Wind

RCEA Selects Consortium for Offshore Wind Project

Tuesday, 03 April 2018 REM The Redwood Coast Energy Authority in Eureka, California, has selected a consortium of companies comprised of Principle Power Inc., EDPR Offshore North America LLC, Aker Solutions Inc., H. T. Harvey & ...

Taiwan

Siemens Gamesa awarded 120 MW for the expansion of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 offshore wind farm

Tuesday, 03 April 2018 Robin Whitlock

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is to supply an additional 120 MW of capacity for Phase 2 of the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm off the coast of Taiwan.

Innogy Enters Ireland’s Offshore Wind Market

Monday, 02 April 2018 Dan McCue Germany's Innogy, through its Irish subsidiary Innogy Renewables Ireland, has partnered with Irish company Saorgus Energy to develop an offshore wind project in Ireland. Innogy will take an equal share ...

Chile

Aurora wind farm in southern Chile receives power transformer

Friday, 30 March 2018 Robin Whitlock

A 170 MVA power transformer, manufactured by ABB, has just been installed at Aurora wind farm in Chile, operated by Mainstream Renewable Power.

EDPR agrees sale of a 20 percent stake in UK offshore Moray East project to DGE

Thursday, 29 March 2018 Robin Whitlock EDP Renewables S.A. (EDPR) has closed the sale of a 20 percent stake in the Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited (MOWEL) to Diamond Generating Europe Limited (DGE), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation. ...

Repowering onshore wind farms could increase cheap, low carbon electricity in the UK finds new report

Wednesday, 28 March 2018 Robin Whitlock A new report by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit has concluded that repowering UK onshore wind farms as they reach the end of their operating lives would be a highly cost-effective way to increase ...

Russia

Russian businessmen team up to develop a new wind farm near St. Petersburg

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 Robin Whitlock Alexander Roslyakov, the owner of Onego Shipping, and Igor Bryzgunov, the Chairman of the Russian Association of the Wind Industry, have joined together to create a wind farm in the Volkhov District of ...

Evolution of Wind Power Interactive Map Released

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 Dan McCue The newly-released interactive map, The Evolution of Wind Power, resulting from a project undertaken by The Global Wind Energy Council and Greenbyte, reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, ...

Scotland Hosts UK Offshore Wind Premiere

Monday, 26 March 2018 Dan McCue Northeast Scotland has marked a UK offshore wind first following the successful installation of the first pioneering suction bucket jacket foundation for Vattenfall’s 11-turbine European Offshore Wind ...

New Mexico Commission Approves Xcel Energy’s Sagamore Wind Farm

Friday, 23 March 2018 Dan McCue On March 21, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission unanimously approved Xcel Energy’s 522-MW Sagamore Wind Project in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member ...