News Archive July 2012

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AWEA Blog - Alaskan native-owned wind farm nearing completion

The wind power project is expected to churn out 48.5 million kWh annually, enough to power the equivalent of 6,000 average households

Poland - RWE Launches Fourth Wind Farm

The new wind power project generates 14 MW of wind energy. The total wind power generated by the company's wind farms in Poland has reached 122 MW

Green Power Conferences: Optimizing Wind Power O&M

The wind O&M market will grow from just under US$3 billion annually in 2012 to nearly US$6 billion in 2025

Japan - 1st offshore wind farm to start operation in January 2013

The environment ministry has estimated Japan has the potential to eventually build a huge 1,600 gigawatts of offshore wind power capacity

GE has announced that Swedish wind energy developer Triventus Wind Power AB will use GE's wind turbines to power a new 27.5MW wind farm project

Schaeffler Technologies Wins Goldwind “2011 Excellent Supplier Award”

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. Kg takes leading position in the Chinese wind power industry

The wind power manufacturer has now signed the second wind farm contract with Norwegian Midtfjellet Vindkraft AS (MVAS), owned by Østfold Energi AS, EB Kraftproduksjon, Fitjar Kraftlag SA and Vardar AS

Mexico - Vestas receives 50 MW wind farm order

Vestas has received a wind energy order for 28 V100-1.8 MW wind turbines for Mexico

World Wind Energy Conference “Community Power Citizens’ Power”

opened in Bonn

This week: ASC GmbH presents ASC T-151

Accelerometer ASC T-151 from ASC works at up to 150° C

Within the scope of a service contract with RWE Innogy GmbH, All for Offshore GmbH (A4O) will now be servicing and managing a met mast of the offshore wind-park „Nordsee Ost“ together with Deutsche Windtechnik over a period of four years.

Interview with Roy Sheldon, Sales Director at Tentec Ltd. in The Windfair Newsletter

The supervisory board of Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft –Aktiengesellschaft von 1877– unanimously appointed Mr Frank Dreeke as the new CEO of the BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG at an extraordinary meeting on Friday, June 29, following the vote of its six-

Alstom has secured the first Nordic wind power order for its wind turbines by signing a contract with TuuliMuukko Oy for the Muukko wind farm near Lappeenranta in Eastern Finland

AWEA Blog - Boulder Chamber of Commerce backs PTC extension

The Boulder (Colo.) Chamber of Commerce has announced its support for an extension of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC)

New Member on Windfair: GAT Gesellschaft für Antriebstechnik mbH

Categories: * Suppliers: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

AMBAU Windservice concludes framework agreement with alpha ventus operating consortium DOTI

DOTI assigns AMBAU Windservice GmbH with service and maintenance work for the first German offshore wind park, alpha ventus

New Member on Windfair: WS-TOOLS

Category: Suppliers: Measurement Engineering, Suppliers: Tools and Machine Tools

Acciona - Wind power in Oklahoma

Acciona announced that its 132 MW Big Smile Wind Farm, formerly known as the Dempsey Ridge Wind Farm, began commercial operations on July 5 in Oklahoma. It uses 66 wind turbines

AWEA Blog - Wind Farm: Steelworkers call for extension of 'vital' PTC

The PTC helped to establish the wind energy market in the United States 20 years ago

Wind turbines are growing bigger and bigger – the diameter of their rotor blades could soon reach 180 meters, and the greater the size, the greater the potential for something to go wrong

Introducing AWEA Online Education

Company resources are tight, your time is valuable, BUT specialized industry education is critical to your professional development and for staff training.

