wind
8 May 2013
S&C Electric Company has been awarded a $2.6m contract by Sweetwater Wind to upgrade a portion of its 585MW wind farm in Sweetwater, Texas.
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8 May 2013
Despite Danish wind turbine supplier Vestas recording first quarter 2013 losses of €151m, company chiefs insist its fortunes are on the up.
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8 May 2013
General Electric will sell BRL1.8bn ($895.3m) of turbines to Brazilian group Bioenergy Geradora de Energia, which wants to develop the cheapest wind power in the world.
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7 May 2013
Canada has lost a World Trade Organization appeal over incentives offered to local renewable energy companies in the province of Ontario.
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7 May 2013
Embattled Indian solar group Suzlon will look to sell off 15 non-core assets to raise $400m in an on-going effort to cut its debt.
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7 May 2013
Spanish turbine manufacturer Gamesa has sold a 70MW development in Mexico to utility Iberdrola.
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7 May 2013
Scotland has approved a proposal by South Korean conglomerate Samsung to build a 7MW offshore wind test site at the Fife Energy Park in Methil.
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7 May 2013
A Kuwaiti development fund has awarded grants of $215m to Jordan for it to develop wind and liquefied natural gas projects.
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7 May 2013
General Electric said its wind business saw orders of 1GW following the ruling of the production tax credit at the start of the year.
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7 May 2013
Gabriel Alonso, chair of the American Wind Energy Assocation said the US wind market must not fall into a ‘boom and bust’ industry brought about by uncertain policy regimes.
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7 May 2013
Energy-focused private equity firm Denham Capital has invested $75m in a 1GW portfolio of Australian wind power projects currently under development.
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6 May 2013
Partners Group has reportedly boosted its renewable energy investment know-how by hiring HgCapital director Jean Perarnaud.
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6 May 2013
Investment firm Prime Renewables, which is advised by Ben Goldsmith’s Wheb Infrastructure, has acquired a portfolio of three wind farms in France.
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3 May 2013
A US utility operating in Utah and Idaho has launched a request for proposals as it offers funding to support community-based renewable energy projects.
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3 May 2013
Vattenfall chief Øystein Løseth said outlook remains week as the company ends the first quarter by continuing to focus on improving the efficiency of operations and cutting costs.
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3 May 2013
NYSE-listed Atlantic Power has completed the sale of its interests in the Path 15 transmission line and the syndication of its $44m tax equity investment in the Canadian Hills wind project with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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2 May 2013
German utility Stadtwerke München has bought a 144MW wind farm being developed by RES Group’s subsidiary Nordisk Vindkraft, with Siemens winning the contract to supply the turbines.
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2 May 2013
The Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) largest ever financing initiative, the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund, is set to begin its lending operations in the second half of 2013, with a pipeline of around $1bn in projects for the next three years.
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2 May 2013
Multi-industry manufacturer Trinity Industries, which makes wind turbine towers, said revenues in its energy equipment group totalled $154.7m in the first quarter, up from $125m last year.
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1 May 2013
US wind turbine supplier General Electric (GE) will supply its battery storage systems for three of Invenergy’s turbines at its Texas wind farm.
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