Top Issues To Address At WINDPOWER; Another Legal Win For Cape Wind
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The French government has shown opposition to GE's $17 billion offer to acquire the energy business of France-based Alstom and indicated that it wants to further explore a separate proposal from Siemens. According to a Bloomberg report, French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg sent a letter to GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt [read more]
Pattern Energy Group Inc. has announced an underwritten public offering of up to $400 million of shares of its Class A common stock by the company and selling shareholder Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern Development). Pattern Energy says it will use the proceeds of its portion of the offering for [read more]
E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with officials from the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of the Navy to relocate 29 proposed wind turbines for a planned wind project in Oregon. EC&R has proposed 223 wind turbines in Wasco and Sherman [read more]
Pattern Energy Group Inc. has awarded Siemens 10-year wind service agreements encompassing over 400 onshore wind turbines in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Combined, the scope of these long-term contracts represents one of Siemens' largest agreements with a single customer in North America. "This is an important milestone in [read more]
Suzlon Group, through U.S.-based subsidiary Suzlon Wind Energy Corp., has signed an agreement to supply PowerWorks with up to 98.7 MW of wind turbines for projects in California and Illinois. Under the deal, Suzlon says it will supply up to 29 units of the S97 2.1 MW turbines and 17 [read more]
GE has extended its "brilliant" wind platform with a new 2.2 MW wind turbine and new management software. GE has announced the 2.2-107 wind turbine, an evolution of the company's 1.5 MW series. GE says the new turbine provides a 12% increase in capacity factor and a 33% increase in [read more]
Vestas has installed its first V110-2.0 MW prototype turbine at a test site in Hovsore, on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. The company says the turbine has produced its first kilowatt-hour of electricity and will undergo an extensive test and verification program to ensure reliability before full-scale production commences [read more]
S&C Electric Co. has announced the first real-world deployment of a new service offering to remotely monitor S&C's Wind-Turbine Style Vista Switchgear. This new service was pioneered on Vista switchgear at Infigen Energy's 50 MW Kumeyaay Wind Farm, located 65 miles east of San Diego in Boulevard, Calif. "Like any [read more]
Gamesa has signed an agreement to supply 48 MW to Fujian Energy for a wind farm in Fujian Province, China. Beginning in September, Gamesa will supply 24 G90-2.0 MW Class I wind turbines, and the wind farm is expected to be finished by year-end. The company says these turbines have [read more]
Invenergy has started commercial operation of its 200.6 MW Prairie Breeze wind farm in Nebraska. The project is sited on private land in Antelope, Boone, and Madison counties and consists of 118 GE 1.7 MW wind turbines. "Prairie Breeze is Invenergy's first wind farm in Nebraska, a state which offers [read more]
Siemens has verified a turbine supply deal for the 270 MW K2 Wind project, located in Goderich, Ontario. The project, owned by Samsung Renewable Energy Inc., Capital Power LP and Pattern Development, will feature 140 units of the Siemens SWT-2.3-101 turbines. In addition, the transaction includes a long-term service and [read more]
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has engaged K2 Management to build a global installation database for offshore wind. According to K2, the objective is to provide NREL - and, thereby, the U.S. wind industry - with easily accessible data on installation times, correlation effects, implications [read more]
To meet its goal of adding more renewable generation to the Oahu grid, Hawaiian Electric Co. is seeking proposals for one or more large-scale energy storage systems able to store 60 MW to 200 MW for up to 30 minutes. The utility says large-scale wind and solar projects are continuing [read more]
Gamesa has signed a new contract for the supply of 144 MW of its turbines to Eolicas do Sul in Brazil. Under the terms of the contract, Gamesa will supply, transport, install and commission 72 G97-2.0 MW turbines at six wind farms in the Chui complex being developed in the [read more]
ACCIONA Windpower has upgraded its AW125/3000 wind turbine, with a new version specially designed for medium-wind sites (IEC IIb). The company says this upgraded design allows for siting at locations with higher average wind conditions and lower turbulence intensity, which is ideal for many of the sites in North America [read more]
Washington, D.C.-based American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has announced its intention to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), charging the agency with multiple violations of federal law in connection with its recent decision to offer wind energy companies and others to obtain 30-year eagle take permits. The previous rule [read more]
Xcel Energy achieved a milestone at 3 a.m. on April 27, when wind power met 46% of customers' electricity needs in the company's Upper Midwest service territory. When the record was set, wind resources provided 1,622 MW of the 3,512 MW Xcel Energy's customers were using in Minnesota and neighboring [read more]
Cobra Energia has awarded Siemens another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by 97 MW. The Tres Hermanas wind project includes a combination of 25 direct-drive SWT-3.0-108 wind turbines and eight geared SWT-2.3-108 units. The contract also includes six years of service and maintenance. The new [read more]
First Wind has closed financing for its 148 MW Oakfield Wind project, located in Aroostook County, Maine. With financing in place, the developer says it will continue on schedule with construction and expects commercial operations in the fourth quarter of 2015. The financing package for the combined wind farm and [read more]
Vestas has received an order to supply 18 V112-3.3 MW wind turbines for the 59.4 MW Yeong Yang project in South Korea. The order, placed bv GS Yeongyang Windpower Co. Ltd., part of South Korean business powerhouse GS Group, also includes a 10-year full-scope service agreement. The Yeong Yang project [read more]
Independent power company Pattern Energy Group Inc. has announced financial rises for the first quarter of this year (Q1'14), as well as its plans to acquire the majority of the Panhandle 1 wind project in Texas. According to Pattern Energy, it recorded an adjusted EBITDA of $37.2 million in the [read more]
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