News Archive July 2017

The Nordex Group has secured a follow-up order from Norway. For Midtfjellet Vindkraft AS, a long-standing customer, the manufacturer will be supplying eleven N117/3600 turbines for the Midtfjellet III wind farm on the island of Stord in the south-west of Norway.

alki TECHNIK GmbH, in cooperation with Wittenstein AG, has developed a new electric torque multiplier with innovative electronics which will fully comply with the requirements of the industry 4.0.

Vestas' new wind record

With the worldwide sale of wind turbines with a total output of more than 1.2 GW in just four days, the Danish manufacturer impresses in the middle of summer.

Nordex will present new turbine soon

The turbine manufacturer has been awarded with new contracts in Germany

Offshore operations base is - probably - coming to Great Yarmouth

Vattenfall and Peel Ports negotiate to secure deal for offshore operations base, creating hundreds of jobs.

Siemens Gamesa wins contract for Bossele in the Netherlands

Siemens Gamesa to supply 94 8 MW turbines to DONG Energy in the Netherlands

German wind farm gets new owner

European Energy A/S sells a wind farm in Lower Saxony to a German buyer

Joint Venture for manufacturing wind towers in Argentina

GRI Renewable Industries (GRI) has concluded a Joint Venture agreement with Metalurgia Calviño

Green Light for Salt Creek Wind Farm in Australia

The planned wind farm in Western Victoria will produce enough clean energy to power 30,000 Australian homes.

115 emloyees are coating technical components for around 2,700 active clients, primarily from the mechanical engineering and automotive sectors.

On Friday and Saturday, the G20 summit of the world's 20 largest industrialized nations takes place in Hamburg, Germany. If the summit is to be successful, the topics of climate protection and energy transition have to be put on the agenda – despite Donald Trump.

European Offshore Wind Push for 2030

Leading Energy Ministers and industry captains came together to join forces for significant offshore wind volumes in Europe by 2030

Finnish Offshore Wind Farm Tahkoluoto completes turbine installation

Jan De Nul Group’s offshore jack-up vessel installed the very last blade of the last wind turbine

Wind Farm in Upstate New York: Construction Continues

RES receives notice to proceed

BayWa r.e. sells two French wind farms

Innergex buys wind farms Eole de Plan Fleury and Les Renardières in France

Schunk opens new customer center

The new building in Bad Goisern emphasizes the site’s importance

DONG Energy and Siemens sell A2Sea

GeoSea aquires A2SEA which will continue to operate out of Denmark with offshore wind turbine service and installation.

Grid connection agreement for Borssele 1 & 2 in the Netherlands signed

DONG Energy and TenneT sign first offshore grid connection agreement under the new Dutch tender system

More and more PPAs by major companies

“Renewable energy capacity covered by PPAs tripled in 2016 compared to 2015 confirming the rising appetite of corporates to procure green power. "

New study analyses movements of seabirds

The study will help determining the impact of offshore wind farms to the wildlife of the UK

48 MW wind farm for Bosnia

The country is pursuing plans to build wind farms with a capacity of over 500 megawatts to diversify its energy mix. Another 48 MW farm has already been granted a permit

Eukalforging to work on Albatros Offshore Wind Farm

Euskalforging supplies 16 foundation flanges for Albatros offshore wind farm project in Germany

Offshore wind is slowly progressing in the US

Dominion and DONG Energy have agreed to install two turbines off the coast of Virginia

LM Wind Power opens new blade plant in Turkey

The blades are manufactured for local wind farms

TenneT and GE install converter platform DolWin gamma

TenneT and GE have successfully installed the offshore converter platform DolWin gamma about 80 kilometers off the coast in the southwestern part of the German North Sea.

Another win for Nordex in Turkey

The German turbine manufacturer gets more orders from Turkey

Concrete gravity based foundations (GBFs) form part of the project and are being installed using a new “float and submerge” method – the first time this method has been used for offshore wind turbines.

Tekmar Energy provides CPS for East Anglia ONE Offshore Wind Farm

VBMS has awarded contracts on the project to both Tekmar and JDR Cables

Hydraulic transmission for large offshore wind turbines in the works

INNAS and Hydrautrans are developing a hydraulic transmission for offshore wind turbines with more than 12 MW

Swiss company ABB will modernize the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link between the two Scandinavian countries Sweden and Denmark and provide a new control and protection system for around 30 million dollars.

The fact that wind and solar energy can replace electricity from fossil fuels has been adequately documented. But what happens when there is no wind and the sun won't shine? It's quite obvious that energy should be stored for such times – but this is still easier said than done.

