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Cost of turning off UK wind farms reached record high in 2021
Investing in more long duration electricity storage, such as expanding Drax’s Cruachan pumped storage hydro plant in Scotland, would mean more excess renewable power could be stored and made available when required, cutting costs and carbon emissions. The cost of turning off UK wind farms to manage the electricity system rose from almost £300m during 2020 to over £500m in ...
By Drax Group
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Renewables go online
Just in time for Global Wind Day, RWE Innogy is launching a new web application with live production data. Whether you are in the office, at home or on the go – at www.rwe-renewableslive.com, you can access the current production of RWE Innogy’s renewable energy plants* at any time. The new mobile-compatible web app allows the company to provide transparent, minute-by-minute data for ...
By RWE AG
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GE Expands Brilliant Platform with Plant-Level Wind Management Tools
Advanced Software Applications with the Goal to Optimize Power Output at the Plant Level Capabilities Include Reduced Wake Losses of Approximately 5-10 Percent; up to 8 Percent More Profit Harnessing the Industrial Internet and GE Predictivity™ Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announced the expansion of its brilliant wind platform to include plant-level wind ...
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China selects GE technology again to support rapid growth in wind energy sector
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--Tuesday, January 12, 2010-- GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it has signed contracts to supply 88 wind turbines to HECIC New Energy Co., Ltd, one of China’s leading wind energy developers, for three new projects in Hebei and Shanxi Provinces. The projects will support the rapid growth of wind energy investments in China, which today is the world’s fourth largest producer of ...
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Duke Energy to Build Second Pennsylvania Wind Farm
Duke Energy will build a new wind farm in north-central Pennsylvania and sell all of the renewable electricity it generates to Delaware Municipal Electric Corp. (DEMEC) under a 25-year agreement. Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, will build, own and operate the 69-megawatt (MW) Laurel Hill Windpower Project in Lycoming County. The wind farm will consist of 30 ...
By Duke Energy
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Global Wind Energy Fortunes (and Turbines) Growing Fast, at Least in Short Term
From Brazil to South Africa, from northern Europe to the American heartland, wind is on the rise. Already among the world's fastest growing energy sources, wind technology is on the cusp of advances that could multiply a turbine's ability to transform currents of air into electricity, and at a time when global leaders are seeking ways to power the planet without greenhouse gases. So wind energy ...
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Record Breaking of new clients for Windfit this fall
Fall is Harvest season for Sereema with a record breaking of new clients for Windfit We are happy to welcome into the fold Arkolia Energies, CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône), cp. max Rotortechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Energiekontor AG, Falck Renewables SpA, Iberwind, John Laing, NTR plc, Quadran International - groupe Lucia, Vector Cuatro Group. Sereema strenghtens its hold in 7 countries ...
By Sereema
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Mainstream completes training programme for Llanquihue communities in Southern Chile
More than 100 people have attended a ceremony in Llanquihue to recognise more than 70 community members who successfully completed a training programme organised by Mainstream Renewable Power. The training, which was delivered by CADES Foundation, was carried out in the areas of food management, steel reinforcement, heavy machinery operation and driving. “These training courses are a ...
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Loeriesfontein wind farm turbine foundations amongst the world’s greenest
Loeriesfontein Wind Farm has announced that its wind turbine foundations are utilising one of the world’s lowest quantities of Portland cement in the concrete formulation. The foundations are designed using an 89% replacement of cement, resulting in, what we believe to be, one of the world’s lowest carbon footprints for any wind farm foundation; according to research scientist, and ...
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Windy Rig construction keeps it local
Construction is expected to take around 16 months, with the project due to reach operational stage in 2021. Ionic Consulting are supporting Statkraft as Owner’s Engineer during construction, with RJ McLeod completing the Civil Works and Powersystems UK providing the Electrical Works. Windy Rig wind farm is a subsidy free project located in Dumfries & Galloway and was ...
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Mainstream signs deal to build and operate Ghana’s first utility-scale wind farm
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power today announces the signing of an agreement with Swiss wind farm developer NEK Umwelttechnik to purchase the 225 megawatt (MW) AyitepaWind Farm, located 40 kilometres from Accra on the east coast of Ghana. The project, which represents a total investment of USD525 million, is expected to reach financial close next year and start generating ...
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Mainstream to take delivery of South Africa’s largest locally-manufactured wind turbine tower order
Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power, today started overseeing the transportation of wind turbine tower sections from their manufacturing facility near Cape Town to the Noupoort Wind Farm site in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Mainstream is currently building three wind farms in the country’s Northern Cape which have a combined capacity of 360 megawatts. All 157 ...
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GE Partners with Downer EDI Limited to Deliver $350M Boco Rock Wind Farm in Australia
67 Turbine Wind Farm for New South Wales Region 10-year, $50 Million Service Agreement in Place GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it had been awarded a contract with its consortium partner, Downer EDI Limited, to supply 67 turbines, build and maintain the $350 million Boco Rock wind farm in New South Wales, Australia. In addition to supplying and commissioning the wind turbine generators, GE ...
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Carbon Trust awards funding to cut offshore wind costs by up to £100m per year
Following an international competition the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has awarded contracts to three cable manufacturers to help commercialise the development of 66kV offshore wind farm intra-array cables. It is providing funding of £400k (£133k to each cable manufacturer) to accelerate the time to market of the cables for use in the large scale UK Round 3 ...
By Carbon Trust
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Frost & Sullivan Lauds GE`s Bently Nevada Line for Creating Enhanced Customer Value Through the Development of Sophisticated Condition Monitoring Systems
Based on its recent analysis of the condition monitoring market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes GE's Bently Nevada® product line, a unit of GE Measurement & Control Solutions, with the 2011 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement. The company leverages more than 50 years of experience in condition monitoring to understand the issues of customers in a wide ...
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Wind Power in China, Market Outlook to 2025 - Capacity, Generation, Market Share, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Investment Trends, Regulations and Company Profiles
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Wind Power in China, Market Outlook to 2025 - Capacity, Generation, Market Share, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Investment Trends, Regulations and Company Profiles ...
By ReportLinker
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