Airborne Wind Turbine Could Revolutionize Wind Power. Aviation.
SeaEnergy bags £90,000 to build Round 3 offshore wind vessel - 16 Nov 2011. News, Opinion, Events, Press Releases, Jobs, Directory, Resources. China has taken on General Electric Co. (GE) and Western peers that control the $70 billion wind-turbine market, striving to repeat its 2010 coup when the Asian nation sold more than half the world’s solar panels for the first time. Armed with at least $15.5 billion in state-backed credit, China’s biggest windmill makers Sinovel Wind Group Co. and Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. won their first major foreign orders in the past year.
Both plan to set up plants abroad, including China’s first in the U.S., easing entry into markets for delivering machines that can weigh 750 tons each. Sinovel and Goldwind may counter the quality concerns of customers and overtake Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems A/S as the biggest supplier by 2015, a Bloomberg New Energy Finance survey forecast. Big Expansion of Wind in North Dakota, Ohio Gets First Big Wind Farm. This is an archived story. The information and any links may no longer be accurate.
Offshore Wind Projects Moving Forward Along U.S. East Coast. Nicolas Wolff est réélu à la présidence de France Energie Eolienne. France Energie Eolienne, qui regroupe plus de 240 membres, professionnels de la filière éolienne, a réélu Nicolas Wolff à sa tête. Lors de sa dernière Assemblée Générale qui s'est tenue le 5 octobre à Paris, France Energie Eolienne a renouvelé son conseil d'adminstration en maintenant Nicolas Wolff à la présidence. Voici la nouvelle composition de ce conseil : Vestas hails 1GW of deals for flagship V112 turbine - 07 Oct 2011.
Appel d'offres éolien offshore : Eole-Res rejoint le consortium mené par Iberdrola. Dans le cadre de l'appel d'offres sur l'éolien offshore, le développeur spécialisé dans les énergies renouvelables Eole-Res rejoint le consortium mené par Iberdrola (développement et maîtrise d'ouvrage) avec Areva (fabrication des turbines) et Technip (construction).
Le consortium devrait se porter candidat sur deux des cinq zones concernées par l'appel d'offres : Saint-Brieuc (Côtes d'Armor, 500 MW) et Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique, 750 MW). Les candidatures à l'appel d'offres sont à déposer avant le 12 janvier prochain, pour une première sélection en avril 2012. Après une étude approfondie des projets, les lauréats seront définitivement désignés en octobre 2013. China and Local Installers — the Big Winners in the Solar and Wind Energy Price Wars. Clean Power Published on October 1st, 2011 | by David L Roberts Solar installation by Clean Energy Center Reports from the clean energy industry show China has surpassed the U.S. in market share and pricing for PV solar panels and wind turbines, while offering comparable quality and reliability.
The consequence of this recent Chinese dominance has caused the demise of companies like Solyndra and Evergreen, the most visible examples of bankruptcies in the pipeline for U. Small Wind Turbine Sales Up in U.S. Clean Power Published on September 25th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is going to release a report on 2010 growth of the small wind turbine market soon, the AWEA 2010 U.S.
Small Wind Turbine Market Report. I got to take a sneak peak at some of the data and charts and, with permission, am sharing a few key points and a couple graphs with you here on CleanTechnica. Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Looking for Crowdfunding. Clean Power Published on August 30th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan When inspiration and innovation are held back by the lack of funding what can be done?
A company, D.C. Revolutions, has found an answer in creating a Crowdfunding Campaign in partnership with Indie GoGo.Indie GoGo was established in 2008 and is available to help up-and-coming companies that present sustainable concepts that need financial support of the public to become implemented. These campaigns are crucial and the public should be involved because all sustainable issues should be a concern for everyone because they ultimately affect everyone.D.C. 24 Governors Ask Obama to Focus on Wind Energy Deployment. Report: China to crank up 2015 renewable target - 30 Aug 2011. Wind Energy News {10 More Stories of the Week} Éolien : améliorations techniques et bridage réduisent les nuisances sonores. Les nuisances sonores sont probablement l'un des impacts des parcs éoliens les plus critiqués par les riverains.
