News Archive March 2019

A new cost-benefit analysis says, the annual cost of wind energy less than a euro per person while wind drives down the price of electricity and cutting carbon emissions

Fraunhofer's Test Bench Starts Operation

The test bench for large rotor blade bearings simulates 20 years of service in six months of testing

RWE to Buy all Electricity from Northwester 2

RWE has concluded PPA with Parkwind to use entire power production of offshore wind farm Northwester 2 in Belgium

PNE AG Changes Management Structure

The company ist implementing its planned scale-up strategy

Senvion to Build First Offshore Wind Farm in the Mediterranean Sea

Senvion will supply the Italian near shore wind farm with turbines

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Siemens Gamesa Scores Two 'Firsts' in China

Siemens Gamesa inked the first deal with State Power Investment Corporation and finally brings its 3.X platform model to China

Drone Inspection: Future of Offshore Wind

SABCA and DEME Offshore team up to deploy drone inspection services for offshore wind farms

Iberdrola and its local partner Inversiones Financieras Isla de Tenerife (IFIT) have inaugurated the Chimiche II wind farm, their first wind farm project in the Canaries.

COBRA Joint Industry Project Tackles Wind Turbine Blade Erosion

DNV GL launches project to analyse damage caused to blades from the high-speed impacts of foreign objects

Ørsted Signs Armed Forces Covenant

Ørsted wants to support the employment of veterans in the wind industry in the UK

Roxtec Expands Distributor Network in Southeast Asia

Southwest Industries in Vietnam has been appointed distributor

Nordex Wins First Order from Luxembourg

Another order including service comes from Italy

How to Detect Underperforming Wind Turbines

Clir Renewables has released a new product feature which automatically detects underperforming assets and highlights key actions to rectify underperformance.

Vestas Receives 224 MW in the U.S.

The undisclosed customer has ordered V110-2.0 MW turbines from the Danish manufacturer

Schaeffler Presents Results for 2018

Schaeffler Group meets targets in 2018, but sees challenging environment

Statkraft Launches First Virtual Power Plant in the UK

The virtual power plant integrates renewable power, storage and flexibility assets

Radiant Insights expects the market for wind turbines to grow in the upcoming period as the scope and its applications are rising enormously across the globe.

The last sections of spare array and export cables were transpooled from the Van Oord CLV Nexus, and the DOC-Swan Hunter 4750Te onshore basket carousel, to long term modular storage baskets.

Study: 'Potential Impact of Hard Brexit on the UK's Offshore Wind Industry' by Wood MacKenzie

A new report assesses the impact of a hard Brexit on the UK's offshore wind industry. Would a hard Brexit also mean hard times?

Private investment house Ardian has announced to invest €300 million to build a wind farm in Åndberg/Härjedalen, Sweden. Ardian acquires the development rights of the project from OX2, a leading Nordic renewable energy developer.

Watson Farley & Williams Give Advice to Marguerite

'WFW' has advised Marguerite II SCSp, Luxembourg, an independent fund investing in European infrastructure, on the project financing of the 42 MW Heat Wind Farm in Sweden.

Renewable Energy to Supply Zinc Copper Project?

juwi and Orion Minerals investigate the possibility of a renewable energy supply for the Prieska Zinc Copper Project

Offshore Wind: First Renewable Technology to Agree to Sector Deal

The UK puts offshore wind at the centre of the nation’s clean, affordable and reliable energy system

WFO Publishes Updated Global Offshore Wind Figures

At its 1st Global Offshore Wind Summit in Taipei, WFO publishes updated global offshore wind figures in open source access and releases its ‘500 by 50’ Mission

As spring approaches, the first Antaris wind turbines will be installed

The Antaris 7.5 kW was installed here on a customer's own 20m mast. The turbine works a 3-phase grid-feed-in and with a heating-rod of 6 KW

California Winery Powered by Wind Energy

The Scheid family who owns own 12 estate vineyards recently started harvesting a new resource: wind.

