News Archive November 2011

Second Wind partners with major Brazilian tower manufacturer to bring remote sensing to the Brazilian wind industry

Hatec Neves plans demonstration event

Delta Energy Club at CGCC Hosts a Clean Energy Film Festival

Free Film Festival held at The Discovery Center to Feature Three Documentaries

The new Danish centre-left coalition government has increased targets on wind capacity. Wind power is set to represent 50 percent of the total power consumption in Denmark in 2020.

This week: Germany - Wind energy Vestas to delayed commissioning of new factory in Travemünde

Vestas issues profit warning due to delayed commissioning of new wind turbines factory

Wind energy in China could reach 1000GW of capacity by 2050. China is continuing to put increased emphasis on its expanding domestic wind farm sector to help provide ever-increasing amounts of emissions-free electricity

The latest episode tells of how land lease payments from wind farm have given a fresh and much-needed revenue stream for the Maryhill Museum of Art, which is located along the Columbia River in Washington

SGS Monthly Webinar

SGS invites you to attend a complimentary 60-minute webinar on Introduction to Phased Array technique.

New Member On Windfair.net: North American Wind Research and Training Center at Mesalands Community College

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This week: Troutman Sanders presents free recording of Offshore Wind Webinar

<b>Offshore Wind: Incentives, Permitting and Logistics</b>

On the occasion of the 10th World Wind Energy Conference 2011 in Cairo, Egypt, the Board of the World Wind Energy Association has decided to give the World Wind Energy Award 2011 to Sewedy Wind Energy Group SWEG under the leadership of Mr Ahmed El Sewedy.

Siemens is increasing its stake in Britain’s Marine Current Turbines Ltd. to 45 percent. “With this increase in its stake, Siemens is strengthening its activities in ocean power generation.

Today there is information in the market regarding Vestas having been appointed preferred supplier for an offshore project in the Netherlands.

Windmills for the German national horticultural show (BUGA)

This week: Siemens wins six wind turbine orders in the Americas

Total order volume worth over USD900 million

Major Order for PALFINGER WIND

· REpower Systems SE orders 48 PSM 400 cranes for wind turbines in the megawatt class · Platform cranes enable even more efficient work on the service platform · Delivery as early as 2012

BOLTIGHT ECHOMETER DELIVERS FAST ACCURATE BOLT MEASUREMENT

Boltight has developed a fast and accurate device for measuring bolt load and bolt elongation that uses the latest ultrasonic technology

REpower and EDF EN Canada Inc. conclude contract for 150-megawatt wind farm in Canada

REpower Systems SE has signed a contract with EDF EN Canada Inc. to supply a total of 75 wind turbines in the Canadian province of Québec.

* PALFINGER WIND wins major tender in Denmark * 111 offshore wind platform cranes to be supplied to DONG Energy * Important strategic cooperation with Denmarks leading energy company

This week: Interim financial report for the third quarter of 2011

Triple15 abandoned. Strongly improved cash flow and reduced debt. Vestas adjusts to 2012 and 2013.

EWEA: EU wind power makes step to a 30% EU emissions cut possible

European wind power production will meet a massive 31% of the emissions reduction required by the current EU climate target.

Catch the Wind Provides OADS Litigation Update

Catch the Wind Ltd. (TSX-V: CTW), providers of laser-based wind sensor products and technology.....

EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 in The Windfair Newsletter

The internationally renowned offshore wind energy event is set to be the biggest and most vibrant ever.

Molins de Vent TARRAGÓ: Wind energy for the reforestation project in Korientzé in Mali

To this aim an area of 10 hectares was selected, inhabitants cropped it and a windmill TARRAGÓ was installed to supply water.

ABE issues 100. certificate

At the end of September the ABE Kunze Engineering GmbH issued their 100. certificate in the area of renewable energy power plants for wind.

