Fugro, a provider metocean services, has teamed up with underwater acoustics company JASCO Applied Sciences to provide measurement of underwater noise and allied consultancy.
30 June, 2010
SmartestEnergy, a UK purchaser and supplier of electricity, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd for the 41.4 MW Edinbane wind farm on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
30 June, 2010
Siemens will have a 49% stake in A2SEA A/S, a Danish supplier of installation services for the construction of offshore wind farms.
29 June, 2010
The offshore wind industry is urged to move towards standardised contracts to reduce risk and save project time, say energy consultancy Xodus Group and legal advisors Shepherd and Wedderburn.
29 June, 2010
REpower Systems AG has reached 1 GW of installed wind power capacity in France, where the wind turbine manufacturer has installed around 500 wind turbines since 2002.
29 June, 2010
Siemens will implement the grid connection for the 270 MW Lincs offshore wind farm in the UK in a deal worth £101 million (~€120m).
29 June, 2010
E.ON's Climate & Renewables Operations Team will stream live wind data from its Robbin Rigg offshore wind farm using Natural Power’s ZephIR lidar.
25 June, 2010
Vestas will deliver 44 of its V100-1.8 MW and 35 of its V90-1.8 MW wind turbines to Capital Power Corporation for its proposed Quality Wind Project in British Columbia, Canada.
24 June, 2010
Offshore Wind Power Marine Services Ltd (OWPMS) and the Brook Henderson Group have formed a joint venture (JV) to build 60 crew transfer vessels for offshore wind farm construction and operation & maintenance (O&M).
23 June, 2010
Gamesa’s G90 Class II wind turbine has been certified by GL Renewables Certification (GL).
23 June, 2010
A combination of energy efficiency, fuel-switching and a combination of commercially-available renewable energy technologies could allow 100% of Australia’s energy needs to be met with renewable sources, according to a new report.
23 June, 2010
DONG Energy has been awarded the concession to build the 400 MW Anholt offshore wind farm off the island of Anholt in the Kattegat, Denmark.
22 June, 2010
Seajacks International will build a self-propelled jackup wind farm installation vessel for Lamprell Energy Plc.
22 June, 2010
Renewable energy technologies are declining in cost but continued efforts are required to further reduce this, according to energy ministers from the 21-country Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
22 June, 2010
Dow Formulated Systems will introduce its latest composite products for the manufacture of wind turbine blades at the Wind Power Asia trade show in China this month.
21 June, 2010
Two prototype wind turbine blades GloBlades measuring 42 m have been flown from China to LM Wind Power’s facilities in Lunderskov, Denmark.
21 June, 2010
The Spanish EU Presidency has launched the 10-year, €6 billion, ‘European Wind Initiative (EWI) – a research and development roadmap for the wind energy sector.
21 June, 2010
GL Garrad Hassan’s WINDTEST Kaiser Wilhelm Koog GmbH will manage the offshore wind research platform in the Baltic Sea, FINO 2.
18 June, 2010
DONG Energy has inaugurated the 172 MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary off the coast of Essex, UK.
18 June, 2010
The Turkish wind consultant re-consult is joining Natural Power following four years of cooperation under a framework agreement.
17 June, 2010
Indian Energy says the first 4.5 MW of its 16.5 MW wind farm at Theni has been registered under the Generation Based Incentive (GBI) scheme in India.
17 June, 2010
The power system in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland can accommodate the ambitious 40% target for renewable energy by 2020, according to Ecofys.
17 June, 2010
The World Wind Energy Award 2010 has been awarded to the founding member states of the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA at the 9th World Wind Energy Conference 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey.
16 June, 2010
Wind turbine producer Vestas has established a permanent office in Johannesburg, South Africa to serve the emerging southern African wind energy market and to support the future development of wind energy in the region.
16 June, 2010
WinWinD will deliver three wind turbines to Aulepa Wind Park for the Estonian energy company Eesti Energia by the summer of 2011.
16 June, 2010
The Global Wind Day today, 15 June, takes place for the second time and aims to raise awareness for the benefits of wind energy.
15 June, 2010
Siemens Energy and Prysmian Powerlink will connect two North Sea offshore wind farms to the German grid using a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link for transpower.
15 June, 2010
The Brussels-based organisation estimates that this would take total installed capacity to almost 85 GW by the end of they year - an increase of 13%.
15 June, 2010
The ‘Statistical Review of World Energy’ does not include wind, solar or geothermal in its primary energy forecast, but these sources will be added next year because they are reaching “sufficient weight in a number of countries.”
14 June, 2010
Siemens will supply German utility Erneuerbare Energien GmbH (ENBW) 288MW of turbines for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm.
11 June, 2010
The belief that the European wind energy industry can make a serious contribution to green growth was backed by politicians of the left and right and trade unionists at a high-level meeting held in Brussels.
10 June, 2010
The University of Glasgow and Gaia-Wind Ltd have released the results of research showing that larger blades are more efficient at generating electricity in lower wind speeds.
10 June, 2010
The partners will develop a 5 MW full conversion wind turbine primarily for use in the offshore wind industry.
10 June, 2010
The United States remains the most attractive country in the world for renewable energy, although it now ties the top spot with China.
08 June, 2010
Austrian bearing specialist NKE has developed a modular bearing systems for planetary gears in wind turbine gearboxes.
07 June, 2010
Vestas is about to launch two R&D projects: cost-effective deep water foundations for large offshore wind turbines and an intelligent energy management system introducing energy storage into a wind power plant.
07 June, 2010
Moog Industrial Group will supply REpower Systems AG with electric blade pitch control systems for the RWE Innogy Nordsee Ost 1 offshore wind farm.
07 June, 2010
Biomass facilities have become a more attractive investment than wind and solar technologies, according to the renewable energy sector.
07 June, 2010
RWE Innogy, Stadtwerke München (SWM - Munich Municipal Utility) and Siemens have entered into a joint venture to build the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr in the UK.
04 June, 2010
Mainstream Renewable Power, has completed Private equity is getting ready for investment in renewable energy over the next year, according to a recent KPMG poll.
04 June, 2010
Nordex will deliver 8 of its N80/2500 wind turbines to the Screggagh wind farm in Northern Ireland for DW Consultancy Ltd.
03 June, 2010
3M has partnered with Rope Partner to conduct an in-field study on the effects of leading edge wind turbine blade damage.
03 June, 2010
China Windpower and Liaoning Energy will establish 18 new joint ventures (JVs) in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China, for the development of 900 MW of wind power projects.
03 June, 2010
Touted as an industry-first, the service streamlines wireless account management for wind measurement campaigns.
03 June, 2010
AMEC and its 50:50 joint venture (JV) partner, Black & McDonald, will engineer, procure and construct the Catham Wind Power project in Catham-Kent, Ontario, Canada for Kruger Energy.
02 June, 2010
AREVA has bought the remaining 49% of German offshore wind turbine manufacturer Multibrid, which becomes AREVA Wind.
02 June, 2010