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- Category: Projects and Contracts
The Vestas Group has received an order for 25 units of the V90-3.0MW wind turbine for the Studland Bay Wind Farm, which will be located in the northwest of Tasmania, Australia. Studland Bay is the third phase of the Woolnorth Wind Farm where the previous two phases consist of 37 units of V66-1.65 MW wind turbines. The 75MW Woolnorth Studland Bay Wind Farm order will be delivered to Roaring 40s, a joint venture company owned by Hydro Tasmania and China Light and Power. The order consists of delivery, installation and commissioning, remote control system as well as a 5-year service and maintenance agreement. Shipment of the turbines will begin in 2006, and commissioning of the wind power plant will take place during the third quarter of 2006.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Thanet Offshore Wind Limited (TOW), a subsidiary of Warwick Energy Limited, has applied for consents to construct and operate its proposed offshore wind farm off the coast of East Kent. Consents have been requested from both the DTI and from Defra.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Airtricity has applied for consent to build a GBP 50 million, 25 turbine wind farm in Sutherland. The proposed wind farm is located to the north west of Invercassley and Rosehall, approximately 12km to the west of Lairg in the north of Scotland. The site occupies an area of approximately 2731 hectares, of which just over 1% will be required for the infrastructure itself. The proposed wind farm will mitigate approximately 113,000 tonnes of C02 per annum.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
On 15 November 2005, Eurus Energy Group celebrated the completion of Japan's largest wind farm at Cape Soya, Wakkanai, Hokkaido. Total project cost is 12 billion yen and total output capacity is 57MW. The wind farm reduces about 120,000 tons of CO2 emission a year. Completion of its Soya Wind Farm increases wind energy output to 240MW in Japan and 1,080MW in world total.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
REpower Systems AG has acquired a location for the operation of its REpower 5M type wind energy turbine in the DEWI-OCC test field in Cuxhaven, Germany. After signing the location agreement at the end of last year, REpower has now attained the corresponding construction approval for the turbine.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The UK offshore wind industry is making progress in its second phase of development, reports the BWEA. The announcement from Thanet Offshore Wind Limited of it’s submission for formal consent means that all three of the large-scale wind farms planned for development in the Thames Estuary strategic area, a total of 1800MW of capacity, are now being considered by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and Defra.
- Moventas increases wind turbine gear deliveries to Ingetur
- New wind energy project in Ontario
- Siemens secures orders for 27 turbines
- New projects in Japan
- First American offshore wind farm
- Gamesa opens a new wind farm in Italy
- Gamesa wins an international tender
- 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