New Member On Windfair: INENSUS GmbH

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Green Power Conferences: Wind Power Romania 2012

17-18 January 2012, Bucharest, Romania Driving wind power development forward in Romania

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published a new report revealing that by 2020, the EU wind farm industry would avoid 342 million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 31% of the EU&#039;s target of reducing emissions

Denmark - Wind energy Vestas announces a change of the organisation

Vestas generated revenue of EUR 3,798m in the first nine months of 2011, which was in line with the year-earlier period. EBIT declined by EUR 136m to EUR (84)m

In accordance with section 28 a of the Danish Securities Trading Act, Vestas Wind Systems A/S is required to publish information regarding trading in Vestas Wind Systems A/S shares and securities by Executives and persons closely associated with an Execut

USA - Panel approves Auwahi wind farm

The Maui Planning Commission unanimously approved permits Tuesday for Auwahi Wind Energy to build and operate eight 428-foot-tall wind turbines on Ulupalakua Ranch land

Wind power supports 75,000 jobs today across the U.S. and the promise of 500,000 American jobs in manufacturing, construction, engineering, development and other fields less than 20 years from now

The DOE Offshore Wind Initiative invests $43 million in 41 projects across 20 states over the next five years to speed technical innovations, lower costs, and shorten the timeline for deploying offshore wind energy systems

The government-led wind power project, which is planned for the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, will be led by the nation&#039;s largest generator, Korea Electric Power Corp

Spanish wind power manufacturer Gamesa said on Friday it expects to sell between 3 and 3.5 gigawatts of wind turbines in 2012, of which it has already 1.0 gigawatts commited as of November

GE today announced that it is working with Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to investigate ways to improve wind farm productivity and efficiency

Under the wind energy deal, an initial target of 18 megawatts of electricity generated from wind power is envisaged, which could initially supply at least 10-15 percent of Mahé Island’s total energy demand

The German Wind Energy Association mentions investment costs for offshore wind power far from the coast as 4.3 million euro/MW (5.8 million USD/ MW) compared to 1.4 million euro/MW (1.9 million USD/MW) onshore

In 2010, the U.S. wind turbines industry installed 5,115 MW of generating capacity, increasing the country’s installed wind farm capacity by 15%, according to the American Wind Energy Association

New Member On Windfair: DEHN + SÖHNE GmbH + Co. KG.

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New Member On Windfair.net: Western Iowa Tech Community College

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New Member On Windfair.net: Fuhrlaender North America Inc.

Categories: * Manufacturers and Distributors of large Wind Turbines

At the end of the month, the world&#039;s largest offshore wind energy event takes place in Amsterdam where leading industry figures and investors will discuss how offshore wind farm can replicate the success of the onshore

World Wind Energy Association: WWEA&#039;s Anniversary: Looking back to Ten Years of successful promotion of wind power worldwide wind farm capacity worldwide grew from 18 to 215 Gigawatt

The wind power company Gamesa has begun the building of the first of three wind energy farms are planned between the cities of Ardales, Teba and Campillo, which already operate several wind turbines

EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION The world&#039;s largest offshore wind energy event 29 November - 1 December 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Vestas receives orders for 139 MW in the USA

Vestas has received firm and unconditional orders for two wind power plants in the USA.

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&quot;The best wind energy plants in the world already produce power as economically as coal, gas and nuclear generators; the average wind farm will be fully competitive by 2016.&quot;

The utility-scale will use concentrating solar power technology. The wind power project is to be located in Sere, about 180 miles north of Cape Town

AWEA - Wind power: Keeping America's lunch money at home

For the foreseeable future, wind energy will remain an industry in which the key is building a domestic market

Germany - Nordex supplies 14 turbines for UK wind farms

First order from a major project developer in Wales

Vestas receives two orders totaling 139 MW

for Maine and Washington wind-energy projects

Wind Power Romania Webinar

How do investors view the market for Romanian wind power?

Ecopower Academy: Two Short Videos about Procuring Turbines

Key issues for the contracts made with the turbine manufacturer & Balance risks in the contract

Ecopower Academy's Lean Farm Operations

Ecopower Academy books Top Utilities at the Lean Conference

This week: Catch the Wind Announces Executive Appointments

Updates on Guidance and Falcon Fifty

This week: Spain - Vestas receives 42MW turnkey order

CyL Energía Eólica has ordered 42MW of Vestas wind turbines for the Zarzuela wind farm in northern Spain

Czech Republic - Wind energy development slower than planned

By the end of this year, wind farm plants with a total output between 8MW and 10 MW are planned to be built

Germany - Germans to install the most wind power capacity up until 2020

Germany, the UK, Spain and France will install the most wind power capacity between 2011 and 2020 in Europe, new statistics show

Spahr Metric: Interview with Chantal Aeschbach, CEO

Chantal Aeschbach talks about Spahr Metric, Inc. in the wind energy industry

Research on wind power forecasting at two national labs is paying off in hard cash for investor-owned utility Xcel Energy, according to a recent story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Catch the Wind to Hold Third Quarter 2011 Results Conference Call on November 29, 2011

Catch the Wind to Hold Third Quarter 2011 Results Conference Call on November 29, 2011

Molins de vent Tarragó: Windmills TARRAGÓ in Kazakhstan

BBB is going „offshore“

BBB on EWEA OFFSHORE 2011

Via Expo - EU's 2020 renewables target

Wind is key to cutting emissions

EWEA BLOG - Cutting the cost of offshore wind energy

Interview with Heiko Ross from Windreich and Erwin Coolen from OutSmart: What will speakers at the EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 conference and exhibition be addressing?

