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7 March 2011
The Brazilian Development Bank is to finance nine wind farms that global manufacturer Impsa and Brazil-based developer Wind Power Energia propose to build in the country.
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7 March 2011
Evoco Energy, a specialist in small-scale wind turbine technology and microgeneration, has appointed UK entrepreneur Laurence Tomlinson as its new director.
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4 March 2011
Brazilian renewable energy project developer Weg and MTorres Group are to create a joint venture to manufacture and install wind turbines in Brazil.
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4 March 2011
The Record Hill Wind project in the US state of Maine has been awarded a conditional loan guarantee worth $102m, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced.
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3 March 2011
Transmission Capital Partners has secured a licence to operate the first high voltage wind transmission line in the UK following a competitive tender.
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3 March 2011
Iberdrola Renovables, the renewable energy division of Spanish developer Iberdrola, said it will cut investment as it looks to make a Brazilian acquisition.
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3 March 2011
Spanish renewable energy heavyweight Acciona increased its net profit 11.9 per cent in 2010 as it closed down a portion of debt and stepped up energy production.
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3 March 2011
Global infrastructure engineering company Bentley Systems is planning to capture a greater share of the global offshore wind market following its acquisition of offshore structural analysis business SACS from Engineering Dynamics.
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3 March 2011
Plutonic Power, a developer and operator of clean power projects, and GE Energy Financial Services have achieved commercial operations of Dokie Wind project.
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3 March 2011
CleanTech Innovations, a designer and manufacturer of high performance clean technology products, has won a wind tower supply contract for $6.2m from a subsidiary of China HuaNeng Group, one of China’s largest energy companies.
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3 March 2011
Edison International subsidiary Edison Mission Energy has closed $255m in debt refinancing to fund its Viento II wind energy portfolio, which includes three separate wind projects in three states.
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2 March 2011
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has said it will not go ahead with its proposed wind farm 2km (1.2 miles) off the coast of Kintyre.
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2 March 2011
A Brazilian developer of wind and solar power projects has reportedly signed a deal with General Electric for it supply wind turbines in $840m transaction.
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2 March 2011
Nasdaq-listed power component supplier American Superconductor Corporation has secured an order for a series of wind turbine control systems from Dongfang Turbine that will be used in turbines it jointly developed with the Chinese wind manufacturer.
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2 March 2011
Scotland’s new Energy Skills Investment Plan is anticipated to create close to 28,000 job opportunities in the offshore wind sector alone.
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2 March 2011
AES Wind Generation, a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, has closed financing of the 49MW Mountain View IV wind project located in Palm Springs, California.
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1 March 2011
Global offshore wind capacity will need to be multiplied 14-fold if Europe's 2020 emissions targets are to be met, according to a representative from power and technology giant General Electric.
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1 March 2011
The global offshore wind industry must reduce the costs of its operations or risk becoming extinct, according to Vattenfall’s head of offshore UK projects.
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1 March 2011
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has confirmed that it will supply the turbines for PNE’s 252MW Gode Wind II offshore wind project.
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1 March 2011
The wind power subsidiary of UK renewable energy project developer Renewable Energy Generation has connected its 4MW wind project in County Durham in the north-east of England, one month on from rejecting a takeover bid.
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