Vestas announced the company has successfully installed five V90-2.0 MW turbines at the Roman Blandey wind farm in France, being developed by EDP Renovaveis. The installation of the turbines took six months.
Gamesa building nacelle factory in Brazil
December 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Wind
Gamesa announced plans to build a nacelle manufacturing facility in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The factory will be located in Camaraçi, in the north-eastern part of the state. It will produce nacelles equivalent to 300 MW of wind turbines, and employ about 100 people.
EDP Renovaveis signs PPA for 83 MW of wind capacity in US
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Wind
EDP Renovaveis announced the company's subsidiary in the US, Horizon Wind, has sold 83 MW of power generated at the company's Prairie wind farm, in Iowa, under a 20-year PPA with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
With this PPA, the wind farm's 300 MW of installed power (Prairie I and II) generated capacity have now been fully committed under long-term PPAs.
[source: EDP Renovaveis]
Far East Wind Power developing 300 MW wind farm in Inner Mongolia
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Wind
Far East Wind Power, a company involved in the development of wind energy in Asia, announced it has entered into a binding letter of intent (LoI) with Tianlanhengfeng Electrical Power Corporation of Hohhot (TEPCH), to build a 300 MW wind farm in Wulatehou Qi, Inner Mongolia, China.
E.ON plans to level its solar business with wind by 2013
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in General Solar
E.ON Climate & Renewables, the renewable energy unit of E.ON, announced a strategic plan to equalize its solar business with its wind energy business in the next three years. The company currently has a large amount of solar capacity in its development pipeline, about 300 MW in France and Italy, and another 50 MW, in collaboration with Abengoa, in Spain.
Yingli Solar secures 1 GW of future PV module contracts
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Solar
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.
Contact Energy gets consents for the Waitahora wind farm
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Wind
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 building the California Valley Solar Ranch
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Solar
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 EN commissions two solar power projects in Italy
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Solar
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 to deliver 15 direct drive turbines to US customer
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Wind
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]
