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- Category: Projects and Contracts
On 15 November 2005, Eurus Energy Group celebrated the completion of Japan's largest wind farm at Cape Soya, Wakkanai, Hokkaido. Total project cost is 12 billion yen and total output capacity is 57MW. The wind farm reduces about 120,000 tons of CO2 emission a year. Completion of its Soya Wind Farm increases wind energy output to 240MW in Japan and 1,080MW in world total.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has acquired a location for the operation of its REpower 5M type wind energy turbine in the DEWI-OCC test field in Cuxhaven, Germany. After signing the location agreement at the end of last year, REpower has now attained the corresponding construction approval for the turbine.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The UK offshore wind industry is making progress in its second phase of development, reports the BWEA. The announcement from Thanet Offshore Wind Limited of it’s submission for formal consent means that all three of the large-scale wind farms planned for development in the Thames Estuary strategic area, a total of 1800MW of capacity, are now being considered by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and Defra.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Moventas will increase its serial deliveries of wind turbine gears to Ingetur in 2006. The delivery will consist of gears for the customer’s wind turbines in the 1.5MW class, for which Moventas’ gear solution has been chosen since the beginning of the turbine’s production history. This supply is a part of Ingetur’s expansion plans in Spain and other countries. The delivery will include a planetary/helical type of gearbox specially designed to fit Ingetur’s specifications.- Category: Projects and Contracts
Brascan Power has selected GE Energy as the turbine supplier for the proposed Prince Wind Farm that could add up to 99MW of wind power capacity to the electricity grid in the province of Ontario, Canada. The project, which will utilise 66 of GE’s 1.5MW wind turbine-generators, is expected to enter commercial operation in the second half of 2006. GE will operate and maintain the turbines for five years. Located in the township of Prince, approximately 8km northwest of Sault Ste Marie, the Prince Wind Farm will be one of the first large-scale wind farms to be built in Ontario. The project will further expand and diversify the power generation portfolio of Brascan Power, a company with almost 100 years of experience in Ontario’s power industry. The power will be supplied under a power purchase agreement with the government of Ontario.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Siemens Power Generation (PG) has received two orders for the supply of 27 turbines for wind power systems in Germany and Greece. Four wind farms with a total of 13 wind turbines will be located in the western part of Germany near the border with Luxembourg. The purchaser is the Pinneberg-based company enXco GmbH, a development company in Germany. enXco is a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles – a group member of EDF Electricité de France – with worldwide activities specialising in development, operation and ownership of wind farms. The scope of the order encompasses two 1.3MW, four 2.3MW and seven 2.3MW Mk II turbines, as well as a two-year warranty and service agreement. Delivery of the turbines will commence in November 2005 and be completed by the end of the year. Two new wind farms named Modi II and Kalogiris will be built on the island of Crete in Greece. Siemens PG will equip these facilities with a total of 14 wind turbines. The company will supply eight 600kW turbines for the Modi II wind farm and six turbines of the same rating for the Kalogiris facility. The purchaser is the Rokas Group.
- 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
- Vestas’ expectations for the Italian market have been confirmed
- Gamesa has been awarded five contracts in Italy
- REpower to deliver 19 wind turbines to Japan
- Germany?s largest wind farm portfolios sold
- Final contracts for first Dutch offshore wind farm signed
- Large-scale wind project in China’s Hebei province
- 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