WindEurope Hails UK Sector Deal

The new offshore ‘Sector Deal’ sets the groundwork for a huge boost in offshore wind capacity in the UK as the country is set to provide 30% of its electricity in 2030 by offshore wind

ONYX InSight will install ecoCMS™ hardware and fleetMONITOR™ software across Iberwind’s turbine fleet to support predictive maintenance practices and boost profitability

WindEurope Elects Gunnar Groebler as new Chair

The Board of Directors has elected Senior Vice President, Business Area Wind at Vattenfall, Gunnar Groebler as the association’s new Chair.

Natural Power Tackles Market in Latin America

Natural Power has formed a strategic partnership with Uruguay-based Navitas Solutions to deliver wind turbine blade inspection services throughout Latin America.

Fraunhofer IFAM at JEC WORLD 2019

The experts will show automated manufacture and machining of fiber reinforced plastics

With a well-established and highly-trained oil & gas industry already in place, Norway is now looking into the potential of offshore wind to provide clean electricity in the future and to develop its offshore wind supply chain.

ACCIONA Starts Construction of Mortlake South Wind Farm

ACCIONA Energía has started construction work on its fifth wind farm in Australia

British Ports Association Welcomes Government’s Sector Deal for Offshore Wind

The deal will offer significant new opportunities for coastal regions and ports

Nordex Scores 108 MW in Greece

Nordex has strengthened its activities in Greece with opening a sales office in Athens last year.

DTE Energy Starts Operating Michigan's Largest Wind Farm

The Pine River Wind Farm powers 54,000 homes with clean energy and offsets nearly 300,000 metric tons of CO2 annually

Borealis Supports Racing Team in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia

Racing in the outback as ultimate test

Siemens Gamesa Chooses Fred. Olsen Windcarrier for Taiwanese Contract

Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has been awarded a contract for the transport and installation of wind turbines on the Yunlin Offshore Windfarm in Taiwan

In the NEXUS consortium, key players in the offshore wind energy market are jointly developing concepts for future crew transfer and service operation vessels that will cut maintenance costs and emissions to air.

Denmark Sets Up Rules for Thor Offshore Wind Farm

The Danish Energy Agency has announced that tenders for the 800 MW offshore project will include grid connections.

Record-Breaking Year for Wind Energy in Ireland

2018 has been a windy year in Ireland as wind records have been broken three times

Is Planning the Biggest Threat to Renewable Energy?

Investment company Obton suggests that endless administrative processes and appeals might pose a big threat to renewable energy projects.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) will, through the fund Copenhagen Infrastructure II K/S, make a net equity investment of approximately 80m USD for the construction of Bearkat II onshore wind farm in Glasscock County, Texas.

India's wind market has great potential, but homemade problems have caused unrest in recent months. The consequences are cancelled tenders, stagnating expansion - and on top of it climate change.

Compared to today's offshore turbines, the Blyth wind farm is a dwarf. Nevertheless, it has made a valuable contribution to an industry in which the UK has become world market leaders.

GE Starts Operating Largest Onshore Turbine

The new turbine of GE's Cypress platform is producing power at rated level of 5.3 MW and located in the Netherlands

Shell, Van Oord and Eneco Want To Build Hollandse Kust (zuid) III and IV

The Consortium Witwind consisting of the three companies has announced to take part in the tenders for Hollandse Kust (zuid) III and IV

Ørsted Joins Tender Process for Holland Coast South 3&4

Ørsted will be submitting a bid in the Dutch offshore wind tender for Holland Coast South 3&4.

Osbit Limited, the offshore technology and engineering company, has secured a contract with Global Marine Group to supply an advanced multi-function pre-lay and backfill subsea plough.

#FridaysforFuture: Save the Planet!

Stefan Gsänger supports global demonstrations

Green Network Energy UK, the UK-based Italian independent energy supplier, has signed a deal to supply all Italian Embassy sites in the UK with renewable energy.

Centrica Partners with Aluminium Firm Alcoa for PPA in Norway

Centrica will provide commercial services supporting Alcoa’s PPA with 197 MW Norwegian wind farm

Wind Energy Powers the UK

Great Britain’s onshore and offshore wind farms have generated more electricity than any other source of power during last week.

