- Category: Projects and Contracts
The Vestas Group’s positive expectations for the Italian market have been confirmed by receipt of orders for a total of 36 units of the V80-2.0MW wind turbine. The turnkey orders have been placed by a joint venture between the Italian developer Fri-El GreenPower and companies of the French EDF Group. The contracts comprise turbines, monitoring system, transport, installation and commissioning, as well as electrical and civil infrastructure. The turbines will be installed in 2005 and 2006 in four adjacent wind parks. The wind parks, which will have a combined capacity of 72MW, are located in the Puglia region, in the south of Italy. The four sites stretch over the commune of Sant’Agata di Puglia.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Eólica has agreed five new contracts with the Italian companies Windpower Sud Srl, Enpower Srl and the Moncada Construzioni Srl Group for the supply of 136 wind turbines with 850kW of unitary power destined for various wind farms located on the island of Sicily. These 136 wind turbines, 126 of which correspond to the G58-850kW model and the remaining 10 to the G52-850kW model, together account for the installation of an overall output of 116MW. Of the 136 wind turbines, 44 are to be delivered to the Monte Petrasi wind farm, 28 to the Narbone wind farm, 21 to the Malvizzo wind farm, 33 to the Durrá wind farm and the remaining 10 wind turbines, which are to be supplied without towers, to the Monte Mele wind farm, all located in Agrigento, on the Italian island of Sicily. These new contracts, which record a value in excess of € 76 million, include the supply of the wind turbines, their installation and commissioning, and also their operation and maintenance. Assembly work is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2005.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has received an order to deliver 19 wind energy turbines to Japan. The REpower MD77-type turbines each provide a rated power of 1.5MW. Two of the turbines are expected to be erected this autumn (2005) in the northwest of Japan’s main island Honshu, in the coastal city of Akita. Delivery of a further 17 turbines is scheduled for the first quarter of 2006. They will be installed close to the coastal city of Hachiryu, also in the northwest of Honshu.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG and Denker & Wulf AG have announced that they are to sell one of Germany’s largest wind farm portfolios. GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services has agreed to buy four wind farms from them for € 135.5 million, including the assumption of debt. The sale, the second of a wind portfolio by REpower and Denker & Wulf, is subject to satisfaction of various conditions, including governmental anti-competition review. The following wind electricity generation projects are included in the deal: Grossvargula, Zabelsdorf, Premslin-Kribbe, Falkenwalde and Heckelberg-Breydin.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Shell and Dutch energy company Nuon have signed the final contracts for their joint collaboration on the first Dutch offshore wind farm, located at Egmond aan Zee, 22km off the Dutch coast. NoordzeeWind (a 50/50 joint venture between Shell and Nuon) awarded the construction contract to Bouwcombinatie Egmond, a joint venture between Dutch offshore contractor Ballast Nedam and Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
GE Energy will supply wind turbines for the first large-scale project in mainland China’s Hebei Province. The 34.5MW Shangyi Manjing Wind Farm will use 23 of GE’s 1.5MW wind turbines. Developed and owned by Guohua Energy Corporation Limited, the wind turbines are being installed on a 5km by 5km site located approximately 100km from Zhangjiakou City. Commercial operation is expected by October 2005. The Shangyi Manjing Wind Farm supports China’s national initiative that targets the creation of 20GW of new renewable energy by 2020. At the 2004 China Wind Power Summit, Huang Yicheng, president of the China Energy Research Association, noted that China alone has a potential wind power capacity of 250GW, the largest in the world. At the start of 2004, the country’s installed wind power capacity was 566MW.
- Vestas receives orders for V90 turbines for Spain
- SP and Ashland Sign Distribution Agreement
- Australian government approves new wind farm
- Gamesa receives a new order from Pioneer Asia
- Gamesa continues its wind power expansion in China
- Beatrice wind farm demonstrator project
- London Array offshore wind farm
- Measuring campaign for E.ON Energy Projects
- AREVA to carry out grid connection study
- Turbines for EDF Energies Nouvelles in East Anglia, UK
- Inauguration of Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Park
- New project in India
- US National Weather Service chooses Vaisala wind sensors
- Canunda Wind Farm opened
- REpower supplies first megawatt turbines to China
- Grant for Wind Tower Composites' low speed wind turbine
- Zoltek wins major order for turbine blades
- Order for a V82-1.65 MW wind turbine project in upstate New York
- Order for REpower Systems AG in the UK
- Erie Shores to Add 99MW of Wind Capacity
- FPL Energy selects GE for wind projects
- REpower gains major strategic investor
- GE Energy completes contracts for eight wind projects in Canada
- Irish energy firm plans £1.2 billion North Sea wind farm
- Contract for Oceanteam 2000
- Start of construction of 111MW of wind farms in Greece
- LM Glasfiber signs contract with GE Energy
- A2SEA to install Britain’s biggest wind farm in major contract award
- A2SEA takes ownership of offshore wind farm installation vessels
- New wind project in Canada to use GE Energy’s wind turbines