Wind

Vestas agrees EPC contract with Mercury for New Zealand wind farm

Monday, 01 April 2019 Robin Whitlock

New Zealand-based electricity generator and retailer Mercury has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Vestas for the 119 MW Turitea Wind Farm.

Wind farm operators must embrace disruptive technologies say attendees at Onyx Insight event

Monday, 01 April 2019 Robin Whitlock Embracing disruptive digital technologies for the collection and analysis of wind turbine data offers the best route to reducing the costs of operations and maintenance programmes, according to asset and ...

Department of Energy Announces $28 Million in Funding for Wind Energy Research

Monday, 01 April 2019 REM The U.S. Department of Energy will provide up to $28.1 million in funding aimed at advancing wind energy nationwide across the land-based, offshore, and distributed wind sectors. While utility-scale wind ...

TEP to Increase Renewable Energy Resources with New Mexico Wind Farm

Friday, 29 March 2019 REM Tucson Electric Power is building a large wind farm that will help the company more than double its use of renewable energy by 2021. The Oso Grande Wind Project in southeastern New Mexico will generate ...

Fred.Olsen Ocean Invests in United Wind Logistics

Thursday, 28 March 2019 Dan McCue Fred.Olsen Ocean, a subsidiary of Norway’s Bonheur ASA, has entered into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent ownership in United Wind Logistics for €12 million. The ownership split in UWL will be ...

Enel Green Power Acquires Tradewind Energy

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 REM

Enel, through its US renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, has closed an agreement to purchase Kansas-based renewable developer Tradewind Energy.

DNV GL calls for new guideline on earthquake and cyclone damage reduction for wind turbines

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 Robin Whitlock Independent energy advisory and certification body DNV GL has called on wind industry stakeholders to join a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) aimed at alleviating the impacts of cyclones and earthquakes ...

Norway

Peikko Delivers Rock Foundations to Wind Parks in Norway

Monday, 25 March 2019 REM Finnish company, Peikko Group, has received an order to deliver rock foundation technology to Geitfjellet, Harbaksfjellet and Kvenndalsfjellet wind parks in the Sør-Trøndelag area, Central Norway. Peikko ...

New Mexico adopts new clean energy targets

Monday, 25 March 2019 Robin Whitlock New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed into a law The Energy Transition Act (SB489) which will aim to source 50 percent of the state’s energy from renewable sources by 2040 and 100 percent ...

€31 Million Secured for Floating Wind Project Off Irish Coast

Friday, 22 March 2019 Dan McCue An ambitious four-year, €31 million, floating offshore wind project has been approved for testing off the west coast of Ireland. The project is known as AFLOWT (Accelerating market uptake of Floating ...