News Archive November 2012

The government is targeting 1,470 megawatts from onshore wind projects, 400 megawatts from concentrated solar power and 1,075 megawatts from solar photovoltaic projects, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said

Hailo Professional premiered its global and holistic service and production concept for the wind power sector at the HUSUM WindEnergy 2012. As one of the technology leaders in the area of climbing equipment for wind power systems, Hailo has been exporting

SGS to Breeze into China Wind Power 2012

From November 15-17, 2012, SGS will attend China Wind Power 2012 in Beijing and showcase its renewable energy services at stand WB23.

Scotland’s Little Raith Wind Farm is Launch Project for Kennedy Renewables // GE Industry Expertise Supports Entrepreneurial Venture and Project Success // Nine 2.75MW Turbines Will Produce Clean Energy for Scotland

DONG Energy appoints two new Executive Vice Presidents

DONG Energy has appointed two new Executive Vice Presidents in the business areas Wind Power and Energy Markets.

Nordex to Install Thirteen N100/2500 Wind Turbines in Suckow

Nordex has been awarded a contract to install the Suckow wind farm

Canada's largest wind farm is complete

TransCanada Corp. has announced that the Gros-Morne wind farm has been completed and officially commissioned in Quebec.

Participants at the 2012 African Economic Conference (EAC) have been told to encourage investment in wind power and other forms of renewable energy to increase access to electricity among Africans

As power infrastructure was in the path of Hurricane Sandy this past week, AWEA connected with wind project owners and operators to assess the impact on wind power projects in the Northeast

It's been a tumultuous week for the wind power sector in the UK with reports and developments underscoring the industry's benefits while a furor was breaking out over whether Energy Minister John Hayes had overstepped his position on the popular renewable

Topic of the Week - Wind Power from the Gobi Desert

Since last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan has established the legal frameworks for an accelerated domestic transition to renewables as an alternative to nuclear power

EWEA Blog - A walk among the clouds -- EWEA visits a wind farm

Calculations were quickly made, and we worked out that if the average house uses 4500kw hours per year, this turbine had produced 10 million times that in its lifetime

BWEA RenewableUK Blog - Top 10 UK wind energy facts

A new report from trade association RenewableUK has painted a bright picture of the UK's wind power sector, including a major upswing in approval rates for new onshore projects

Laying off hundreds of workers because of Congress's delay in extending the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) has been painful, one wind company spokesman said today on a segment aired on Minnesota Public Radio

Cuba: Two wind farms survive hurricane Sandy without being damaged

WWEC2013 in Havana will tackle wind power utilization in tropical climate and more

3rd Technical Conference with Exhibition in The Windfair Newsletter

Subsoil Analysis, Ground Improvement and Wind Turbine Foundations, 22.11.2012 - 23.11.2012 in Essen.

This week: Phoenix Contact – always keeping an eye on wind power

Phoenix Contact offers monitoring systems which enable you to check all relevant data on your rotor blades online.

Prize Presented to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG

Large-size bearing test rig ASTRAIOS honored in the competition “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas”

This week: Global Wind Power Market Could Triple by 2020

Greenpeace International and the Global Wind Energy Council released their bi-annual report on the future of the wind industry in Beijing today

a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation and logistics services, has named Anthony Karbousky, Karen Pybus and Markisha Kent November Employees of the Month.

Interview with Rüdiger Braun, Technical Director of BRAUN Windturbinen GmbH

Manufacturer and distributor of small wind turbines.

AMG Intellifast GmbH: Fastest Bolt Load Documentation – Now Wireless

USA - Wind energy delivers good value for Montana

PPL’s announcement that it will mothball its 44-year-old Corette coal plant in 2015 generated a lively conversation this election season

Nordex Successfully Entering the South African Wind energy Market

Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has entered the South African market with a major contract

Pakistan - Focus on wind energy required

This view was expressed by a renowned expert on alternative energy Brig (Retd) Prof. Dr Nasim Khan

A recently released Texas A&M University National Energy Opinion Poll finds that 60 percent of Americans support “tax cuts for companies to develop renewable energy technologies,” and 21 percent favor focusing on wind power development

Brazil - ENERGIMP’s investment in wind energy reaches R$ 3 billion

ENERGIMP, a subsidiary of IMPSA and FI-FGTS, has put UEE Quixaba –its fourteenth wind farm– into commercial operation

Wind energy fared well in Tuesday’s elections, with voters returning wind champions in both parties to Congress, and allowing the current administration’s support for wind energy to continue uninterrupted.

