News Archive July 2013

Wind Energy News: AMBAU to construct 41 transition pieces

AMBAU commissioned by Bladt Industries A/S to construct 41transition pieces for jackets at “EnBW Baltic 2” wind farm

Markus Tacke named CEO of Wind Power Division

Markus Tacke has been appointed CEO of Siemens Energy Sector’s Wind Power Division.

This facility, the first of two service centers opening in Brazil this year, enables GE to more quickly and efficiently put local expertise to work for customers, responding to rapidly growing demand for advanced wind energy services

DONG Energy has received The Crown Estate’s energy and infrastructure business award for its Gunfleet Sands demonstration wind energy project, the first in the world to test the new, next generation Siemens 6 MW direct drive offshore wind turbines

This week: Nordex ends US production

Nordex has announced it is closing down its nacelle factory in Arkansas, effectively ending the German firm's production in the US

EWEA Blog - Dramatic EWEA public debate on energy future gets down to business

The topic was EU energy policy after 2020s

Vestas receives 107 MW wind energy order in Australia

Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order for the supply of 51 wind turbines to the Taralga Wind Farm project in New South Wales, Australia

Governor Mike Beebe of Arkansas blames Congress for Nordex closing its plant in Jonesboro

The website 'Arkansas Business' has collected the opinions of different people being involved in this process.

Major Milestone in the Meerwind Project in The Windfair Newsletter

The last transition piece dispatched from AMBAU Cuxhaven manufacturing hall – All Meerwind Süd | Ost project foundations delivered

EWEA Blog - Wind resource assessment results: how accurate can we be?

“Resource assessment determines whether your wind farm will make money or go bust”

ACCIONA Energy reinforces it’s presence in Latin America

The Punta Palmeras facility (45 MW), consisting of fifteen AW 116/3000 ACCIONA Windpower turbines, will enter service in December 2014

HBM’s focus on providing optimum equipment for the wind power industry has been underlined recently at a number of international events.

The "Height" of Service - Nawrocki Alpin - A Member of the w3.windfair.net!

Nawrocki - an enterprise known far beyond the borders of Berlin as a competent partner for projects on exposed sites

Representatives from the NM Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) recently visited the North American Wind Research and Training Center at Mesalands Community College, to further develop their graduate research projects in wind energy.

Siemens delivered wind turbines, grid connection and provides service under a long-term agreement / London Array offshore wind power plant provides enough clean electricity to power 500,000 British households

New Member on Windfair: Nordgreif GmbH

Categories: Wind Energy Suppliers: Cranes and Hoists / Mechanical Engineering

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University commissioned the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility today at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas

Wind Energy News from SAL - Heavy Lift Shipping

Two workboats from Belgium to Oman / Boiler for FPSO Vessel delivered to Hamburg ship yard

The DWEA today announced that it has entered into a formal partnership with the CanWEA that will enable the organizations to strengthen their representation of the small wind energy industry in Canada.

EWEA Blog - British Prime Minister celebrates the world’s largest offshore wind farm

The world’s largest offshore wind farm was opened last week in the Thames Estuary

First Canadian-made Siemens wind turbine blade shipped from Tillsonburg manufacturing plant

Siemens has officially shipped its first ‘made-in-Canada’ wind turbine blade from its manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, Ontario

According to an official of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), wind energy is cost effective and can become a substitute to thermal power generation with investments from private sector

Domestic energy development should never be a partisan issue. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Tea-Partiers, and Greens can all agree that low-cost, clean, domestically produced energy helps our nation prosper

VSMC laying cables for German offshore wind farm

VSMC has been contracted by German firm RWE Innogy to lay and bury the infield cables of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in Germany

Vestas has secured 10-year advanced service contract renewals with GDF SUEZ Energia Italia, which heads the Italian-based energy business of the GDF SUEZ Group, for six wind power plants in Italy with a total capacity of 130 MW – comprising 31 units of V9

AMBAU GmbH to construct the tower for the SeaAngel prototype offshore wind turbine on behalf of MITSUBISHI Power Systems Europe, Ltd, subsidiary of MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Landstar System, a worldwide, asset-light provider of integrated transportation management solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation logistics services, has named Kristin Kruse, Diane Smith and Amanda Schneider July Employees of the Month.

bachmann electronic: One for all and all in one

Analog and/or digital - universal I/O module of Bachmann for all applications.

C-Power’s Thornton Bank wind farm features 48 REpower 6M turbines / The 6M is the world’s largest commercial offshore turbine at 6.15 MW / Phase III: Installation of 18 REpower 6M wind turbines in time completed

Vattenfall to build windfarm in Wales

Vattenfall is to spend nearly half a billion pounds to build one of the largest onshore wind farms in the UK

EU offshore wind energy installation grows during first half 2013

277 new offshore wind turbines, totalling 1,045 megawatts (MW), were fully grid connected in Europe during the first six months of 2013

South Africa government approves approx. 1,150 MW of wind energy

Phase II expansion of Beebe Community Wind Project in Michigan / 19 N117/2400 wind turbines to be added / Total wind farm capacity of 127.2 MW, capable of powering about 40,000 homes

EWEA Workshop: Wind Power Forecasting - Call for abstracts open

From R&D to commercial offering - a 360° view of present and future: 3-4 December 2013, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Wind Energy Market in Poland – PWEA Conference

The “Wind Energy Market in Poland” PWEA Conference is the largest event in the Polish wind power sector

Spain is preparing cuts in subsidies for renewable energy (concentrated solar power or CSP, PV, wind energy) production in an attempt to diminish their threat to public coffers expected to be announced as early as this week.

Interview with Dipl.- Ing. Robin Funk of EMD Germany

The Managing Director and Wind Energy Consultant was kind enough to answer our questions.

