|
Latest Issue
 |
- Category: Projects and Contracts
ACCIONA Energía is currently building three wind parks in Germany. At the same time, it is constructing two wind parks in France that will increase its installed capacity by 58% up to 60MW.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Under two recent agreements GE Energy will deliver approximately 500MW of GE 1.5MW wind turbines for projects planned by PPM Energy during 2006 and 2007. The recent agreements with PPM call for a total of 334 GE 1.5MW units. PPM Energy, which is based in Portland, Oregon, is part of the ScottishPower group of companies. With a portfolio of more than 1,600MW of wind power under its control in operation or under construction, PPM Energy is well on its way towards its goal of bringing 2,300MW of new wind power to market by 2010.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
GE Energy will locally assemble and supply its wind turbines for one of China’s largest wind projects to date. When completed in 2007, the Jiangsu Rudong Concession II Wind Project in Jiangsu Province will add 150MW of wind power capacity to China’s electricity grid.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
PPM Energy’s Trimont Area Wind Farm (Minnesota, USA) began commercial operation on 29 November 2005. The Trimont Area Wind Farm (TAWF) consists of 67 General Electric wind turbines situated on approximately 8,900 acres (3,600ha) of farmland. TAWF was launched by a coalition of 43 landowners in Jackson and Martin counties.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has gained an important customer for its 5MW turbine REpower 5M with EWC Cuxhaven GmbH. EWC is a joint venture between E.ON (represented by E.ON Energy Projects GmbH) and the wind park developer WINKRA, which has been part of the Essent Group since 2003. Installation of the wind power turbine is provisionally scheduled to take place at the DEWI-OCC test field in Cuxhaven in December 2006. E.ON/WINKRA has chosen the offshore version of the REpower 5M turbine, which has a helicopter deck, emergency room and other special facilities for the operation of this type at sea.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Eólica has secured a new contract with the Japanese firm Toshiba Plant Systems Services Corporation for the delivery in Japan of ten Gamesa G80-2.0 MW wind turbines, which will involve a total installed output of 20MW. The wind turbines contracted are to be supplied to the Kashima wind farm, located in the province of Ibaraki. This contract, amounting to a value of over 12 million euros, includes the delivery of the wind turbines without towers, their installation and subsequent commissioning. Assembly work is scheduled to begin in 2006.
- Gamesa enters the Scandinavian market
- Gamesa signs a frame agreement with Horizon Wind Energy
- Gamesa enters the Chinese market
- Vestas receives an order for Australia
- Thanet offshore wind farm
- Airtricity submits planning application for wind farm
- Japan's largest ever wind farm completed
- REpower 5M gains approval for test location in Cuxhaven
- Significant steps towards UK’s offshore renewables powerhouse
- Moventas increases wind turbine gear deliveries to Ingetur
- New wind energy project in Ontario
- Siemens secures orders for 27 turbines
- 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
