News Archive January 2013

Windenergy News: Rittal at the HUSUM WindEnergy 2012

Through the “Rittal – The System.” range, Rittal is presenting efficient system solutions for the wind energy industry at the HUSUM WindEnergy 2012 exhibition.

managing member, for the 89 SWT-2.3-93 units at the White Creek wind project near Roosevelt, Washington.

This week: Production Tax Credit Passes

After a long, hard-fought

Uruguay - World leader in wind energy generation by 2015?

Out of the total 90 percent of renewable electricity, 45 percent will come from hydropower, 15 percent from biomass and the remaining 30 percent will come from wind energy.

Vestas has signed a framework agreement to deliver 184 MW over three years with a long-term Danish customer, with the first 17 MW now firm and unconditional.

Product Pick of the Week - New wind turbine blade designs could reduce costs

EWEA Blog by Philippa Jones - New Siemens Blade

Iberdrola is selling its French wind farm business to a consortium led by American industrial giant General Electric for about €400 million (£326.4m) in its drive to cut debt and maintain an investment grade credit rating

The clean energy industry faced several challenges this year, including the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the production tax credit for wind power and the demise of some high-profile solar energy firms

EWEA Windenergy News: Getting started: Your first 40 days

EWEA 2013 // 4 - 7 FEBRUARY 2013, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

EWEA Windenergy News: Getting started: Your first 40 days

EWEA 2013 // 4 - 7 FEBRUARY 2013, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

The New Year is upon us, and so will the new opportunities for wind power it could hold. With this in mind, Nigel Crowe from PMSS and Lead Session Chair at the EWEA Annual Event from 4-7 February, talks to us about wind power’s emerging markets outside th

Vestas has secured 10-year service agreements from International Power Canada covering 276 wind turbines at eight power plants in Canada

Chile - Vestas to supply 90 MW wind turbines for Talinay Oriente wind energy project

The project is scheduled for commissioning by the end of March 2013

Mesalands Community College Wind Energy News: Wind Center uses Recovery Act funds to train qualified professionals

After receiving the Wind Center of Excellence grant last year,

WWEA Windenergy News: New emerging market for wind power:

WWEA supports Israel and the Israeli Wind Energy Association in its work of structuring the wind market

IWES Windenergy News: New statistics of wind energy use in germany is available

Progress in Germany

Product Pick of the Week - Superconductors for efficient wind energy plants

Wind power will make a major contribution to the energy turnaround

Vestas has received a three-year extension from Alliant Energy to provide service and maintenance for 121 V82-1.65 MW wind turbines at the Whispering Willow Wind Farm - East in Iowa.

Peikko started its own manufacturing operations in China in summer 2011 and has also started sales in the nearby areas. To be able to serve its customers efficiently

Green Power Conferences Windenergy News: Wind Power Romania 2013

1 week to go

The wind power industry production and investment tax credits have been officially extended, and now tens of thousands of wind workers will remain employed.

REpower signs two wind energy contracts for wind farm in UK

Suzlon Energy on Monday said its UK-based unit REpower has signed two contracts for supplying wind turbines for a new wind farm in England

On January 29-31, 2013 SGS will attend the enertec International Trade Fair for Energy Generation, Distribution and Storage in Leipzig, Germany and demonstrate its wide range of renewable energy services at stand 4D30

The Middle East countries offer excellent opportunities for harvesting domestic and environmental-friendly wind power.

This week: Canada - DeWind to Replace Blades at 10 MW Wind Farm

Replacement of blades planned for Wind Energy Institute of Canada 10 MW research site

The U.S. wind energy industry and its 75,000 employees breathed a big sigh of relief last week as the federal renewable energy Production Tax Credit was extended, and the reaction of supporters and analysts in the media (...) was generally favorable.

Company of the Week - GILDEMEISTER Energy Solutions receive orders of € 29.2 million

Energy Solutions supply solar plants and energy storage technology

Windfair will be present at the Hannover trade show next April with a 150 m² community booth in Hall 27/Wind. WIND is the name of the wind energy trade fair, which is part of the biggest industry show of the world.

a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation and logistics services, has named Lori Croft, Stuart Kerr and Shannon Jones January Employees of the Month.

