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- 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.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The Vestas group has received orders for at total of 20 units of the V90 wind turbine for two wind farms to be located near Tarifa in the Andalusia region in Spain. The orders have been placed by Parque Eólico Bancal S.L. and Parque Eólico Los Siglos S.L., which are owned by the same group. The projects are both turnkey deliveries including a two-year service, maintenance and warranty agreement. Delivery of the turbines will begin at the end of 2005 and commissioning of the wind power plants is expected to take place during the spring of 2006.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
A distribution agreement has been announced between composites supplier SP and Ashland Distribution. The agreement, which is effective immediately, grants Ashland distribution rights across North America for the entire SP range of products. This includes the company’s flagship structural foam Corecell as well as heavyweight structural prepregs, formulated epoxy resin and structural design services.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Energy Australia is pleased with the approval of the development Consent by the Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources for New South Wales, Hon. Craig Knowles MP, for the Crookwell-2 wind farm being developed by Gamesa through its subsidiary Gamesa Energy Australia.Located between Crookwell and Goulburn, 245 km to the south-east of Sidney, the proposed wind farm site comprises a 2,088 hectare property that will host 46 wind turbines to achieve a generation capacity of 92MW. GAMESA develops this wind farm in collaboration with TME Australia. This is the first Development Application that Gamesa has applied for and is already working on the development of three additional wind farms for approximately 300MW.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Eólica has received a new order from the Indian company Pioneer Asia Wind Turbines, for the supply of 20 Gamesa G58-850 kW wind turbines for the Tamil Nadu II wind farm, located on the southern tip of India. These 20 wind turbines will complete the whole supply to this wind farm, situated in the village of Muppandal, in the State of Tamil Nadu, and will involve the installation of an additional 17 MW of power, which will be added to the 8.5 MW supplied between March and April 2005. The value of the order amounts to almost €7 million and includes the supply of blades and the components of the nacelle, which are to be assembled locally by Pioneer Asia. The towers are to be manufactured by this same company in India.
- 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
