News Archive January 2015

Vestas receives 73 MW order for unique project in Greece

Terna Energy flagship project to be located on uninhabited Agios Georgios island, off the coast of Attica, Greece; the onshore project has unique technical characteristics

What New in the Windfair World - Logistics impact bottom line and wind energy deployment

“As the current crop of drivers grows older, there are fewer people choosing the profession”

“We are excited to be partnering with UMaine for blade testing. North America was a logical place to conduct this important step in our product development, supporting our growing commercial opportunities in that region and globally"

Editor's Choice - The Aeroscraft for wind blade transportation

Unique airship with 66-ton payload capacity provides an efficient, ecological alternative means of component transportation

ABE Zertifizierung has been accredited according the new standard DIN EN ISO/IEC 17065 as certification body for electrical property of energy units, components and parks in the area of wind, solar and combustion engines.

Inside PTC: Will expected 2014 wind power capacity additions continue in 2015?

Developers report an additional 11 GW of wind projects with expected completion dates in 2015

Worldwide Small & Medium Wind Power Installations are Expected to Total More than 3.2 Gigawatts From 2014 through 2023 - Demand Drivers, Market Barriers, Technology Issues, Competitive Landscape, and Global Market Forecasts

WKN Group repowers the Weidehof wind farm

Wind farm already commissioned in 2014

RenewableUK is highlighting new offcial statistics from National Grid which show that record amounts of clean electricity were generated by wind power in 2014

AWEA - American Petroleum Institute includes wind in its annual energy report for first time

More wind energy was under construction in 2014 than ever before in America

Inside Denmark Wind Energy: Energy consumption goal of 50% via wind power almost achieved

The figures showed that 39 percent of Danish energy consumption in 2014 was covered by wind energy – double what it was ten years ago

Inside Offshore Wind - Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm Demonstration Project

Introducing new technologies to the Windfair.net community

Macquarie Capital acquires shares in the offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2

“EnBW utilises participation models to generate additional financial scope for pushing forward the development of other growth projects.”

GDF Suez and its partner Nareva Holding have announced that Africa’s largest wind farm, the 301 MW Tarfaya Wind Farm situated on Moroccan Southern Atlantic Coast, has commenced commercial operations

Over Christmas, the last of the in total 48 wind turbines of the offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost was successfully installed around 30 km north the island Heligoland in the German Bight.

AWEA - Cold? Take comfort. Wind energy is saving you money

As the Midwest faces extreme cold this week, wind energy is once again helping to save consumers money.

Exhibition Ticker - EWEA OFFSHORE 2015

10 - 12 March | Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark

“Clean wind energy is delivering for Ireland, reducing our dependency on expensive foreign energy imports, promoting local investment and jobs, and helping to protect our environment for future generations.”

Report Excerpt - SgurrEnergy develops "Offshore work at height guidelines to improve offshore practices and techniques"

‘Working at height in the offshore wind industry’

Company of the Day - CTE WIND is growing in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru

CTE WIND civil engineering is growing in the renewable energy market in South America

The company will install 25 of its G97-2.0 MW turbines for HCIG and 21 of the same model for UPC / These two new contracts reinforce Gamesa's strategy in China, where it won contracts for the supply of 450 MW in 2014

AWEA - Wind power to create 4,200 Maine jobs this year, boosts state economy

This is a guest blog by First Wind's John LaMontagne, cross-posted from First Wind's website with permission.

World leaders gathered in Lima last month for the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20), designed to set the stage for strong climate change agreements in Paris this 2015.

