News Archive March 2009

Canada - Government of Ontario wants feed-in tariffs and proposes Green Energy Act

WWEA letter to Minister Smitherman

As long as use is made of up-to-date wind forecasts, Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power

AWEA Wind & Transmission Workshop

March 17 - 18, 2009 Overland Park, KS

USA - New York reaches 1,000 MW of wind power for the 1st time

On February 19, the wind output reached 1,000 MW, providing close to 5 percent of the 21,000 MW of total system demand

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008 (Part 4)

Continental distribution / Asia / Africa

Germany - REpower Systems AG and RWE Innogy GmbH sign framework agreement

250 REpower 5M/6M offshore wind energy units ordered

Special Edition: World Wind Energy Report 2008 (Part 5)

Australia and Oceania / Europe / Latin America / North America

“It’s very important that we make European turbine and turbine component manufacturers aware of the range of wind industry resources and opportunities that await them in North Dakota”

USA - Principle Power raising $20M to build World’s first floating wind farm

Offshore wind turbines are not new, but all existing systems rest on the ocean floor in relatively shallow water

Japan - Japan-Power buys controlling stake in in 3 wind farms

The combined output capacity for the three comes to about 45,000kw

China - Huadian to expand wind power production capacity

Another 0.822 GW of wind power production capacity this year to be added, which would add up to a total production of 1 GW

Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Notice to convene annual general meeting

To the shareholders of Vestas Wind Systems A/S

Siemens reaches long-term cooperation agreement with Fluor

GreenEnergyWorld starts project acquisition in the French wind energy market

UK - PM’s announcement backs BWEA findings

Wind, wave and tidal energy will create jobs

India - Spanish wind turbine makers keen to supply components

"Spain hosts the third largest wind energy industry in the world with a power output of 16000 MW"

USA - Siemens begins shipping turbine blades by rail

The company introduces a more reliable, greener and cost-effective method of transporting blades across the U.S.

New online tool launched to help businesses and consumers considering installing a wind turbine to work out how much power it could generate alongside the cost and carbon savings

Erlangen, Germany, March 6, 2009

USA - Clean energy summit brings together national leaders

AWEA CEO Denise Bode joins roundtable event with an A-List of prominent leaders

China - Suzlon awarded 100MW wind turbine supply order

Agreement signd for the supply of wind turbines with a total capacity of 100MW

South Africa - Study for R850 million wind farm to start this month

It is anticipated that the St Helena Bay Wind Farm would be able to generate up to 2% of the entire Western Cape's 3500 MW summer requirements

Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Major shareholder announcements

Major shareholder announcement - ATP and ATP Invest

USA - Officials in Oklahoma to attract wind power industry

Officials to attend the 2009 European Wind Energy Conference

USA - Ion sets wind energy in motion

Small company unveils new turbine with help from state's Green Energy Fund

Siemens introduces powerful wind turbine for low to medium wind speeds New machine with 101-meter rotor completes Siemens 2.3-MW class and is ready for delivery

EWEC 2009 Marseille, France, March 16, 2009

USA - GE Energy turbine sales to grow fivefold in Europe

"Last year we announced the introduction of our 2.5 MW machine which we think will adapt well in Europe,"

China - LM Glasfiber supplies wind turbine blades to Goldwind

The wind turbine blade supply agreement involves an 1100 MW increase in shipments of wind turbine blades for Goldwind’s 1.5 MW wind turbines from 2009 to 2012

Spain - Automating wind turbine blade manufacture

Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica and M.Torres Diseños Industriales cooperate on R&D for a new concept for wind turbine blade design

USA - Wind power considered for water treatment plant

Preliminary analysis has shown a wind turbine could provide about two-thirds of the energy needed to run the water utility

NRG Systems and Leosphere announce global partnership taking wind measurement to new heights

"The impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on NACEL Energy's expected cash flow from our four Texas projects, now underway, is extremely positive..."

USA - Study finds wind power economically, environmentally advantageous when coupled with grid improvements

Study - "Transmission Super Highway: Benefits of Extra High Voltage Transmission Overlays,"

Canada - Solar and wind power among the most cost-effective programs to reduce greenhouse gases

Study: "Going Green for Less: Cost-Effective Alternative Energy Sources"

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First Annual WINDPOWER Scholarship 5k Race Thursday, May 7, 6:30 am

Romania - GE Energy to supply 140 wind turbines for country's windfarms

The projects signify the largest installation, in terms of power generation capacity, of GE's wind turbines in Europe to date

Canada - AAER sells wind turbine to Hyundai Heavy Industries

Agreement for the sale of a 1.65 MW wind turbine signed

Product Pick of the Week - The WindCore Domestic Wind Turbine

Searching for more and more effective domestic wind turbine solutions

USA - Wind turbines for highway rest areas?

32 rest stops and over 20 weigh stations in Illinois evaluated to determine the cost of installing and maintaining wind turbines versus the cost of energy generated over time

While the economic downturn will have a short-term impact on the markets, political support and the growing number of utility and institutional investors will see the wind sector ride out the storm.

The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), the industry body, wrote to the government last week warning that the industry is on a knife edge because the credit crisis has made financing these projects prohibitively expensive

The arrangement is being called "Big Wind," and it will support HECO's commitment to the state to increase its renewable energy sources statewide to 1,100 megawatts by 2030

UK - Microgeneration wind turbine to be installed at prison

19-metre turbine has the capacity to generate 15 kilowatts of electricity

softEnergy founds the WIS-UserGroup

New impulses for the wind branch

Product Pick of the Week - The Jellyfish wind turbine

A 36” personal wind turbine for domestic use

Smart solutions for lightweight design

First wind farm with REpower 6M turbines fully erected

The Future is Made of Ideas. Power Converter Included.

At the Hannover Messe 2009 trade fair, PCS from Hennigsdorf will present itself to the wind industry

BWEA WELCOMES RSPB REPORT

RSPB CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO INCREASE COMMITMENT TO ONSHORE WIND

Tanzania - 210-megawatt wind energy farm to be built in the Singida region

Construction to start by year end

USA - AWEA letter to its members

Summary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Jordania - First-ever wind energy plant to be erected

Ministry preparing bidding process for an 80-90MW wind power plant in Fujeij, near Shobak

“Because the equipment – the infrared radiator, a camera and a computer – is mobile, we can carry out measurements during production, at the end of the transport route, and even on fully assembled wind energy plants”

USA - AWEA, along with other groups approach Congress to pass RES

AWEA joins more than 220 other groups in signing a letter to Congress endorsing a national renewable electricity standard

China - GE making its mark

The next five years will see wind power continue to grow, but not at the breakneck pace of the past five years

Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Decisions of annual general meeting

Vestas Wind Systems A/S' annual general meeting on 26 March 2009

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