Yingli Solar announced the company has secured about 1 GW of PV solar module orders for 2011. This estimate is based on the aggregate orders with 2011 as the year of delivery. The estimated amount of capacity exceeds the company's sales target. Most of the customers under the contracts involved in this large batch of orders have been requested to pay in advance, in order to make sure delivery will be on schedule in 2011.
Computer graphics rendering of the future Waitahora wind farm.
Contact Energy (New Zealand), in majority ownership of Origin Energy (Australia), has received consents from the Environment Court for the development of the Waitahora wind farm in New Zealand, in the Puketoi Range. The consents grant Contact Energy permission to proceed with the placement of wind turbines on the wind farm site, but only after the final approval for a final set of conditions for the wind farm which the company is to prepare and submit by December 17, 2010.
NRG Energy and SunPower Corporation have entered into a contract under which the two companies will start construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch which is to have 250 MW of installed solar power capacity. SunPower completed contractual agreements with PG&E for the total of 250 MW of solar power on this project in May this year. The project was originally to have 210 MW, but was extended with another 40 MW of capacity.
EDF Energies Nouvelles has commissioned two new solar power projects in Italy, in the north and in the south of the country, totalling in 26.1 MWp of installed capacity.
Siemens announced the second order for its direct drive SWT-3.0-101 wind turbine. The ordered units are to be installed at Minnesota Power's Bison 1 wind farm, in North Dakota. The original order involved 33 2.3 MW geared units also from Siemens, but the developer decided to use the new direct drive turbines instead, along with 16 SWT 2.3-101 units.
Bison 1 wind farm is to have a total of 82 MW of installed capacity, spread out into two phases, Bison 1A (using the 2.3 MW units) and Bison 1B (using the 3 MW direct drive units). Bison 1A units are being installed at the wind farm site, while the Bison 1B units will delivered in August 2011.
[source: Siemens]
Fidelis Energy signed a definitive long-term agreement with ASD Lusiona Solar to develop a 100 MW solar power plant on about 1500 acres of land. Fidelis is to provide the design, construction and operation services for the project.
Duke Energy announced the company has completed the Kit Carson Windpower Project in Colorado, US. The wind farm, with 51 MW of installed capacity, is now connected to the grid, and exporting clean power. All power generated by the 34 GW 1.5 MW units is being sold to the Tri-State Generation and Transmission's member electric cooperatives under a 20-year PPA.
Enel Green Power has finalized the acquisition of 10 MW of operational wind capacity in France from Gamesa. La Bouleste (Flavin la Bouleste) wind farm is located in Aveyron, the Midi-Pyrenees Area of France. Gamesa developed the wind farm using its G87 wind turbines each with 2 MW of capacity.
Gamesa has entered into a contract with Inveravante corporation for supplying 42 MW of wind turbines, for the Dunas de Paracuru wind farm in the Ceará state, Brazil. The order will be comprised of G87-2.0 MW units, to be delivered in the second half of 2011.
The German Government, through the KfW bank, is giving a loan to Macedonia amounting to about EUR 60 million for revitalizing the country's hydropower capacity and the construction of wind turbines.
