Wind

Emerging markets are taking the lead as wind industry powers ahead

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 Toby Price The Global Wind Energy Council annual market statistics published this week show that the wind industry installed just over 41,000 MW of new clean, reliable wind power in 2011, bringing the total installed ...

Europe

Nearly a quarter of all new power capacity was in wind sector in 2011

Monday, 06 February 2012 Toby Price In 2011, 9,616 MW of wind energy capacity was installed in the EU, making a total of 93,957 MW - enough to supply 6.3% of the EU's electricity, according to figures published today by the European Wind ...

Volkswind turns attention to wind farm repowering

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 REM While nations such as Brazil are rolling out new wind farms by the dozens, companies in more mature wind markets such as germany are turning their attention to repowering existing plants. The process involves ...

United Kingdom

Met Office realises data to help European wind industry

Monday, 30 January 2012 REM The UK Meteorological Office has revealed which European countries were the windiest during 2011 in a special edition of Wind Review for the wind energy industry. According to the data released last week, ...

REpower signs contract for 150 MW wind project in US

Thursday, 12 January 2012 REM germany’s REpower Systems will supply 73 turbines for a 150 MW wind farm project currently under development in the US state of Oklahoma. Under the terms of the contract, deelivery and installation of ...

Vestas sees out 2011 with orders from seven countries

Monday, 02 January 2012 Toby Price Despite a challenging year for the industry, Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, ended 2011 on a high. On 30 December it announced orders to supply turbines for new wind farms in Poland, ...

Gamesa lands contract to supply 200 MW in Egypt

Friday, 23 December 2011 REM

Gamesa has signed a contract with Egypt’s New & Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) to deliver 200 MW of turbines to wind energy projects in the Gulf of El-Zayt, on the nation’s Red Sea coast.

Siemens bags another large offshore wind order in germany

Friday, 23 December 2011 REM Siemens Energy has received another large order to build an offshore wind power plant in germany. For the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, the company is supplying 80 wind turbines, each with an ...

Power giants sign strategic wind alliance for China

Thursday, 15 December 2011 REM Siemens and Shanghai Electric intend to set up two new joint ventures to form a strategic alliance for the Chinese wind power market. Corresponding agreements were signed on 8 December in Shanghai by the ...

Brazil, tenth for renewable energy investments

Tuesday, 13 December 2011 Luis Ini According to a report prepared by Ernst & Young, Brazil is ranked 10th in the list of most attractive countries for investments in renewable energy (renewable energy country attractiveness indices). ...