Nordex to execute 17-MW project in Poland

Seven N117/2400 wind turbines ordered by RWE Innogy

ABB sets world record in HVDC Light voltage level

The 500-kilovolt Skagerrak 4 HVDC Light® link between Norway and Denmark's Jutland peninsula boosts integration of renewable power

Wind Turbine Rotor Blade Market by Material (Glass Fiber, Carbon Fiber), by Blade Size (<27 Meter, 27-37 Meter, 38-50 Meter, and >50 Meter) and Geography - Global Trends and Forecasts to 2019

AWEA - A step forward: California Governor proposes 50 percent renewables

California already has one of the nation’s strongest renewable energy targets, and now Governor Jerry Brown wants to make it even stronger

EWEA - Twitter chat: 5 priorities for a European Energy Union

23 January 2015, 10:30 Join #EWEAEU

Video Wind Pick - Harsh wind and teetering wind turbines – the maintenance of offshore wind plants

No Job for Wimps - André Carstens takes us behind the scenes

US to increase use of renewable energy by nearly 20% until 2030

“As the second largest energy consumer in the world, the US must continue to play a leading role in the global transition to a sustainable energy future”

The two new SOVs will be built by Ulstein Verft Norway and will become operational in 2016 and 2017 when both the Gemini and Sandbank offshore wind projects are scheduled to begin operations.

Spanish companies plan to invest in wind power projects in Mexico

Iberdrola, Gamesa and Acciona planned to invest nearly $14 billion in Mexico’s energy industry between 2015 and 2018

GE awarded $491 mn wind turbine order for Brazil projects

Nacelle to be utilized for the 181MW Hermenegildo wind farm in southern Brazil, being built by Eletrosul using GE’s 101 1.7-100 turbines

What's New in the Windfair World - Better Cooling Systems for Wind Turbines

Inventor of the Year 2014 - Uffe Eriksen

ACCIONA Windpower to Supply 165 MW for IKEA’s Largest Renewable Energy Project

“We are proud that our innovative wind technology was selected to help IKEA meet its global sustainability goals"

Inside German Wind: TÜV Rheinland certifies Ming Yang

Type certification for multi-megawatt wind turbine/IEC 61400-22 certification

"We are delighted to achieve this milestone in our corporate history and we continue to rely on our long-term partnerships with regional project developers, wind turbine manufacturers and banks"

Vestas strengthens its market leading position with 36 MW order in Poland

Vestas has won a 36MW deal from an unnamed investor for 12 V112 3MW turbines to go to a project in Poland

Windfair Interview: JDR Cables

Windfair talked to Helen Kettleborough of JDR Cables who gave an insight view into the company.

An Economic Analysis of Offshore Drilling and Wind Energy in the Atlantic: Atlantic oil and gas development risks healthy ocean ecosystems, fishery and tourism jobs, while offshore wind does not

Process variables always to hand

Testing, commissioning and diagnostics are activities familiar to every automation technician. Efficient work is only possible if the elementary process variables can be monitored.

EU-funded research has developed new spraying systems for compressing millions of nano-particles to create a super-strong, long-lasting, water-resistant coating on the blades of wind turbines used for generating electricity.

Vattenfall on Thursday announced a new organisational structure and executive management team as key steps in ensuring the right structure to support Vattenfall’s future strategy.

GWEC - The markets: Renewable energy (2015)

Wind energy continues to dominate in this segment and remains, far and away, the world’s largest market for glass-fiber-reinforced composites

The company has signed new agreements for the supply of 23 G97-2.0 MW to several customers in India / Gamesa’s upbeat outlook for the Indian wind market was boosted by the announcement by the central bank of a 25 basis point benchmark rate cut

RES Americas Executes Power Purchase Agreement with Wolverine Power Cooperative for 114 Megawatts of Wind Energy

President Michelle Bachelet attended the opening ceremony for Punta Palmeras, a wind farm equipped with 3 MW ACCIONA Windpower turbines, the machines with the widest power range installed in Chile.

U.S. wind power can lead the way on 50 percent renewables by 2030

Renewables can compose half of the U.S.’s electricity by 2030, with the bulk of the new capacity coming from wind power.

Installing more wind turbines will make the UK’s energy market more resilient to global fossil fuel price shocks, an independent report has concluded

AWEA Blog - Will Michigan policymakers follow the private sector’s lead?

