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- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has signed a supply contract for the Beatrice wind farm demonstrator project with Talisman Energy (UK) Limited and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) for the design and construction of two of its 5M-type wind energy turbines. With a nominal output of five megawatts, the REpower 5M is currently the biggest wind energy turbine in the world and has been designed with deepwater wind farm operations in mind. REpower will likely assemble both turbines next summer.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
RPS Group Plc has co-ordinated and prepared the Environmental Statement (ES) on behalf of London Array Limited in support of applications for an offshore wind farm in the Outer Thames Estuary and associated onshore works at Cleve Hill, near Faversham, Kent. London Array is the first of the Round 2 UK offshore wind farm projects to apply for consents and when complete will be the largest wind farm in the world. The applications come after an extensive consultation process as well as comprehensive technical and environmental studies. The wind farm, if built, could generate up to 1000 MW of renewable energy electricity. The full development, costing up to £1.5bn, will require up to 270 turbines and would connect into the National Grid transmission system in Kent.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The German company General Acoustics GmbH has just finished a project for the energy company E.ON/Munich. The purpose of the campaign was the subsoil exploration of a Baltic Sea area where E.ON will build an offshore wind park. With their DSLP (Detection of Sediment Layers and Properties) measuring equipment, General Acoustics penetrated the ocean bottom by more than 80m to establish the geological properties of the area.- Category: Projects and Contracts
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Division has been awarded a contract by German wind farm developer Sandbank 24 to study grid connection options for the Sandbank 24 offshore wind farm.
This project is to be located in the North Sea, off the German coast. The 360 to 400MW pilot phase has already received planning permission and is due to start in 2006. The pilot phase will consist of 80 single wind turbine generators with a capacity of 4.5 to 5MW each and will be connected to the electricity transmission network. AREVA T&D will consider three different proposals for the pilot phase with a view to their possible use in the proposed final 4.5GW installation. These are:
o high voltage alternating current connection
o hybrid-high voltage direct current connection
o hybrid-high voltage direct current connection
o VSC (voltage source converter) high voltage direct current connection.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has secured three contracts with the company Fenland Wind Farms Ltd to supply 22 wind energy turbines, each of 2MW, in the East Anglia region of the UK. Fenland Wind Farms Ltd was established specifically for this project by the French green electricity producer EDF Energies Nouvelles, an affiliate of EDF Group. The three wind parks should be completed and put into operation by spring 2006. The total project turnover for REpower should exceed € 32 million. The ‘Fenland Wind Farms’ will be erected in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire in eastern England on three sites. The wind parks were developed by the independent British project developer Wind Prospect Group in cooperation with EDF Energies Nouvelles. REpower UK Ltd, a joint venture between REpower Systems AG and the specialist engineering company Peter Brotherhood Ltd, will take responsibility for the construction of the turbines.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
On 26 May, government and business dignitaries gathered with local townspeople to officially dedicate the Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Park. Built, owned and operated by GE Energy, the plant is the first large-scale offshore wind energy facility developed solely as a technology demonstration and learning platform for offshore wind power, and represents Ireland’s first offshore wind project. Placed in operation in June 2004, GE’s seven 3.6MW wind turbines bring 25MW of wind-generated capacity to Ireland’s electricity grid. The project is sited about 10km from Arklow’s shore on the Arklow Bank in the Irish Sea. The current 25MW project is considered phase 1 of the overall proposed project. Under the terms of the project’s co-development agreement, once GE’s demonstration is complete – approximately two years from first operation – Zeusford, a company owned 50% by Airtricity and EHN of Spain, holds an option to purchase the project from GE. Further future development of the project to its potential 520MW has been proposed by Zeusford.
- 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
