Vestas announced the choice of facility for assembling nacelles for the company's V164, advanced offshore wind turbine. The choice came down to Lindø Industrial Park, located in Denmark, where the company is going to assemble a limited number of nacelles, under a fixed period leasing agreement. The facility offers very good production and logistics capabilities, which are going to be needed for the production of a large wind turbine model such as the V164.
REpower is to deliver and install 68 MM92 2.05 MW wind turbines at the Twin Ridges wind project being developed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania by EverPower. This will be REpower's first wind project in this US state. The wind farm's total installed capacity will be 140 MW.
Vestas has received an order for 33 V100-1.8 units (59 MW) from Exelon Wind. The turbines will be installed at the Harvest II Wind Project in Huron County, Michigan (USA). Once built and commissioned, the wind farm will provide clean electricty for about 18,000 average households.
Denmark has set its renewable energy goal to reach 50% of renewables in electricity supply by 2020. This goal, however, now seems to be threatened by new noise regulations which will result in nearly 20% of the planned wind turbine not getting installed. Under the new regulations, the level of acceptable noise has been lowered, requiring wind turbines to be located further away from inhabited areas.
WPD (Germany) has signed an agreement to build the 36.8 MW Ponikve wind farm in Croatia, near the city of Dubrovnik. The wind farm is to feature Enercon E70 2.3 MW wind turbines, with hub heights of 64 meters and 85 meters. The project has already been granted power grid connection approval.
Nordex has received two new orders for wind turbines from RPM Access, for the Hawkeye windfarm located in Fayette County and the Rippey wind farm located in Green County, both in Iowa (USA). Nordex is to deliver 35 N100/2500 units for the projects.
GE is going to supply Newcom, a leading investment company in Mongolia, with advanced wind turbines for the country's first wind energy project, representing a USD 100 million investment. The location of the new wind farm is about 70 km southeast of Ulaanbaatar, the country's capital.
GE announced the company's has opened its new renewable energy logistics center in Olive Branch, Mississippi (USA). The new facility represents one of the many steps the company is taking as part of a new strategy to improve customer response times throughout the North American market. The new logistics center will deal with both wind and solar energy projects.
enXco, US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, has executed the purchase agreement for acquiring the 38 MW Chestnut Flats wind farm in Pennsylvania, USA. The project features 18 Gamesa G90 2.0 MW wind turbines, and a single G87 2.0 MW unit.
Vestas has received an order for 22 V90 2.0 and 1.8 MW wind turbines from CyL Energía Eólica SLU, which are to be installed at the Zarzuela wind farm in Burgos, northern Spain.