Si la technologie progresse, le bridage, voire l'arrêt, des machines reste parfois la seule solution pour respecter la réglementation. À l'occasion d'une table ronde sur l'acoustique des éoliennes, organisée par le Bureau franco-allemand de coordination des énergies renouvelables, deux spécialistes du sujet ont présenté différentes pistes pour concilier l'implantation d'éoliennes et la réduction des nuisances sonores.
"Soyons honnêtes nous n'avons pas toujours été bons", concède Denis Grelier, directeur technique chez Vestas, qui reconnaît qu'à proximité des parcs éoliens "il y a du bruit" précisant cependant que ce bruit "reste faible. " MOEA unveils Taiwan wind power development plan. Taiwan will boost its wind power capacity from 530 megawatts to 4,200 megawatts by 2030 under an ambitious renewable energy plan unveiled July 18 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The project, which is expected to generate NT$500 billion (US$17.27 billion) in business for Taiwan’s equipment manufacturers and component suppliers, calls for the installation of 1,050 wind turbines on land and offshore sites. “Taiwan will install 450 land-based wind turbines with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts by 2020,” MOEA Minister Shih Yen-shiang said, adding that the remaining units will be set up in the following 10 years.
At present, Taiwan has around 300 land-based turbines situated mainly along the western coastline and in outlying Penghu County. The new units will be able to generate 12.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, or 3.3 percent of Taiwan’s total power generation. CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views. Clean Power Published on July 13th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan Some more wind energy news from around the internet from the past week or so.
Even in Tough Year, US Wind Industry Gains Strength. This is an archived story.
The information and any links may no longer be accurate. Wind energy supplies over 2% of total U.S. electricity and more than 10% of total electricity in four states. In 2010, wind accounted for 25% of new electricity capacity, representing $11 billion in investments. The US has lost its lead to China as the fastest growing wind market, but it's still number 2. Still, 2010 was a trying year. As a result, roughly 5 gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity were connected to the U.S. grid in 2010, compared to nearly 10 GW in 2009 and over 8 GW in 2008. Half of wind farms in England and Wales rejected - 11 Jul 2011. France launches 3GW offshore wind tender - 12 Jul 2011. Wind leads global green energy investments to record $211bn - 07 Jul 2011. Small Scale Wind Power On the Rise; Home Depot Selling Turbines. This is an archived story.
The information and any links may no longer be accurate. Small wind turbines are growing in popularity and Home Depot will begin selling them in stores in some of the windier parts of the country. Arizona-based Southwest Windpower, one of the pioneers and leading manufacturers of small wind turbines, says its Skystream 3.7 turbine will be available at stores in Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and California, and will expand to other states. Couple seek £2.5m damages over noisy wind turbines - 06 Jul 2011. AECOM Moves Into Offshore Wind Industry in New Jersey. This is an archived story.
The information and any links may no longer be accurate. AECOM, one of the world's largest architectural and engineering firms, is entering the North American offshore wind industry. Fishermen's Energy, LLC, recently awarded AECOM a contract for project and construction management, engineering, and procurement services for its Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm project. Located about 2.8 miles off the coast of Atlantic City, N.J., the project is vying with others in Massachusetts and Delaware to be the first North American offshore windfarm in operation.
The project has a planned capacity of 25 megawatts (MW) and will serve as a prototype for larger scale utility projects that are currently in various stages of development. Avantages et inconvénients des éoliennes. Chinese turbine manufacturer secures deal to supply wind turbines to Ireland. A week of industrial-scale initiatives in wind and solar had as its highlight Chinese turbine manufacturer Sinovel’s capture of a deal to supply 1GW of turbines to Ireland.
The transaction will be by far the largest coup for a Chinese wind turbine maker in Europe so far, and will create some anxiety in countries such as Germany, Spain and Denmark that have established turbine assembly industries. Sinovel will supply the machines for €1.5 billion ($US2.2 billion) worth of wind farms under development over the next five years by Irish company Mainstream Renewable Power. Mainstream, headed by Eddie O’Connor, the entrepreneur behind Airtricity, one of the most active wind farm developers of the last decade, says it will get debt finance for the new projects from China Development Bank, the state-owned lender. The deal between Mainstream and Sinovel will shine a spotlight on the dilemma facing political leaders in Europe and North America over the supply of renewable energy technology.