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- Category: Projects and Contracts
Brascan Power has selected GE Energy as the turbine supplier for the proposed Prince Wind Farm that could add up to 99MW of wind power capacity to the electricity grid in the province of Ontario, Canada. The project, which will utilise 66 of GE’s 1.5MW wind turbine-generators, is expected to enter commercial operation in the second half of 2006. GE will operate and maintain the turbines for five years. Located in the township of Prince, approximately 8km northwest of Sault Ste Marie, the Prince Wind Farm will be one of the first large-scale wind farms to be built in Ontario. The project will further expand and diversify the power generation portfolio of Brascan Power, a company with almost 100 years of experience in Ontario’s power industry. The power will be supplied under a power purchase agreement with the government of Ontario.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Siemens Power Generation (PG) has received two orders for the supply of 27 turbines for wind power systems in Germany and Greece. Four wind farms with a total of 13 wind turbines will be located in the western part of Germany near the border with Luxembourg. The purchaser is the Pinneberg-based company enXco GmbH, a development company in Germany. enXco is a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles – a group member of EDF Electricité de France – with worldwide activities specialising in development, operation and ownership of wind farms. The scope of the order encompasses two 1.3MW, four 2.3MW and seven 2.3MW Mk II turbines, as well as a two-year warranty and service agreement. Delivery of the turbines will commence in November 2005 and be completed by the end of the year. Two new wind farms named Modi II and Kalogiris will be built on the island of Crete in Greece. Siemens PG will equip these facilities with a total of 14 wind turbines. The company will supply eight 600kW turbines for the Modi II wind farm and six turbines of the same rating for the Kalogiris facility. The purchaser is the Rokas Group.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
GE Energy’s 2.5MW wind turbine technology is being introduced into Japan through an agreement that will add 85MW of wind energy capacity to the country’s electricity grid. Currently being developed by Clean Energy Factory, Inc, a wind energy producer based in Nemuro, Hokkaido, the three projects covered by the agreement will be located on Awaji Island, Hyogo; in Dangamine, near the border between Asago and Shiso, Hyogo; and in Hohoku, Yamaguchi. The projects are expected to enter commercial operation during 2006 and 2007.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The state of Texas (USA) has signed an agreement to allow the first offshore wind energy project in the USA to be built off Galveston Island. The multi-million dollar lease, signed with Galveston-Offshore Wind, LLC, allows work to begin immediately on the construction of two meteorological towers. Galveston-Offshore Wind is a division of Louisiana-based Wind Energy Systems Technologies (WEST, LLC). WEST has agreed to put up its own money to test the Gulf waters in this three-phase lease agreement. During the first phase of the lease, WEST will spend US$ 3 to 5 million to build and operate two 80-metre meteorological towers designed to collect wind data in the Gulf of Mexico. WEST will also pay the state a lease rent of US$ 10,000 a year, every year, until actual wind energy production begins.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Energía has opened the Pietrafitta wind farm, one of the largest in Italy and located in Cocullo (L’Aquila). This wind farm, Gamesa Energía’s second in Italy, will contain 37 wind turbines with 850kW of unit capacity, supplied by Gamesa Eólica, implying a total power capacity of 31.45MW. Gamesa Eólica has supplied 10 model Gamesa G52-850kW wind turbines, 15 model Gamesa G58-850kW wind turbines and 12 model Gamesa G52-850kW reinforced wind turbines.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Gamesa Eólica has been awarded a contract with the Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) of Morocco for the construction of the Essaouira wind park with a power capacity of 60MW and located on the west coast of this North African country, between Casablanca and Agadir. This turnkey contract, signed as a result of the collaboration between Gamesa Eólica and Gamesa Energía Servicios, involves the supply of 71 Gamesa G52-850kW wind turbines, as well as their operation and maintenance. Work on assembly of the wind farm is to start in the last quarter of 2005.
- A2SEA to install the Netherlands’ first offshore wind farm
- Gamesa subscribes four contracts with Tecneira
- Siemens secures first order for offshore project in UK
- New GE project in Germany
- Two new wind projects in China
- Nordex’s new routes in wind farm financing
- Siemens receives order from FPL Energy
- Four REpower 5M for Borkum West offshore wind park
- Windpark Joguinho II expected to go on line in 2006
- Nordex supplies new generation of turbines to China
- Irish company to build wind farm in Texas
- First wind-generated power plant launched in Bangladesh
- Emu Ltd chooses SeaBat for offshore wind farm surveys
- Acciona Energía will install 793MW
- Large wind project in Alberta
- Trials to reduce aviation objections to wind farms
- Vestas’ expectations for the Italian market have been confirmed
- Gamesa has been awarded five contracts in Italy
- REpower to deliver 19 wind turbines to Japan
- Germany?s largest wind farm portfolios sold
- Final contracts for first Dutch offshore wind farm signed
- Large-scale wind project in China’s Hebei province
- Vestas receives orders for V90 turbines for Spain
- SP and Ashland Sign Distribution Agreement
- Australian government approves new wind farm
- Gamesa receives a new order from Pioneer Asia
- Gamesa continues its wind power expansion in China
- Beatrice wind farm demonstrator project
- London Array offshore wind farm
- Measuring campaign for E.ON Energy Projects
