Effective February 1, 2012, Shmuel Fledel (58) will become CEO of the Solar Thermal Energy Business Unit in the Solar & Hydro Division of Siemens Energy. Fledel is an aeronautical engineer and has vast experience in production process improvement. He has profound knowledge of engineering, finance and marketing, which he gained in various high-level management… Read more »
WindFloat | Hempel, the world-leading coatings supplier, is taking part in a project to performance test an offshore corrosion protection system on WindFloat, a semi-submersible floating structure for offshore wind turbines that has been deployed with a 2MW Vestas turbine off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal. Hempel provides test products for the following WindFloat sections:… Read more »
Siemens HCPV module partner Semprius achieves world record for photovoltaic module efficiency The solar company Semprius, in which Siemens has invested as a strategic partner in June 2011, achieved a world record for photovoltaic module efficiency of 33.9 percent. This result was externally certified after measurement under standard test conditions at the Instituto de Energía… Read more »
Siemens Energy has secured its first wind turbine orders with a total capacity of 100 MW in Africa. Nareva Holding and Siemens signed a contract for the delivery of a total of 44 wind turbines for the Haouma and Foum El Oued Wind Power Plants in Morocco. The scope of supply includes the delivery, installation… Read more »
In response to an increasing number of press inquiries about the sums of money paid to wind farms to reduce output (the so-called ‘constraint payments’) Renewable Energy Foundation (REF[1]) is today publishing a new online database giving analysed details of all wind farms constrained off the system through the Balancing Mechanism, which is operated by… Read more »
Once again, we’ve polled thousands of our readers and asked them where they believe wind power is heading, and where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats lie. The questions went out to our respondents in the closing months of 2011, and the answers here serve as a litmus for perhaps the most significant year our… Read more »
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer at Sixpenny Wood wind farm for AES Wind Generation, a subsidiary of the energy company AES Corporation. Construction on the farm, located in East Riding of Yorkshire, is expected to commence in February 2012 and will comprise of 10 REpower 2.05MW… Read more »
Within the framework of the call for bids announced in France to construct five offshore wind farms (3,000 MWe), the GDF-Suez/Vinci and Iberdrola/Eole Res consortiums, with each of which our group has signed a strategic partnership agreement, submitted their bids on January 11.These bids will be evaluated on the basis of three criteria:§ The quality… Read more »
2011 proved a record year for Evance Wind Turbines, the leading UK manufacturer of small wind turbines. The Leicestershire-based manufacturer has seen sales grow by over 200 percent over the last 12 months, and enters 2012 with a strong forward order book for the company’s innovative R9000 small wind turbine. Evance has seen a large… Read more »
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has been awarded a contract to carry out an energy yield assessment and site classification study for the permitted 230MW Humber Gateway offshore wind farm project in the UK by international energy utility E.ON. The Round 2 wind farm, located 8km off the Holderness coast, East Riding… Read more »
Consortium including wpd submits four projects forming the basis for a sustainable French wind energy equipment manufacturing industry with Alstom Paris, 11 January 2012. The consortium led by EDF Energies Nouvelles has today submitted four robust and realistic projects in response to the French offshore wind energy call for tenders. These projects go hand in… Read more »
Commercial arbitration between AMSC (American Superconductor Corporation) and Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd will begin on Monday, January 9. This hearing with the Beijing Arbitration Commission is the first in a series of cases, which includes the biggest intellectual property claim ever made in Chinese courts. AMSC has filed civil lawsuits and an arbitration case… Read more »
Leading international renewable energy consultancy Natural Power announces this week the release of WindManager – a groundbreaking wind farm portfolio information system increasing profitability of wind farm operations – to the US market at the AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance & Reliability Seminar in San Diego, California. WindManager is a turbine independent system based on… Read more »
Wind energy from Britain’s leading green energy company, Ecotricity, increased by 13% in 2011 when compared like-for-like to the previous year – with a particularly windy final quarter to the year up 30% on 2010. Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said: “There were whole months during 2011 when wind energy contributed over 10% of the Britain’s… Read more »
DNV has acquired 74.3% of KEMA’s shares, creating a world-leading consulting and certification company within the cleaner energy, sustainability, power generation, transmission and distribution sectors. DNV and KEMA will form a world-leading energy consulting, testing and certification company that can drive the worldwide transition towards a safe, reliable, efficient and clean energy ecosystem. DNV KEMA… Read more »
Eyebrows are often raised on hearing the declaration that the UK is a world leader. With regards to offshore wind power generation, that declaration is true. A recent industry conference, hosted by MPA-The Concrete Centre, heard how the concrete sector has the solutions and capacity to ensure that UK offshore wind generation continues to power… Read more »
A 30 MW wind farm in Texas will open with 12, 2.5 MW turbines. Nordex USA Inc. announced the new order from developer WKN USA LLC, for its 30 MW Mozart Wind Farm. The 12 Nordex N100/2500 wind turbines on 80-m towers will be located about 60 miles northwest of Abilene, in an area that… Read more »
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has now reached a total of 14 fully certified users of the widely used WAsP software. WAsP (the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) is the wind energy industry’s standard software for performing wind flow modelling and analysis for wind farm energy yield assessments in non-complex flow… Read more »
