Wind

Northwester 2 Offshore wind farm Delivers Energy to the Belgian Grid

Tuesday, 14 January 2020 REM The first Northwester 2 offshore wind farm turbine started supplying electricity to the Belgian grid over the weekend of January 11-12, 2020. The wind farm is expected to be fully operational before the ...

France

Kallista Energy chooses Greenbyte Energy Cloud to future-proof its wind farm monitoring

Tuesday, 14 January 2020 Robin Whitlock Independent power producer (IPP) Kallista Energy has chosen Greenbyte’s data platform to upgrade and reinforce its wind farm monitoring capacity as it expects its 213MW wind energy portfolio in France ...

Duke Energy Renewables’ 200-MW Mesteño wind farm Now Operational

Tuesday, 07 January 2020 REM Duke Energy Renewables’ 200-MW Mesteño wind farm in Starr County, Texas began commercial operation on December 31st , 2019. It is Duke Energy’s fourth wind generation facility in Starr County and ...

Belgium

Foundation installation successfully completed at Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm

Tuesday, 07 January 2020 Robin Whitlock

DEME has successfully completed the installation of 58 monopile foundations and two offshore substation foundations at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

Acciona Puts its Ninth US wind farm Into Service in Texas

Monday, 30 December 2019 REM Acciona has begun operation of its ninth U.S. wind farm, the Palmas Altas wind farm. The wind farm, its second Texas project, represents a total investment of around $200 million and increases Acciona’s ...

Vestas Repowering wind farm in the Arctic Circle

Thursday, 26 December 2019 REM Vestas will replace 15 Nordex N80 2.5 MW wind turbines with nine 4.2 megabyte V117 Typhoon turbines. The Danish manufacturer will adapt the design of its nine turbines to the location where wind speeds ...

EGPE Connects Four wind farms in Zaragoza

Friday, 20 December 2019 REM El Campo, La Estanca, Loma Gorda and Santo Domingo de Luna total almost 100 MW (98 MW), are located in the province of Zaragoza, have required investment of €100 million and will generate -according ...

Eneco to Purchase Power Generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12 MW Prototype

Thursday, 19 December 2019 REM Eneco, Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and SIF Holding Netherlands), and GE Renewable Energy announced that Eneco will purchase all of the electricity generated by GE’s Haliade-X ...

€58 Million EBRD Loan to Build Kosovo’s Biggest wind farm

Tuesday, 17 December 2019 REM Kosovo, which largely relies on lignite for its electricity, will soon start benefiting from a cleaner supply of energy from the biggest wind farm in the country. The European Bank for Reconstruction and ...

Turkey

DEME holds keel laying ceremony for it’s first dedicated Service Operation Vessel for offshore wind farm maintenance

Monday, 16 December 2019 Robin Whitlock DEME is investing in its first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for wind farm maintenance in order to be able to offer a total package of services to the offshore wind industry, and the keel laying ceremony ...