This week: Wind turbines waste much less energy than fossil fuels

Wind energy opponents centre their arguments on the ‘capacity factor’ of a wind farm

Terra-Gen is in much the same position as other wind power developers such as NextEra Energy Resources, Iberdrola and Horizon Wind Energy, which have each said they will not be building new wind farms next year

This week: Germany - Largest wind farm in Bavaria

Within a very short period of time, Windreich AG and Swisspower Renewables AG have closed the deal for the sale of the largest wind farm in Bavaria

Mexico - Gamesa finishes a 74 MW wind farm

The Bii Nee Stipa II wind power project comprises 37 G80-2.0 MW wind turbines

Interview with Agnieszka Cichosz, WS Tools, in The Windfair Newsletter

LVRT: Continuous Voltage and Stable Output in Case of Grid Breakdowns

At HUSUM, PCS will debut the Green Line 3000, the new LVRT solution

ntelligent Power Module (IPM) with integrated driver and heat sink (SKiiP 4) enables an increase in power of 17% over the previous generation from 1.4 to 1.7MVA and offers the highest power density in the market

The experts at COWEC know which direction the wind is blowing at the "Conference of the Wind Power Engineering Community" to be staged on the 18th and 19th June in Berlin, Germany

Among other businesses, the Danish company Momentum Gruppen employs Availon for the servicing of its wind turbine generators (WTGs). In this context Momentum Gruppen has decided to delegate all its WTGs to the Availon full service -and maintenance agreeme

Known globally as an oil and gas giant, Oklahoma is rapidly diversifying its power portfolio and is quickly becoming known as one of the wind industry’s main markets in North America. With over 3,000 MW of wind generation currently in operation or under c

-First REpower 3.2M114 with a hybrid tower and 143 metre hub height delivers power -Up to 50 percent increase in yield possible at low-wind locations -Prelude for further projects in Germany

Siemens and DONG Energy continue their successful cooperation in offshore wind. On July 19, 2012, the companies signed a framework agreement for the supply of a total of 300 wind turbines with a capacity of 1,800 megawatts (MW).

132 new offshore wind turbines, totalling 523.2 megawatts (MW) were fully grid connected in Europe in the first six months of 2012. This is a 50% increase compared to the same period in 2011 when 348.1 MW were installed

Compact power pack type KA – high flexibility for hydraulic brakes

HAWE Hydraulik SE, Munich/Germany, uses for supplying pressure oil for hydraulic controls of wind turbines its compact hydraulic power pack type KA.

Announcing the Best of Landstar’s Best & the 2nd Truck Winner of 2012

Wind energy is safe; calls for moratorium would put significant clean energy investments and jobs at risk

Green Power Conferences: Certificate in Wind Power

19—20 September 2012, London, United Kingdom

Green Power Conferences: Chilean International Renewable Energy Congress

4—5 September 2012, Intercontinental, Santiago, Chile

USA - Invenergy Announces Start of Commercial Operations of Bishop Hill Wind Project in Illinois

Bishop Hill employed 220 skilled workers during peak construction

AWEA Blog - Why tax credits are critical to wind energy for growth

The visit showcased the company’s recent $21 million expansion and the 275 jobs the company has created or plans to add by 2015

Brazil - Bahia opened the largest wind farm with wind turbines from GE

Bahia is one of the leaders in the Brazilian production of wind energy

Denmark - 50% wind power electricity by 2020

Denmark is synonymous with wind energy

At its annual general meeting here recently, the association, through a resolution, appealed to the Union Ministry of Power to ensure that all State utilities adopt a uniform policy for wind energy, especially for wheeling and banking charges

-Largest turbine in terms of rotor diameter installed in Italy -First REpower project to be built in Sardinia -Installation and commissioning of three 3.2M114 turbines scheduled for second half of 2012

CANWEA COMMENDS QUEBEC GOVERNMENT’S VISION AND LEADERSHIP IN CALL FOR MORE WIND ENERGY

Quebecers show strong support for continued development of province’s wind energy sector

With the launch of a new foundation Tensioning tool designed specifically for the European wind market and the appointment of Hannelore Khwaja as its dedicated Business Development Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, bolt tightening specialist T

REpower hits 1 GW in the UK with latest supply contracts

REpower Systems SE has signed projects with an overall capacity of more than 1 GW in the UK following today’s announcement of a further five onshore contracts.

