CGI representation of the future Blaiken wind farm.
Fortum has become a partner of Skellefteå Kraft on the Blaiken wind farm project, in northern Sweden. The two companies will form a JV called Blaiken Vind AB. The project is to have 100 wind turbines installed, totalling in 250 MW of installed capacity.
Deere & Company announced the company has signed a definitive sale agreement with Exelon Generation Company under which Deere is selling its renewable energy business unit John Deere Renewables (JDR). JDR has a total of 735 MW of operational renewable energy capacity, in eight states, totalling in 36 projects.
SunPower Corporation is to supply its solar energy technology for installations at several US government properties which include DoE's NREL, General Services Administration, the Navy and Air Force. These orders will total in no less than 20 MW of solar power capacity installations.
Over the course of these projects, SunPower will employ about 1000 people temporarily.
[source: SunPower]
AEG Power Solutions announced a deal with a European customer for solar inverters, monitoring systems and other electrical equipment for solar PV power plants, totalling in 260 MW of capacity. Starting from December this year, over the course of twelve months, AEG will provide balance of electrical system for 13 PV power plants, each having 20 MW of installed capacity.
AEG will supply, among other things, its PV.250 and PV.500 solar inverters, with advanced supervision and monitoring solutions.
[source: AEG Power Solutions]
Chinese company Yingli Green Energy (aka Yingli Solar) announced a deal with OCI Chemical Corporation, under which OCI will supply Yingli with polysilicon for a period of five years. The dealy, valued at about USD 442 million, will be executed from 2011 to 2015, enabling Yinglu to have a steady inflow of polysilicon for its growing manufacturing base.
[source: Yingli Green Energy]
Iberdrola Renewables, US renewable energy subsidiary of Iberdrola, has recently begun construction of the Hardscrabble wind farm in New York. The wind farm is to have 74 MW of installed capacity once completed, and is located near the towns of Fairfield, Norway and Little Falls. The project represents an investment of about USD 200 million, and should be completed by the end of 2010.
Hardscrabble wind farm will feature 37 Gamesa wind turbines, made in Gamesa's manufacturing facilities in the US. Once completed, it will supply about 25,000 average New York State homes with clean electricity.
[source: Iberdrola Renewables]
M+W Group has established a new subsidiary – M+W Solar – headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. The new business unit will deal with all solar development activities, ranging from silicon production, to the development, planning and realization of solar PV power projects.
So far, M+W Group has designed and built PV fabs to account for more than 7.7 GW of installed PV capacity worldwide. To top of the newly formed business unit, the company has just been awarded the Solar Industry Award 2010, at the PVSEC Trade Fair in Valencia, Spain.
SCHOTT Solar and Solland Solar (Netherlands) announced a strategic partnership agreement, under which the two companies will license technology, perform joint R&D activities and jointly produce back-contacted solar modules. One of the bigger goals of the companies is to achieve serial production of solar modules with up 16% efficiencies by 2011.
Iberdrola Renovables has been awarded a contract for developing nine wind farms in Brazil, totalling in 258 MW of installed capacity. The contract has been awarded after Iberdrola was announced as the winner of the tender by Agencia Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (Aneel).
Iberdrola Renovables will be developing the wind farms in a consortium with Neoenergia, a Brazilian holding company. Once completed, in January 2013, Iberdrola is to supply the Brazilian government with electricity generated at the wind farms for twenty years.
The tender awarded a total of 50 wind farm projects (about 1.5 GW), five hydroelectric plant projects (101 MW), and a biomass facility (64 MW), to a variety of operators.
[source: Iberdrola Renovables]
Three companies have entered into an agreement for co-developing the largest to be onshore wind farm in Ireland. Coillte, an Irish company involved in forestry, land and renewable energy, Finavera Renewables and Scottish and Southern Energy are going to be collaborating on the Cloosh Valley wind farm, located in County Galway.
The project will be executed in two phases, the first of which will feature 22 wind turbines, totalling in 50 MW of installed capacity. Once at full capacity (105 MW), the wind farm will be able to generate enough clean electricity to supply about 60,000 average homes.
So far, Coillte has about 400 MW in its wind energy portfolio, making the company the second largest wind energy developer in Ireland.
[source: Coillte, image: Finavera Renewables]