The never-ending push to improve the fundamentals of wind turbines, which have become many times stronger and more efficient through the years, continues

Alstom has been awarded a contract with ENEL Green Power Mexico for the supply and commissioning of 34 wind turbines at the new Sureste I–Stage II power generation plant in the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Oaxaca, Mexico

Siemens receives a 81-MW wind power order from Philippines

Siemens Wind Power enters Philippine market / 27 direct drive wind turbines ordered

Wind Energy: Components Certification Helps Reduce Costs

Due to increasing international competition, manufacturers of wind turbines are under pressure when it comes to costs

Nordex wins 22.5 MW Sweden wind energy order

DNV KEMA: Accuracy of wind farm energy assessments improving

Accurate estimates may lead to more favorable financing terms for wind projects and lower wind energy costs

Megger, a manufacturer of test equipment and measuring instruments for electrical power applications, offers a new series of test leads for use with wind turbines

Mesalands lowers cost of wind program

Mesalands Community College is pleased to announce that they have reduced the technology fees associated with their Wind Energy Technology Program, beginning fall semester 2013.

News from the US - 250 MW Buffalo Dunes Wind Project in Kansas

The funds are expected in the fourth quarter of 2013, at which point a tax equity agreement will be signed by the parties

Australia’s new CEFC finances two Vestas wind farms

The Australian Government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) started operations on 1 July and has announced financing for two major wind farms

Professional-quality photos needed for 2014 AWEA calendar

Please submit your favorite industry photos that show wind power at work for America—generating clean energy, jobs, and economic development

EWEA Blog - France has a pivotal role to play on 2030 targets

The French-German partnership has always been key in driving the EU forward

Exhibition Ticker - The fourth AMI annual global forum on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture 2013

Composites blowing in the wind / 3-5 December 2013 in Dusseldorf

Wind energy in Australia: Goldwind achieves financial close for Gullen Range wind farm

Goldwind announced the financial close on its largest overseas wind power project – the 165.5MW Gullen Range Wind Farm

“Offshore wind is a new industry that creates jobs, reduces fossil fuel imports and in which Europe is a world leader with huge export opportunities"

Gamesa obtained 22 million euro in net income in the first half of 2013, compared with a loss of 33 million euro in the same period last year, despite the complex economic and sector situation

More than 660 pieces of equipment for the wind turbines will be transported / 90 3MW direct-drive turbines with 270 rotor blades, 90 hubs, coolers, transformers and containers as well as 210 tower sections and two main power transformers are shipped

Aviation constraints are a huge issue for the wind industry. According to Renewable UK, for example, half of all wind farm developments in the UK will face objections from aviation stakeholders on the grounds of radar interference, obstruction or impact t

Jeffreys Bay wind farm in South Africa starts to take shape

On the 22nd of July 2013 began transport of wind tubines from the port of Ngqura to the Jeffreys Bay wind farm

This week: Wind Energy in France - GDF-Suez, EDP Join Areva in French Offshore Wind Farm Bid

A governmental decision is expected in 2014

Interview with Thomas Falk, Head of the Gear Cutting Segment at LMT

Mr. Thomas Falk was kind enough to answer the questions of the Windfair Online Staff.

“RES Americas is pleased to once again work with Xcel Energy to provide an additional 200 megawatts of affordable and clean energy to the region,” said Susan Reilly, president and CEO of RES Americas"

AWEA Blog - Leading the way to a cleaner future

Americans take pride in our nation’s ability to continually produce technological innovations that improve our living standards

New Member on Windfair: CTP Advanced Materials GmbH

In the category: Wind Energy Suppliers / Composite materials

76 Siemens direct drive turbines for Vattenfall project in Wales / Wind power plant with 228 MW will supply energy for around 140,000 homes / Siemens will also provide service and maintenance for a five year period

Product Pick of the Week - Iberdrola using supercomputer to predict wind farm output

This new software has been developed with the collaboration of the National Centre for Renewable Energies (CENER)

EWEA - New energy policy from European Investment Bank welcomed - in the Windfair Newsletter

The EIB says it ‘will focus on financing energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy networks, as well as related research and innovation'

Wind Energy Storage Summit to be co-located with CanWEA 2013

The Summit takes place October 7th, co-located and supported by CanWEA 2013 – Canada’s largest wind energy conference

This week: An detailed insight into the workings of Moog engineers - How do they do what they do?

Packing a 150 kW controller into a 10 kW package

Top Tech of the Week - FoundOcean halves wind farm grouting times

FoundOcean is the world’s largest dedicated grouting contractor for the energy construction industry

It’s hard to believe that the high-profile and influential National Clean Energy Summit is now in its sixth year.

This week: Gamesa commissions Spain's first installed offshore wind turbine

The first offshore wind turbine installed in Spain has been commissioned this morning

EWEA - Jobs on offshore wind turbines prompt futuristic design proposals

E.ON Climate & Renewables closes financing for Anacacho Wind Farm

“We’re delighted to build on our relationship with a first-class financial services firm like J.P. Morgan”

57 days to 3rd Annual WINDaba Conference and Exhibition

With just less then 60 days to Africa’s largest Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition have you booked your seat to attend?

Vestas tests its new V112 wind turbine prototypes

Vestas has begun testing its V126 3.3MW low wind turbine at Denmark's national test centre in Osterild

Areva Wind installs First turbines at Borkum West 2 in Germany

Installation of the first of 40 Areva 5MW wind turbines at the Borkum West 2 phase one offshore development has been completed

Wind Energy News from SAL Heavy Lift Shipping

Two workboats from Belgium to Oman / Boiler for FPSO Vessel delivered to Hamburg ship yard

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

Following the progress in Germany