Knight & Carver Wind Group, a wind turbine blade repair, service and fabrication firm, has entered into a long-term blade service agreement for the North A
27 November 2009Kari Larsen
Vestas has decided to make it as simple and easy as possible for pupils, students, teachers, and others to learn about wind power and the energy challenges
27 November 2009Kari Larsen
VISTAGY Inc, provider of the FiberSIM® composites engineering software, has entered a strategic partnership with Maxoft Inc, a Korean supplier of virtual p
26 November 2009Amanda Jacob
The UK government has announced a £22 million investment to advance the development of composite materials as part of its new UK Composites Strategy publis
26 November 2009Amanda Jacob
E.ON has opened its Stony Creek wind farm in Western Pennsylvania at the site of a former coal mine.
26 November 2009Kari Larsen
Renewable Energy Systems Canada will develop a wind farm in southwestern Ontario, in partnership with a major Canadian gas company.
25 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Portugese wind energy developer EDP Renewables will devote US$4 billion to build new wind farms in the United States through 2012, following US$1.5bn of ne
25 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Clemson University in South Carolina will receive US$45 million from the federal government to develop a wind energy test facility that will enhance the pe
24 November 2009Bill Eggertson
The levelised costs for solar energy will drop 50% in 2009, while the pre-subsidy cost for other renewable energy technologies will decline by 10%, accordi
24 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Wind turbine blade maker LM Glasfiber has announced plans to phase out large scale manufacturing at two factories in Denmark and one in Spain, while contin
24 November 2009Amanda Jacob
Materials testing systems manufacturer Zwick is offering a patented new fixture for the testing of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites.
24 November 2009Amanda Jacob
QinetiQ’s Zephyr High-Altitude Long-Endurance unmanned aerial system (HALE UAS) program recently resumed flight testing and payload evaluations in Yuma, Ar
23 November 2009Steve Barrett
REpower USA Corp, a subsidiary of Germany’s wind turbine manufacturer, REpower Systems AG will supply 9 of its 2 MW MM92 wind turbines with a total output
23 November 2009Kari Larsen
The world's longest wind turbine blade – 61.5 m – traveled to be displayed at COP15 in Copenhagen in December last weekend. LM Glasfiber has released a vid
20 November 2009Kari Larsen
ACCIONA has agreed long-term finance amounting to €18.14 million with the State Bank of India (SBI) for its two wind farms totaling 29.7 MW in India.
20 November 2009Kari Larsen
Seven new designs for offshore wind turbine foundations have been short-listed for funding by the Carbon Trust in Britain.
18 November 2009Bill Eggertson
PPG Industries will receive a US$741 000 grant from the US Department of Energy to support the development of materials and automation processes for wind t
16 November 2009Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
16 November 2009Amanda Jacob
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu is travelling in India and China as part of the Department of Energy’s (DoE) efforts to advance opportunities for internatio
16 November 2009Kari Larsen
Cannon Power Group has received US$19.4 million in federal renewable energy grants to spur construction of its 400 MW wind farm in Washington State.
13 November 2009Kari Larsen
GE and E.ON Climate & Renewables North America have signed a 7-year operation and maintenance (O&M) agreement covering E.ON Climate & Renewable’s complete
12 November 2009Kari Larsen
Siemens Energy will supply 70 wind turbines for the Los Vergeles wind farm in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
12 November 2009Kari Larsen
Wind turbines supplied 54% of Spain’s total electricity demand, for a short period on the weekend.
11 November 2009Bill Eggertson
A solar car built at Tokai University in Japan has won the solar race across Australia, at an average speed of more than 100 km/h.
11 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Bulgaria’s wind power is set to boom over the next decade, according to a presentation at a workshop on integrating wind power in Bulgaria, predicting wind
11 November 2009Kari Larsen
First Wind, a North American wind power company, has completed the first 203.5 MW phase of its Milford Wind Corridor project in Millard and Beaver County,
11 November 2009Kari Larsen
Wind turbines in Europe could displace the annual emission of 333 megatonne of CO2 by 2020, says the European Wind Energy Association.
11 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Wind energy will receive US$80 million in federal government funding appropriations, a 45% increase over the last fiscal year.
10 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Energy Composites Corporation (ECC) has reached agreement with the City of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA, to develop two areas of land into a wind turbi
10 November 2009Amanda Jacob
Three UK-based banks will offer new loans to onshore wind farms, in a scheme that could enable £1.4 billion of onshore wind projects to move to constructio
10 November 2009Bill Eggertson
Wind energy developer Wind Capital Group has closed US$240 million financing for the Lost Creek Wind Project in DeKalb County, Missouri, USA.
10 November 2009Kari Larsen
Ashland Performance Materials is joining a consortium of companies and university experts to develop and test three wind turbines off the coast of Maine, U
9 November 2009Amanda Jacob
Four offshore wind farm developers have announced their plans for major offshore wind farm developments in the outer Forth and Tay areas outside Scotland.
9 November 2009Kari Larsen
Gurit’s European patent covering the use of its SPRINT product in the manufacture of wind turbine blades and other markets has been upheld by the Technical
6 November 2009Amanda Jacob
SeaEnergy and Taiwan Generations Corporation (TGC) have concluded an agreement under which they will undertake the joint development of TGC’s pipeline of o
6 November 2009Kari Larsen
A survey in Rhode Island shows that 89% have positive opinions on the use of wind turbines to generate electricity, but 50% rate the cost of wind as an imp
5 November 2009Bill Eggertson
The US wind energy market could reach 8 GW installed in 2009, (including project spill-over from 2008 and new wind build), despite initial fears of a major
5 November 2009Kari Larsen
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the UK Ofgem E-Serve say the EIB is considering provision of over £300 million of funding to investors in high volta
5 November 2009Kari Larsen
Composite materials producer Gurit reports sales of CHF238.9 million for its target markets for the first nine months of 2009 (at constant currency transla
4 November 2009Amanda Jacob
Resin supplier Reichhold has opened a resin manufacturing facility at Ranjangaon, in Pune, India.
4 November 2009Amanda Jacob
Risø DTU has produced a detailed map of the wind resources in South Africa showing the best locations for wind turbines and is a prerequisite for funding w
3 November 2009Kari Larsen
Composites tooling manufacturer Janicki Industries has launched a new website to better serve its markets, which now the alternative energy sector.
2 November 2009Amanda Jacob