Wind Energy Projects News
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Connecting the Dots: Putting Offshore Wind Energy to Work
By Tiffany Plate, NREL The most recent U.S. Census states that 44.4 million people, or nearly 14% of the population, live along the Atlantic Coast. That is a lot of people—who need a lot of electricity. And as the country pushes to decarbonize the energy sector, that power needs to increasingly come from renewable sources, like solar and wind. But densely populated coastlines often do not ...
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NYISO Board Selects Transmission Project to Deliver Offshore Wind Energy
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) announced this week (June 20) that its Board of Directors has selected a transmission project to meet the Long Island Offshore Wind Export Public Policy Transmission Need (Long Island Need). The selected transmission project, Propel Alternate Solution 5, will ultimately benefit energy consumers by providing transmission capability to deliver at ...
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PXiSE announces Tim Allen as new President and CEO
PXiSE Energy Solutions enthusiastically announces that effective January 1, 2023, Tim Allen has assumed leadership as President and CEO. Tim brings more than 22 years of experience across utility-scale solar, wind and energy storage projects, software controls, investor-owned utility, independent power producer and pure developer realms. His unique set of skills, beginning with an Electrical ...
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Eos Energy Enterprises Selected for 35 MWh Long Duration Energy Storage Project in California
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc., a provider of zinc-powered long-duration energy storage systems, this week announced an order for a 35 MWh energy storage system capable of 10-hour discharge duration. The order, worth $13.5 million, is funded by a grant through the California Energy Commission's Long-Duration Energy Storage Program as part of a project being carried out by Indian Energy, a 100 ...
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Savosolar Plc: Meriaura Ltd’S Business Review For July-September 2022
On 29 August 2022, Savosolar announced a conditional share exchange agreement under which Savosolar Plc will acquire all the shares of Meriaura Ltd. Savosolar releases Meriaura Ltd’s third quarter business review: Meriaura key figures and significant events in July-September 2022 Meriaura’s turnover in July-September was 20.4 million EUR (7-9/2021: EUR 13.6 million). Operating ...
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Pattern Energy Completes Construction of Largest Renewable Energy Project in U.S. History
Pattern Energy Group LP has completed construction and begun commercial operation of its suite of Western Spirit Wind power projects. Western Spirit Wind is comprised of four wind power facilities totaling more than 1,050 megawatts located in Guadalupe, Lincoln, and Torrance Counties in central New Mexico. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich said, “The largest renewable energy project in American ...
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DOE Releases New Reports Highlighting Record Growth, Declining Costs of Wind Power
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Aug 30) released three reports showing record growth in land-based wind energy, significant expansion of the pipeline for offshore wind projects, and continued decline in the cost of wind energy generation - laying the groundwork for significant future gains as the Biden Administration pursues rapid acceleration of renewable energy deployment to reach its ...
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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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EcofinConcept: Successful completion of one of Germany‘s largest repowering projects
Satisfied today, all parties look to the achieved. That was not always so. One of the largest wind farm repowering projects in Brandenburg, Germany, threatened several times to fail because of the complexity of the task. So not only numerous specialist authorities, but also hundreds of limited partners of the former community wind farm and the local community had to be convinced of the project. ...
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GWEC: Wind power industry to install 71.3 GW in 2020, showing resilience during COVID-19 crisis
Wind power will continue to show record growth over the next five years despite the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, and will make a crucial contribution to economic recovery. According to the latest market outlook published by GWEC Market Intelligence, 71.3 GW of wind power capacity is expected to be installed in 2020 despite the impacts of COVID-19, which is only a 6 per cent decrease from ...
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Masdar and Uzbekistan Government sign PPA agreement to develop landmark 500MW wind project
Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan and JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan to design, finance, build and operate a 500-megawatt utility-scale wind farm project. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and Investment Agreement was signed during a virtual ...
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Osbit to deliver monopile upending tool for Seajacks
Offshore equipment supplier Osbit has secured a contract with Seajacks to design and build a monopile upending bucket, to be used by the vessel operator in its offshore wind turbine installation projects. The system will initially support the development of the large-scale, bottom-fixed Akita and Noshiro Offshore Wind Farms in Akita Prefecture, part of Japan’s renewable energy expansion ...
By Osbit Ltd.
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Grid Customers Energize 3,500 Mvar of GE Fixed Series Compensation (FSC) Systems in 2019 to Increase Efficiency of Transmission Networks
GE Renewable Energy's Grid Solutions business recently announced that seven electrical grid customers energized its Fixed Series Compensator (FSC) systems at nine different sites in 2019 to increase the efficiency of their transmission networks. That's the equivalent of nearly 3,500 megavar (Mvar) of compensation, with almost all of it being used to support increased renewables generation. FSC ...
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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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Europe installs record 3.6 GW offshore wind in 2019; Shell-EDPR group sets lowest US offshore price
Our pick of the latest wind power news you need to know. Europe offshore wind installs rise 33% on year to 3.6 GW Europe installed a record 3.6 GW of offshore wind capacity in 2019, led by continuing growth in the dominant UK and German markets, industry association WindEurope said in its annual market report published February 6. Installations were 33% higher than in 2018 and 16% higher ...
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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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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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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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Hormel Foods to Become Powered by Nearly 50 Percent Renewable Energy
Hormel Foods Corporation, maker of SKIPPY, SPAM, Hormel Natural Choice, Hormel Black Label, Columbus and many other branded food products, has announced a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for wind energy. Through this and other initiatives, the company will be supplied by almost 50 percent renewable wind power. In addition, the project will result in a reduction of approximately 197,000 ...
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Advanced Energy Economy Recommends Policy Priorities to 116th Congress
The national business group Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) recently (1/24) announced it has released policy recommendations to the 116th Congress outlining four key priority areas and specific policy actions to help achieve the broad goals of economic growth, cost savings, and a reliable grid. The full document can be downloaded here. AEE’s four key priorities include: Remove regulatory ...
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