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Offshore wind `could power UK homes by 2020`
Business Secretary John Hutton revealed the vision at a conference for the European energy industry in Berlin on Monday. Mr Hutton made much of Britain's unrivalled wind resources though his speech was firmly focused on aspirations and possibilities rather than any concrete plan which would be implemented. 'The challenge for the government and for industry is to turn this potential - for our ...
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Powersystems Announce Electrical Works Contract For Glen Kyllachy Onshore Wind Farm
Powersystems has announced it has been awarded the electrical balance of plant contract by Scottish company RJ Mcleod who are a highly experienced civils contractor based in Dingwall – who have been appointed to construct the 50MW Glen Kyllachy wind farm on behalf of their mutual client Innogy Renewables. Experience in the design and installation of high voltage electrical infrastructure ...
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Britain`s seas `Open for Business`
BWEA, the UK wind industry trade association has welcomed the Crown Estate's announcement of a speeded up timetable for allocating the next generation of offshore wind farm sites. Speaking at BWEA's Offshore 08 conference in Westminster, Rob Hastings, Director of the Marine Estate for The Crown Estate revealed that significant zones for 25GW of wind farms will be tendered out to developers ...
By RenewableUK
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Consortium with EDP Renewables is selected for floating wind farm pilot project in France
Consortium with EDP Renewables is selected for floating wind farm pilot project in France The EDP Renewables, ENGIE, Caisse des Dépôts, Eiffage/Principle Power and GE consortium’s floating wind farm pilot project in the Mediterranean has been selected by the Government of France. This verdict recognises the innovative technological decisions, experience and know-how of the ...
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New York to build 2400 MW of offshore wind by 2030
Just one day after announcing the closure of one of the state’s biggest nuclear power plants, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forward a grand plan to build 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, beginning with a 90 megawatt (MW) project off the coast of Long Island. In one of a series of speeches of his unconventional “State of the State” tour, Gov. Cuomo urged the Long ...
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Combined offshore wind/hydrogen project wins Dutch Hollandse Kust Noord tender
Hollandse Kust Noord is one of three offshore wind areas chosen by the Dutch government to be developed by 2023, as part of the country’s Energy Agreement for sustainable growth. The total surface area of the wind farm site within this zone is approximately 125 km2. Hollandse Kust Noord consists of two sites located 18.5 km off the coast of the North Holland province. On Wednesday evening, ...
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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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Anglo-German cooperation is needed to deliver on offshore wind energy plans
Viewpoint from Phil de Villiers, Offshore Wind Accelerator Manager, Carbon Trust UK and Germany now share a common goal: to rapidly accelerate the development and deployment of offshore wind energy to help their respective countries deliver energy security and meet agreed carbon reduction plans. The recent Renewables Road Map put the UK goal at up to 18GW by 2020, while Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
By Carbon Trust
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Massachusetts Offshore Wind Farm Denied Permit to Site Cables
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 18, 2007 (ENS) - The Cape Cod Commission has denied a permit for the nation's first proposed offshore wind farm to run submarine and upland transmission cables from the site in Nantucket Sound to connect with the power grid on the mainland. After voting against the proposal Thursday, the commission said it denied the permit application on procedural grounds ...
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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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Xcel Energy and NCAR power up renewable energy forecasts
Xcel Energy announced today an expanded agreement with the National Center for Atmospheric Research for sophisticated renewable energy forecasting. The agreement with the Boulder, Colo.-based center extends an existing relationship that has saved Xcel Energy's 3.4 million electricity customers in eight states millions of dollars. In the next two years, NCAR scientists and engineers will ...
By Xcel Energy
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GE to Provide Wind Energy in Scotland
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will supply SSE Renewables with 10 GE-1.6 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for the Langhope Rig Wind Farm in Scotland. Once operational, the 16-MW Langhope Rig Wind Farm will generate the equivalent energy needs of approximately 15,000 Scottish homes (based on household consumption of 3,300 kWh a year). It is located on the Scottish Borders, approximately 5 ...
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First Turbines Energized in Ford County
E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America generated power today on the first turbines on the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm, located in Ford and Iroquois counties, approximately 4 miles east of Paxton. The project, the first wind energy project in Ford County, expects to be placed in service by mid-2012. "We are honored to be a part of the local community, and we look forward to providing ...
By E.ON AG
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Texas coastal wind farms may put birds at risk
Two wind power projects under construction in Kenedy County, Texas will pose a threat to migratory and resident birds and bats, according to a scientific study released today by the Coastal Habitat Alliance. The two projects, both being built on private ranch land, will be the first wind farms in coastal south Texas. This portion of the Texas coast is among the most important bird migration ...
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Duke Energy to Sell Renewable Power from New Texas Wind Farm to CPS Energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) announced plans today to build a large-scale wind farm in Willacy County, Texas, and sell the electricity it generates to San Antonio-based CPS Energy, the nation's largest municipally owned energy utility. Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, will build, own and operate the 200-megawatt (MW) Los Vientos I Windpower Project in Willacy ...
By Duke Energy
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Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first
A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities. Until the settlement announced Friday with Duke Energy Corp. and its renewable energy arm, not a single wind energy company had been prosecuted for a death of ...
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Duke Energy to Build Second Kansas Wind Farm
For the second time in a month, Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) announced plans today to build a large-scale wind farm in Kansas. Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, will build, own and operate the 131-megawatt (MW) Cimarron II Windpower Project in Gray County – approximately 200 miles west of Wichita. The company purchased the fully developed and contracted wind ...
By Duke Energy
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Iberdrola Renewables’ Stu Webster Earns Environmental Excellence Award
The American Wind Energy Association today honored Iberdrola Renewables’ Stu Webster, director of permitting and environmental affairs, with the Andrew Linehan Award for Environmental Excellence. Webster received the award at the national advocacy group’s fall conference in Chandler, Ariz. “This award is truly a professional and personal honor,” said Webster. ...
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Offshore wind analytics to cut opex to less than quarter of costs
Growing predictive maintenance capabilities, drones and multi-turbine control strategies will combine with logistics innovations to lower operations and maintenance (O&M) costs, industry experts said. Sweden's Vattenfall launched last month its pioneering 93 MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, north-east Scotland. The new 300 million-pound ($393.0 ...
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Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic birds is not just an irreplaceable loss for a vulnerable species. It's also a federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil ...
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