Vestas has entered agreements with EDP Renováveis and four Chinese power producers for the delivery of up to 2298 MW of wind turbines.
29 April 2010Kari Larsen
The US Department of the Interior (DoI) has approved the first US offshore wind farm – the Cape Wind project – off the coast of Massachusetts.
29 April 2010Kari Larsen
The UK offshore wind industry has reached 1 GW of installed capacity as two offshore wind farms off the coast of Britain began generating electricity: Robi
28 April 2010Kari Larsen
Vestas saw a €82 million loss after tax in the first quarter (Q1) of 2010 compared to a profit of €56m in Q1 2009.
28 April 2010Kari Larsen
Small wind power in China could reach 3-10 GW of installed capacity in 2010 if a set of measures laid out by a small wind roadmap for China.
27 April 2010Kari Larsen
Skykon A/S has acquired facilities of 100,000 m2 at the former Lindoe shipyard in Denmark for the development offshore wind products for projects in the No
27 April 2010Kari Larsen
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26 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Eastern Petrochemical Company (EPETCO) has signed a loan contract for 200 million Saudi riyals (US$54 million) from the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (
26 April 2010Amanda Jacob
The Tûranor PlanetSolar composite catamaran will aim to sail around the world powered only by solar energy.
23 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Wind energy could meet 50% of the EU’s electricity demand in 2050, according to speakers at the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC 2010)
23 April 2010Kari Larsen
REpower Systems AG will deliver 44 wind turbines to Al Yel ELektrik, a subsidiary of Akuo Energy SAS, for a Turkish wind project.
22 April 2010Kari Larsen
Wind turbine blade manufacturer LM Glasfiber has changed its name to LM Wind Power.
21 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Lockheed Martin will deliver a long-range air surveillance radar system to the UK overcoming sensor performance issues commonly caused by the rotating blad
20 April 2010Kari Larsen
Siemens Energy is launching its SWT-3.0-101 3 MW direct drive wind turbine.
20 April 2010Kari Larsen
WinWinD’s delivery of a 24 MW wind farm to Aseri, Estonia, has been confirmed.
20 April 2010Kari Larsen
3B is launching a new pultrusion mat that is said to produce parts with more uniform colours, high gloss and low surface waviness, as well as high mechanic
19 April 2010Amanda Jacob
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19 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Owens Corning says its Composites App Challenge is designed find new applications for composite materials. Total competition prize money of US$250 000 is a
19 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Glasgow-based measurement and testing specialist, TUV NEL, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to assist the growth of the UK’s wind ene
19 April 2010Kari Larsen
Global standards for wave and tidal power devices are being developed by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).
16 April 2010Kari Larsen
Windstream Wolfe Island Shoals Inc will develop Canada’s first offshore wind farm.
16 April 2010Kari Larsen
Global wind power capacity could increase by 160% over the next five years, according to the Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC) annual wind industry forec
15 April 2010Kari Larsen
Platina Partners LLP is buying 52 MW of the 140 MW Fruges wind farms in Pas de Calais, France, worth €71.3 million.
15 April 2010Kari Larsen
GDF SUEZ has completed the construction of its first UK wind farm project at Craigengelt, near Stirling, in Scotland.
13 April 2010Kari Larsen
The first major solar facility in India will be used to power a stadium to be used in this year’s Commonwealth Games.
13 April 2010Bill Eggertson
Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc has opened its new epoxy resin plant in Esslingen, Germany. It produces epoxy resins and bonding pastes used in the manufact
12 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Eneco UK Ltd has received the rights to develop a 51 MW wind farm on the Lochluichart Estate in the Scottish Highlands from Infinergy, which has developed
12 April 2010Kari Larsen
DONG Energy has submitted a binding tender to build a 400 MW offshore wind farm outside Denmark.
12 April 2010Kari Larsen
A solar powered airplane has taken its first major test flight from an airfield in western Switzerland.
12 April 2010Bill Eggertson
Siemens will deliver 208 MW worth of wind turbines to two wind projects – one in Germany and one in Canada.
9 April 2010Kari Larsen
REpower will deliver 15 wind turbines to Poland and 18 wind turbines to Italy, totalling 67.65 MW.
9 April 2010Kari Larsen
VISTAGY Inc has announced that Sinomatech Wind Power Blade Co Ltd of China has purchased its FiberSIM® composites engineering software to help streamline i
9 April 2010Amanda Jacob
The US wind energy industry employs 85,000 people, according to the annual industry market report released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).
8 April 2010Bill Eggertson
The USA has made US$37.5 million available over the next five years to support the US-China Clean Energy Research Center for research into clean and renewa
8 April 2010Kari Larsen
WindWinD says its new wind turbine facility, based in Hamina, Finland will produce 3 MW wind turbines and increase its total capacity potential tenfold.
8 April 2010David Hopwood
Pattern Energy Group LP and Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board have entered into a 27-year power purchase agreement for the 138 MW St. Joseph wind farm in the M
8 April 2010Kari Larsen
Vestas has announced three wind turbine supply deals to the USA, Australia and Turkey over recent weeks totalling up to 460 MW.
8 April 2010Kari Larsen
The UK Government has pledged £4 million to a partnership to fund a new radar system for the Greater Wash to address wind turbine interference.
7 April 2010Kari Larsen
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6 April 2010Amanda Jacob
“Intractable by design, therefore significantly challenging to recycle,” is Jan-Michael Gosau’s assessment of the technological task of reclaiming carbon f
5 April 2010Amanda Jacob
Ragasco AS, a producer of composite LPG containers in Norway, is in the process of acquiring Composite Scandinavia AB, a Swedish company which also produce
3 April 2010Amanda Jacob
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1 April 2010Amanda Jacob
A US$1.1 million grant by the Ohio Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program is funding a research project to fabricate composite wind turbine towers from res
1 April 2010Amanda Jacob