GE recently announced a wind turbine supply deal with China Long Yuan Power Generation, a renewable energy developer. The Chinese company is building the Dufferin wind farm in Ontario, Canada. The wind farm will have 100 MW of installed capacity once completed.
Voith Hydro has been awarded the contract to supply generators and turbines for the Red Rock hydropower plant in Iowa, USA. The project is to enter construciton in 2013, and should be completed by 2016. The core of the power plant will be two vertical axis Kaplan turbines, totalling in 55 MW of power generation capacity.
Panasonic recently announced the company has established Panasonic Eco Solutions North America. The new business unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America will put focus on renewable energy projects, with activities involving everything from design and implementation to financing of RE project as well as energy efficiency projects. Activities will cover the US and Canada as the primary markets.
Nextera Energy Canada has ordered a total of 460 MW of wind turbines from GE. The US wind turbines manufacturer is to supply 288 1.6-100 units to Nextera, which are to be installed at six wind farms. The resulting installed capacity will generate enough clean electricity to supply about 120,000 average homes in Ontario.
Enel Green Power and GE Energy Financial Services have entered into a partnership for the development of the Chisholm View wind farm, which is being built near Hunter, Oklahoma. GE will hold a 51% stake in the project, while the remainder will be owned by Enel Green Power. The project will cost an estimated USD 375 million, and will have 235 MW of installed capacity.
GE is going to be the supplier of wind turbines for nine wind energy projcets in Ontario, totalling in 650 MW of capacity. All the projects are to be fully built by 2015, when GE wind turbines will account for the overall total of 1200 MW of wind capacity on the Ontario grid.
Vestas is to supply 396 MW of wind turbines to Mareña Renovables, a Mexican wind developer. The destination of 132 V90-2.0 MW units is the Mareña wind farm being developed in Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico.
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group has opened a research and development center in the US, on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University. The focus area of research of the new center will be the offshore wind sector, with the aim to enhance offshore wind turbine energy output and further reduce the cost of electricity generated this way.
Mitsubishi Corporation, as part of its strategy to grow its presence in the field of renewable energy, is acquiring a 34% stake in the Mareña Renovables wind project in Mexico, which is to have 396 MW of installed capacity, becoming one of, if not the largest wind energy project in Latin America.
The largest wind farm in Honduras, Cerro de Hula with 102 MW of installed capacity, has been inaugurated in Honduras by the country's president. The project was built by a consortium of companies including Iberdrola Ingeneria and Gamesa.
