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- Category: Projects and Contracts
Zoltek has clinched an order from the wind turbine blade industry with an agreement to supply Spain’s Fiberblade. The US company’s latest success is valued at up to US$ 75 million (€ 58 million) over the first three years of the contract. The company is now engaged in a three-stage expansion programme involving re-start of an idled line in Texas and investment in its operations in Hungary, where Zoltek is planning to raise capacity of carbon fibre to 9,000 tonnes a year by 2007. Zoltek won an US$ 80–100 million (€ 62–77 million) order to supply market leader Vestas with carbon fibre in December. The fibre is employed with a resin matrix, usually epoxy, generating a big and growing market for suppliers to the business which is expanding at nearly 20% a year.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The Vestas Group has received an order for 120 units of the V82-1.65 MW wind turbine for the Maple Ridge Wind Farm, formerly known as the Flat Rock Wind Power project, to be located in upstate New York. The wind power plant is being co-developed by Zilkha Renewable Energy, headquartered in Houston, Texas, and PPM Energy, Inc, a Portland, Oregon-based unit of ScottishPower. The Goldman Sachs Group recently announced plans to acquire Zilkha Renewable Energy, subject to regulatory approvals. Shipment of the turbines to the 198MW wind power plant will begin in the summer of 2005. Vestas will supply, install and commission the wind turbines. The order also includes a five year service and maintenance contract. Commissioning of the wind power plant is scheduled for December 2005.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
npower renewables has selected REpower to supply 16 of its 2MW MM70 wind turbines for the Ffynnon Oer project near Neath, in South Wales. REpower UK – a joint venture between REpower Systems AG and engineering company Peter Brotherhood Ltd – will be responsible for installing turbines at the wind farm. npower renewables will be responsible for providing a grid connection and access to the site, in conjunction with Western Power Distribution and the Forestry Commission respectively.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The Erie Shores Wind Farm, which will be one of the largest wind power projects in Canada when completed in early 2006, will utilise 66 GE Energy 1.5MW wind turbines, increasing the country’s wind capacity by 99MW. The project, to be sited along the northern shoreline of Lake Erie between Copenhagen and Clear Creek in the province of Ontario, is being developed by Erie Shores Wind Farm Limited Partnership (ESWF), a joint venture between the Clean Power Income Fund, a leading North American renewable power income fund, and AIM PowerGen Corporation, a private Canadian developer of wind power projects. In addition to supplying the wind turbines, GE Energy will also operate and maintain the project during its first four years of operation. Erie Shores is one of five new projects recently approved by the Ontario government. The project also supports the Canadian government’s recent decision to increase its original 1,000MW Wind Power Production Incentive (WPPI) to 4,000MW.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
FPL Energy has selected GE Energy’s 1.5MW wind turbine technology for two new projects in Texas and Oklahoma (USA) that will total more than 220MW of new wind energy capacity. The Callahan Divide Wind Energy Center in Taylor County, Texas, will utilise 76 wind turbines. The project will occupy a 6,000-acre (c. 2400ha) site approximately 12 miles (19km) southwest of Abilene, Texas, and will add 114MW of wind capacity to the Texas grid. Groundbreaking for the Callahan Divide project was held in October, and the installation of the wind turbines is expected to be completed in the spring of 2005. The Weatherford Wind Energy Center in Custer County, Oklahoma, will use 71 wind turbines totalling 106.5MW of wind power capacity. Project completion is expected in the summer of 2005. Power will be purchased by the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has achieved a total output of € 301.4 million in the 2004 fiscal year (previous year € 299.3 million). The earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) amount to € -3.4 million compared to € 12.9 million in the previous year. After taking into account one-off effects from the initial consolidation of joint ventures, tax, interest and minority shares, this results in an annual deficit of € -9.3 million. In addition, REpower Systems AG announces the involvement of a major strategic investor. The Portuguese steel and metal construction company Martifer Construções Metalomecânis has increased its share from 5.05 to 19.5% through acquiring a block of shares from the ELBE Betreuungs- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, represented by the former REpower Board member Hugo Denker. At the meeting held on 16 March 2005, the Supervisory Board also authorised the restructuring concept developed by a management consultancy company, which, in addition to optimising the operative processes, envisages streamlining the organisation at the management level.
- 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
