- Category: Projects and Contracts
Taiwan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, Formosa 1, has been inaugurated by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Once Formosa 1 comes fully online at the end of November, its 22 turbines will have an installed capacity of 128MW, enough electricity to cover the annual needs of 128,000 households.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
ABB has won an order worth around US$ 30 million from Amprion, a German transmission grid operator, to supply phase-shifting transformers (PSTs) that will optimise power flow in the German electricity network and help in the integration of renewable resources.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
NKT has signed an agreement of a EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract with project owners Equinor and SSE Renewables for delivery and installation of high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable systems to the Dogger Bank Wind Farms Creyke Beck A and Creyke Beck B site.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Vestas has secured a 48 MW order from Kazakh developer TSATEK Green Energy for the second phase of the Astana wind project, expanding the wind park from 52MW to 100MW.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
RTE France has awarded a € 115 million contract to Nexans to supply and install the 67km offshore and 93km onshore power export cables for the 496 MW Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm. The wind farm is located in the English Channel, some 16 km off the coast of Saint Brieuc Bay.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Enel Green Power North America has started construction of the 299MW Aurora wind farm in North Dakota, USA. Expected to be fully operational by the end of 2020, the construction of the facility will involve an investment of around US$ 450 million.
- Iberdrola to build a hybrid solar and wind energy project in Australia
- DTEK complete construction of 100MW wind farm in Ukraine
- GE Renewable Energy announces 350MW order in Texas
- French floating offshore wind farm selects MHI Vestas turbines
- Octopus acquires nine European wind farms from RES
- Vestas secures 103MW order in New Zealand
- 1,000 kilometres delivery of wind components in Thailand
- Siemens to retrofit one of the largest substations in Germany
- JDR wins contract for floating offshore wind project to power oil and gas platforms
- GE Renewable Energy announces 494MW orders with Engie in USA
- Prysmian completes the Dolwin3 offshore wind farm project in Germany
- E.ON and RWE sign PPA in the UK
- Nordex receives order for three wind farms in Turkey
- Siemens Gamesa named preferred supplier for offshore wind project in Taiwan
- KenzFigee signs contract with Duke Energy Renewables for delivery of up-tower crane package
- New research project on wind energy utilisation in the German Bight
- First Subsea secures floating offshore wind dynamic bend stiffener connectors for Kincardine project
- iSpin technology deployed on a wind farm in Latin America
- McDonald's signs Virtual Renewable Power Purchase Agreement
- Siemens Gamesa wins 254MW order in Sweden
- GE Renewable Energy signs agreement to build 715MW wind farm in Henan Province, China
- DTEK finished construction of 200MW wind farm in Ukraine
- Invenergy signs virtual power purchase agreement with AT&T
- Transverse load-out supports floating wind farm in Portugal
- Enel Green Power starts construction of new wind farms in South Africa
- HVDC test power cable link between The Netherlands and Denmark successfully completed
- Green light for a new wind farm in Northern Sweden
- Vestas wins 113 MW order in Sweden
- Natural Power has secured a five year contract to support E.ON in the UK
- Massachusetts selects Mayflower Wind Energy’s 804MW offshore wind proposal