AOL Energy, as part of a &quot;feature week on wind,&quot; devotes an article to the U.S. Treasury&#039;s &quot;Section 1603&quot; program, which provided a system of cash payments in lieu of federal tax credits to wind farm developers

African concentrated solar energy to power European households. Concentrating solar thermal power plants are indispensable to meet Europe’s energy demands and to reduce greenhouse gases emissions substantially, according to a new study by a European scien

The U.S. wind power industry is well ahead of the year-by-year schedule of new capacity additions that the 20% Report outlined in order to reach that level of contribution by 2030

Eskom, with its two renewable energy projects, the Sere Wind Farm and Concentrated Solar Thermal Power, will serve as a catalyst to develop the renewable energy industry

USA - Mass Megawatts announces 1st sale of low-cost wind power system

The wind farm system leverages the patented, wind augmenter technology that increases the wind velocity directed toward the wind turbines

Vestas will deliver 33 of its V100 1.8MW wind turbines to the wind farm in the middle of next year. Wind power developer Exelon Wind expects to commission the wind energy plant in Huron County by the end of 2012

Mr. Bryce also misleads on wind power’s land use, claiming that wind turbines “cover” thousands of square miles of land

Product Pick of the Week - GE’s FlexEfficiency technology landmarked in Turkey

Offering the operating flexibility to integrate natural gas, wind and solar power into a single energy complex - An answer to the energy crisis?

Suzlon has announced that its subsidiary, REpower Systems SE has concluded a turn-key contract for the delivery, construction and maintenance of six wind turbines for the La Chaude Vallee wind farm in Northern France

The GE wind turbines powering Salkhit Wind Farm will generate nearly 5 per cent of Mongolia’s current electricity. GE’s involvement in the Salkhit Wind Farm project includes equipment supply

All AREVA M5000 5 Megawatt offshore wind turbines are tested from now on in the new full load test bench in Bremerhaven (Germany) to deliver a 100% quality product to the next offshore sites.

Siemens AG: Wind Day 2011, Future Trends in the Wind Sector

Siemens presents its comprehensive range for the wind industry in Hamburg.

3E talks about new North Sea floating Lidars: FLIDAR

North Sea floating LIDAR wind measurement trials, a huge success

A Vietnamese company is building what would be the first wind energy farm in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, with technical assistance and wind turbines of General Electric

China - Unstoppable player on its way to wind energy superpower?

Comparing China’s wind power and nuclear power sectors reveal much about the fortunes of new and old energy technologies

This week: HYTORC-Barbarino & Kilp GmbH: Maintenance-free screwed joint-connections nearly possible with different bolting-methods

Hamburg, Autumn 2011. The best wind turbines convince with performance, not by being the loudest. The acoustical and visual effects of a wind turbine must be taken into account from the initial planning stage right through to installation. The German Immi

This week: Interview with Dr. Hans-Peter Waldl and Dipl.-Phys. Thomas Pahlke, Managing Directors of Overspeed GmbH & Co. KG

The contract includes delivery and commissioning along with a 10-year service and maintenance agreement. Delivery is scheduled for mid-2012, and commissioning is expected in late 2012.

REpower to supply 68 turbines for its first wind farm in Pennsylvania

-Project Twin Ridges will have a total output of 140 MW -Second large-scale project between REpower USA and EverPower

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SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company, is one of over 400 exhibitors taking part in the EWEA Offshore 2011 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The services offered by SGS Renewable Energy will be presented throug

Even aerodynamic experts cannot say reliably how a wind shaded area around an obstacle looks like just by looking at it. Wind maps and Micro-Scale-Simulations do not provide enough information on this issue either.

