The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The UK government's UK Renewables Service is offering help to composites companies interested in becoming involved in the growing UK offshore wind energy s
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The integration of 20% from wind energy is technically feasible, but will require significant expansion of the transmission infrastructure and system opera
20 January 2010Bill Eggertson
REpower Systems AG will supply 20 REpower MM92 wind turbines to National Wind LLC, a large-scale community wind project developer, for the first phase of t
19 January 2010Kari Larsen
RES has acquired a portfolio of wind power projects in South Africa totalling almost 300 MW.
19 January 2010Kari Larsen
Wind energy could supply 12% of the world’s power by the middle of this century, up from the current 2%, according to a 'Wind Energy Roadmap' to be publish
19 January 2010Bill Eggertson
The European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009 according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
18 January 2010Kari Larsen
The embedded smart sensor systems will allow operators of offshore wind farms to check ‘the health’ of the wind turbines, while the operator is sitting ons
18 January 2010Kari Larsen
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
18 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Sika Deutschland GmbH is introducing a new composite resin system for the aviation market which has been been approved by the German Air Ministry for use i
14 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Natural Power has launched a new product in its suite of wind farm monitoring and management tools: ForeSite.
14 January 2010Kari Larsen
ITW Plexus reports it has developed long working time, fast-curing, 1:1 methacrylate structural adhesives which provide improved bonding in wind turbine bl
13 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has called on the UK government to ensure that UK manufacturing benefits from the recently announced Round 3 off
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
Vestas will deliver 40 of its V90 2 MW wind turbines to Nordwind Handels GmbH & Co KG for the eastern part of Germany.
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
The Danish Council for Strategic Research’s Programme Commission on Energy and Environment has granted funding of DKK38 million for the establishment of th
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
Risø DTU has completed a successful test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner in order to increase electricity generation
12 January 2010Kari Larsen
PPG Industries has announced the certification of its HYBON glass fibre roving products for wind turbine blades by Germanischer Lloyd (GL), an internationa
12 January 2010Amanda Jacob
A wind farm in the Caribbean island of Dominica is one of the first three projects to receive US funding under the ‘Energy & Climate Partnership of the Ame
11 January 2010Bill Eggertson
The Forewind consortium will develop the largest zone in Round 3 for UK offshore wind farms, Dogger Bank.
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a division company of Siemens Financial Services, will dev
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
Two consortia, of which Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) is a partner, have been awarded development partner status by The Crown Estate in Round 3 of
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
RWE npower renewables has been awarded the Bristol Channel Zone, off the South Wales and North Devon coasts, UK, under The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
EDP Renováveis (EDPR) and SeaEnergy Plc have been awarded the right to develop offshore wind farms in the Moray Firth, Scotland, with an approximate instal
8 January 2010Kari Larsen
The UK's Crown Estate has announced the successful bidders for the exclusive Round 3 "Zone Development Agreements", which will take the development of up
8 January 2010David Hopwood
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC)'s wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary has signed a follow-on contract with China's Dongfang Turbine Co. Ltd. to
7 January 2010David Hopwood
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during 2009.
4 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The United Kingdom generated 5.5 TWh of electricity from renewable energy in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009, an increase of 25% compared with Q3 2008.
4 January 2010Bill Eggertson
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of December.
4 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Vestas will provide 48 of its V90 2.0 MW wind turbines to the German company Prokon, for different locations in Poland.
1 January 2010Kari Larsen