News Archive March 2013

IWES Wind Energy News: New statistics of wind energy use in Germany is available

Progress in Germany

Today, there is information in the market regarding Vestas having been appointed preferred supplier for the Burgos wind project in the Philippines

Offshore wind energy: TenneT awards DolWin3 wind power project to Alstom

TenneT awards offshore grid connection project DolWin3 to Alstom

A new poll released today by the Castleton Polling Institute continues to show overwhelming public support for building renewable wind energy turbines on Vermont ridgelines

A new poll released today by the Castleton Polling Institute continues to show overwhelming public support for building renewable wind energy turbines on Vermont ridgelines

EWEA Blog - Technological advances are improving wind power’s competitiveness

Anti-wind power lobbyists have long contested claims by the wind industry that wind power is competitive with fossil fuels

Topic of the Week - The benefits of Landowner Wind Energy Associations

A landowner wind energy association would have benefits for farmers dealing with wind and land resources

A recent study errs in its assessment of potential wind energy resources by ignoring real-world data and experience and instead relying on crude theoretical modeling techniques

Alstom to close two wind energy plants in Spain

Alstom proposed a restructuring plan for its Spanish onshore wind power business that would result in the closure of two plants and the loss of 373 jobs in the country

The State Grid will introduce more distributed generation fueled by solar energy, wind energy, natural gas, biomass energy, geothermal energy, oceanic energy and complex resources into its own network, according to a SGCC guideline

“We believe (the measures) are a major breach of investor confidence with a massive impact on our profit and loss,” an Acciona executive said on a conference call on Friday.

After a great deal of contentious public debate and heavy media coverage, Vermonters continue to support the idea of building wind turbines along the state’s ridgelines by a wide margin, according to a recent poll of the general population conducted by th

E.ON and TAG Energy Solutions has today announced that TAG has been awarded a contract to manufacture 16 monopiles and transition pieces for E.ON’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm.

Survitec Gosport Official Opening

Survitec Group is pleased to announce the relocation of its Gosport based business to a brand new building 4 miles away in Lederle Lane, Gosport

New Member on Windfair.net: Optima Spanntechnik GmbH

In the category: Wind Energy Suppliers * Mechanical Engineering*

The European offshore wind sector is set to rapidly expand wind’s share of the energy market following DONG, Vattenfall & RWE securing contracts and moving towards construction alongside more utilities across the continent ramping up involvement...

Belden Inc., a global leader in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, has extended its Modular Industrial Patch Panel (MIPP) product range by adding new modules.

Headlined “nuclear industry withers in US as wind pummels prices,” the story interviewed utility experts talking about the state of the American energy sector after the nation’s wind power industry grew by about $25 billion last year

DTE Energy to host wind energy open house

In anticipation of the upcoming construction season, DTE Energy will host an open house to provide information about its soon-to-build Echo Wind Farm

Acciona Windpower opens its first wind energy component manufacturing plant in Brazil

Dedicated to the assembly of hubs for wind turbines, the plant is located in Bahia and has a production capacity of 135 units/year.

Landstar System, Inc., a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation and logistics services, today announced that it has been named the 2013 Best Overall Fleet for Owner-Operators.

According to its provisional consolidated financial statements for 2012, sales of the Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) rose by 17.3 percent to EUR 1,075.3 million (previous year: EUR 916.8 million), thus matching the Management Board’s forecast.

The financial and economic crisis has provoked a wave of uncertainty across the European Union since 2010, with national Governments making damaging retroactive changes to policies and regulations for wind energy

Siemens Wind Energy News: Siemens opens world’s largest wind turbine R&D test facilities

Siemens Energy has opened two major Research & Development test facilities for wind turbine technology in Denmark.

This week: Wind Energy News: Belden Presents HiView, a New Interface for Hirschmann Switches

High availability for graphical user interfaces and the network.

Govt incentive will fuel wind energy sector: Gamesa India head

Indian operations of Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa hopes to 900 MW capacity in wind power this year

Maryland Senate passes wind energy bill

Maryland’s Senate approved Gov. Martin O’Malley’s wind energy bill on Friday, setting up the state to become the second to approve an offshore wind farm

Product Pick of the Week - Galaxy Resources produces 99.9% grade lithium

The storage of renewable energy becomes even easier

Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said Saturday he wants to aggressively promote power generation using windmills at sea, a form of alternative energy use still in its infancy in Japan

WindFacts.ca opens new channel on wind energy dialogue with Canadians in The Windfair Newsletter

In 2012, clean wind energy grew by nearly 20 per cent in Canada, representing over $2.5 billion in investment and creating 10,500 jobs

AWEA Blog - American wind energy goes back to business, creating U.S. jobs

The U.S. wind power industry is seeing stepped-up hiring and new investment in 2013, following the industry’s strongest year ever

Wind Energy News: EWEA Global Wind Day - Every picture tells a story - what's yours?

