PNE WIND AG has completed its second wind farm repowering project with the Görike wind farm in Brandenburg, Germany, quintupling the output.
31 August, 2010
Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co Ltd has signed a sales contract with Semikron China for continued supply of SKiiP power modules and complete Semistack power electronic assemblies for Goldwind wind turbines.
27 August, 2010
The Forewind Consortium which will develop Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK, has appointed Lee Clarke, former Senior Corporate Development and Strategy Manager with RWE npower, as its new General Manager.
27 August, 2010
Canadian energy producer Finavera Rewables Inc has sold its majority interest for Cloosh Valley Wind Project, County Galway, Ireland, to Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) .
26 August, 2010
REpower has officially opened its new wind turbine technology centre in Osterrönfeld in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, Germany.
26 August, 2010
The UK and Norway will cooperate on offshore renewable energy in the North Sea, according to a joint ministerial statement on climate change and energy security.
26 August, 2010
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) will deliver 17 wind turbine electrical control systems to Inox Wind Ltd, part of India’s Inox Group of Companies.
25 August, 2010
Chinese manufacturing company Xiangtan Electrical Manufacturing Corporation Ltd (XEMC) may set up wind turbine production facilities in Northern Ireland.
25 August, 2010
Scotland’s offshore wind industry could contribute £7.1 billion of investment and create up to 28,000 direct jobs by 2020, according to Scottish Renewables and Scottish Enterprise.
25 August, 2010
Chemicals company BASF will showcase its products for the manufacture of wind turbines at the Husum WindEnergy trade show in September.
25 August, 2010
More training courses for wind farm installation will be offered throughout Turkey due to high demand, GL Garrad Hassan says.
24 August, 2010
ABB will design, supply and install all 6 main transformers for the 500 kV Tongyu substation under construction to support wind energy in the Jilin province of north-eastern China.
23 August, 2010
Paul Jordan, Market Sector Director for Clean Energy at Ricardo Plc, has been appointed Chairman of RenewableUK’s Marine Strategy Group.
20 August, 2010
Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyancy technology is being used in Statoil’s floating wind turbine foundation project Hywind.
20 August, 2010
Moroccan power utility ONE is building a 200 MW wind farm outside Tarfaya.
20 August, 2010
Nearly a year since Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas closed its blade facility on the Isle of Wight, former workers have formed a company that manufactures blades for micro-turbines.
19 August, 2010
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) has acquired a 25% ownership position in Blade Dynamics Ltd, a wind turbine blade designer and manufacturer, for US$8 million.
19 August, 2010
Reflex Marine’s TORO crew transfer capsule originally designed for use by oil and gas operators has now entered the renewable energy sector, selling four capsules for use on offshore wind turbine installation barges.
19 August, 2010
The Dow Chemical Company, through its Venture Capital group, has made a minority equity investment in wind turbine blade technology specialist Blade Dynamics Ltd.
18 August, 2010
Wind energy company Wind Prospect intends to open an office in South Africa, hoping to become the number one service provider to the African wind market by 2012.
18 August, 2010
Vestas has seen a €162 million tumble in net profit to a loss of €119m in the second quarter (Q2) of 2010, and downgrades its full year forecast.
18 August, 2010
Goldhofer, a heavy haulage and special transportation specialist, has launched a flatbed semi-trailer for transporting wind turbine blades up to 62 m.
17 August, 2010
Natural Power has commissioned what it calls “the UK’s first dedicated Lidar & Sodar test site” in Worcestershire.
17 August, 2010
Statoil’s Hywind floating offshore wind turbine foundations could be used in Scotland, according to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.
17 August, 2010
Denmark’s Risø DTU is building a test centre for large wind turbines at Østerild in North-Western Jutland.
17 August, 2010
Gurit has completed the development of a new range of PVC structural foam core materials designed for use in the manufacture of wind turbine rotor blades in China.
17 August, 2010
Obelisk Energy and Heidra have formed Wind Measurement International (WMI), a centre for met masts and anemometry.
16 August, 2010
Indian Energy has fully commissioned its 16.5 MW Theni wind farm and the associated substation.
16 August, 2010
HgCapital has bought a 44 MW wind farm in Malå, Västerbotten, Sweden, which will be developed by NV Nordisk Vindkraft AB.
12 August, 2010
Vestas will deliver 140 units of its V112-3.0 MW wind turbine to AGL Energy Ltd and Meridian’s 420 MW Macarthur wind farm in Australia.
12 August, 2010
SeaEnergy will be using Ampelmann’s ship-based self stabilising platforms for offshore wind operation and maintenance access under an exclusive agreement.
11 August, 2010
Siemens Energy and Samsung C&T Corporation will supply up to 600 MW of wind turbines for wind farms in southern Ontario, Canada.
11 August, 2010
PNE WIND AG has reported a 22% increase in first half (H1) profits in 2010 to €6 million.
09 August, 2010
German wind developer Pro Ventum International and GE are building a 90 MW wind farm about 250 km northeast of Bangkok, Thailand.
06 August, 2010
A 3 MW wave and tidal drive train technology development and testing facility, Nautilus, is now under construction at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) in Blyth, UK.
06 August, 2010
Transmission links for 7 offshore wind farms have been awarded to three bidders by the UK energy regulator Ofgem.
05 August, 2010
Four UK offshore wind demonstration sites, each 100 MW or less, have been awarded by the Crown Estate to four companies.
05 August, 2010
Recent energy statistics from the UK Government show that renewable energy sources’ contribution to the UK’s electricity mix grew 20% in 2009 reaching a share of 6.7%.
04 August, 2010
ACCIONA Energy is building a 45 MW wind farm in Lamèque, New Brunswick, Canada, representing an investment of C$115 million.
04 August, 2010
Sentec and Wind Technologies Ltd are developing control system for wind turbines, with the first test site in operation.
03 August, 2010
E.ON says it will be investing into the UK Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), which aims to cut the costs of offshore wind power.
03 August, 2010
Gamesa and Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción will build the 102 MW Cerro de Hula wind farm in Honduras for is Mesoamérica Energy.
03 August, 2010
Development of offshore wind farms in Poland has been slow, despite the country's leadership of the wind energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe, raising questions about the offshore wind support in Central and Eastern Europe, according to analyst Frost & Sullivan.
02 August, 2010
REpower Systems AG has launched a wind farm repowering project in the district of Dithmarschen (Schleswig-Holstein) with Repowering Kronprinzenkoog GbR increasing the output of Kronprinzenkoog from 12.3 MW to 30.75 MW.
02 August, 2010