Major Shakeup At Turbine Maker; Are Feds Hypocrites Over Bald Eagle Rules?
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Deepwater Wind has won the U.S.' first-ever competitive lease auction for renewable energy development in federal waters, bidding $3.8 million for both available sites located off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held the auction [read more]
Minnesota Power plans to begin construction this year on a 200 MW expansion of its Bison Wind Energy Center, located in North Dakota. The company says Bison 4 will add 64 more wind turbines to the 101 it has installed at the project since 2010 and will increase Minnesota Power's [read more]
Vestas has won a 105 MW order from a consortium led by Innowind, an affiliate of EDF EN, for three wind power plants in South Africa. The contract comprises the supply, installation and commissioning of 35 V112-3.0 MW wind turbines, along with a VestasOnline Business SCADA solution, full-scope civil and [read more]
Gamesa has landed a contract to supply 138 MW for a wind farm that Renovalia, via its subsidiary Desarrollos Eolicos Mexicanos de Oaxaca, will build on Mexico's Tehuantepec Isthmus. The contract encompasses the wind farm's civil engineering and electrical work, the installation of 69 Gamesa 2.0 MW turbines, and operation [read more]
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, have announced that the University of Maine (UMaine), along with partners Maine Maritime Academy, Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, received a $983,997 grant from the National Science Foundation to design, develop and construct a multidirectional Wind-Wave generating [read more]
International consultancy SgurrEnergy is providing wind monitoring and analysis services for the first phase of a 400 MW wind farm in Ethiopia. Terra Global Energy Developers LLC, which SgurrEnergy says is the first U.S. energy developer to enter Ethiopia's wind industry, elected SgurrEnergy to support a 12-month wind measurement campaign [read more]
Ontario-based Northland Power Inc. has entered into agreements for the rights to acquire a 55% equity stake in the 600 MW Gemini offshore wind project. Currently in advanced development, the project is located 85 km off the coast of The Netherlands in the North Sea. The project team includes Siemens, [read more]
Wind gear manufacturer and service provider Moventas has announced two new appointments regarding its global management team. Mikko Viitala has been named the company's chief financial officer (CFO), as well as a member of the general management team and board of directors. Viitala, who previously worked in several senior financial [read more]
Utility company Xcel Energy, which already had nearly 4.9 GW of wind power on its system at the end of 2012, has proposed to grow its wind portfolio by at least another 1.5 GW. The company is the U.S.' No. 1 wind energy supplier and says the move for more [read more]
NRG Systems, a manufacturer of resource assessment and wind turbine optimization equipment, has changed its name to Renewable NRG Systems Inc. The company says the rebranding highlights its commitment to providing whole systems and solutions to the renewable energy market. The full rebranding campaign will take place over several months, [read more]
GL Garrad Hassan notes that it provided technical due diligence advice to Japan-based Sumitomo Corp. and its subsidiary Sumitomo Corp. Europe before they recently invested a significant amount of equity in two Belgian offshore projects. GL Garrad Hassan says the Belwind 1 operational wind farm and Northwind project together account [read more]
Lucky Corridor LLC, developer of a planned transmission project in northern New Mexico, has signed an anchor tenant agreement with Gallegos Wind Farm LLC to use 300 MW of the transmission project's estimated 850 MW of east-to-west capacity. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted Lucky Corridor authority to engage in [read more]
S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos have signed a joint agreement to deploy Europe's largest energy storage trial project onto a UK Power Networks substation. The fully automated 6 MW/10 MWh Smarter Network Storage (SNS) battery technology project will be installed at the Leighton Buzzard primary substation in order [read more]
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