MITA-TEKNIK A/S achieves ISO 9001:2008

Certificate ready for download

“Distributed wind projects trail most of the large wind power projects in technology, profitability and support by governments, and there is still a long way to go before we will witness the necessary burst of development that will really put the sector o

Japan - Wind energy capacity to rise 8.2%

Installed capacity of wind power generation at the end of 2011: 2.501 MW, 1,832 units

Nordex's wind turbine has achieved an annual yield of 7,800 MWh in 7,600 operating hours at the site with average annual wind speeds of 7 metres per second, equivalent to a capacity factor of approx. 42.7%

Vestas has received a 42 MW order from Akuo Energy for 14 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for the Minas wind power plant in Uruguay. This will be the first V112-3.0 MW wind power plant to be installed in the country

Technology giant and business icon Google, Inc., continued its embrace of wind power with the announcement that it has invested $200 million in EDF Renewable Energy’s Spinning Spur Wind Project in Oldham County, Tex.

Introducing an interesting wind energy company - Duke Energy completes Los Vientos Wind Energy Projects in Texas

Duke Energy Renewables has completed the Los Vientos I and Los Vientos II wind energy projects in southern Texas

The U.S. wind power industry is back at work with renewed momentum following extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) by Congress as part of the Jan. 1 legislation to avert the “fiscal cliff.”

Belgium - Economic recovery powered by wind power

The wind power sector brought €335.3 million to the Belgian economy in 2011

juwi Windenergy News: Norbert Müller Strengthens the Supervisory Board of the juwi AG

Former long-standing CEO of Rittal joined the control committee at the beginning of January

Wind energy currently accounts for 2 percent of the country’s generated energy at 2,000 MW, but government predicts the wind power energy industry would grow 10 folds by 2023

AWEA - Science proves wind energy is safe

The wind industry says noise from wind turbines does not harm human health

Product Pick of the Week - Evance R9000

Small Wind Turbine Receives Full Certification from US Small Wind Certification Council

Product Pick of the Week - Evance R9000

Small Wind Turbine Receives Full Certification from US Small Wind Certification Council

The Hamburg Offshore Wind (HOW) Conference in The Windfair Newsletter

The Hamburg Offshore Wind (HOW) Conference - Germany's premier offshore wind conference - is fast approaching. It will be held on 20-21 February 2013.

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PreciTorc GmbH in Bremen, the reliable partner in industrial torque technic supports user of TITAN Hydraulic Torque Wrenches.

The DOE ambitiously projects wind energy to supply as much as 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030. Despite financial and logistical difficulties, the current pace of onshore and offshore production of wind farms indicates that this may be a realistic g

China, the world’s top energy consumer, will more than double its installed solar power capacity this year from 2012, the government said on Wednesday, driving up shares of US-listed Chinese solar companies

This week: A snapshot of the conference programme of EWEA 2013 Annual Event

Read more about: Event launch and keynotes, Energy mix in Europe 2020 - 30 - 50, Funding wind in a finance constrained world, and Beyond Europe

Over 400 exhibiting companies will have their moment in the spotlight at EWEA 2013, when thousands of wind industry professionals, television crews and reporters make their way through the halls of the Messe Wien in Austria

AWEA is ringing in the New Year by showing off some of its best work in 2012. The following 10 articles, letters, op-eds, and blog posts highlight some of our best efforts to counter inaccurate and misleading information about wind power in the news

The company has signed an agreement to supply towers for a number of non-Vestas wind power projects over the next two years.

Siemens Windenergy News: Siemens has signed a contract for the supply of 25 wind turbines for Mid Hill Wind Farm in Scotland.

Siemens will also provide a five-year Service and Availability agreement.

As an independent consultant in the wind energy sector, Overspeed GmbH & Co. KG issues expert power line assessments on the basis of current norms and guidelines.

