Royal Dutch Shell and Cosan announced the companies have signed binding agreements for forming a joint venture for producing and commercializing ethanol and power from sugar cane. The companies will also indulge in distribution of a variety of industrial and transportation fuels through their distribution and retail network in Brazil. Additionally, the JV will also explore and pursue global scale production and sale of ethanol.
US based company Enviva LP, subsidiary of Intrinergy, and Electrabel, a Belgian utility and subsidiary of GDF Suez, have entered into a long-term supply agreement under which Enviva is to supply the company with 480,000 metric tons of wood pellets annually. The biomass supply will be used as a renewable fuel source for feeding Electrabel's biomass power plants in Belgium.
AMSC has received the initial order for 17 wind turbine electrical control systems from Indian wind turbine manufacturer Inox Wind. The units are 2 MW class wind turbines, doubly-fed induction turbines, using AMSC's Windtec technology, under a licensing contract signed in May this year. Inox has been granted the right to manufacture and sell wind turbines on the global wind energy market. The company has begun large volume production, having recently constructed and commissioned its first wind turbine.
ABB inaugurated the company's fourth global wind power generator factory in Vadodora, India. The factory's main product export will be the power generator, one of the crucial components of a wind turbine. The produced generators will be mostly aimed at the growing wind energy market in India.
The new factory's capacity will be 100 units per month, with ratings of up to 2.5 MW. Some 150 people will be employed at the new factory.
K&Company (South Korea) and Matinee Energy (US) have signed a pre-master agreement for the development of a 40 MW solar energy project in California, USA. The solar power plant will represent an investment of up to USD 200 million.
K&C will be joining with a group of partners – LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd. of Korea, CHINT Group Corporation of China and Ilyang Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. of Korea. The partners will share technological solutions and localized for more efficient integration among themselves. Each company will supply products according to its specialty. The group intends to establish an engineering and product development center for rapidly extending product lines and features, to be available to a wider range of customers.
Matinee Energy is hoping to benefit from this newly formed alliance with Far East companies, who are bringing in their know how, competencies and valuable skills. Furthermore, local job creation is also being touted as a benefit of this collaboration.
[source: Metinee Energy]
GE and the Governor of Idaho officially marked the beginning of construction at the Idaho wind energy project, which will have a total of 183 MW of installed capacity. The Idaho wind project is comprised of 11 smaller wind farms, as we covered in June this year.
The project is to be completed by the end of 2010, employing about 175 people during construction. Once completed, the wind farm complex will be able to supply almost 40,000 average Idaho homes with clean electricity.
[source: GE]
MiaSolé, manufacturer of CIGS thin-film PV modules, has entered into a supply agreement with juwi Solar for an additional 8.5 MW of solar modules. The order is actually broken down into two supply deals, one for 7.5 MW of modules, to be installed on groud mounted installations in solar projects in Germany, while the other 1 MW of modules, for projects in both Germany and United States, in Texas, have already been delivered in Q2 2010.
MiaSolé anticipates a lont-term relationship with juwi Solar, involving large scale solar energy projects.
[source: MiaSolé]
W2 Energy's SteamRay engine (CAD model).
W2 Energy announced the company has become a research partner of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE). From now on, the company will be involved in cutting edge advanced solar technology research in concentrated solar power. The technology which will produce steam will be used in combination with W2 Energy's SteamRay Steam Engine.
Being located in Tucson, Arizona, and getting maximum exposure to sunlight, the AzRISE institute is an ideal place for the company to test new solar technologies. The company stated solar energy will be converted in other forms of energy in "lots of interesting ways".
[source: W2 Energy]
KL Energy Corporation and Petrobras have entered into a joint development agreement under which Petrobras is to aid KL Energy in further development and optimization of the company's cellulosic ethanol production process technology. KL Energy's previous demonstration project in Wyoming uses Ponderosa Pine feedstock, but the new and improved process will allow multiple feedstock sources at the same time, optimizing the production process.
Nordex announced new orders from Portugal and China. The company is to deliver a total of 40 1.5 MW and 2.5 MW turbines to customers in these countries.