EnBW Opens Office in Taiwan

The energy utility plans offshore wind farms with a total volume of up to 2,000 megawatts in the country

The collaboration will focus on securing more renewable energy in the Egyptian energy system, and will help Egypt achieving its goal of increasing the share of renewable energy in electricity consumption from 9% to 43% by 2035.

Series Production of Nordex Turbines in the Delta4000 Range Started

More than 400 employees work in the Rostock production facility and produce nacelles, hubs and drive trains as well as the control cabinets needed for them.

Senvion’s recent projects which include the tallest wind turbines in France, the first offshore wind farm in the Italian Mediterranean Sea as well as the installation of the longest blade in Portugal

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EDPR Enters Wind Market in Colombia

The company enters its 14th market after winning two new contracts to build wind farms with a total of 492 MW.

Offshore Wind Will Dominate 3rd Allocation Round of CfD in the UK

Qualification for the third allocation round (AR3) of Contracts for Differences (CfDs) low-carbon support scheme is due to commence on 29 May.

Chief Restructuring Officer: Senvion Appoints Neil Robson

Robson will become a membe of the management board to implement the transformation programme.

Prysmian Supports Floating Wind Farm in France

Prysmian will develop cable connections for the first 66 kV offshore floating wind farm

Nexans Supports Amprion to Extend German Grid

Nexans is building a key section of the 400 kV transmission network underground.

Wood Mackenzie Expects 723GW of New Global Wind Power in the Next Decade

Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables have published their new 'Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update: Q1 2019' report.

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has been supporting Turkey with an energy cooperation in their green transition of the heating sector since 2017. Now the focus is to be expanded to include Danish experience in offshore wind.

British company JDR Cables has signed a contract with Vattenfall for the Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm to manufacture more than 170 km of aluminium core inter-array cables and a range of termination accessories.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has commissioned TÜV NORD to certify one of the world's largest offshore wind turbines. By 2022, the new 10 MW turbines should be ready for the market.

EMEC Secures €31m for Floating Wind Project in North West Europe

Funding for the project has been secured from Interreg North West Europe to accelerate the uptake of floating offshore wind.

UK and China Start Joint Offshore Research Centre

A new £2million joint UK-China offshore wind research centre has opened in Yantai City, China, today.

WindEurope Co-Signed the Marine Grid Declaration

Wind energy is at the heart of a future-proof energy system

Prysmian Starts International Recruiting Programmes Again

“Build The Future”, “Make It” and “Sell It” selection and training schemes are open now

A new University of Delaware study examined the attitudes of people who live in close proximity to wind power projects to see if they prefer those projects to energy alternatives, such as a central power plant— fueled by either coal, natural gas or uranium — or a commercial scale solar installation.

U.S. Energy Department Publishes Short-Term Energy Outlook

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects the share of renewable energy to rise in the coming years.

Vestas Brings 150m Rotors to Mexico

ENGIE has ordered 24 wind turbines of Vestas' 4 MW platform to be installed in Mexico

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded the Brazilian Development Bank Special Agency for Industrial Financing Certificate for its SG 3.4-132 onshore wind turbine, which is produced in the factory located in Camaçari, Brazil.

Japan's Eurus Energy has agreed to contribute funding to Windlab Africa Pty Ltd., a subsidiary of Australian-based Windlab, a company that carries out wind analysis and the development of wind power projects

Kocalar Wind Farm in Turkey Starts Operation

The Kocalar wind farm is the first of four planned wind farms by Akfen Renewables which are financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Avista Signs PPA for Rattlesnake Flat Wind Project

Avista Selects Clearway Energy Group’s proposed wind project, located in Washington, for Power Purchase Agreement

Nordex Enters 5 MW Turbine Class

The newly announced N149/5.X turbine is the third turbine type in the Delta4000 series.

