News Archive February 2009

India - Proven Energy installs wind turbine in Goa

Proven Energy has already installed eight wind turbines for The Polar Foundation, located in Antarctica at the Princess Elisabeth Station in 2008

IPEK energy goes Romania

ZORLU and HESCO ink agreement on establishing wind farm for power generation in Pakistan

First Wind Farm in Pakistan

Wind power is providing a vital service for Brazil's electricity supply system by balancing out periods when the country's hydro power plants are struggling to meet demand

Climate change and energy security drive global wind power boom

US & China markets break all previous records

USA - Wind energy grows by record 8,300 MW in 2008

Smart policies, stimulus bill needed to maintain momentum in 2009

USA - New forecasts aim to help with wind energy

"Currently, if (utilities) don't trust the forecasts for wind, they can't rely completely on wind and have to have alternative services ready to go,"

USA - Wind turbine maker Vestas could do business in Bay State

The world’s largest turbine maker could eventually become a customer of the Charlestown-based wind testing facility being built by the U.S. Department of Energy

The Wind Day goes global

Promoting wind energy around the world

Costa Rica - Reno wind-turbine maker expands to Costa Rica

Mariah Power installs one of the company’s propeller-free vertical axis wind turbines - the Windspire

USA - AWEA Wind & Transmission Workshop

March 17 - 18, 2009 / Overland Park, KS

Spain - Gamesa awarded 104MW wind turbine contract

By the end of 2020, the installed power will amount to 500 MW, expects the company

Germany - Nordex with above-average growth

New installed capacity up 60% in 2008

USA - NACEL Energy announces 10MW Hedley Pointe, TX Wind Farm

Company's fourth Texas power project

Middle East - Iran to build wind power plant in Pakistan

Iran has won the tender of a $50 million 220/132 KV electricity station

The new bearing assemblies offer the advantages of a standardisation of the bearings used in this application, a reduced diversity of parts and simplified logistics

China - Largest wind power facility R&D center to be established in Xi'an

Four billion yuan will be invested first in six wind power product manufacturing projects, which are scheduled to be completed in 2011

Nordex UK obtains orders for 52.5 MW

21 N90/2500 turbines for SWS Energy and GDF SUEZ

USA - Accio energy wins NSF grant to develop game changing wind energy technology

NSF grant will fund development of product prototypes and a computer model that predicts their efficiency

USA - The future of charging MP3s, cell phones and digital cameras?

The HYmini Handheld Wind Turbine

New Mexico - Wind farm operators learn wind energy trade

"They can't get enough qualified people"

Adelanto-based defense and aeronautics company Exquadrum is working on an innovative wind turbine that could cost much less than — and outpower — the largest existing wind turbines

With a total installed capacity of 26MW and an estimated annual production of 71GWh, the wind power plant will save the environment from approximately 29,000 tons of CO2 emissions

USA - Upstate New York power grid receives 330 MW wind power boost

Completion of the Altona, Chateaugay and Wethersfield wind parks reached

REpower Systems AG announces financial figures for first nine months of fiscal year 2008/09 (01.04.2008 – 31.12.2008)

Czech Republic - Electricity production nearly doubles in 2008

Country has the potential to generate around 6 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity from wind, which would cover the consumption of some 4 million people

France - Vestas receives 12 turbine order

contract includes supply, installation, commissioning, a VestasOnline SCADA system and a 10-year service agreement

USA - American Superconductor and DOE to assess large wind turbine design

Objective is to find a way to make production of a full 10 megawatt class superconductor wind turbine economically attractive

USA - Wind turbine is taken for its first spin

"After 200 years, we've returned to wind power"

USA - Wind turbine perched atop Corning Tower

The Swift rooftop wind turbine produces 1.5 kilowatts of electricity when spinning at full capacity

"This is a great opportunity for Cleanfield to be included in such a high profile installation in Western Canada on the rooftop of a brand new commercial airport hangar"

Denmark - Vestas wind turbines prove resilient amid economic gloom

Danish company's sales and profits remain strong

India - Proven Energy installs wind turbine in Goa

New wave of renewable energy in the Indian market

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008

Introduction and Global Wind Energy Highlights

Product Pick of the Week - The Switch

The Switch announces technologies to enable wind installations to more effectively capture wind power and transform it to significantly higher energy production

Middle East - EU to fund wind energy project for Hebron hospital

Contribution to this project is 1.3 million Euros, equivalent to 80% of the total cost

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008

General Situation & Leading Wind Markets 2008

REpower and RWE Innogy agree major framework agreement for the offshore wind industry

USA - Hexcel follows Vestas to North Colorado

Company supplies a key component used in the construction of Vestas' wind-turbine blades.

“Globally, wind power is growing at a rate of about 30 percent annually and is widely used in several European countries. This assessment is an ongoing commitment by BMW to investigate renewable energy options”

Upon completion, the project will be Principle’s first commercial release of its WindFloat system, a floating foundation with features to dampen wave and wind turbine-induced motion

Ukraine - Cabinet approves wind power station construction

Ukranian government passes resolution to carry out investment projects for the construction of wind power stations in the Crimean and Mykolayiv Region

REpower celebrates the laying of the foundation stone of its new development centre

Ceremony in the presence of Minister Marnette Relocation to the new building scheduled for beginning of 2010

LAWEA WORKSHOP: Development, Implementation and Operation of Wind Farms in Latin America

Product Pick of the Week - The new BGB Axial Multimode Optilinc System

BGB Engineering manufactures new contactless slip ring

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008 (Part 2)

Diversification continues/Increasing growth rates/Wind energy as an answer to the global crises

Siemens continues to invest in wind energy R&D to reduce investment risks and improve project economics for wind farm owners and operators

Australia - Suzlon to supply wind turbines to AGL Energy

54 units of Suzlon's S88 2.1 MW wind turbine generators to be supplied

Antarctica - Wind turbine for outpost undergoing trial

Should the new 6 KW wind turbine clear its trial, fuel costs borne at the station should be more than halved

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008 (Part 3)

Wind energy as a low-risk investment / Employment: Wind energy as job generator / Future prospects worldwide /