Premiere: IWES provides LiDAR measuring buoys for China

It's the first time ever, China uses floating LiDAR Wind Buoys

Vattenfall inaugurates Ray Wind Farm in the UK

The Swedish energy company will invest into a community fund as long as the wind farm is in operation

WindEurope Conference & Exhibition 2019 takes place in Bilbao, Spain

8,000 professionals will be attending from all over the world and over 400 exhibitors from 50 countries will meet at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC)

Vestas wins Netherlands order after tender process

The deal includes supply and commissioning of the turbines as well as a full-scope service agreement.

India’s tallest lattice met tower is 150m high

RK Systems created the 150m tower for one of India’s leading Independent Power Producers in renewable energy.

EIB helps push Spanish electricity distribution with loan

Gas Natural Fenosa gets a loan of 450 million to invest into the grid and new wind farms

Turkey invests in more wind energy

Siemens Gamesa supplies 36 turbines, marking the début order in Europe for its new 3.3 MW platform

Acciona strenghtens Mexico's renewable energy market

ACCIONA will supply CFE Calificados with clean energy certificates for 20 years to comply with its clean energy consumption targets, established by the Energy Reform in Mexico

Siemens receives DolWin6 contract

TenneT awards Siemens with contract to supply technology for DolWin6 DC grid connection in German North Sea

Hutchinson Engineering Ltd has sent out its first load of Root & Tip Blade frames for MHI Vestas in Denmark

First load out from new quayside facility alongside Garston Dock on the River Mersey

Nexans supplies cables for DolWin6 offshore DC link

Two 90-km-long high-voltage direct-current cables from Nexans will transport up to 900 MW of wind power

Polish TFKable aquires JDR Cables

Both companies have been working together in the past / TFKable is planning to maintain JDR’s operations in current locations

Suzlon leaves Brazilian market

The Indian turbine manufacturer decides to close its Brazilian subsidiary Suzlon Energia Eólica do Brasil Ltda (SEOB).

GE finishes converter station in Germany

The converter station has been shipped out from Warnemünde at the German Baltic Sea coast to its destination in the North Sea.

US offshore wind gaining momentum despite Trump's presidency

Altough some targets look wildly unrealistic, prospects for growth in offshore wind still look strong even under Trump.

Storage might become cheaper than natural gas peaking plants

A new study by the University of Minnesota finds energy storage to become cheaper than building new natural gas plants

LiDAR helps lowering costs for offshore wind

"LiDARs have become a reliable, robust measurement system that ultimately delivers the high-quality data to minimise uncertainty and risk while maximising value," says expert.

French Connection: Nordex scores in France again

Nordex will install six N117/2400 turbines in 2018.

Success for Senvion: Senvion wins order from Croatia

Another new territory for Senvion: The German turbine manufacturer marks sixth market entry since 2016

US State Officials visit Siemens Gamesa in Spain

The Secretary of State of Texas learned about latest technological advances

Siemens installs wind farm on Canary Islands

A 23-MW wind farm is built in Tenerife

Dominican Republic to get another wind farm

Vestas will supply 14 of its V117-3.45 MW turbines to a wind project the Dominican Republic

SMST successfully installs access bridge on installation vessel

The installation vessel Aeolus by Van Oord is working at the Walney Extension offshore wind farm in the UK.

ACCIONA obtains full ownership of Canadian wind farm

ACCIONA has aquired another 50 % of the Ripley Wind Farm in Ontario

ABB smoothes out voltage fluctuations at East Anglia ONE

The Static Compensation SVC Light® technology of ABB enables voltage stabilization and enhances power quality for the East Anglia ONE wind farm

SAERTEX® contributes to prototype wind turbine blade

The world's largest carbon spar cap was made in collaboration with SAERTEX®

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Apex Clean Energy is working with IKEA again: Swedish furniture company IKEA will get clean wind energy from the wind farm Oldman 2 near Pincher Creek in Alberta, Canada, which is operated by Apex Clean Energy.

Wind industry is on the brink of supplying clean energy to all countries in the world. In addition to the world champion of oil production, Saudi Arabia, whose first wind tender is just taking off, attention is increasingly being drawn to Pakistan as an emerging market.

After some investigations and research, innogy and the water board Noorderzijlvest in the Netherlands have decidied it's safe to put some turbines on a sea dike.

Siemens Gamesa receives second order from Indonesia

Siemens Gamesa has secured its first order in Indonesia for the gearless SWT-3.6-130 wind turbines, but it's already their second order in the country

What's going on in the Asian wind market beside Chinese domination?

