wind industry News
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Midwest Wind Summit & Expo
The Midwest Wind Summit & Expo offers unparalleled access to the leading companies, government, research centers, with unmatched networking opportunities with wind industry experts, investors, and stakeholders from North America. Join us for the opportunity to discuss with your wind colleagues how our industry can create a cleaner energy future, strengthen regional and national economies, and ...
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Massive global Offshore Wind conference backed by UK and European Associations announced for London
The first ever joint offshore wind conference organised by EWEA and RenewableUK was announced today. Offshore Wind Energy 2017 will take place in London between 6th and 8th June 2017, and will be instead of the annual event which RenewableUK holds and the biannual EWEA OFFSHORE event. The announcement was made today at EWEA OFFSHORE 2015 in Copenhagen. Offshore Wind Energy 2017 is expected to ...
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International small wind conference 2011
Along with the Conference, an exhibition welcomed the industry manufacturers and suppliers. The comprehensive conference program included NHEOLIS presentation of the British and French small wind markets comparison. Further to the event Renewable UK has just published the 2011 British Small Wind Market report, announcing the good progression of the industry : 2010 sales increased by 71% (2009 ...
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EWEA signs long-term events deal with Hamburg Messe
EWEA and HMC have agreed to host two more events in 2018 and 2020, in addition to the collaboration on WindEnergy Hamburg 2016 that will take place in September. EWEA will continue to host its annual and offshore events in the intervening years 2017 and 2019. The agreement also includes an option to cooperate on a fourth event in 2022. The combination of EWEA's leading industry conference in ...
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EWEA appoints Giles Dickson as new CEO
Mr. Dickson was Vice President of Global Public Affairs at Alstom before joining EWEA. Prior to this, he was a civil servant in the UK government for over 15 years. Mr. Dickson comes to EWEA with substantial experience and knowledge of European energy and climate policies having led negotiations on environment at the UK Permanent Representation in Brussels and having overseen Alstom's engagement ...
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Better Late Than Never: Senate Passes Wind Energy Tax Credit Extension
By Ariel Braude on August 3, 2012 Tags: Elections, Senate Finance Committee, wind energy, Wind Energy Tax Credit On August 2, 2012, the Senate Finance Committee passed a one-year extension to the wind energy tax credit. The Senate Republicans took a stand against their Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who claimed a few days ago that he was not in support of this tax credit. The Wind Energy Tax ...
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Nheolis at windpower 2011
Recognized as one of the fastest-growing trade shows in the U.S, WINDPOWER includes nearly 1,400 exhibiting companies, thousands of qualified wind energy professionals, engaging educational information and unmatched networking opportunities and special events. Organized by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the conference is a perfect blend of education, exhibition, and networking, ...
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German Wind Industry Anticipates Breakthroughs
Last week an initial breakthrough was made to further accelerate Germany's shift to renewable energy. The country's four major grid operators provided the German government with a new plan for a major grid expansion. The government is reviewing the plan and has recently intensified high-level meetings among national and state-level players. Germany Trade & Invest experts will attend this ...
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Wind Energy Update O&M Excellence Award Winners Announced
For the first time, the WEU O&M Excellence Awards, sponsored by E.ON and Danish Wind Power Academy (DWPA), bought together the wind energy industry to celebrate excellence, outstanding achievements and contributions in the evolving O&M sector. Nominations opened to the wind energy industry in February encouraging all industry players to take part – over 100 nominations were ...
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Wind Energy Update O&M Excellence Award Winners Announced
For the first time, the WEU O&M Excellence Awards, sponsored by E.ON and Danish Wind Power Academy (DWPA), bought together the wind energy industry to celebrate excellence, outstanding achievements and contributions in the evolving O&M sector. Nominations opened to the wind energy industry in February encouraging all industry players to take part – over 100 nominations were ...
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EU wind industry skills shortage: over 5,000 more workers needed per year
The European wind industry faces a severe skills shortage of around 5,500 appropriately qualified staff per year. This shortfall could climb to 18,000 by 2030 - nearly 5% of the entire wind industry workforce - if numbers of suitable workers don’t increase. The warning comes in a report to be published by the EU’s Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind), based on research by ...
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Mainstream hosts Norstec Academy
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power hosted eleven students from the Norstec Academy (www.norstecacademy.org) at its London office as part of their one week tour of the offshore wind industry. The Norstec Academy skills programme was launched in May this year through a student competition and the winners spent one week visiting sites and meeting experts across the UK offshore ...
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Moreld will participate in a seminar hosted by Oslo-based law firm Thommesen on the 7th of March 2022.
The seminar will cover the latest trends and tendencies in the global offshore wind market, how this will likely affect the supply chain and developers and also an update on the regulatory framework for offshore wind developments in Norway. The focus will be on project execution and challenges from different angles, including how, and to what extent, a local supply chain can be competitive in the ...
By Moreld Aqua
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Christian Trahan is Vice Chairman of the Board of “AG Windindustrie within VDMA”
The “VDMA AG Windindustrie” is the largest working group within the German VDMA organization. About 90 companies are taking part in this cooperation. The main interests are networking and creating synergies thereby strengthening the German Wind Power Industry against competition from outside and against other energy producing branches. Companies from all the bandwidth of wind industry ...
By Argo-Hytos
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Wind PowerExpo summons the international wind industry to Zaragoza in September
The international wind energy industry has an unavoidable appointment in the calendar for 2009: Wind PowerExpo, the VII International Wind Power Trade Fair, which will take place from September 22nd to the 24th of the current year in Zaragoza. The organizers of the event, Feria de Zaragoza and Infopower, have put in a lot of effort to go through a quantitative and qualitative jump in its ...
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Gamesa continues to make inroads into the US market with a new contract for the supply of 99 MW
The company will supply G114-2.0 MW and G114-2.1 MW wind turbines for a wind farm located in the central United States. Gamesa, a technological leader in the global wind industry, has been awarded a contract for the supply of 99 MW[1] for a wind farm in the south central United States. The wind farm will utilize 48 G114-2.0 MW turbines and G114-2.1 MW turbines. Gamesa will deliver and ...
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Wind PowerExpo summons from Marseille the international wind industry to come to Zaragoza (Spain) in September
Wind PowerExpo, the VII International Wind Power Fair, which will take place from September 22nd to the 24th of the current year in Zaragoza (Spain), is present in EWEC 2009 —the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) conference and exhibition which will take place in Marseille from March 16th to 19th— with a stand from which it summons the international wind energy industry to its autumn ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Banking on Europe`s offshore wind industry
The offshore wind industry has already garnered government support and is increasingly piquing the interest of the private sector thanks to its ability to contribute significantly to the European renewable energy targets of 2020. As installed capacity continues to grow, and market share increases, the banking sector will continue to become progressively more involved in this industry. The ...
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Experience with wind auctions: From German community wind to the Austrian supply industry – A critical appraisal
Vienna, 12 November 2019 – In the course of the event “windrichtungen” (wind directions) of the Austrian Wind Energy Association IG Windkraft, Stefan Gsänger, Secretary General of the World Wind Energy Association WWEA and Stefan Schafferhofer, Director of the Business Unit Wind Energy of ELIN engines reported on the consistently negative experience with auctions in the ...
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A legal discussion on wind energy
There are several issues affecting the future of the US wind industry but what could be most important are the passage of a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) and the future of the grid. Can the wind industry thrive or even survive without an RES? Who is going to control siting decisions for new transmission lines – federal, state or local authorities? And who is going to pay for these ...
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