Jan De Nul Group has been appointed to repair all of TenneT’s existing HVAC cable systems in the German Bight in the event of high-voltage cable system faults or failures within the contractual period

Nordex Announces Well-Filled Order Book

The German turbine manufacturer expects a considerable sales growth in 2019

Nexans to Supply Cables and Accessories for WindFloat Atlantic

Nexans will supply pre-terminated and factory-tested turbine cables as well as the full scope of T-connectors terminating the dynamic inter-array cables.

Ramboll is Ramping Up to Meet Market Demand in Sweden

Sweden expects a strong wind energy drive

New Mexico Sets Ambitious Climate Protection Goal

The Energy Transition Act will dramatically increase New Mexico’s use of low-cost renewable energy while creating new jobs and diversifying the state’s economy

RenewableUK has launched a new industry group to set out the floating offshore wind industry’s strategy for large-scale deployment of floating wind farms in the UK, in partnership with Scottish Renewables.

The Energy Department’s ARPA-E recently awarded a team of engineers at GE Research $5.8 million to develop a superfast medium-voltage DC (MVDC) circuit breaker. The GE engineers plan to use gas-plasma technology to build a superfast switch.

Following ENERCON's takeover of the Dutch wind turbine manufacturer Lagerwey, the brand will be fully integrated into the German company by the end of the year. Lagerwey thus disappears as a product name.

EDF Signs on for Offshore Wind Job in China

EDF will build the offshore wind farms Dongtai IV and V with a total installed capacity of 500 MW

Memorandum of Understanding Brings Offshore Interests Together

Bringing local and regional fishing interests together with federal regulators on offshore wind

The fact that Germany is increasingly losing out in international comparison in terms of climate protection is an open secret. New studies show the system's weaknesses, which are to be found - above all - in politics.

On 19 March Rijkswaterstaat launched a tender for the purchase of green energy from a wind farm which needs to be developed on the seawall of Maasvlakte 2.

Enel Green Power Acquires Tradewind Energy

Enel Green Power has completed the acquisition of renewable energy project developer Tradewind Energy, based in Kansas

PNE AG Notes Positive Outlook for 2019

PNE AG closed the year 2018 successfully in operational terms.

ABO Wind Succeeds in First Technology-Neutral Tender in Finland

ABO Wind has won a bid of more than 120,000 megawatt hours in the tender

Prysmian Group at WindEurope Event in Spain

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, is leveraging on its strategic one-stop-shop solution provider approach to grow in the wind energy industry.

UWL offers transport solutions within marine transportation of various offshore wind turbine components such as blades, nacelles, towers and foundations from manufacturing sites to pre-assembly ports closer to offshore wind farm sites on a world-wide basis.

DNV GL is calling the wind industry to join a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to mutually develop a new guideline to alleviate wind turbine structures from the impacts of cyclones and earthquakes.

Batteries and Offshore Wind Attack Fossil Fuels in LCOE

Both technologies have seen spectacular gains in cost-competitiveness in the last year

Survey Reveals Interests of Offshore Wind Industry

Adopting data and digitalisation is one of the main concerns of the offshore wind sector

New Annual Record Shows Important Role of Wind Energy in UK

Newly released government figures reveal that wind generated a record amount of 17.1% of the UK’s electricity last year

Vestas Will Supply Denmark's First Subsidy-Free Wind Farm

The construction of the wind farm located directly on the waterfront in the Port of Hirtshals also marks the debut of V136-4.2 MW turbines in Denmark

World-Wide Wind Turbine Order Increases in 2018

Resurgence in China and strong demand in Australia and India boosted order intake to 32%

ENERCON Installs Maximus Giant in Sweden

The onshore wind project Markbygden Phase II has been renamed 'Maximus' / 201 E-138 EP3 turbines with a capacity of 850 MW will be installed in northern Sweden to be operational by mid-2021

New Zealand-based electricity generator and retailer Mercury has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Vestas for the 119 MW Turitea Wind Farm. The project will be Mercury’s first wind asset globally, adding a new source of renewable generation to its current hydro and geothermal renewable portfolio.