Chance to win € 1,000 Amazon voucher in Global Wind Day photo competition

Horst Zell is an authorized expert for the state testing of wind turbines and rotor blades and has developed a patented technology for the rapid and cost saving inspection of rotor blades.

Wind Energy News: Siemens gains accreditation by Global Wind Organisation for its safety training

Siemens wind training centers offering new GWO certified safety training

Wind Energy News: 3B’s HiPer-tex™ W2020 roving obtains Germanischer Lloyd approval.

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has approved HiPer-tex™ W2020 high-performance direct roving from 3B-the fibreglass company.

GE Power Conversion to Supply one of the World’s Most Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facilities

Advanced Nacelle Test Bench will enable fault ride-through tests and grid simulation

EWEA Technology Workshop: Resource Assessment 2013

25-26 June 2013, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

This week: AWEA states: American wind power now generates over 10 percent of electricity in nine states

In Iowa and South Dakota, wind energy is more than one-fifth of total energy production.

Honoring leading women in the wind power industry

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to take a moment to highlight just some of the many talented women leaders in the wind energy industry.

UK - Masdar says all wind turbines built at London wind energy project

The final turbine has been installed at a massive offshore wind farm in the UK, in which Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has a 20 percent stake

Siemens wins wind power order from Japan

Siemens Energy has been awarded an onshore wind power order for the Akita Port wind power project on the north west coast of the Japanese island Honshu.

Windenergy News: PWEA Conference & Exhibition in Serock, Poland

The programme of this year’s Conference will be mostly dedicated to the analysis of effects of implementation of the RES Act.

EWEA Blog - What can corporations do to help our climate? Invest in renewables!

It was predictable, but still disappointing: The Doha climate negotiations confirmed that the multilateral process to save our climate has stalled

On May 21st, top representatives from across North African and Europe will join together at the 4th Annual Solar Maghreb and 2nd Annual Wind Maghreb Congresses in Rabat, Morocco, to discuss the solar and wind power developments in the region.

The Industry, Transport, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament has adopted the Reul report today, which calls on the European Commission to assess a mandatory 2030 renewable energy target.

Windenergy News: GE Power Conversion business launches new website, enhancing online brand

GE’s Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) announces today the launch of its redesigned website, www.gepowerconversion.com.

Product Pick of the Week - Innovation in offshore renewable energy

MTS technology enables innovation in offshore renewable energy

Xcel Energy achieved a milestone when a record 1,713 megawatt-hours of electricity was generated by locally sourced, emission-free wind power, representing nearly 33 percent of the company’s Upper Midwest customer electricity needs

Cape Wind expects to complete financing for its long-delayed 468-megawatt offshore wind farm and start construction of the project in U.S. federal waters off Cape Cod, Mass., by the end of the year.

After more than 10 years as CEO and owner/founder, Paw Cortes has decided to step down as CEO. To follow Paw as CEO, CT Offshore A/S has employed Frank Hansen. Frank Hansen starts with CT Offshore on 1 May 2013.

KGAL acquires German wind farm from WKN AG

Hollige Wind Farm in Lower Saxony is already operating

Wind Works Power Corp. announces permits and procurement of Enercon wind turbines for Wind Farm Burg II in Germany

Wind Works now operates 4.6 megawatts in Germany, in which it has a 49% ownership stake.

Windenergy News: A new revision of DNV's offshore standard for Integrated Software Dependent Systems

A new and more user-friendly version of DNV’s offshore standard for Integrated Software Dependent Systems (ISDS) has been issued.

Safety is now playing an increasingly important role in mechanical and plant engineering. Demand for corresponding components has been increasing continuously in recent years.