MAKE gives an outlook for Asia Pacific

Measuring social and economic impacts of Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

The wind farm off the British coast is expected to make a difference.

Vestas wins 200 MW order in Texas

Flat Top Wind I, LLC awards Vestas with order for 200 MW Flat Top Wind Project in the US / Texas leads the wind energy industry in the US with more than 20,000 MW installed and 22,000 wind jobs

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. carrying out project management and owners engineers’ roles for wind farm in Australia

The company will work on bringing Silverton Wind Farm in Western New South Wales to life.

The first blades from Siemens Gamesa's new blade factory in Hull are on their way to their destination - the offshore wind farm Race Bank, located off the North Norfolk coast.

Another member for WindEurope

WindEurope welcomes the Slovenian Wind Energy Association and honours them with breakfast in European Parliament

Largest ever wind measurement campaign in the US completed

Vaisala and the DOE have completed their project / Meteorological data from more than 200 devices in the northwestern United States freely available

Siemens Gamesa supplies 36 of their G114-2.1 MW turbines to Mexico

The order cements position as leading OEM in this market

More people in the UK are working in the renewable industry

Growth is slowing though / With more stable politics, there would have been more growth

Green lights for Neart na Gaoithe offshore windfarm in Scotland

Court refused application by RSPB / Wind farm will bring 500 direct jobs

Since the permanent grid connection is not yet completed, Mainstream uses a mobile transformer for the Loeriesfontein wind farm in South Africa. This means that the wind power plants can already be taken into test set before the substation is finished.

German Ammonit Wind Tunnel accredited as independent calibration laboratory

Additionally, Ammonit Wind Tunnel GmbH meets the high quality standards of MEASNET for anemometer calibration

Nordex signs contract with EDF Energie Nouvelles in France

The German turbine manufacturer and the French utility will work closer together

8.2 Consulting partners with Vattenfall again

It's already the third framework agreement for the two companies.

Enel inaugurates another wind farm in Brazil

Cristalândia Wind Farm is located in the state of Bahia and will be able to produce around 350 GWh per year

New nacelle Lidar test site in Germany fully operational

Furthermore, DNV GL verifies nacelle-mounted ZephIR Lidar wind measurements

TÜV Rheinland achieves new accreditation

TÜV Rheinland has been audited and accredited as a certification body

Siemens Gamesa releases third-quarter of fiscal year 2017 results

Global revenues decreased in the third quarter, but the integration process speeds up.

Sentient’s expansion in the wind energy market, providing prognostic health monitoring and life extension actions for fielded wind turbines will soon be available to commercial customers in the aerospace and rail markets.

Jan De Nul Group’s fall pipe vessel loads and transports rock from Norway to the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, where she will install scour protection layers onto the seabed

SAL Heavy Lift sold to Harren & Partner

SAL Heavy Lift, founded in 1980 in the “Altes Land” area near Hamburg, is one of the world’s leading carriers specialised in the sea transport of heavy lift and project cargo.

As German market grows, Nordex follows

Lights and shadows for the German market, but Nordex continues to stay strong at home.

The new government in Paris wants to abolish their image as Europe's nuclear nation and to finally initiate the energy transition. How this is supposed to work is now open for discussion while uncertainty prevails in the energy industry, as new figures show for the wind energy expansion.

HFG to build Albatros Offshore Transformer Module

Siemens has chosen Heerema Fabrication Group to build the Albatros Offshore Transformer Module (OTM®)

The Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), which is now available online, contains a refined cable route and proposed locations for both the onshore substation.

US gets super-sized wind farm

Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy will build America’s Largest Wind Farm / Once operational, it will be the world's second largest wind farm overall

Ecosse Subsea delivers large carousel for offshore wind farm cables

The 700Te carousel designed with the capacity to be upgraded to 1700Te will be used for the storage of cables required for UK offshore wind farm projects.

Bumper year for Europe's wind energy industry

Europe adds 6.1 GW of wind energy capacity in first half of 2017, but growth is driven by only a handful of markets.

Mooring system components installed for Floatgen

Another crucial step of Floatgen’s installation was successfully completed

EBRD invests invests €28.3 million in Greek renewable energy

It's the first project under the new framework for renewable energy in Greece

Nordex N131/3300: good performance in twelve months of operation

High yield, low sound emission

US wind is blowing strong in second quarter

Over 40% more wind power projects are under construction in America than at this time last year, says AWEA.

Spanish wind industry is playing catch-up

WindEurope welcomes the 1.1 GW auction awarded to wind last week