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Google Pumps Funds Into Afric`s Biggest Wind Power Project
GOOGLE IS BACKING Africa's largest wind power project, two years after investing $12 million in the continent’s largest solar power project. ...
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Wind power and M&A: a moveable feast
Multi-billion dollar renewable energy enterprises seem to have sprung up full-blown practically overnight, providing investment bankers, venture capitalists and financiers with their latest moveable feast. Wind power projects and companies were among the first to attract serious attention and capital. While solar and biofuels have likewise come to the fore, wind power investment continues to grow ...
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China Energy Investment & EDF Group ink deal for offshore wind power
Electricite de France Group (EDF Group) and China Energy Investment have reportedly inked a deal to collectively develop an offshore wind power project in eastern Jiangsu province of China. As per trusted sources, the offshore wind power project is the first-of-its-kind having both domestic and foreign investment in China. The project will receive a total investment of 7.94 billion yuan, with ...
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Wind Projects Updates in Vietnam
#Wind #Energy Updates in #Vietnam. There were a total of at least 71GW of wind power projects in different stages of development in Vietnam, which was more than five times the capacity in February last year. Among them, the capacity of offshore wind power is about 65.7GW, and onshore wind power is about 5.5GW. It can be seen that in the past year or so, #COVID-19 has not stopped #investors from ...
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Amazon division to use power generated by big NC wind farm
A division of Amazon is buying the renewable energy generated by the South's first big wind-power project. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services said Monday it has agreed to buy the electricity generated by the 200-megawatt operation to be built near Elizabeth City in rural eastern North Carolina. A groundbreaking for the project being built by Iberdrola Renewables is scheduled for Tuesday. The ...
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Wind power projects add to ADB effort to help India develop cleaner power sources
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and India’s private sector are developing two wind power projects to further build the South Asian nation’s access to cleaner energy sources. ADB is extending a rupee-denominated loan of $113 million equivalent to a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of CLP Holdings of Hong Kong to fund development of two wind energy facilities in the Indian states of Gujarat and ...
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Iberdrola Renewables Announces 30-MW PPA with Upper Midwest Municipal Power Agency
Iberdrola Renewables today announced a 20-year contract to sell 30 MW from its Rugby Wind Power Project, an operating wind farm in Pierce County, North Dakota, to Upper Midwest Municipal Power Agency (UMMPA), a municipal joint action agency. UMMPA will provide the clean energy to 15 member communities in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Iberdrola Renewables' ...
By Iberdrola
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IKEA to only use renewable electricity generated by its own wind turbines in Sweden
As a step towards using only energy from renewable sources in its global operations, IKEA Group is investing in a new wind farm with 30 wind turbines on Glötesvålen, a mountain in Härjedalen, Sweden. This is one of the largest investments to date in a wind power project in the Nordic countries and one of the largest land-based wind power project that work has started on so far in ...
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Vattenfall makes an offer on a British wind company
Vattenfall announced on Thursday that it is to make an offer on Eclipse Energy UK Plc, a British company. “As part of our strategy to reduce emissions, Vattenfall has ambitious plans within the renewable energy sector. Vattenfall’s view is that the UK is a suitable target market for its future renewables growth for a variety of reasons including a well-functioning support system, a deregulated ...
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IEA questions impact of a non-binding renewable energy target for Europe
According to the IEA's Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report, the absence of a binding target raises questions about how effective the overall target can be as member states would be able to define their commitment to renewables voluntarily. The report adds that the framework overseeing these commitments lacks detail. Justin Wilkes, deputy chief executive officer of the European Wind ...
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BP to Build Five U.S. Wind Farms This Year
HOUSTON, Texas (ENS) - BP Alternative Energy North America Inc. today announced that it expects to begin construction on five wind power generation projects in the United States in 2007. Located in four states - California, Colorado, North Dakota and Texas - the projects are expected to deliver a combined generation capacity of some 550 megawatts, MW. When complete, the projects will exceed the ...
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Iberdrola Renewables, BWEC Second Year of Ground-Breaking Bat Study Again Shows Large Reduction in Bat Mortality
GARRETT, Pa. - The second year of ground-breaking research to study the interaction between bats and wind turbines at the Casselman Wind Power Project shows that increasing cut-in speed of the turbines, the minimum wind speed necessary for turbines to begin spinning and producing electricity, during low wind periods in the late summer and early fall reduced bat mortality up to 93%. The study was ...
By Iberdrola
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Gamesa and Iberdrola Ingeniería to build four wind farms in Costa Rica with total capacity of 80 MW
The two companies will handle all the construction and commissioning phases required for four 20-MW wind farms. Gamesa and Iberdrola Ingeniería have signed EPC contracts with subsidiaries of Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy (GME) to build 80 MW in Costa Rica. The two companies will handle all the construction and commissioning phases required for this project, named Alisios, which ...
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Study finds no widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US
Over 30,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity are installed across the United States and an increasing number of communities are considering new wind power facilities. Given these developments, there is an urgent need to empirically investigate typical community concerns about wind energy and thereby provide stakeholders involved in the wind project siting process a common base of knowledge. A ...
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NTPC’s Tender for 600 MW of ISTS-Connected Wind Projects
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has floated a tender for 600 MW of interstate transmission system (ISTS) connected wind energy projects in the country. The last date for the submission of bids is March 30, 2020. Interested bidders are required to make an earnest money deposit (EMD) of 600,000 (~$8,367)/MW. A pre-bid meeting will be held on March 16, 2020, according to the notice ...
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New NIB loan to wind farm project in northern Sweden
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Swedish Gabrielsberget Nord Vind AB have signed a loan totalling EUR 33 million for the financing of a new wind farm project in Västerbotten in northern Sweden.The 16.5-year loan will be used for financing the wind farm project, which has a total capacity of 46 MW. The wind farm will be made up of 20 wind turbines and the commercial operation of the farm is ...
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Nevada`s First Wind Power Project Begins Generating Clean Energy
Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that its Spring Valley Wind project – the first wind power project in the state of Nevada – has completed construction and is fully operational. A ceremony is being held today to commence commercial operations at the 151.8 megawatt (MW) Spring Valley Wind project, which is located near the town of Ely. "I couldn't be happier that ...
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Ripple Energy seeks crowdfunding for wind farm co-ownership venture
The campaign is apparently open to anyone who wishes to invest amounts between £10 to £1million Ripple Energy has recently confirmed that it has started a crowdfunding drive for enabling its first wind farm this year, aiming to expand its vision of allowing customers to co-own as well as be direct energy users of onshore wind power projects throughout the U.K. Sources familiar with ...
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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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Siemens and E.ON sign large wind power deal
Siemens Energy and E.ON have signed one of the largest wind power deals ever. The two major German companies agreed that Siemens will supply 500 wind turbines with a total capacity of 1,150 megawatts (MW) to E.ON for new projects in the United States and in Europe. The wind turbines will be delivered and installed in 2010 and 2011. This major contract marks a new era of collaboration between E.ON ...
By E.ON AG
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