Posts Tagged ‘windpower’
5 March 2012
OSBIT Power has begun offshore trials of its offshore wind access system, MaXccess, in Norway.
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2 March 2012
The US Energy Department has announced a $180m initiative to build four offshore wind farms.
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24 October 2011
An India-based wind turbine manufacturer will look to raise in the region of Rs500 crore ($100m) through an initial public offering.
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27 July 2011
Spanish wind energy producer Gamesa has sold two wind farm projects in Greece with a combined capacity of 38MW to Enel Green Power for an undisclosed sum.
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26 July 2011
European wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has been contracted to supply modules for a 52.5MW wind farm in Scotland by Scandinavian energy company Statkraft.
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7 July 2011
US-based power company Duke Energy has unveiled plans to build and operate a 131MW wind farm in Kansas called the Cimarron II Windpower project.
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27 June 2011
Spanish wind turbine producer Gamesa will create 40 high-value jobs at a new facility in Glasgow, Scotland as it progresses with its investment into the Scottish offshore wind sector.
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20 January 2011
The UK is the world leader in installed offshore wind capacity, new figures from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) show, with 1.34GW of output.
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15 December 2010
Wind equipment manufacturer Vestas has entered the Cape Verde market through an order for 25.5MW of wind turbines.
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2 November 2010
An international consortium announced its plans to build a wind power park near the Namibian coastal town of Lederitz, according to reports.
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14 October 2010
Gamesa has signed contracts with Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power, Datang Renewable Power and Henan Weite Wind Power to supply the three companies with a total of 197 turbines, a combined capacity of 251MW.
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14 October 2010
Cape Wind has entered an agreement with Mass Tank Sales and EEW to build a facility that manufactures steel monopole foundations and other various metal components for their planned wind farm offshore from Cape Cod in the US state of Massachusetts.
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13 October 2010
Wind energy has the potential to supply more than one fifth of the world’s power demand by 2030 with 2,300GW installed, according to figures by the Global Wind Energy Council.
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29 June 2010
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of the energy company GE, has made an equity investment in an 183MW wind farm located in the US state of Idaho, which is comprised of 11 wind farms currently under construction.
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17 June 2010
Pink Sheets-listed wind energy company WindPower Innovations has completed the acquisition of wind-to-grid technology developer Energetic Drives.
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28 May 2010
Wales will not meet its wind energy targets and is 82 per cent behind on previous targets set, according to new figures published by industry association RenewableUK.
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10 May 2010
RWE Innogy has formed an agreement with terminal operator Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven to use areas in the Bremerhaven container port as a base port for its offshore Nordsee Ost wind farm.
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24 March 2010
Arise Windpower has listed 10,730,000 shares on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm in an oversubscribed IPO, and has set the final offer price at SEK55 (€5.7) per share, days after competitor 02 Vind withdrew its IPO plans because of a lack of investor demand.
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26 February 2010
NYSE-listed US energy project developer Fluor Corporation's profit growth in its Government & Power and Oil & Gas segments, which matched or exceeded 2008 results, were offset by declines in its Global Services and Industrial & Infrastructure segments.
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25 February 2010
Spanish turbine manufacturer Gamesa will decide on whether to set up a factory in the UK in the next three to four months, according to reports.
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