Boralex Inc. announces the closing of the acquisition, by its subsidiary Boralex Europe S.A., of the 32 MW La Vallée wind power project (the “Project”) located in the department of Indre, France

Old World War II munitions pollute German costal waters, and disposal is dangerous for both humans and the environment. The unexploded bombs also slow the construction of offshore wind turbines

Timetables for the phase out of regulated prices and opposition to capacity payments are two of the most significant proposals in the European Commission’s Communication on the Internal Energy market, says the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC).

New Member on Windfair.net: KMT Kraus Messtechnik GmbH

In the category: Measurement Engineering

Wind Turbine Noise: From Source to Receiver

11 - 12 December 2012, Oxford, UK

We are pleased to inform you about the next IX International Exhibition on Wind Energy, Wind PowerExpo 2013

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We are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress, which will be held on the 28-29 May 2013 at the Camino Real Polanco, Mexico City.

Paris, November 19, 2012. On the occasion of Mr. Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister’s, visit to Paris, the AREVA group and Scottish Enterprise*, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on industrial site development for the manufacture of wind turbi

Siemens receives onshore wind power orders from Europe and South Africa

Order volume of more than EUR880 million

Windfair: Is the Wind Energy Industry a priority for your company? How so? David Streit: For years, the wind energy industry in general has been an important factor for us.

The plan, dubbed RUSTEC, would see dozens of onshore wind farms built across the Murmansk region and plugged into a 'power bridge' carrying the energy into the European grid via Norway or Finland.

Juhl also looks to acquire or become a partner on any projects where a local owner may be facing a “flip” and may prefer to have a partner, like Juhl, who understands the unique issues facing smaller wind farm assets

Extending the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) will save new manufacturing jobs in the industrial state of Ohio, according to the president of a company that makes industrial fasteners for wind turbines

AWEA Blog - Flurry of PTC endorsements follows election

With the Nov. 6 election past, several newspapers have turned their attention to the lame-duck post-election session of Congress

This week: EWEA Blog - EWEA 2013 chair sees wind energy as resilient despite the economic crisis

Floating offshore wind farms will be installed in many coastal areas, coupled with marine energy generating stations.

China – Slow wind energy market affects wind turbine makers

Sinovel Wind Group Co Ltd, China’s second largest wind turbine maker by sales, has put 350 of its workers on paid leave

USA - Hawaii’s largest wind energy project to date

First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, today announced that construction of its Kawailoa Wind project has been completed and commercial operations have begun

PRDS1: New magnetic angle encoder with digital incremental output

Extremely compact angle sensor for tight spaces

Head in the clouds, but feet firmly on the ground!

6th HDT Conference: Towers and Foundations for Wind Energy Converters

This week: 12th World Wind Energy Conference & Renewable Energy Exhibition WWEC2013 "Opening Doors to Caribbean Winds"

Havana, Cuba, 3-5 June 2013

This week: DeWind Europe GmbH installs D9.1 – 2 MW prototype in Altenbruch/Lower Saxony

The completion of the first 50 Hz version of the D9 turbine is a further milestone for the innovative Lübeck based company.

Ukraine - Wind energy could reach 10-15 GW in the long term

According to the expert, fulfillment of this potential requires more than 200 billion UAH of government subsidies

Canada - **Largest Wind Farm in Canada Commissioned in Québec

Cartier Wind Energy announced the operation of its Gros-Morne Phase II wind project, powered by 74 GE 1.5-77 wind turbines and located in the Gaspésie region of Québec

Wind energy in Israel

Eleven wind turbines, which use wind to power electrical generators, will be built in northern Israel, and will produce ten megawatts of power.

India - India Wind Energy Outlook sees multifold growth in wind power

Wind energy generation capacity in India could more than quadruple to 89 Gigawatts by 2020 against 18 GW now, according to the India Wind Energy Outlook 2012

France - Gamesa and Impax agree sale of French wind energy project

La Souterraine wind farm will be equipped with 4 Gamesa G97-2.0 MW wind turbines

This inauguration follows the signing of a contract between Alstom and Eole Generation GDF SUEZ Group subsidiary and owner of the wind farm

Germany - Vestas Wins Loan Revisions, Removing Threat of New-Equity Issue

The review shows that with the new operating business model, Vestas will be capable of reducing its debt in the years to come

AWEA Blog - Wind energy: Bipartisanship welcome on PTC

In an unusual yet welcome show of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats have teamed together to convince Congress to maintain an important tax credit

Foundation of CTE Wind Civil Engineering

Due to the strong growth of its business, the Department of Renewable Energy of the French Group CTE has become a fully-fledged company on January 01, 2012

CTE Wind expands into new markets

In the design and dimensioning of the foundations of onshore wind turbines, Wind CTE Civil Engineering multiplies studies for international wind projects.

The Danish Parliament (Folketing) is currently discussing an amendment of the Danish legislation for renewable energy, in particular regarding net metering for small wind turbines.