the costs of nuclear will not

AWEA filed detailed comments with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) on two sets of proposed avian guidelines for wind power development, calling the draft regulations "unworkable."

USA - GE Energy Issues Approval for GEARMASTER ECO 320

With GEARMASTER ECO 320, a product from FUCHS Lubricants Co., the wind turbines operator now has an interesting alternative

Performance gains for the latest 2 MW turbine are achieved by its more efficient, upgraded drivetrain, improved load management system and full scale converter-based power system

World Wind Energy Association e.V.: WWEA highlights the importance of Community Power and publishes Community Power definition

Study reveals that Community Power ownership significantly increases the acceptance of wind farms

New Member On Windfair: ANSYS Belgium SA

Category: * Technical Service: Software

CATCH THE WIND GRANTS STOCK OPTIONS

CATCH THE WIND MAKES APPOINTMENTS TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

South Africa - Wind energy development in Sub-Saharan Africa to receive major boost forward

200 wind turbines to be supplied to the Cookhouse Wind Energy Facility by REpower Systems AG's umbrella group

Windfair: Ms. Rugh, We are very happy to welcome you in our newsletter with an interview on WINDPOWER 2011. WINDPOWER is the largest worldwide wind energy trade show with a net area of 331,385 Square Feet / 30.787 m² and it is constantly growing. Please

AREVA Wind GmbH: AREVA names Jean Huby New CEO of AREVA Wind

The significance of WINDPOWER's return to California: "It was California's unabashed vision that made it the perfect breeding ground for the beginning of the American wind energy development. Today, 30 years after those wind farms first app

USA - Siemens continues strategic focus on providing increased efficiency to its wind power customers in the US

New Siemens service distribution center illustrates increasing maturity of U.S. wind power industry

Insight into a new generation of efficient and fully grid compliant 2 MW wind turbines for optimal performance across all wind classes and wind farm site conditions

European Wind Energy Association fully supports a 45% renewable energy target for 2030. 400 billion Euro need to be invested in new wind power generation over the next two decades

Exhibition Ticker - Global WindPower Finance & Investment

6-7 July 2011, London, United Kingdom / Where the wind power and finance industries meet to do business

Windfair.Net - Special Online Editorial - The Japanese Hexagonal Wind Energy GenerationTower

An efficient wind turbine? A turbine system that collects wind from every direction, anytime and at any speed

Siemens AG: Siemens receives European onshore wind orders providing about 360 megawatts

Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC): Wind power ready to fill Japan energy gap

New Member On Windfair: The American Dream USA Services GmbH

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