- Category: Projects and Contracts
GE Energy will locally assemble and supply its wind turbines for one of China’s largest wind projects to date. When completed in 2007, the Jiangsu Rudong Concession II Wind Project in Jiangsu Province will add 150MW of wind power capacity to China’s electricity grid.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
PPM Energy’s Trimont Area Wind Farm (Minnesota, USA) began commercial operation on 29 November 2005. The Trimont Area Wind Farm (TAWF) consists of 67 General Electric wind turbines situated on approximately 8,900 acres (3,600ha) of farmland. TAWF was launched by a coalition of 43 landowners in Jackson and Martin counties.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has gained an important customer for its 5MW turbine REpower 5M with EWC Cuxhaven GmbH. EWC is a joint venture between E.ON (represented by E.ON Energy Projects GmbH) and the wind park developer WINKRA, which has been part of the Essent Group since 2003. Installation of the wind power turbine is provisionally scheduled to take place at the DEWI-OCC test field in Cuxhaven in December 2006. E.ON/WINKRA has chosen the offshore version of the REpower 5M turbine, which has a helicopter deck, emergency room and other special facilities for the operation of this type at sea.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Eólica has secured a new contract with the Japanese firm Toshiba Plant Systems Services Corporation for the delivery in Japan of ten Gamesa G80-2.0 MW wind turbines, which will involve a total installed output of 20MW. The wind turbines contracted are to be supplied to the Kashima wind farm, located in the province of Ibaraki. This contract, amounting to a value of over 12 million euros, includes the delivery of the wind turbines without towers, their installation and subsequent commissioning. Assembly work is scheduled to begin in 2006.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Energía has signed its entry into the Scandinavian wind energy market on entering into a contract with the Swedish electrical supply company Vattenfall. The agreement consists in the undertaking to sell to Vattenfall the wind farms currently being developed, with a total installed wind power capacity of 200MW during the 2005-2010 period. The contract, that can reach approximately € 240 million, was signed in Madrid by Gordan Dandanell, Vattenfall's Head of Investment and Project Development and by Fernando Ferrando, on behalf of Gamesa. For Gamesa, this agreement is a step in their wind farm development strategy, as it implies entry into a new market, the Scandinavian one, from which it had so far been absent, in partnership with the Swedish national company.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Wind US LLC a subsidiary of Gamesa Eólica has been selected by Horizon Wind Energy (formerly Zilkha Renewable Energy), a wind energy developer owned by Goldman Sachs, for the supply of up to 600MW of wind turbines for projects located in the United States. The agreement between Gamesa and Horizon involves the supply of the full line of Gamesa G8X-2.0 MW products. Most of the manufacturing of these wind turbines will be carried out in the plants that the Spanish company owns in the US. The frame agreement initially calls for the supply of 400 MW with an option for an additional 200 MW. The turbines will be installed during 2006 and 2007. The estimated value of this frame agreement, depending on its final scope and the combination of the wind turbine models, could reach up to US$ 700 million.
- Gamesa enters the Chinese market
- Vestas receives an order for Australia
- Thanet offshore wind farm
- Airtricity submits planning application for wind farm
- Japan's largest ever wind farm completed
- REpower 5M gains approval for test location in Cuxhaven
- Significant steps towards UK’s offshore renewables powerhouse
- Moventas increases wind turbine gear deliveries to Ingetur
- New wind energy project in Ontario
- Siemens secures orders for 27 turbines
- New projects in Japan
- First American offshore wind farm
- Gamesa opens a new wind farm in Italy
- Gamesa wins an international tender
- A2SEA to install the Netherlands’ first offshore wind farm
- Gamesa subscribes four contracts with Tecneira
- Siemens secures first order for offshore project in UK
- New GE project in Germany
- Two new wind projects in China
- Nordex’s new routes in wind farm financing
- Siemens receives order from FPL Energy
- Four REpower 5M for Borkum West offshore wind park
- Windpark Joguinho II expected to go on line in 2006
- Nordex supplies new generation of turbines to China
- Irish company to build wind farm in Texas
- First wind-generated power plant launched in Bangladesh
- Emu Ltd chooses SeaBat for offshore wind farm surveys
- Acciona Energía will install 793MW
- Large wind project in Alberta
- Trials to reduce aviation objections to wind farms