Nordex awarded new wind energy contracts for the construction the Edincik 30-MW wind farm

Strong sales of wind power systems in Turkey remain a key to the Nordex Group’s success

GL Garrad Hassan Deutschland GmbH - A Special report - Beyond the Bluster

New report shows wind power is reliable and reduces emissions

Energy savings from the wind farm average $2.9 million annually over a 20-year contract term and the project will enable Pantex to meet the President’s energy initiatives for green energy

Vestas commends President Obama and U.S. Congress on PTC extension

Vestas is pleased that the White House and Congress have agreed to extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for 2013

European Commission awards eStorage Consortium €13 Million grant to better integrate wind energy into electrical grid

In advance of EWEA 2013 in Vienna next month, a webcast featuring leading figures in the wind industry will address the state of play in wind energy

South Africa - Mott MacDonald appointed owner’s engineer for 67MW Western Cape Wind Farm

Mott MacDonald has been appointed as owner’s engineer for the 67MW Hopefield Wind Farm in South Africa’s Western Cape province.

“We are building a landmark high-capacity transmission superhighway that will deliver offshore wind energy to New Jersey using the most advanced technology available today”

The Pantex wind farm, a first in the NNSA enterprise, will consist of five 2.3 megawatt turbines located on 1,500 acres of government-owned property east of the Pantex Plant.

USA - Growth of the Global Clean Energy Marketplace

The sector is expected to continue to boost economic growth – with cumulative revenue projected to reach $269 billion

Ukrainian Wind Power Association - Increasing the capacity of wind power

“As of late 2011, the designed capacity of the wind-powered generators made up 151.1 MW to 301.1 MW,”

An impressive piece of thought on wind power by Andy Robinson of Plainfield, Vt., appeared on the independent news website Vermont Digger recently - And, I would like to share it with our readers.

AWEA Blog - Wind energy looks forward following PTC passage

La Jolla, Calif., played host last week to nearly 1,000 wind industry professionals for a “trifecta” of AWEA events to kick off the New Year

Wind energy in Croatia: Acciona begins its first wind farm. The Company is currently building the 30-megawatt Jelinak wind power park, equipped with Acciona Windpower technology wind turbines

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) will release the wind industry’s fourth quarter results for 2012 on Wednesday, January 30th, at 3PM Eastern

Spain - Gamesa named a leader in sustainability

“Gold Class” company in “The Sustainability Yearbook 2013?

Topic of the Week - Insight into other alternative energy supply technologies - Wave and Tidal Energy

Ocean Energy Projects Developing On and Off America’s Shores

The wind power industry is all about change. The very nature of what we provide represents a change in the way energy is provided to business and consumers.

20 - 21 February 2013 / Hotel Hafen Hamburg – “Elbkuppel” conference room / Join us for GL’s flagship offshore wind event. Now in its eleventh year, this key industry event is widely recognised for the technical quality of its content and the significant

New Member on Windfair.net: DEUBLIN GmbH

In the category: Wind Energy Suppliers * Mechanical Engineering

AWEA Blog - Graybeal story relies on IER, misses facts

With the January 1 extension of the production tax credit (PTC), the wind energy industry is getting back to work. And back to business

Smart grid rollouts are building momentum as utilities across the United States continue to invest in this new infrastructure in an effort to transform their power grids - The report, “Smart Grid Consumer Survey”, details findings from a web-based survey

IWES Wind Energy News: New statistics of wind energy use in germany is available

Progress in Germany

This week: BBB Wind Energy News - Transfer of BBB's wind expertise

In his lectures BBB's co-founder Binotsch will give an introduction to the specialised area of Due Diligence for wind energy projects.

Peikko Wind Energy News: PEIKKO OFFERS CUSTOMIZED WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION DESIGN WITHIN ONE BUSINESS DAY

Peikko introduces a revolutionary design tool at EWEA 2013 exhibition

Endurance will use the financing to fund the next phase of its European wind turbine fleet, including the cost of installation and the cost of the turbines

“How are support mechanisms in different markets changing in the face of economic crisis, budget deficits and electricity demand?”, “How do these developments play out at a regional level?”, “Will the booming North, and in particular offshore wind, help

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The installation of the first two 6 megawatt wind turbines in the offshore wind power plant Gunfleet Sands III with the specially designed installation vessel SEA INSTALLER marks an important milestone for Siemens.

The emerging markets are seen as the desirable place to go, but what do you really know about them? EWEA 2013 Annual Event will deliver a special programme on emerging markets which will allow professonals to make profitable decisions faster.