Leitwind AG announced today that its new state of the art 4Q frequency converter, known as LeitDrive, was now to be installed across all of its wind turbine product range, after successful testing demonstrated the prototypes’ superior performance

Siemens Canada awarded 270-MW wind power order for South Kent wind farm

The 270-MW project, located in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in Southwestern Ontario, will generate enough energy for up to 100,000 Ontario homes

WWEA releases the 2013 Small Wind World Report Update

World market for small wind turbines sees dynamic growth and total capacity reaches 576 MW, 27 % more than in the previous year

Dr. Shrink Wind Energy News: Simple Accessory promotes Air Circulation under Shrink Wrap

Air circulation is extremely important on painted surfaces where shrink wrap touching paint can cause blistering.

Vestas has secured a five-year service agreement from ENMAX Energy Corporation for the Kettles Hill Wind Farm, which includes 35 V80-1.8 MW wind turbines in Alberta, Canada

GL Garrad Hassan releases new version of Bladed

GL Garrad Hassan has released Version 4.4 of Bladed, the industry standard integrated software package for the design and certification of onshore and offshore wind turbines.

DONG Energy - Half of 111 is 55½

DONG Energy is exactly halfway in the wind turbine installation project at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm.

Estonia plans to build one of the world’s largest offshore wind energy plants

“Sea wind farms don’t disturb people and sea winds are stable”

GE-Wind overtakes Vestas as world leader in wind energy

Vestas lost its world lead in wind power manufacturing in 2012 to American rival GE-Wind, according to a new industry report by Navigant Research

On the occasion of the 4th World Summit for Small Wind in Husum, the World Wind Energy Association has launched today a special internet portal that is exclusively dedicated towards small wind turbines.

Boltight Ltd, the leading manufacturer of hydraulic bolt tensioning equipment for the oil & gas, subsea, power generation, wind energy and industrial engineering sectors, is offering customers a quick delivery on all types of special tools.

Alstom enters Canadian wind market through an agreement with NaturEner

This project, amounting to around €420 million, should be booked by Alstom in the fiscal year 2013/14

Windenergy News: ASM Tape Extension Sensor for cost-sensitive applications

ASM Sensor Specialists launch the NEW WB61 Tape Extension Sensor providing up to 4000mm measuring length in a compact housing.

Call for abstracts now open for EWEA OFFSHORE 2013

EWEA OFFSHORE 2013| 19 - 21 NOVEMBER 2013, FRANKFURT, GERMANY - The world's largest offshore wind energy event

As organisations across Europe use task forces to drive down the cost of offshore wind energy, Wind Energy Update [WEU] reveals the importance foundations has to the overall levelised cost of energy [LCOE].

Wind power generated enough electricity to power four out of 10 UK homes last week – and that during a freezing March day and at a time when gas prices were at a seven year high

This week: Interview with Dr. Tarik El-Dsoki, CEO of MSC Software GmbH in Germany

Some time ago we presented MSC Software as a new member of Windfair.net. This week we have an interview with the CEO in Germany, Dr. Tarik El-Dsoki.

After a gloomy couple of years for the wind industry in France, a few glimmers of light have been spotted in recent weeks led by the adoption by the National Assembly of a bill proposed by the Socialist government to simplify measures that have been stymi

Acciona wins Project Finance Magazine Deal of the Year prize for innovative wind farm project bonds

The prize recognises ACCIONA’s pioneering use of project bonds to finance wind farms in Mexico.

Windenergy News: Climate and energy Green Paper: Put the EU on the right track for 2030

The Green Paper launched today by the European Commission kick-starts the debate about EU climate and energy policies for the period 2020-2030.

New Belden Wind Tower Cables Deliver Maximum Uptime

Suited for harsh environments and energy-dense areas

This week: LBBW project finance for renewable energies

Finance for wind and solar farms in Germany and in selected European countries

This week: ELMEKO dehumidifier for pitch drives in rotor hubs

Quickly removes moisture from “rotating” enclosures

The world’s largest wind tunnel for wind sensor calibration has opened in Williston, Vermont, and Governor Peter Shumlin and representatives from The University of Vermont (UVM) and NRG Systems were on hand for the event

Gaelectric 164MW funding secures Enercon deal

Irish developer Gaelectric has signed a supply agreement with Enercon on the back of securing €65 million funding to develop projects in Ireland

Phoenix Contact - clever technology for wind energy in The Windfair Newsletter

Phoenix Contact presents inspiring technology concerning wind power plants and wind parks at the leading wind fair at the Hanover Fair 2013.

A vast majority of Irish public favours wind energy

Opponents of wind energy have been accused of “playing on the public’s fear of the unknown” and on public representatives’ “aversion to conflict”.