This week: China - CEPRI and GL Garrad Hassan join together to bolster China’s wind energy industry

The Renewable Energy Department of the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI RED) and GL Garrad Hassan sign MOU

This week: FT Technologies celebrates 10 years in the Wind Turbine Industry

The FT702LT Turbine Control Wind Sensor was first used on a commercial turbine by NEG Mikon in 2002

Green Power Conferences: Onshore and Offshore Advances for a European Energy Highway

4—5 December 2012, Hamburg, Germany

UK - Wind energy industry commits to charter for UK prosperity

The UK has a vocal and strong anti-wind farm campaign in parts of its media

Exhibition Ticker - Canadian wind conference enters 28th year

CanWEA’s 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held October 14-17, 2012 in Toronto, ON

A new book titled The Zeronauts highlights Vestas’ initiative WindMade as one of the world’s 50 most ground-breaking and innovative green initiatives

Turkey - Germans lend $164m to 120MW wind farm project in Turkey

LBBW and KfW IPEX-Bank finance wind farm Karaburun in Turkey. Enercon to supply 50 wind turbines

Windfair: Is the Wind Energy Industry a priority for your company? How so? Claus Larsen: BTI A/S has roots going back to 1889 where we first started out as a supplier to the marine industry. In 2010 we were taken over by our main supplier Dialight. Th

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SGS Joins Technology Forces with Atlas Material Testing

On June 13, 2012, SGS entered into an alliance with Atlas Material Testing Technology.

Plans to levy a charge of up to 11% of revenue on Spanish wind energy producers have been condemned by the industry there and are described as being “the final blow for wind energy” by President of the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE) Rocio Sicre.

Bulgaria - BGWEA - Bulgarian Wind Energy Association Launches Lawsuit against State Regulator

BGWEA stated that renewables have been used for nothing more than an excuse for soaring energy prices

The company’s unique V1, V2 and V2 Turbo platforms represent best in class small wind technology for architectural, industrial, commercial and residential applications worldwide

-World’s first wind farm with offshore turbines of the 6 megawatt dimension -Installation of 30 REpower 6M wind turbines completed on time -First turbines already commissioned

Nordex prevailing again in the high-wind segment

Contract awarded for two wind farms in Ireland

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is disappointed that the Romney campaign has come out with an anti-wind stance, particularly in Iowa, the state that gets 20% of its power from wind and the state with more major manufacturing facilities than an

Samsung Heavy Industries announced on the 25th that it had successfully built Pacific Orca, the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel (WIV), and delivered it to SPO (Swire Pacific Offshore), a Singapore-based shipper

Spain - Gamesa regains operating profitability and reduces debt

Spanish wind power Gamesa has cut back sales and profit forecasts for 2012 on the back of softening wind turbine demand, particularly in Asia

Arise Windpower AB (publ) (“Arise”) has concluded a conditional agreement with Ownpower Projects AB (“OPP”) for the acquisition of a fully permitted project in Solberg to the west of Örnsköldsvik

Together with local subsidiary Hexicon Malta Ltd, Hexicon AB in Sweden is continuing the development of a renewable energy solution for Malta in close cooperation with Maltese authorities

The new statistics of wind energy use in germany is available at:

Progress in Germany

Series production of the N117/2400 commenced in line with plans

Tanzania - Wind energy development on the Rise

The Ministry of Energy and Minerals has started to asses the amount of wind energy available for local and foreign investors who intend to engage in wind power generation

Numerous Wind Energy Associations sign Joint Statement on Wind Energy and Health

Wind turbines is one of the safest sources of electricity: Global Wind Energy Industry

Rebranding effort signifies commitment to the wind industry-rooted in a fresh mission and vision that is data-driven and customer-focused

SGS Returns to HUSUM WindEnergy Fair

September 18-22, 2012

Vestas Wind Systems A/S Company Announcement

Preliminary first half-year 2012 figures and update on credit facilities

Mitt Romney’s recent tilt against wind power is whipping up a political furor on Capitol Hill and putting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee at odds with members of his own party

Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes

China - US tariffs on Chinese wind turbines opposed

China strongly opposes the tariffs that the US Commerce Department imposed on Chinese wind turbines

Chinese turbine manufacturer CSIC Haizhuang to become 1st manufacturer to build a 5MW wind turbine using 75-metre blades? Does Siemens still have the chance to beat the Chinese?