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Siemens Gamesa builds Arkona wind power facility in record time
The Arkona power plant has 385 MW of total capacity and will supply electricity to around 400,000 average German households annually. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has reportedly announced that it has successfully installed Arkona offshore wind power plant in record time of five months in Germany. The owners E.ON and Equinor officially opened the Arkona offshore wind power plant on ...
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Gamesa to build its second wind farm in Jordan - an 86-MW facility - under a turnkey arrangement
Gamesa, in a consortium with Spanish company Elecnor, has been awarded the contract to build an 86-MW wind power plant on a turnkey basis in the region of Maan, in southern Jordan. This contract, placed by Green Watts Renewable Energy Company LLC, a 100% subsidiary of Alcazar Energy, comprises the installation of 41 G114-2.1 MW wind turbines at the Al Rajef wind farm and the operation and ...
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One-stop fulfillment: Siemens Gamesa to supply EnBW Albatros offshore wind power plant as first German full-scope-project
Following the 497-megawatt (MW) order for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind power-plant, EnBW has also awarded Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy with the installation of the neighboring 112-MW-project EnBW Albatros. The scope of supply includes 16 direct-drive SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines on monopile foundations and the grid connection via a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM). Siemens Gamesa will ...
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Mainstream’s JV Lekela Power signs MOUs for projects in Egypt
Lekela Power, a 60/40 joint venture between Actis and Mainstream Renewable Power with US$ 1.9 bn investments planned for Africa, announced today the signing of two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) for one 50 MW solar power plant in Aswan and one 50 MW wind power plant in the West Gulf of Suez under the feed in tariff scheme. Commenting on the ...
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Siemens receives its first wind power order in Chile
Siemens Energy has received an order for a total of 50 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 115 megawatts (MW) for the El Arrayan wind power plant in Chile. This wind project will be developed as a joint venture between Pattern Energy and AEI, two leading independent energy companies developing projects in Chile because of its great potential for sustainable energy development and its ...
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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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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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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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Lekela Power on track to deliver 1GW pan-Africa renewable energy plan
Lekela Power, a 60:40 joint venture between Actis and Mainstream Renewable Power, launched in February of this year already has 860 megawatts of wind and solar projects under construction or due to commence construction next year across South Africa, Egypt and Ghana. Lekela Power is one of the biggest international platforms focused on renewable energy targeting the emerging markets and has plans ...
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ESS 36.6MWh Construction
Our company built an energy storage system ESS (about 36.6 MWh) in connection with solar power plant of JW Company in Haenam County, and this ESS started commercial operation from last month. This is the largest capacity among domestic PV ESS currently. The ESS system in conjunction with photovoltaic power generation stores electricity from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the battery and sends it back ...
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Siemens Gamesa bags 176.8 MW wind energy contracts from ReNew Power
Reports confirm that Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA has won contracts for building and equipping 176.8 MW of wind power projects in India for ReNew Power, an independent power producer (IPP). The company will establish a 100.8 Megawatt (MW) wind farm, in the Kutch district of Gujarat and a plant of 76-MW capacity in the Osmanabad district of Maharashtra state.As part of the deals, besides ...
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Turkey’s GAMA Enerji Invests in GE Wind Turbines
GAMA Enerji A.Ş., a GAMA Holding-GE Energy Financial Services joint venture, has achieved financial close and completed the first drawdown for a 35-megawatt (MW) wind power plant in Akhisar, Manisa, 40 kilometers from Izmir, Turkey. GAMA Enerji signed a loan agreement with TSKB in Istanbul on July 5, for financing the Gök II wind park, which is expected to reach commercial operation in ...
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First Turkish Carbon Transaction between Bilgin Energy and 3C climate change consulting
Ankara based Bilgin Energy Investment Holdings A.S., supported by Munich based Future- Camp, and Frankfurt based 3C climate change consulting (3C) terminated the first Turkish carbon transaction in June 2006. 3C purchased emission reduction certificates from Bilgin Energy’s wind power plant project ‘BARES II’ in Balikesir. The first carbon transaction in Turkey between Bilgin Energy and 3C ...
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Green electricity from previously worthless wastewater
New technology with big potential will be presented at World Bioenergy in Jönköping, Sweden on 25–27 May. The new product is a container filled with technology which uses the heat from 55 °C water to generate electricity. The unit is called the Opcon Powerbox and was developed by the Swedish firm of Opcon. The first commercial Opcon Powerbox was installed last year at two pulp mills in Sweden, ...
By Elmia AB
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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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Introducing RecyclableBlade, the World’s First Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy took a big step towards achieving its stated goal of making wind turbines fully recyclable by 2040 by introducing what is known as the world’s first recyclable commercial turbine blade, the RecyclableBlade. Gregorio Acero, head of Quality Management & Health, Safety, and Environment at Siemens Gamesa explained, “Our aspiration is to produce wind ...
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WindMade: leading businesses and non-profit organisations will develop first global consumer label for companies using wind energy
The Global Wind Energy Council, WWF, the LEGO Group, the UN Global Compact, Vestas Wind Systems, PricewaterhouseCoopers (the Official WindMade Verification Partner) and Bloomberg (the Official Data Provider to WindMade) today announced their support for the development of the first global consumer label identifying corporations and products made with wind energy. The WindMade initiative is a ...
By 3BL Media
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Doosan Heavy Signs KRW 1 trillion Contract for Casting & Forging Facility Construction in Saudi Arabia
Saudi’s largest 400,000m²-sized casting & forging facility to be built with the annual capacity to produce 60 thousand tons of castings & forgings Global market to be targeted together with local SMEs for manufacturing facility construction and equipment supply Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced on February 11th that it had signed an EPC contract valued ...
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New IEC Standard to help improve wind turbine quality
Wind power technology has seen remarkable developments in recent years, spurred on by its promise as a dependable source of renewable energy. As a result, it has moved from a niche form of power generation to acquire complete legitimacy in the energy sector. To respond to this rapid evolution in the technology, the IEC has published the second edition of its Standard for measuring the power ...
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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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