The European Union’s High Power, High Reliability Offshore Wind Technology (HiPRWind) project is looking into the development of up to 20 MW offshore wind turbines.
31 March, 2011
The Scottish Government has approved a 69 MW extension to the Black Law wind farm and the 69 MW Blackcraig wind farm.
30 March, 2011
Vestas has unveiled its 7 MW V164 offshore wind turbine, which could see the first prototype developed in 2012.
30 March, 2011
PNE Wind is upping its cumulative EBIT forecast for the period 2011-2013 to €60-72 million as offshore wind activities increase.
30 March, 2011
The Scottish Government has published a plan for offshore wind development in Scotland's seas, confirming that offshore wind power developments are viable in at least 6 sites that could total nearly 5 GW by 2020.
29 March, 2011
Vestas has confirmed it is in negotiations with a consortium planning a near 400 MW wind farm in Mexico.
29 March, 2011
PensionDanmark and PKA will acquire 50% of the Anholt offshore wind farm for DKK6 billion from DONG Energy.
29 March, 2011
REpower Systems AG is selling the major assets of its logistics subsidiary Windenergie Logistik GmbH (WEL) to Universal Windkraft Logistik GmbH (UWL).
29 March, 2011
The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is to conduct a four-year meteorological measuring programme in the Dutch North Sea zones to aid the planning of offshore wind farms.
25 March, 2011
Alstom has upgraded its 3 MW ECO 100 wind turbines with a capacity factor increase of 8-15% across wind classes.
24 March, 2011
The first REpower 5M 5 MW offshore wind turbine has been installed at the 150 MW Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Cumbria, UK.
24 March, 2011
E.ON has been granted planning permission to build a 47.5 MW onshore wind farm near Garve in the Scottish Highlands.
23 March, 2011
Doosan Power Systems will invest up to £170 million in the Scottish offshore wind industry over the next decade, which includes an R&D centre of excellence for renewables.
22 March, 2011
The Materials Research Division at Risø DTU will develop the scientific basis and computational tools for the microstructural optimisation of wind turbine blade materials with the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing.
22 March, 2011
The €170 million project will reportedly provide 8% of the island’s electricity generation capacity.
21 March, 2011
"The Switch" is a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages that capture power from sources such as wind and solar.
21 March, 2011
A study has found that there have not been extensive issues with shadow flicker from wind turbines in the UK.
18 March, 2011
GE introduced a 4.1 MW direct drive offshore wind turbine at EWEA 2011 in Brussels this week.
17 March, 2011
The 2011 Poul la Cour Prize for pioneering wind energy work, was presented at EWEA 2011 to Henrik Stiesdal, Chief Officer at Siemens Wind Power, who built his first wind turbine from scrap metal in the late 1970s.
17 March, 2011
At EWEA 2011 in Brussels, Belgium, the wind industry raised the question of what politicians mean when they talk about low-carbon energy as opposed to renewable energy.
17 March, 2011
The EU needs to adopt binding renewable energy targets for 2030 to ensure long-term investment, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
17 March, 2011
Dutch company EverkinetIQ International has developed its first small wind turbine based on a glass fibre reinforced ASA resin from BASF.
17 March, 2011
China could surpass 70 GW of installed wind power in 2015 under the country’s new Five Year Plan, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
16 March, 2011
Vestas’ 6 MW offshore wind turbine, which will be presented later this month, will be deployed by PNE Wind at Gode Wind III of the German coast.
16 March, 2011
Alstom Wind is going offshore with its new 6 MW permanent magnet direct drive wind turbine.
15 March, 2011
SGS Industrial Services will provide quality control services of wind towers for Goldwind, based in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.
15 March, 2011
The Renewable Energy Focus team is at the European Wind Energy Association's annual conference and exhibition EWEA 2011.
14 March, 2011
The operation of the transmission link for the 180 MW Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the UK has been licensed.
14 March, 2011
ACCIONA Energy begins construction of its first wind farm in Poland which is to be situated at Golice in the west of the country.
11 March, 2011
GDF SUEZ will install Moventas’ wind turbine condition management system at three wind farms in Canada.
11 March, 2011
A joint venture between Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) Plc and Marsh Wind Technology Ltd seeks to save the Skykon wind turbine tower manufacturing and assembly plant in Campbeltown, Scotland.
10 March, 2011
Wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa is expanding its presence in India by building new manufacturing plants and a wind power technology centre.
10 March, 2011
Statkraft has opened the 9.2 MW wind farm, Em, the company's first wind farm in Sweden.
09 March, 2011
Vertical axis offshore wind turbines could provide an alternative to conventional horizontal turbine designs, according to the Energy Technologies Institute.
09 March, 2011
A new report predicts that the global wind turbine market will expand in 2011, with an estimated growth of 18%, after the global growth in new grid connected wind capacity slowed in 2010.
08 March, 2011
EWEA 2011: A roadmap defining an ambitious, but realistic target and development pathway to 2030 for offshore wind in the Central and Southern North will be presented at EWEA 2011 in Brussels next week.
07 March, 2011
REpower Systems AG will introduce a 3.2 MW wind turbine with a hub height of 143 m at the European Wind Energy Association’s EWEA 2011 in Belgium this month.
04 March, 2011
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04 March, 2011
The UK’s first commercial onshore wind farm has reopened following a £11.8 million investment.
04 March, 2011
PowerWind GmbH has sold 10 of its 900 kW wind turbines to Bulgaria for projects around the Black Sea and inland.
03 March, 2011
China’s Dongfang Turbine Co Ltd has ordered wind turbine electrical control systems for its 3 MW and 5 MW wind turbines from American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC).
03 March, 2011
Evoco Energy’s 10 kW small-scale wind turbine has achieved Microgeneration Certification Sceme (MCS) accreditation becoming one of 7 wind turbines to be currently MCS-accredited in the UK.
03 March, 2011
Scottish and Southern Energy has decided to focus on the development of the Islay wind farm site instead.
03 March, 2011
Two further Hexcel HexPly® unidirectional carbon fibre prepregs have been certified by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) for use in the manufacture of wind turbine blades.
03 March, 2011
Nexans is due to start the production of 160 km of medium voltage cables for Denmark’s biggest offshore wind farm.
02 March, 2011
Global offshore wind and solar energy markets continued to grow steadily last year, according to Ernst & Young.
02 March, 2011
Planning for Gaelectric’s 42 MW wind farm in Londonderry has been approved.
01 March, 2011