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Wind Power Forecasting with EA-PSM SAS
Free electricity trade market requires wind power producers to forecast day-ahead power generation. Mismatch between forecasted and real generation becomes direct losses for the wind power plant owner. However, due to intermittent nature of the wind, simple forecasting models usually are not good enough to reach satisfactory results. Automatic and self-learning algorithms are needed to ensure ...
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New record as wind powers 40% of Spain
Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend. As heavy winds lashed Spain on Saturday evening wind parks generated 9,862 megawatts of power which translated to 40.8 percent of total consumption. Between Friday and Sunday wind power accounted for an average of 28 percent of all electricity demand ...
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EnergieTEAM and BaxEnergy hit the 100th wind park milestone
BaxEnergy and EnergieTEAM reinforce their long-lasting collaboration with the integration of the 100th wind park monitored by the former. The French group develops, builds and operates wind farms throughout France since 2002, nowadays standing among the top three leading operators in France with its 100 wind parks, 1.095 MW and 440 wind turbines. The partnering history dates back to 2014, when ...
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Acciona extends its footprint in Canada by winning a 30 MW wind park contract
ACCIONA Energy has been selected by the Canadian electricity company Nova Scotia Power (NSPI) to build a 30 megawatt (MW) wind park at Amherst, on the country's east coast. The park will consist of twenty 1.5 MW ACCIONA Windpower turbines, and the facility will join the other two that have been awarded to ACCIONA in Canada. Amherst is expected to be completed by the end of 2009, doubling the 136 ...
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ACCIONA Energy invests EUR 366m in two wind parks in the United States
Located in the states of Illinois and Oklahoma, they are now under construction and will be completed by the end of this year. Their total capacity is 223.5 megawatts, distributed in 149 wind turbines of ACCIONA Windpower technology. They will produce clean energy equivalent to the consumption of 65,000 US homes. Before the end of the year ACCIONA Energy will complete the installation of two ...
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Acciona invests US$550m in the largest wind park in Latin America
ACCIONA Energy is constructing a 250.5 MW wind park in Oaxaca, Mexico, whose power will be bought by the Mexican cement company Cemex for its own use. The park, named Eurus, represents an investment of US$550 million (EUR 427 million) and will be the largest in Latin America in terms of installed power. The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, inaugurated the first stage of the park this week, ...
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Merkel Inaugurates Germany`s Next Offshore Wind Park
Baltic 1 was inaugurated today, making it Germany's first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea and second offshore park to go online. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the ceremony for the nearly 50 megawatt (MW) park, which will generate up to 185 gigawatt hours of electricity annually for around 50,000 German homes. The opening marks a further milestone in the country's offshore wind ...
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HUSUM WindEnergy: Construction of New German Offshore Wind Park Completed
BERLIN and HUSUM, Germany - Construction of Germany's newest offshore wind park has recently been completed. The 21 wind turbines that make up the Baltic Sea wind farm - dubbed Baltic 1 - are now complete and set to enter the commissioning phase, the final step before energy production can begin. This milestone for Germany's growing offshore industry highlights the number of market opportunities ...
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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 energy projects in Bulgaria
Wind energy projects in Bulgaria In this issue we present exhibitors in the SEE Exhibition on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Global Wind Power Vestas *** Global Wind Power is a leading supplier in the field of wind energy on the European market. Our efforts are focused exclusively on wind power and we have installed over 250 wind turbines in Germany, Denmark, France, Romania ...
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Pöyry awarded contract for site supervision and technical advice for a 200MW wind park, Romania
PÖYRY PLC Press release 1 July 2011 at 3.00 p.m. Pöyry has been awarded an assignment from Alpha Wind SRL and CAS Regenerabile SRL, the Romanian subsidiaries of Verbund Renewable Power GmbH, Austria, for the 200MW wind park Casimcea. The project comprises the overall construction of the wind park with road-building, foundation, cabling and the erection of the wind turbines. ...
By Pöyry PLC
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NIB helps tap renewable energy in India
NIB helps tap renewable energy in IndiaThe Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and India's Axis Bank Limited have agreed on a USD 50 million loan for seven wind turbine parks in India.Altogether, 208 wind turbines of 0.85-2.10 MW will be set up, making the total capacity of the new wind parks 300 MW. Five of the seven units are being constructed in the state of Tamil Nadu, and the remaining two units ...
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EcofinConcept supports private investor with the purchase of an existing Enercon wind turbine
EcofinConcept GmbH – the specialist for renewable energy projects – has supported a German private investor in the transaction and supplementing its wind turbine portfolio with another existing Enercon wind turbine. The wind power plant with a nominal output of 800 kW, a hub height of 73 m and a rotor diameter of 53 m is located at a location near an autobahn in Lower Saxony and has ...
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Fewer pitfalls in the planning and financing of wind farms
Berlin - 2010/02/03 Poor planning, errors in the logistics, construction delays owing to overlooked permits are just some of the risks in the construction of wind parks which can drive the costs to undreamed of heights, both in the short and long term. Advanced planning can avert these and other, similar gaps during the design and financing stages. In the three-day RENAC wind courses possible ...
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RENAC wind courses can help in avoiding costly mistakes during planning and financing of wind farms
Poor planning, errors in the logistics, construction delays owing to overlooked permits are just some of the risks in the construction of wind parks which can drive the costs to undreamed of heights, both in the short and long term. Advanced planning can avert these and other, similar gaps during the design and financing stages. In the three-day RENAC wind courses possible pitfalls in planning ...
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Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Project Now in Service with GE 2.5-Megawatt Wind Turbines
CEZ Group’s 600-megawatt Fantanele/Cogealac wind park, Europe’s largest onshore wind project, now is in full operation and is producing enough cleaner energy to power more than one million Romanian households each year. The project utilizes 240 GE 2.5-megawatt wind turbines, including the 1,000th 2.5-megawatt (MW) class machine installed by GE worldwide. The final wind turbine for ...
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E.ON opens the world`s largest wind farm
E.ON has put the world’s largest wind farm into operation in the United States. After a construction period of just over two years, 627 wind turbines with an installed capacity of approx. 780 MW are now operating in Roscoe, Texas. They can generate electricity for more than 230,000 homes. The wind farm consists of four sections and covers an area of no less than 400 km², twice the size of a city ...
By E.ON AG
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Pattern Energy secures USD 11bn for SunZia wind, transmission project
Pattern Energy Group LP has secured USD 11 billion (EUR 9.88bn) in loan facilities for SunZia Transmission and SunZia Wind, described as the biggest clean energy infrastructure project in US history, and launched full construction works. The project envisages the construction of a 550-mile (805 km), 525-kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line between central New Mexico and ...
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Work starts on Kinangop Wind Farm in Kenya
Aurecon has been appointed as owner’s engineer by the project company, Kinangop Wind Park Ltd (KWP), for the construction phase of the 60.8 megawatt wind farm in Kenya’s Kinangop region. This project has African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) as the majority owner. The project has reached Financial Close and commissioning is expected to occur in mid-2015. The wind farm ...
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Cooperation with AL PRO extended to Canada and Brazil!
We are very satisfied with AL-PRO commitment in Germany. In just 1 year, they’ve succeeded in establishing meteodyn WT on that wind energy market. From now we entrust AL-PRO with the sales of meteodyn WT and meteodyn Forecast through its subsidiaries in Canada and Brazil. We know we can rely on AL-PRO expertise in CFD modeling and wind resource assessment. Meteodyn WT is a Computational ...
By Meteodyn
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