News Archive March 2008

Spain - Vestas wins Spanish order for 32 wind turbines

USA - Xcel can capture wind power – now it seeks to store energy

Cutting-edge test project to store wind energy in batteries for future use

New Member On Windfair.net: Composotech Structures Inc.

* service: maintenance and service of WPP

Vestas receives order for 109 turbines in the USA

MEXICO - WIND EXPO LAWEA 2008

New Member On Windfair.net: Sterr-Kölln & Partner GbR

* service providers: lawyers / tax consultants

USA - From wind to fuel cells, wireless carriers look at making towers greener

WKN sells German project to International Power

India - Potential of small hydro & wind power

60,000 MW

Canada - Swift turbines, small-scale mini wind turbines being marketed

"It's a new genre for the marketplace,"

REpower Systems AG achieves goals for the 2007 fiscal year and raises forecast

Rise in sales by 48.2% to EUR 680.2 m

Garrad Hassan breaks the 3GW mark with GH Forecaster

Garrad Hassan (GH) announces reaching its target for 2007, providing reliable forecasts for 3GW of wind energy worldwide.

USA - GE supplying wind turbines to Renewable Energy Systems for projects to be developed in 2009 and 2010

Agreements exceeding $700 million to receive GE Energy 1.5-megawatt wind turbines

Canada - Fire chief sees wind turbine as money-saver

"It's not going to run the station, but it will keep the critical things running should there be a power failure,"

CanWEA WIND MATTERS 2008 - Wind Energy Project Siting Seminar

April 9 - 10, 2008 / The Coast Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre / Calgary, Alberta

Canada - Wind Simplicity’s Windancer wins gold at the 2007 Design Exchange Awards

The high-efficiency compact noise-free Windancer horizontal wind turbine is adaptable to urban or rural use

Wind Powering America Update

France - AAER creates European division in partnership with Valorem

European Wind Day 2008 Sunday 15 June

Discover the unlimited power of wind in your country and across Europe!

Iraq - Wind energy used to power water pumps

Wind powered pumps supply enough water every hour to supply more than 100 local villagers with drinking water

Denmark - Vestas opens Colorado plant

Production of blades for 600 turbines annually expected

UK - Government gives green light to micro wind

New legislation to be introduced to relax planning rules for micro- and small-wind projects

Germany - Record earnings for Repower

Orders in hand for 636 wind turbines with a contract value of 1.3 billion euros

UK - BWEA welcomes budget steps on renewable energy

“This budget begins to map out a new policy deal for renewable energy”

UK - Scottish Government Study Debunks Turbines and Tourism Myth

“97 % say wind farms would have no impact on their decision to visit Scotland again”

Klüber Lubrication offers dialogue: Insiders' knowledge on the topic 'Reliable lubrication of wind turbines'

USA - One more additional $1B wind turbine deal for GE Energy

GE Energy has secured its second contract valued at more than $1 billion in recent months to provide wind turbines for Invenergy

Turkey - Zorlu's 300 Mln Euro wind power investment

"The weather vanes will start producing energy in mid-2009"

USA - Nordic Windpower to open a new manufacturing plant in Pocatello

Production of 20 turbines per month by September 2009 anticipated

New Great Lakes Wind Collaborative to Hold 1st Annual Meeting

UK - Wind industry adopts new standards for domestic wind turbines

“This standard goes further than any other national document in defining noise parameters, to help prevent nuisance.”

USA - Wind-power factory to open in Oelwein

161,000-square-foot facility will become the headquarters and production facility for Sector 5 Technologies

USA - Second wind contract announced for northern New Brunswick

China doubles 2010 wind power capacity target

National Development and Reform Commission releases its renewable energy development plan for the 2006 to 2010 period

Belgium - Samtech launches SAMCEF v1.1 for wind turbines

Dedicated to wind turbines design and verification in dynamic conditions

USA - New prepreg dedicated to the manufacture of wind turbine blades

HexPly® M19 is a major step forward in prepregs for wind energy

India - 27 locations in harnessing wind power

Wind power capacity of 7844 MW installed as of 31 December 2007

UK - NorWind chosen by Statkraft to conduct concept study of offshore wind power

study aims to narrow the gap between today’s wind-power technology for shallow waters and the deepwater technology of the future

USA - Nacel Energy optimizes wind power generation with industry leading technology

USA - American Superconductor lands two new orders for its wind turbine electrical

South Africa - Largest wind infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide partial solution to South Africa’s energy crisis

Opportunity to sign several agreements between Agence Française de Développement

South Africa - Flooring company turns to wind power

“The type we envisage using are not available in this country.”

USA - 20 MW of new wind energy capacity to be added by Nacel Energy

Company to develop 20-megawatt Blue Creek wind energy project north of Amarillo, TX

REpower Supervisory Board concludes enlargement of Executive Board to four members

Lars Rytter will be responsible for purchasing, production and logistics

Voith Turbo Wind Among the Finalists for the "Innovation Prize in German Industry"

A very good annual result for ABO Wind

* Clear profit growth anticipated

Canada - Distributed Energy Systems places wind turbine orders with major Canadian power company

Three Northwind 100 turbines will be installed in Ramea, a small remote island on the south coast of Newfoundland

New Member On Windfair.net: TorcUP Inc.

* WPP suppliers: tools

Egypt - Potential for wind and solar power is massive

Egypt’s wind power capacity ranked 21st in the world, producing about 310 MW up from 145 in 2005

Poland - RWE Innogy to install 200 MW of wind energy

Sites located in Masuria and Pomerania

TorcUP Unleashes the RAPTOR Pneumatic Torque Wrench

windfair.net at EWEC 2008 in Brussels

Italy - Enel to utilize wind power as energy alternative

Enel plans to spend $10.7 billion in the five years through 2012 on technologies such as wind farms, solar power, and carbon capture and storage

China - Country's 3rd largest wind power plant to complete construction in Aug

China's installed capacity of wind power to hit 10 million kilowatt this year, and the figure is expected to double in 2010

USA - Restec's Mark 10E wind turbine poised to fill major void

Producers of the world's most powerful water pumping windmill

European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition: Senior decision-makers to present their vision for the next generation of energy supply

Brussels, 31 March – 3 April 2008 / Europe’s premier wind energy event

New Member On Windfair.net: EDAG-SIGMA Concurrent Engineering GmbH

* service providers related to wind energy

REpower Systems AG expects balanced result in short fiscal year 2008

- Presentation of the final annual results for 2007

Siemens to supply 130 wind turbines for two wind farms in Washington State

Shanghai International Wind Energy Exhibition & Conference 2008

25 - 27 April 2008 / Shanghai

With ambitious EU legislation, wind energy can provide huge benefits to Europe

Germanischer Lloyd at EWEC 2008: Wind Energy Plants: Germanischer Lloyd presents New Technical Note for Fire Protection Systems

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