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Wind Tower - Global Market Size, Market Segmentation, Competitive landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Wind Tower - Global Market Size, Market Segmentation, Competitive landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020 ...
By ReportLinker
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Wind Tower - Global Market Size, Market Segmentation, Competitive landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Wind Tower - Global Market Size, Market Segmentation, Competitive landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020 ...
By ReportLinker
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Broadwind Names Jesse E. Collins Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Move tightens focus on continuous operational improvement NAPERVILLE, Ill.&p>"In his new role with the Company, Jess will help Broadwind continue to advance our operational initiatives, especially continuous improvement across our platform of wind-focused companies," said J. Cameron Drecoll, Broadwind CEO. "He has the vital skills and experience to help us prepare for the anticipated wind ...
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Gamesa Selects Towers from Broadwind Energy for U.S. Wind Projects
NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Gamesa Technology Corp., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, a global manufacturer of wind turbine generators with headquarters in Spain and operations in the U.S., Europe, China and India has selected Tower Tech, Inc., a subsidiary of Broadwind Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:BWEN), to supply structural wind towers for wind sites in the United ...
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Gamesa lands a new order for the supply of 200 MW in Mexico
The company will install 95 of its G114-2.1 MW turbines at a wind farm being built in the north of the country Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has received a new order1 for the supply of 200 MW at a wind farm located in the state of Coahuila, in northern Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will install and commission 95 of its G114-2.1 MW ...
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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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Molas NL applied to offshore 4.0MW wind turbines
In June 2019, Movelaser Molas NL nacelle-based wind lidar was installed at an offshore wind farm in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province.It was applied to the power curve verification of offshore wind turbines.The wind turbine is Siemens 4.0MW model with a hub height of 90 meters and a blade length of 62.5 meters.The cost of setting up a offshore wind tower is millions of RMB, which is difficult to ...
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Good winds boost wind power in Brazil
The wind market is reaching high levels in global investments in power, and currently is the component of the energy mix that is growing faster. Recently, GWEC – the global wind power council – released the statistics related to the 2013 market, which presented a cumulative capacity of 318,137 MW, which represents an increase of nearly 200,000 MW in the past five years. In Brazil, ...
By Alstom
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U.S. Department of Energy announces $102 million for small business research and development
As part of President Obama’s broad efforts to support American small businesses and help advance cutting-edge clean energy innovations, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Energy Department will award new funding to 104 small businesses nationwide. The grants totaling more than $102 million will support businesses in 26 states, helping companies to continue to develop ...
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Equinor Selected for Largest-ever U.S. Offshore Wind Award
On January 13th 2021, Equinor was selected to provide New York State with offshore wind power in one of the largest renewable energy procurements in the U.S. to date. Under the award, Equinor and incoming strategic partner bp will provide 1,260 megawatts of offshore wind power from Empire Wind 2, and another 1,230 MW of power from Beacon Wind 1 - adding to the existing commitment to provide New ...
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South Africa wind developers eye fresh bids to meet short-term deficit
South Africa's proposed renewables plan overestimates coal-fired capacity in the coming years and the wind industry must prepare cost-competitive projects for potential procurement announcements, wind developers told the Africa New Energy 2018 conference. In August, South Africa published its draft 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), calling for 8.1 GW of new wind capacity and 5.7 GW of new ...
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Ballast Nedam Signs Large Contract for Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm
Ballast Nedam has signed a contract around 250 million Euro with wpd for the engineering, supply and installation of 80 foundations at the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany. The Butendiek offshore wind farm is located in the German Bight, 32 kilometers west of the German island Sylt. It is expected that financial close of the project is achieved ultimately by the end of this year. The ...
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Pattern´s Ocotillo Wind Project Prevails in Federal District Court
Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California ruled in favor of the Ocotillo Wind project and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in two separate suits before the Court. The Court granted Pattern's and the BLM's summary judgment motions in a case brought by the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation and in a ...
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Gamesa receives several orders from Longyuan to supply 295 MW to different Chinese wind farms during 2009
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica continues to reinforce its market leadership in China after receiving several orders for a total power of 294,95 MW that will be supplied in 2009 from Longyuan Electric Power Group Corporation, a leading firm in renewable energies in the Asian country that belongs to the largest Chinese electric utility group, the Guodian Corporation. The wind ...
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E.ON Climate & Renewables Secures Financing for Illinois Wind Farm
E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America announced today it has secured $122.2 million of institutional equity financing from JPM Capital Corporation (JP Morgan) and Wells Fargo Wind Holdings LLC (Wells Fargo) in exchange for a partial interest in its recently completed Settlers Trail Wind Farm. JP Morgan acted as lead investor in the financing. "EC&R constantly looks to ...
By E.ON AG
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Wind energy reaches greater heights
Original story at MIT News Wind turbines across the globe are being made taller to capture more energy from the stronger winds that blow at greater heights. But it’s not easy, or sometimes even economically feasible, to build taller towers, with shipping constraints on tower diameters and the expense involved in construction. Now Keystone Tower Systems — co-founded by Eric Smith ...
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Mainstream starts construction of two wind farms in South Africa
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power celebrated the start of construction of two wind farms in South Africa’s Northern Cape which have a combined generation capacity of 280 megawatts. The Khobab and Loeriesfontein wind farms, which are situated alongside each other within the Hantam Municipality, represent a total investment value of approximately 7 billion South African ...
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Osbit supplies tower lifting tools to GE for Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Osbit, the UK-headquartered offshore technology company, has delivered twin wind turbine tower lifting tools to GE Vernova’s Offshore Wind business. The tools will initially be used in constructing the world’s largest offshore wind farm to date, Dogger Bank. The wind farm, a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor and Vårgrønn, will be situated around 130km off ...
By Osbit Ltd.
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Wind turbines may lure bats into fatal errors
Scientists in the US might just be about to answer one of the great puzzles of biodiversity and renewable energy: why one of nature’s most agile flyers, a creature with the most sophisticated ultrasonic tracking system, should be so fatally attracted to wind turbines. Blades on the giant towers of wind turbines can rotate faster than a bird can fly, and are known to cause huge numbers of ...
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Pattern´s Ocotillo Wind Project is First to Transmit Energy over the Sunrise Powerlink
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9, 2013/PRNewswire/ -- Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that its Ocotillo Wind project in Southern Californiareached commercial operation in December and is transmitting energy to the Sunrise Powerlink, a newly constructed 117-mile 500-kv transmission line linking San Diegoand the Imperial Valley. The Ocotillo Wind project, a 265 megawatt (MW) wind power ...
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