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Tetra Tech awarded $40 million EPC wind energy project
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million contract to design and build a 152-megawatt (MW) wind farm outside of Woodward, Oklahoma. Tetra Tech will provide engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) services to CPV Keenan II Renewable Energy Company, LLC for the Keenan II Wind Farm. Tetra Tech previously completed the upfront environmental and ...
By Tetra Tech
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BluWave-ai and City of Summerside Deliver First AI-Optimized Utility Smart Grid in North America
BluWave-ai and the City of Summerside have announced the first end-to-end AI-optimized smart grid in North America. BluWave-ai notes that it is the first industry proof point of a scalable system applicable to entire states and countries for moving their energy networks towards maximized use of renewable assets. In October, BluWave-ai started streaming commands for controlling battery storage, ...
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New IEC Standard to help improve wind turbine quality
Wind power technology has seen remarkable developments in recent years, spurred on by its promise as a dependable source of renewable energy. As a result, it has moved from a niche form of power generation to acquire complete legitimacy in the energy sector. To respond to this rapid evolution in the technology, the IEC has published the second edition of its Standard for measuring the power ...
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DOE Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Strategy to Secure America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (Feb 24) released America’s first comprehensive plan to ensure security and increase the country's energy independence. The report, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out dozens of critical strategies to build a secure, resilient, and diverse domestic energy sector industrial base that will establish ...
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Historic Farmhouse Addition and Renovation
Ikan Consulting has been selected to redesign and renovate a farmhouse in Glen, NY. The original structure is estimated to have been built between 1750 and 1800. Project highlights include off-grid power system powered by wind turbine, reuse of hand finished beams, and original timber frame structure. The addition will be furnished with wood flooring and structure reclaimed from historic barn de ...
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Nepal to finalise national wind policy
KATHMANDU] Nepal is set to finalise a draft national wind policy in the coming months, to harness wind energy's potential as a solution to its current energy crisis. The policy, prepared by Nepal's national wind task force (NWTF), will be finalised in the next three months, said NWTF member Manoj Kumar Mishra at a national workshop on wind energy this week (31 January). It aims to attract ...
By SciDev.Net
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Offshore wind industry sets record year for installations in first half of 2015
Installations in the first half of 2015 touched 2,342.9MW - tripling the grid-connected capacity for the same period last year. As a result, total installed offshore wind capacity in Europe hit 10,393.6 MW in 82 wind farms across 11 countries. Kristian Ruby, Chief Policy Officer at the European Wind Energy Association, said: "It has taken the offshore wind industry just six months to set the ...
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EU offshore wind installation grows during first half 2013 - but warning signs evident
277 new offshore wind turbines, totalling 1,045 megawatts (MW), were fully grid connected in Europe during the first six months of 2013. This is double compared to the same period in 2012 when 523.2 MW were installed. In addition, 268 foundations were installed and 254 turbines erected, all during the first 181 days of the year. "Offshore wind power installations were significantly higher than ...
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Cutting the cost of remote power supply
Today over 1.6 billion people are living without a regular supply of electricity. In many areas the local grid is not viable or unstable. New technology offered by Joliet in conjunction with German inverter manufacturers SMA provides complete electrification solutions for remote buildings or small villages.Joliet introduces hybrid electricity generation systems which take advantage of multiple ...
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Mitsubishi Electric to Supply Energy-management System and Power Conditioners for World's Largest Energy-storage System
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation recently announced that the company has received an order for its BLEnDer RE energy-management system to monitor and control the battery and power conditioners (PCS) of what the company believes will become the world's largest energy-storage system (240MW output and 720MWh rated capacity) at Kita-Toyotomi Substation in Toyotomi, Teshio, Hokkaido, which is owned by ...
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Offshore wind & transmission forum
Last week the EU council agreed to allocate EUR 576 million to offshore wind projects within the EU, as part of the stimulus package. Nearly half of the allocation is earmarked for offshore wind transmission infrastructure projects which will provide a huge boost to the offshore wind industry and help open up the private sector investment opportunities.Green Power Conferences’ Offshore Wind and ...
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Inox Wind signs landmark agreement with AMSC for the launch of 3MW Wind turbines in India
Inox Wind Limited, one of India’s leading wind energy solutions provider, has signed an exclusive agreement with AMSC (NASDAQ:AMSC), a global solutions provider serving the wind and power grid industry, to launch the 3MW wind turbine which is especially suitable for low wind regimes in India. The 3MW wind turbine platform is a globally operating and proven platform. This agreement comes on ...
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RWE Innogy commences with turbine installation for the Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm
At RWE’s base port in Bremerhaven the go-ahead was given yesterday for the installation of the 48 wind turbines that will comprise the Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm: Four 240-tonnes tubular steel towers, together with the associated hubs and nacelles, were loaded onto the installation vessel “Victoria Mathias” which will transport them for installation at sea over the coming ...
By RWE AG
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GE 1.5-Megawatt wind turbine commissioned for DOE program designed to move US wind energy technology forward
As part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to drive new levels of performance in wind turbine technology, which will help ensure further U.S. wind industry growth, a GE (NYSE: GE) 1.5-megawatt wind turbine today was commissioned at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Boulder, Colo. Building off the experience of the country’s largest installed turbine base, the GE 1.5 ...
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Millionth Renewable Energy Plant Connected to E.ON Grid
E.ON, Germany's largest distribution system operator, recently connected the millionth renewable energy plant to its distribution system and celebrated an energy transition anniversary. The commissioned wind turbine is located in the municipality of Biesenthal in Brandenburg and will in future feed 6.8 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity into the grid of E.ON subsidiary E.DIS. E.ON's Chief ...
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Major Order for Siemens Energy Enables Transmission of Wind Power for 4 Million People
In future, a single grid connection will transport up to two gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power to the onshore power grid. This is made possible by converter systems provided by Siemens Energy and Spanish company Dragados Offshore. The German transmission system operator Amprion has awarded the world's first order for two of these systems to the consortium. In total, up to four gigawatts of ...
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GE Applying MRI Magnet Technology to Cost-Effectively Scale-Up to 15MW Wind Turbines
With the wind industry moving toward larger wind turbine platforms in the future, GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced it has begun work on the first phase of a 2-year, $3 million project from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a next generation wind turbine generator that could ...
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Renewable energy business leaders to convene at European future energy forum
The foremost renewable energy gathering in Europe has announced a star line up of experts to appear in London, Oct. 19/21, 2010. A world-class debate will take place for three days, with how to fund the future of energy as the leading issue. The forum will kick-off on Tuesday 19 October with keynote presentations from international leaders from around the world including Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, ...
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Actions to Strengthen Clean Energy Supply Chains
As part of the inaugural meeting of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (Nov 27) announced $275 million for seven projects to strengthen clean energy supply chains and accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in nine former coal communities across the nation. Each project positions the U.S. to enhance its global competitiveness and ...
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GE receives US$2bn largest ever wind turbine order
Mesa Power LLP, a company created by legendary energy executive T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with General Electric to purchase 667 wind turbines capable of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 300,000 average US homes. The agreement represents the first phase of the four-phase Pampa Wind Project that will become the world’s largest wind energy project, ...
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