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Wind power News for December 2012
Danish wind operator DONG Energy and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas have entered into a cooperation agreement that will see them work together - testing Vestas' V164-8.0 MW offshore wind turbine at Østerild test centre in Denmark.
19 December, 2012
Czech developer CEZ Group has brought Europe’s largest onshore wind farm into full operation.
19 December, 2012
Spanish renewable energy developer Iberdrola has awarded Nordex a contract for the supply and installation of wind turbines for the 80MW Chirnogeni wind farm, located in the Dobrogea region of Romania, near the Black Sea coast.
19 December, 2012
E.ON has reduced the footprint of its proposed Rampion offshore wind farm off the south coast of the UK, in an effort to appease local concerns about the visual impact of the project.
19 December, 2012
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted €50m financing to two Romanian wind farms with a combined capacity of 57MW.
19 December, 2012
Turbine installation at the first 630MW phase of the London Array offshore wind farm has been completed with the installation of the 175th and last turbine, developers E.ON and DONG Energy report.
19 December, 2012
French firms Areva and STX France have signed a cooperation agreement to advance wind turbine foundation technology, as part of on-going efforts to bring down the cost of offshore wind.
19 December, 2012
Thomas Becker, a former Danish civil servant, will replace Christian Kjaer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), effective 1 April 2013.
14 December, 2012
Statkraft has started construction on the 66.7MW Berry Burn wind farm near Inverness in Scotland, the Norwegian company revealed.
12 December, 2012
The latest analysis from Visiongain indicates the global carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites market will reach a value of $20.68bn in 2013, driven by growth in the wind energy market, and strong potential in the automotives market.
10 December, 2012
US electrics company GE is to team up with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop advanced wind turbine blade technology that could put wind energy on an equal economic footing with fossil fuels, GE have announced.
06 December, 2012
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05 December, 2012
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04 December, 2012
GE has signed a $394 million contract with Brazilian wind energy developer Renova Energia for the delivery of 230 of GE’s 1.68-82.5 wind turbines.
04 December, 2012
India could have 89 GW of installed wind capacity by 2020 up from 18GW at present, helping to fight a growing power shortage in the country, according to an industry outlook report released on Thursday.
04 December, 2012
Onshore wind projects in the UK have defied the credit crunch by securing record number of project finance deals in 2012, according to a report from financial consultancy Mazars.
04 December, 2012
The UK-based technology company opens two new facilities for the development of offshore renewable energy technologies.
04 December, 2012