Offshore wind energy is a new development in the design of wind turbines, their installation and operation. This wind power market is going to start in the next years

USA - REpower to supply 68 wind turbines for its first wind farm in Pennsylvania

Wind energy project Twin Ridges will have a total output of 140 MW. Second large-scale wind power project between REpower USA and EverPower

Offshore wind energy is where the newest and biggest wind turbines are. Right now we’re at 5 MW, but soon 10 MW wind turbines could become the norm at sea, or even more powerful

Wind is key to cutting emissions. The wind power could help the EU meet almost a third of its emissions reduction target

Germany - MOOG highlights new Electro Hydrostatic Actuation (EHA) design concept at SPS/IPC Drives Show 2011

Reliable hybrid technology used in a new energy-saving solution for a variety of industrial applications

Molins de Vent TARRAGÓ: Sustainable seawater desalination with windmills and reverse osmosis systems

Windmills have been used mainly for irrigation purposes.

New Member On Windfair.net: SINGING ROCK

Categories: * Technical Service: Height Access/Safety

EWEA OFFSHORE 2011 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION The world's largest offshore wind energy event

The world&#039;s largest offshore wind energy event 29 November - 1 December 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The head of the world&#039;s largest wind energy company has questioned the Baillieu government&#039;s rationale for giving households veto rights over wind turbines within two kilometres of their homes

Vattenfall has recently purchased the licence for the new wind farm from the German company, Sandbank Power GmbH & Co. Permits are currently in place for 96 large wind turbines

The sea may seem like a vast and empty place, but it is a potential conflict zone for the many sea-users. From fisheries to oil and gas, tourism to offshore wind energy

Vestas, the world leader in wind power, is pleased to announce its first wind turbines sale in the Ukraine – making the country Vestas’ 67th global market for wind farm and the 10th for the V112 wind turbines

China - A target of installing 33 gW of wind capacity by 2015 set

Workers deploying wind turbines at a wind farm in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. China&#039;s installed wind power capacity has doubled every year since 2005

At the beginning of the EWEA Offshore exhibition in Amsterdam, REpower Systems SE and RWE Innogy have concluded a contract for the delivery of two REpower 6M wind turbines.

In July 2011, SGS was assigned a contract to perform comprehensive quality control services during the production process of wind towers by Sany Group in China.

&quot;By 2020, around 20% of the European offshore wind farm installed capacity could be located in the Atlantic basin&quot;, stated the Commission in its newly published &quot;Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Ocean Area&quot;

Offshore wind farm capacity only accounts for 1.6% of total wind turbines generation in 2010 although this wund energy market sector is forecast to become a more prevalent source of energy in the future

Gamesa Technology Corp., Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of wind turbines and the development, construction and sale of wind farm plants

Siemens launches new 6-MW direct drive offshore wind turbine

Siemens Energy today launched its new 6-megawatt (MW) direct drive wind turbine at the European Offshore Wind Energy Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The wind turbines, each with a rated power of 6.15 MW and a hub height of 114 metres, will be installed in the Westereems wind farm near Eemshaven in the Dutch province of Groningen

Amsterdam sees world’s largest offshore wind power conference. Offshore wind farm is widely seen as a secure, reliable energy source that can provide answers to today’s climate change and energy security threats

This week: OneProd talks online vibration monitoring

Advanced methods for online vibration monitoring of wind turbines

Windfair: During the past few days, GL Renewables Certification has been participating with a booth and lectures at EWEA Offshore in Amsterdam. What contribution can GL Renewables Certification make to the implementation of offshore wind parks? Mike W

Siemens celebrated the official opening by Lord Willis of Knaresborough of its Energy Service Training Centre in Newcastle, United Kingdom on November 22, 2011. This £8 million investment by Siemens provides a unique in-house training environment and expe

This week: ALL-ENERGY 2012 – WELL SET FOR SUCCESS

<b>Incorporating Offshore Maintenance</b> – where offshore wind meets oil and gas

Wind Power Romania 2012 17-18 January 2012, Bucharest, Romania

Driving wind power development forward in Romania

A 50-megawatt wind farm is feasible for development in Nabas, Aklan, as anchored on the preliminary outcome of a micrositing study undertaken by Danish engineering firm Cowi Inc.

Germany - Insight into submarine Cable O&M

Scott reports roughly 27% of an offshore wind farm&#039;s capital expenditure is ploughed into cable, cable installation and grid connection

Specialist bolt tensioner manufacturer Boltight Ltd has launched a new range of hydraulic bolt tensioners targeting the compact flanges used extensively in the offshore oil and gas industry