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Alstom Haliade 150 Offshore Wind Turbine – Part of US DOE’s1 Advanced Technology Demonstration Programme
Alstom is a member of a team led by Dominion Virginia Power, which has been awarded a $4M USD grant by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to complete the engineering, site evaluation and planning phase for an offshore wind demonstration project in the state of Virginia. This award strengthens Alstom’s position as a leading player on the worldwide wind market. Alstom's 6MW Haliade 150 ...
By Alstom
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NTR acquires 14 Wind Projects in Northern Ireland
NTR plc, the renewables investment group, today (Oct 6, 2014) announced the acquisition of fourteen 250KW single turbine projects in Northern Ireland through the acquisition of KN Energy Ltd. The portfolio of projects comprises four operational sites and a further ten development projects, most of which are at advanced stages of development. With the addition of this portfolio to its existing ...
By NTR plc
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Report: Q1 Clean Energy Announcements Could Lead To 46,000 Jobs In 42 States
Clean energy employers announced plans involving at least 137 projects in 42 states during the first quarter of this year, according to an analysis released today by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Together, the projects could create as many as 46,000 new American jobs - reinforcing numerous other studies recently that show the clean energy industry is alive, well and poised for continued ...
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Alstom secures third wind turbine contract in Western part of Japan
Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply and supervise the installation and commissioning of 29 units of the ECO 74 wind turbines. Each wind turbine will have an output of 1.67MW and will be equipped with 70m towers. The wind farm is estimated to be fully operational in 2016. The wind farm will have a capacity of 48MW and a projected annual output of 85 million kWh, enough to supply ...
By Alstom
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A Large Variety of New Carbon Nanomaterials Are Now Available at Alfa Chemistry
Carbon nanomaterials are a novel class of materials widely used in biomedical fields. In addition to CVD graphene, graphene series and graphene-like materials that were previously launched, Alfa Chemistry announces in a recent statement that now a large varieties of other carbon nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers, are also readily obtainable. It should be noted that ...
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Siemens well on track to become one of the world’s top three providers of wind turbines
Siemens continues to expand its international manufacturing network in the rapidly growing wind power business: This week, the technology company opened in Shanghai its first rotor blade manufacturing plant in China, a new nacelle production in Hutchinson, Kansas, and has selected Tillsonburg in Ontario for its Canadian rotor blade manufacturing site. The investment volume for the three new ...
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NRDC REPORTS: Typical Wind Farm Supports Nearly 1,100 Jobs; Adds Millions of Dollars to Local Communities
Each major wind farm in America creates nearly 1,100 jobs and can add tens of millions of dollars in new taxes and other benefits to the communities where they're located, according to two new reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council. A new 250-megawatt wind farm will create 1,079 jobs throughout the many steps of building that wind farm, according to the NRDC report "American Wind ...
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GE Introduces Smart, Powerful 2.75-120 Wind Turbine
Next-Generation GE Brilliant Turbine Generates 5 Percent More Annual Energy Production than GE’s 2.5-120 Available with Turbine-Integrated or Centralized Energy Storage for More Predictable Wind Power Various Tower Technologies, Spanning 85-139 Meters, Help Tailor Turbine for Site Conditions Today at the European Wind Energy Association’s annual conference, GE (NYSE: GE) ...
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GE Wins More than $800 Million in New Commitments for Brazilian Wind, Gas Turbine Projects
GE (NYSE: GE) has secured more than $800 million in commitments to supply wind and gas turbines for projects in Brazil that will produce 1.4 gigawatts of electricity—40 percent of the total amount awarded in energy auctions conducted recently by Brazil’s National Electric Power Agency. The A-3 and Reserve energy auctions, which took place August 17-18, ...
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GE Announces Global Wind Turbine Repair Innovation Lab in Albany, NY
Innovation Lab to Focus on Uptower Drivetrain Repairs for GE’s Global Wind Turbine Fleet Site Features Advanced Manufacturing, Tooling, Machining and Equipment to Develop Repair Technologies to Reduce Wind Turbine Cost of Life Part of GE’s Investment of More than $400 Million in the Capital Region over the Past Four Years GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the opening of its Global ...
