onshore wind energy News
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Petrobras, Total and Total Eren sign Memorandum of Understanding
Petrobras, Total and Total Eren have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop Brazil’s renewable energy sector. The state-controlled Brazilian firm will work with the French companies to analyse the joint business opportunities in the nation’s solar energy and onshore wind energy segments. The companies signed a strategic partnership in February 2017 and are not assessing ...
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EDPR opens the Dammarie wind farm
EDPR opened a new wind farm in France with an installed capacity of 12 MW. The wind farm is located in the municipality of Dammarie, in the French Department of Eure-et-Loir. The wind farm’s output will allow it to supply clean energy to the equivalent of almost 11,000 homes. The opening ceremony was attended by Estelle Cochard, Councillor for the region of Centre-Val de Loire and Deputy ...
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EcofinConcept: Successful completion of one of Germany‘s largest repowering projects
Satisfied today, all parties look to the achieved. That was not always so. One of the largest wind farm repowering projects in Brandenburg, Germany, threatened several times to fail because of the complexity of the task. So not only numerous specialist authorities, but also hundreds of limited partners of the former community wind farm and the local community had to be convinced of the project. ...
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Zuidwester wind farm demonstrates rapid progress achieved in wind industry
Construction work on the Zuidwester wind farm is in full swing on the dyke along the shore of the IJsselmeer. Yesterday, the first of twelve wind turbines has been successfully put into operation. Fifty turbines installed during the late 1980s and early 1990s are being replaced by large new turbines. Each of the new Zuidwester turbines can generate as much electricity as all 50 turbines of the ...
By RWE AG
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DNV GL: Middle East Electricity Demand Will Triple by 2050, Powered by Rapid Growth of Wind and Solar Energy
Electricity demand in the Middle East will triple by 2050, accelerating the growth of renewable energy and triggering the diversification of economies away from fossil fuels.These are some of the findings of DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook 2018, which provides an outlook of the global energy landscape up to 2050.By 2050, solar PV will be the main source of energy in the Middle East and North ...
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GE unveils new onshore wind platform Cypress that lowers energy costs
GE Renewable Energy has recently introduced a new onshore turbine platform, Cypress, along with the next model from the platform, GE’s 5.3-158 turbine. The platform apparently boasts of innovations and architecture from the 4.8-158 turbine unveiled in 2017, while advancing the proven technology of the 2MW and 3MW fleets from GE. Cypress has enabled remarkable AEP improvements, improved ...
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Measuring emotional response and acceptance of wind turbines
Wind energy will likely continue to play a leading role in reaching the EU’s renewable energy targets. However, in some areas wind turbines face social opposition based in large part on the visual impact of wind turbines in the landscape. A new study outlines a novel methodology to measure emotional response to wind turbine visuals, which may assist wind farm planners in gauging public ...
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Iberdrola renovables awarded one of the world’s largest offshore wind farm projects in the UK, with capacity of 7,200 MW
Together with Vattenfall, the world’s leading developer of offshore wind farms Construction could begin at the zone, to be called East Anglia Array and supplying power to up to five million households, in 2015 IBERDROLA RENOVABLES and Vattenfall have set up a 50/50 joint venture to develop this zone off the coast of East Anglia According to Ignacio Galán, this important project will ...
By Iberdrola
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Minister unveils first commercial-scale wind project with Welsh local authority
The first commercial-scale wind energy scheme to be delivered in conjunction with a Welsh local authority was officially launched today by the Welsh Minister for Natural Resources and Food, Alun Davies AM. Located on a brownfield site that was formerly a coal mine, the 4 MW development is a collaboration between developer Partnerships for Renewables and Caerphilly County Borough Council. The ...
By Carbon Trust
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European Commission uses state aid guidelines to push its EU energy vision
According to state aid guidelines published today (April 9, 2014), the Commission recommends removing support mechanisms for renewable technologies that are expected to become "grid competitive" between 2020 and 2030, without specifically defining what the term means; whereas the guidelines only apply to the period from 2014 to 2020. The proposals push for market integration above stability, ...
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Gaelectric completes $84 million funding round for on-shore wind energy portfolio in Ireland
Renewable energy generation and energy storage group, Gaelectric, has raised $84 million in funding for its portfolio of on-shore wind energy projects on the island of Ireland. The portfolio comprises 164 MW of generation capacity across 13 projects which the Group plans to develop out by 2017, representing a total investment in the region of $325 million. Gaelectric is developing a further ...
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Has Nova Scotia pulled the plug on renewable energy?
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia, on the country’s Atlantic seaboard, has ended a programme which gave citizens an incentive to produce renewable energy. The decision, which will initially mean lower prices for energy users, is at odds with widespread warnings that renewable energy must rapidly replace fossil fuels. One Nova Scotian told the Climate News Network the government’s ...
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Department of Energy Releases Annual Wind Market Reports, Finding Robust Wind Power Installations and Falling Prices
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released annual market reports documenting data and trends in wind installations, technologies, costs, prices, and performance through the end of 2018 for three sectors: utility-scale land-based, offshore, and distributed wind."Onshore wind energy installation continues to grow across the country, and this Administration has proven that we can pursue ...
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Germany Planning Energy Autobahn for Offshore Wind
Germany is planning an energy superhighway from north to south to connect its growing wind energy supply with high energy demand regions. Both onshore and offshore wind energy is so far generated primarily in northern Germany, whereas energy consumption is highest in southern and western regions. Today, more wind power is produced in Germany than in any other European country. And over half of ...
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RES Secures O&M Contract at Europe`s Largest Battery Storage Project
RES has won a tender to provide storage O&M services for China Huaneng Group's Minety battery storage project. The Minety project, located 12 miles north west of Swindon, is Europe's largest battery storage development to date. It will now be supported by RES' experienced technicians who will oversee the preventative maintenance and monitor the project 24/7/365 from the company's global ...
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EirGrid Group Launches Five-year Strategy to Transform the Irish Electricity System
The strategy will ensure that renewable energy accounts for 70% of all electricity use in Ireland by 2030 - more than double current levels. Key to the new strategy is upgrading the power system so that it can handle world-leading levels of renewable energy, supplied through a combination of offshore and onshore wind, along with solar energy. EirGrid Group estimates that the cost of delivering ...
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National Grid To Invest In Clean Line Energy
National Grid (LSE: NG; NYSE:NGG) and Clean Line Energy Partners LLC (Clean Line) are pleased to announce that National Grid will make a $40 million equity investment in Clean Line, an emerging leader in the development of long distance, high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission projects to move renewable energy to market. National Grid is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies ...
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DEWI GmbH publish Wind Energy Study 2008
The international wind energy industry takes a very positive view of further development of the worldwide wind energy market in the coming years. Thus the world market volume of annual new installations is expected to be multiplied by five within ten years, from about 20 000 MW in 2007 to about 107 000 MW in 2017. The results of the fourth WindEnergy Study were presented in Berlin today – they ...
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Ecomondo and key energy: green economy system
A big-number edition with +41% attendance compared to 2021 and considerable growth even in respect of 2019 Foreign attendance doubled thanks to IEG´s internationalisation policy Minister Fratin closed the four-day event in Rimini https://en.ecomondo.com https://en.keyenergy.it Rimini (Italy), 11th November 2022 - Green economy: Italy at the forefront for circularity and ...
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New guidelines to assess the potential for biomass and other renewables in the English regions
Biomass development in the English regions could be set to increase following the release of new guidelines from the Department of Energy and Climate Change designed to aid regional authorities in assessing their potential for renewable energy. The guidelines should help the English regions, of which there are nine, set themselves ambitious renewable targets in their new regional strategies. ...
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