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- 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.
- 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.
- 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