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Largest wind R&D study underway at NREL
Strong winds are a common research partner for scientists working at NREL's National Wind Technology Center (NWTC). Recently, those gusting Colorado winds helped usher in a new milestone for wind technology research and development. NREL and Siemens Power Generation 'flipped the switch' starting the blades on a Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbine installed as part of a cooperative research and ...
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CSR minute: delta partners with AMFAR to support AIDS research; sainsbury`s partners with British gas to offer sustainable energy services
Delta has announced a new global partnership with AMFAR, the Foundation for Aids Research, that names the carrier as the official airline of AMFAR in 2011. Through the agreement, Delta will support AMFAR events both domestically as well as in some of Delta’s international markets, including Brazil, France, and Italy. The partnership aligns the airline with a leading nonprofit dedicated to ...
By 3BL Media
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American Chemistry Council President Cal Dooley Predicts a Manufacturing `Renaissance` from New Natural Gas Supplies
Chemical manufacturers are poised for a "significant enhancement in their global competitiveness" because of the growing availability of natural gas, primarily from enormous shale deposits in the United States, Cal Dooley, the president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council, said in a recent interview with E&ETV OnPoint. "Our member companies in the chemical industry are poised to make ...
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GE Milestone: 1,000th Wind Turbine Installed in Canada
The 1,000th GE (NYSE: GE) wind turbine to be installed in Canada will enter service next month at Cartier Wind Energy’s Gros Morne project in the Gaspésie Region of Quebec, GE announced today at CanWEA’s 27th Annual Conference and Exhibition. Continuing to expand its presence in Canada’s wind energy sector, GE expects to have more than ...
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PGE Energia Natury PEW Selects GE Turbines for Polish Wind Farm
Sixteen GE 2.5-100 Wind Turbines to Power the Karwice Wind Farm Farm to produce 40 megawatts (MW) of power for Poland and region Project Further Establishes GE’s Commitment to Renewable Energy in Poland Helping to modernize the Polish power infrastructure and reinforcing its commitment to the country’s energy sector, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will provide PGE ...
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GE Awarded 545 Megawatts of Commitments to Power 26 Brazil Wind Farms
GE Secured 63 Percent of Total Capacity in Recent Brazil Wind Auction GE Received 10-Year Operations and Maintenance Agreements to Service the Awarded 545 Megawatts on 26 Wind Farms In Total, GE Received 1 Gigawatt of Wind Commitments in the 2013 Brazil Energy Auctions GE (NYSE: GE) won 545 megawatts (MW) of orders for wind turbines in Brazil's A-3 auction, which was held on November ...
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Asia`s Largest and World`s Second Largest Offshore Wind Event
The Offshore Wind China 2012 Conference and Exhibition, Asia's largest and the world's second largest wind power event, will take place in Shanghai between 30 May and 1 June 2012, with the aim of promoting offshore wind power development not only locally in the Shanghai area but also worldwide. The exhibition session will take place at Shanghai New International Expo Center, while the meeting ...
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Advanced Energy Economy: Over 3 Million in U.S. Now Work for Clean Energy
This week, national business groups representing the range and breadth of clean energy companies in the United States cheered government statistics showing their industries support more than 3 million American jobs - equal to the employment of retail stores across the country, and twice as many jobs as involved in construction of buildings. This is based on 2016 data recently released by the U.S. ...
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GE Expands Brilliant Platform with Plant-Level Wind Management Tools
Advanced Software Applications with the Goal to Optimize Power Output at the Plant Level Capabilities Include Reduced Wake Losses of Approximately 5-10 Percent; up to 8 Percent More Profit Harnessing the Industrial Internet and GE Predictivity™ Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announced the expansion of its brilliant wind platform to include plant-level wind ...
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World’s 2nd largest offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr officially inaugurated
Today (June 18, 2015) the Gwynt y Môr wind farm, located eight miles offshore in Liverpool Bay, will be officially inaugurated by Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales. With an installed capacity of 576 megawatts, Gwynt y Môr is the world’s 2nd largest offshore wind farm. In total, 160 wind turbines will produce enough power to supply some 400,000 residential households with ...
By RWE AG
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