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South Africa: Noupoort wind farm erects first wind turbine

12/11/2015

Noupoort Wind Farm (80MW), in South Africa’s Northern Cape, has announced that it has completed the erection of the first of its thirty-five wind turbines.

US: Block Island Wind Farm Caps Off Successful First Offshore Construction Season

12/11/2015

All five jacket foundations now installed; turbine assembly and cable work the focus for this winter

Spain: Ingeteam Wind business unit celebrates 20th anniversary

12/10/2015

Ingeteam Wind business unit celebrated today its 20th anniversary, an important company milestone marking two decades of growth and success in the global wind industry.

CCPI 2016: Wind of Change

12/10/2015

Tomorrow, the results of nearly two weeks of negotiations at the World Climate Summit COP21 will be presented in Paris. Signs allow for cautious optimism, which is supported mainly by the current CCPI 2016. The annual report which is compiled i.a. by German Think Tank 'Germanwatch' was presented for the 11th time earlier this week to support the negotiations. It is available online.

Scotland: RGU researchers look to cut cost of maintaining offshore wind turbines

12/10/2015

Researchers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) are developing a software tool which aims to dramatically cut maintenance costs for offshore wind turbines.

Spain: ACCIONA pledges to be carbon neutral by 2016

12/09/2015

Chairman and CEO of ACCIONA, José Manuel Entrecanales, announces the pledge at the UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP 21)

Poland: EDF Energies Nouvelles commissions the Rzepin wind farm (58 MW) in Poland

12/09/2015

As part of its continuing development in Poland, EDF Energies Nouvelles is announcing the commissioning of the Rzepin wind farm (58 MW) by its local subsidiary, EDF EN Polska.

Germany: W2E increases the power efficiency of their turbine technology and launch the project DynAWind

12/09/2015

Assisted by academic research the on-going engineering of lightweight-optimized structures for wind turbines will be advanced together with the project partner Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik/Dynamik of the University Rostock.

US: Bloomberg and EDP Renewables Announce Largest Corporate Renewable Energy Purchase on Record in the State of New York

12/09/2015

Bloomberg has agreed to buy over 25% of the energy generated by the Arkwright Summit Wind Project (total 79MW) in Chautauqua County, NY.

UK: Bernard Jenkin MP opens new CWind headquarters

12/09/2015

The new Colchester head office of offshore wind services provider CWind Ltd was officially opened by Harwich and North Essex MP Bernard Jenkin on Friday last week.

Global: Covenant of Mayors: EU calls on world's cities and regions to join forces to combat climate change

12/09/2015

The President of the European Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, and the European Commission's Vice-President, Maroš Sef?ovi?, have said that cities and regions are key partners in efforts to limit the rise in the Earth's temperature below 2°C.

Denmark: Gigantic turbines for Danish test centre

12/08/2015

Four gigantic wind turbines tower in Osterild where the Danish test centre for wind turbines is located. Blue Water has handled the transport of all the turbines which are the largest in the world.

Denmark: 100 MW to get city carbon neutral

12/08/2015

K2 Management has been awarded with a contract from Sønderborg Forsyning.

South Africa: EDF Energies Nouvelles commissions a third wind farm in South Africa

12/08/2015

EDF Energies Nouvelles is announcing the commissioning of the Waainek wind farm of 24.6 MW in installed capacity by InnoWind, its South African subsidiary. / In South Africa, the Group has now installed three wind farms totalling more than 100 MW.

Global: Renewable energy still facing challenges in 17 countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

12/08/2015

Despite comprising over 300 million inhabitants and representing 4.9% of the world’s GDP 17 UNECE countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia represented only 0.5% or USD 0.9 billion of global renewable energy investment in 2014.

Denmark: ESVAGT and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind sign 10-year SOV contract

12/07/2015

ESVAGT to build new vessel to support MHI Vestas Offshore Wind technicians maintaining turbines off the Belgian coast.

Global: DONG Energy calls for a global climate agreement at COP21

12/07/2015

A global climate agreement at COP21 is important. DONG Energy believes that we will see a major breakthrough within the next decade where green energy becomes cheaper than black energy, if political leaders, the industry, regulators and investors provide a final push.

Europe: European offshore industry on the path for a step change in annual capacity installations

12/07/2015

In 2015, 3.6GW of offshore wind capacity is expected to be added to the global electricity grids and by the end of the year, total global grid-connected offshore wind capacity will stand at 12.4GW.

Germany: VENTUSmarine Site Surveillance obtains BSH approval

12/04/2015

A few weeks ago WindMW and EMO had jointly presented their site surveillance concept for the O+M phase to German BSH and WSV and have obtained approval and appreciation for their innovative solution and thorough preparation.

UK: Dogger Bank lidar confirms technology meets met masts for wind data collection

12/04/2015

“No break in wind collection, significant increase in heights measured, dramatic cost-savings for offshore energy.”

Comment: COP21 – It's five to midnight

12/03/2015

Again Paris is at the center of the world's attention. This time, fortunately, not because of an attack, but because of the climate summit COP21. It is about not much less than the future of our planet. Because we only have one.

UK: Shoreline signs Contract for Simulation Studies of O&M Marine Logistic Strategies at Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm

12/03/2015

The study will include simulation and estimation of technical availability, both time and production based, as well as down time identification and the related root cause analysis.

Europe: Renewables set to overcome nuclear in Europe’s power generation projects

12/03/2015

The new report by Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Center (CIC) shows that nuclear power is set to lose its leading position in Europe’s power generation projects due to a growing demand to shift into renewable energy.

Portugal: Knorr-Bremse PowerTech delivers Reactive Current Converter for Wind Park Penamacor

12/03/2015

Knorr-Bremse PowerTech announces that it will deliver “Green Line 1000” reactive current converters to a major wind farm operator, TECNEIRA – Tecnologias Energéticas S.A.

Mexico: Gamesa and the CFE sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the co-development of wind energy projects

12/03/2015

The two firms have pledged to jointly foster sectoral technological and industrial development in Mexico in order to boost wind power generation

Global: Demogravi3 is EDP's new offshore wind project

12/03/2015

EDP has just been granted European funding to develop new technology for offshore wind power.

US: Accio Energy Awarded $4.5 Million from ARPA-E for Transformational Offshore Wind Energy Technology

12/02/2015

Accio Energy announced that it was awarded $4.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

UK: Understanding the impact of Offshore Wind Farms on human well-being

12/02/2015

The offshore wind industry has a broadly positive impact on human well-being, conclude two new reports.

Germany: RWE is building the innovative, decentralised energy group of the future

12/02/2015

Renewables, grids and retail activities are being transferred into a new subsidiary and listed on the stock market

Brazil: EDF Energies Nouvelles wins 117 MW of wind energy projects

12/01/2015

EDF Energies Nouvelles has announced winning a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) under an auction organized by the Brazilian government for 117 MW of wind power capacity to be installed via its local subsidiary, EDF EN do Brasil.

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