A range of Michiganders, from landowners to manufacturers, will be convening in Lansing next week for the American Wind Energy Association’s Michigan Forum

Europe must tear down the barriers that are hindering the free flow of electricity and drastically increase interconnection to push Member States toward an Energy Union, according to a paper released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)

Inside French Wind: Rebound in French wind in 2014

France installs over 1 GW of wind in 2014

What is New in the Windfair World - The Vindskip™ Project

As the World attempts to go green, the shipping industry has now created a potential alternative-energy ship design called “Vindskip™”

What comes next for wind power in Michigan? Over 20 community and business leaders gather to plan next chapter

The AWEA State Wind Energy Forum – Michigan takes place today

“We are glad to see our wind turbines running with locally produced blades and we are looking forward to further deliveries out of our Welland blade manufacturing facility to other Ontario projects”

Video Wind Pick - Anholt Offshore Wind Farm 2014

Take an inside peek into the challenges this offshore wind farm posed

RenewableUK Blog - Home-grown wind power means Britain escapes expensive fossil fuel imports

"In these uncertain times, we need to recognize the wider benefits of wind"

New Member on windfair.net: Windhunter

In the categories: Wind Energy Suppliers - Anemometers and Wind Speed Measurement Tech. and Consultancies - Consultancies / Wind Measurement

AWEA Blog - A pleasant surprise: USA, not China, is #1 in wind energy

The U.S. has been blessed with outstanding wind resources, both on land and offshore

For the second consecutive year, the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is pleased to announce that Canada has set a record for the installation of new wind energy capacity.

President Obama’s State of the Union: U.S. leads world in wind energy production

In his State of the Union speech tonight, President Obama highlighted U.S. wind energy leadership as an American success story

Amazon Web Services is set to build a 150 megawatt wind farm in a US state to help the firm reach its renewable energy quotas in its future data centre operations

Deutsche Windtechnik further expands their operations

Matthias Brandt, Director Deutsche Windtechnik AG, talks about future projects and voices criticism regarding German energy politics.

Type certificate of 2.0MW Wind Turbine with 93m rotor diameter, IEC 2a and LTV

Our HANJIN 2.0MW turbine has been certified two years ago.

Report Excerpt - Global Wind Power Investments to Reach $101 Billion by 2020, says GlobalData

Report: Global Wind Turbine Value Chain – Production, Market Share, Competitive Landscape and Market Size to 2020

State of the Union is right: U.S. is #1 in wind energy

The U.S. generates more energy from wind than any other country, leading China, Spain, and Germany

Vestas and First Reserve announce turbine supply agreement for 298 MW Kingfisher Wind project in the USA

First Reserve orders 149 V100-2.0 MW turbines for Oklahoma project

Inside Offshore Wind - The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm

An inside peek into one of the UK's well-known offshore projects

The company has signed a new agreement with Orange for the supply of 25 G97-2.0 MW Class S turbines at the Khanapur wind farm; this contract tops up the recently announced 50 MW supply agreement for this same project

Naikun plans to install 100 Siemens G4 4MW 130 turbines in British Columbia

Siemens has designed a project substation onshore at Haida Gwaii, eliminating the need for an offshore substation

Gamesa enters the Jamaican market with a turnkey contract for the construction of a 24 MW wind farm

At present, renewable energy sources account for roughly 9% of Jamaica’s electricity mix

Efficient and environment-friendly selective hard chrome plating processes

AHC Oberflächentechnik has developed a hard chrome process that plates defined surface areas in a targeted manner.

Siemens receives order for 48-MW Alexander wind project in Kansas

Siemens to supply and service 21 G2 platform onshore wind turbines / Project located near Siemens Hutchinson, Kansas nacelle assembly plant

DOI: Milestone Reached for Commercial Wind Energy Development Offshore North Carolina

Public Comment Sought on Environmental Assessment for 300,000-Acre Wind Energy Areas

AWEA Blog - We heart wind energy

We’re excited to implement this new program starting with printing our upcoming AWEA Wind Project O&M and Safety Seminar event program on 100% recycled content paper using eco ink.

