News Archive November 2007

Nordex: New orders from China

Delivery of 28 MW turbines for two wind farms in Ningxia

Nordex China focusing on expansion

EUR 50 million earmarked for extensions to Chinese facilities

Hawaii - Harnessing the wind on Kauai

The island’s first significant source of wind energy

Canada - Creating tornadoes as a new way of generating wind energy?

Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) – a process for taking waste heat from power plants, or warm water from tropical oceans, to create a vortex

Namibia: Mile 7 wind turbine running again

Successful experiment to study the potential of wind-farming in Namibia

The Netherlands - Wind turbine maker Emergya Wind Technologies to expand production

Mexico - VienTek LLC opens second wind blade plant

Past producution exceeding more than 4,000 wind turbine blades

India - GFL to invest Rs 6,000 cr to produce 1,000 MW of wind energy within the next five years

REpower restructures management level

- Current Supervisory Board members - Dr. Hans-Joachim Reh and Dr. Jorge Martins resign from office at the end of the year

Horizon Wind Energy places order with Vestas for V90-3.0 MW wind turbines

Greenpeace - China should set more ambitious wind power targets

BWEA Parliamentary Briefing

Queen's Speech - 6th November 2007

The 2009 European Wind Energy Conference to take place in Marseille

Delivering energy and climate solutions, 16 – 19 March 2009, Marseille, France

USA - GE Unit Invests in Texas Wind Farm

New Member On Windfair.net: World Wide Wind Turbines b.v.

* manufacturers/distributors of large wind turbines

Canada - CanWEA Seminar on wind turbine operations and maintenance

Workshop for Owners, Operators, Developers and Trainers/November 21-22 2007, Delta Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec

Siemens receives major order for wind turbines from Canada

2007 wind orders from North America worth more than USD1.1 billion

New Member On Windfair.net: IPB Consulting

* development / calculation / analysis

USA - Wind energy installations projected to jump 63 percent in 2007

U.S. wind industry is on track to complete a total of 4,000 megawatts worth of installations

Canada invests in largest wind energy project

The wind farm’s 126 turbines are capable of generating up to 189 megawatts of clean, renewable power, enough to power nearly 40,000 homes

Germany - Nordex to deliver 60 turbines to BP Alternative Energy

Delivery of 60 N90/2500 kilowatt turbines

USA - Xcel may pump billions into wind power

Nordex with double-digit growth in the top and bottom lines

Sales increased to EUR 493 million / EBIT up almost double to EUR 23 million.

New Zealand - Windflow to increase turbine production

Orders confirmed for 44 Windflow 500 turbines to be delivered over the next 18 months

SSB-Service launches new rotor blade service

Status on patent disputes with Enercon GmbH, Mr Aloys Wobben

REpower: Best prepared for further growth

- Release of nine-month report 2007

USA - No objection to huge Nevada wind farm

$1 billion project moving closer to reality

New Member On Windfair.net: Green I Brokers

* service providers related to wind energy

Denmark - Export of wind turbines reaches record-high

USA - AWEA raises estimate for 2007 wind installations

Siemens finalizes largest wind turbine order in Ontario

Wolfe Island project will supply clean energy for 75,000 households

Wind turbine blades manufactured at LM Glasfiber's Grand Forks plant range in length from about 120 feet to about 145 feet long and can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds

BWEA welcomes prime minister’s pledge to ‘increase renewable energy sources’

Gordon Brown: ‘This means facing up to the hard choices and taking tough decisions… it means governing, not gimmickry. And that is what we will do.’

CanWEA Seminar on Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance

Workshop for Owners, Operators, Developers and Trainers/November 21-22 2007, Delta Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec

India - Suzlon signs new Australian orders

GL - No Longer Wishful Thinking: Largest Offshore Wind Farm in the UK

Vestas to ship wind generators to Canada

With total wind power capacity of 1,451 mw by the end of 2006, Canada is emerging as a leading potential market for wind power generation

USA - Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable and cheaper power source

Study by Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson

Vestas to establish a new research centre in the USA

"Energy Autonomy: Come to action!"

REpower delivers 25 turbines (50 MW) to new US customer Cannon Power

Siemens to supply wind and steam turbines for renewable energy projects in Spain

Order volume more than EUR170 million

Australia - Babcock, Conergy Listed for Australia Wind Power Plan (Update1)

Country's biggest wind power supply contract to date

Europe - Commission’s technology plan brings hope but lacks clarity

Wind energy is a key technology to meet the 20% renewables target, but it still needs better focus, greater clarity and to set priorities.

Garrad Hassan Group opens new office in Turkey

AWEA Wind Power Asset Management Workshop

January 17 - 18, 2008 / San Diego, CA

Plambeck Neue Energien AG completes restructuring

Emerging Energy Research (EER) report: Global wind power base expected to triple by 2015

Cumulative installed bases expected to rise from approx. 91 GW by the end of 2007 to over 290 GW by the end of 2015

Nigeria - Federal Government sets up wind energy plant

Pilot project in Katsina State established

Invenergy to buy 800 MW of GE wind power turbines

Invenergy currently has 13 wind farms with a capacity of more than 1,200 MW in operation and construction in the United States and Europe

India - Six wind power projects in the planning

Gross wind power potential of 5,400 megawatts estimated

Offshore Wind 2007: Not too late to attend

It’s not too late to join the debate – register on-site in Berlin

Ocean-going ships look to wind power

Proponents say kites will help slash fuel consumption.

China - Bidding to open on fifth annual round of wind farm projects

Any project with an installed capacity of over 50 MW needs to be approved by the central government's NDRC

USA - Hawaiian Electric offers wind data to renewable developers

Data free of charge to any interested wind energy developer

First North American World Wind Energy Conference and Renewable Energy Job Fair Announced: Keynote Speakers include Hermann Scheer and David Suzuki