September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in
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Integrated Electrical Services (IES) has been awarded the contract to build a substation and transmission line for the Lakefield wind farm in Minnesota, USA, being developed by enXco (an EDF Energies Nouvelles company). The wind farm will feature 137 GW 1.5 MW wind turbines, amd IES' substation and line will be responsible for transporting a total of 205 MW to the power grid.
Power produced at the Lakefield wind farm is to be sold to Indianapolis Power & Light, and will account for about seven percent of the utility's power supply.
[source: IES]
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September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in
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Phoenix Solar announced an agreement with green energy slovakia, an investor partnership between German and Slovakian investors. The solar park will be located about 80 km from Bratislava, the country's capital.
Phoenix Solar has already started with preparations for the construction phase of the project. Some 29,000 modules will be installed at the power plant.
[source: Phoenix Solar]
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September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in
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SWAY, the Norwegian wind energy developer and turbine manufacturer, has created a new business unit called Sway Turbine. The new company will deal primarily with the development of a the prototype for a new 10 MW offshore wind turbine, which will also make use of the company's concept of a floating foundation.
The CEO of SWAY Turbine will be Eystein Borgen, the founder of SWAY, to be replaced by Michael Forland, as the new CEO of SWAY.
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September 1st, 2010 | Posted in
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Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) announced all the wind turbines foundations at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm have been installed. This marks an important milestone on this project. A total of 140 foundations have been installed, and thirty wind turbines have already been erected.
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September 1st, 2010 | Posted in
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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.
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September 1st, 2010 | Posted in
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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.
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August 31st, 2010 | Posted in
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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]
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August 31st, 2010 | Posted in
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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]
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August 31st, 2010 | Posted in
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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]
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August 31st, 2010 | Posted in
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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]
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