"We applaud the administration and members of Congress for working through the difficult process of finding solutions to allow for clean energy delivery without sacrificing other important uses of the land"

What's New in the Windfair World - The Care2 Petition

Wind power is one of our most promising solutions to air pollution and climate change. Don’t Let Anti-Wind Energy Groups Block Clean Energy in Congress

“This sale will triple the amount of federal offshore acreage available for commercial-scale wind energy projects, bringing Massachusetts to the forefront of our nation’s new energy frontier”

Suzlon Group today signed a binding agreement with Centerbridge Partners LP, USA to sell 100% stake in Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group

Inside UK Wind - Construction starts on Siemens UK blade factory

Energy secretary Ed Davey has broken ground at Siemens' offshore blade manufacturing plant in Hull in the north of England

Nordex executing another project for Exelon in the United States

30 MW “Fair Wind” wind farm to be connected to the grid in autumn 2015

“We chose GE based on its proven reliability in other parts of the world, and the technology behind GE’s 2.75-120 wind turbine is well-suited for our local land constraints and the high-altitude project site,”

The Alstom’s Haliade 150-6MW offshore wind turbine installed on the Carnet site in France has secured its final certification from the certification body DNV-GL

“British offshore wind is helping to provide millions of pounds of much-needed funding every year to the UK’s seaside towns, as well as giving a boost to coastal communities which are already thriving. ..."

What's New in the Windfair World - Bringing wind energy to Super Bowl XLIX

Cost of powering the event reduced by 75 percent

Exhibition Ticker - Mexico Windpower 2015 Exhibition & Congress

February 25 - 26 2015 / Centro Banamex, Mexico City

Global sales of ACCIONA Windpower 3 MW turbines reach 861 MW in 2014

Acciona SA, Spain’s second-largest clean-energy company, will supply 39 wind turbines to renewable-energy developer Rio Energy for a Brazilian wind farm

Fact check: wind turbines produce much more energy than they consume

This is a guest post by Ketan Joshi, originally posted at Infigen Energy, where Joshi works as a Research and Communications Officer

The push by some politicians and the oil industry to expand offshore drilling to the Atlantic is the wrong way to create jobs and lower gas prices. In fact, offshore wind development off the East Coast could produce twice as many jobs and energy as offsho

Last week Indian wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon announced to sell their German daughter Senvion to Centerbridge, a US investment fond company. Read the Windfair interview to learn about future plans for Senvion.

CREZ Transmission Projects send wind power from remote West Texas to Dallas

The project transmits 18,456 megawatts (MW) of wind power from West Texas and the Panhandle to highly populated metropolitan areas of the state

GE Energy Financial Services and Partners complete financing for 150-MW Briscoe Wind Project

“We are pleased to support the efforts of Capital Dynamics and partner with Morgan Stanley to build a clean and reliable project”

American wind power rebounded in 2014, adding over four times as much as year before

Stable policy needed for investment in U.S. capacity to pay off, say industry leaders

The debate was entitled "Five Priorities for a European Energy Union" and centered around five key topics including stable frameworks, energy security, the Internal Energy Market, manufacturing growth and combating climate change

Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has landed its first order in Belgium

The units will be delivered during the third quarter and the wind farm will start generating in December

Senate vote doesn’t reflect wind’s bipartisan support

Leaders in both the House and Senate have begun to tackle broad tax reform

Onshore wind energy has become cost competitive with non-renewables when externalities are considered, but for the offshore sector, there are many technical, financial and political challenges still to overcome.

Vestas has received a firm and unconditional 36.3 MW order for 11 units of the V112-3.3MW turbine for the BMR Jamaica wind project in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica.

Siemens hands over first North Sea grid connection to TenneT

A significant step for the German energy transition / The world's largest direct-current grid connection at 800 megawatts (MW) has now taken up commercial operation