The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has started the award process for Phase 1 of the ZÈFIR Test Station, the first offshore wind turbine platform of its kind in Spain for conducting technological and environmental research. The Zèfir Test Station is to become an international research platform for testing deep water wind turbines that… Read more »
– Innovative financing exceeds £10 million target – Britons have proved their appetite for Green Energy remains undiminished – with Ecotricity’s innovative ecobond two bypassing the success of ecobond one.Britain’s leading green energy company was seeking £10 million of funding from customers and the public to help accelerate the building of new Green Energy projects… Read more »
CG, part of the US$ 4bn Avantha Group and global electrical solution provider, is part of the consortium of four companies that has bagged a prestigious turnkey contract from Amrumbank West GmbH (AWG) for its German wind farm project. Amrumbank West GmbH (AWG) is a 100% subsidiary of E.ON Climate & Renewables Central Europe GmbH…. Read more »
More than twenty UK wind farm sites adopt Natural Power’s ForeSiteTM wind forecasting service for energy trading and grid notification purposes In the last six months more than twenty wind farms in the UK have moved to leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, to provide their wind farm production forecasting service, ForeSite for energy… Read more »
Evance R9000 turbine performs perfectly despite peak gusts of 138mph – confirms small wind’s ability to deliver in the most extreme conditions Last week’s violent Atlantic storm brought extremely high winds to the West and North of Scotland, with the Met Office recording maximum wind gusts of 165mph on Cairngorm Summit and 145mph at Aonach… Read more »
In publishing the 2010 Sustainability Report, CENTROTEC Sustainable AG has carried out a first official analysis of its own carbon footprint and of other sustainability-related data such as the consumption of resources, health and safety at work, and aspects of social responsibility. This report was preceded by a process of collecting non-financial data that is… Read more »
Amrumbank West project with installed capacity of 288 megawatts to go online in 2015 Siemens Energy has received another large order to build an offshore wind power plant in Germany. For the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, the company is supplying 80 wind turbines, each with an output of 3.6 megawatts (MW) and… Read more »
The Global Wind Energy Council welcomed the agreement reached at COP 17 in Durban yesterday, but warned that both the level of ambition and the speed of the negotiations needed to increase dramatically to meet the challenge of global climate change. “Yesterday’s agreement was a victory for multilateralism and the climate process”, said GWEC Secretary… Read more »
Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI), with more than 35 years of world-class measurement equipment experience, has today announced the selection of wind lidar system ZephIR 300 as the company’s remote sensing solution for providing the US wind energy market with accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm development project. ZephIR 300, provided by… Read more »
NGenTec has announced the completion of its blue-chip management team as it continues to make progress towards its goal of becoming a major player in the fast-developing offshore wind sector. The latest key appointment at the Edinburgh-based company – which designs and supplies low, medium speed and direct drive permanent magnet generators – is that… Read more »
Siemens and Shanghai Electric intend to set up two new joint ventures to form a strategic alliance for the Chinese wind power market. Corresponding agreements were signed on December 8, 2011, in Shanghai by the two companies. The aim of this alliance is to better serve China as the world’s largest wind power market. In… Read more »
The renewable energy sector is quickly turning into a profitable business: in 2010 investment in the renewable energy projects exceeded the ones in fossil fuel demonstrating a new trend in investors’ strategy. Offshore wind, with its incomparably high energy production per hour witnessed important developments during 2011: RWE The fifth largest utility company in Europe,… Read more »
enXco Service Corporation (eSC), an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, has signed a multiyear agreement with MidAmerican Energy Company to provide operations and maintenance services for 477 megawatts of wind-powered generating capacity. At the conclusion of a competitive tender process, eSC was chosen by MidAmerican Energy to provide the services for four wind projects located in… Read more »
Global Experience Specialists(GES) a leader in exhibition, event and retail marketing services, announced today that American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has appointed GES as its official services provider for its show beginning in 2012. The five-year agreement includes WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition, Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition and the Small & Community WINDPOWER Conference &… Read more »
At long last the South African renewable energy industry is ready to take off. The South African Department of Energy announced the winning bids from the first round of tenders for renewable energy projects in the margins of COP 17 this morning. 630 MW of wind projects and a similar quantity of solar pv projects… Read more »
DNV is launching new design software for ultimate strength and fatigue analysis of offshore wind turbine structures – Sesam GeniE Wind. Building on 40 years as a leading design tool for engineering floating and fixed offshore structures, the new Sesam module uniquely addresses the wind industry’s need to model the combined effect of wind and… Read more »
EU wind power makes step to 30% EU emissions cut possibleThe wind power industry released figures showing how wind power could meet up to 70% of Copenhagen pledges on the basis of current growth rates and projections for 2020. A new report released by the European Wind Energy association showed how wind power alone will… Read more »
A Scottish company is to announce at the world’s largest offshore wind energy event plans to build and test innovative generator technology designed to produce maximum energy at minimum cost. Edinburgh-based NGenTec, which designs and supplies permanent magnet generators for wind turbines, will unveil its plans for novel prototype at EWEA Offshore 2011, to be… Read more »