The company had indicated it would announce the location of its new UK wind turbine manufacturing and logistics hub by the end of October af… By Graham Huband (thecourier) [mappress] Source: thecourier, November 02, 2011
Anders Soe-Jensen is the founding president of the offshore division of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s biggest turbine maker. He spoke… By Alex Morales (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, November 02, 2011
National Wind Farm Training Centre, which provides training to the wind energy industry, has been awarded RenewablesUK’s renowned Training Standards and Accreditation for promoting and delivering best practice health and safety training and competence standards. The RenewableUK training standards ar
Danish Finance Minister Bjarne Corydon rejects the proposal put forward last week to let state-owned energy group Dong Energy build wind farms on a non-profit basis. Corydon admits that everything should be done to reduce the costs for offshore wind turbine development but points out that offshore w
On September 1st 2011 Marubeni Corporation and DONG Energy entered into an agreement whereby Marubeni acquires a 49.9% stake in the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. Completion of the transaction was conditional on, inter alia, certain matters relating to financing. The transaction has today
MILLIONS of pounds have been awarded to train East Yorkshire’s renewables workers of the future. The Government is giving £25 million to the region in a move that could eventually generate several thousand jobs in the offshore windfarm industry. The cash has been awarded as part of a joint bid by Hu
During the quarter Carnegie Wave Energy Limited received independent verification of the results of its CETO 3 deployment confirming the peak unit capacity at 203kW. This was the primary aim of the CETO 3 project and its verification brings to a close the most significant technical milestone complet
The UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced a new proposal on how to support large scale renewable electricity under the Renewable Obligation. In response to increasing market pressures, particularly the need to reduce costs and promote cost efficient projects, DECC has alte
Ten NOF Energy members based in North East England have been successful in securing a proportion of the Government’s £950million Regional Growth Fund. NOF Energy is the business support organisation for oil, gas, nuclear and offshore renewables sectors. George Rafferty, Chief Executive of NOF Energy
Willi Balz, Chief Executive Officer of the Windreich AG, has announced that the company has secured total project financing for its first offshore wind park Global Tech I and emphasizes, ‘With its 400 MW capacity, it is the first offshore project worldwide to obtain financing which directly brings t
Andrew Mill, CEO, The National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec): “With the support received from the Regional Growth Fund, Narec will help to sustain the UK’s leading position in the offshore wind sector by driving the commercial development of seven new innovative products or services. Narec will ma
The Switch, a leading provider of permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages, told today that it will continue to pursue its successful business strategy as an independent company following the announcement by its shareholders and power technology company AMSC regarding the termina
The commissioning of Vestas’ new generator factory in Travemünde, Germany, is not progressing as planned. In order not to compromise on safety and quality in an already very busy fourth quarter, Vestas has chosen to postpone the handing over of a number of projects, primarily in Europe. The changed
Ballast Nedam has succeeded in maintaining its position under challenging market conditions. The revenue and results that it achieved were broadly in line with those for the first three quarters of 2010. The order book increased from € 1.7 billion in mid-year to € 1.8 billion. This puts Ballast Neda
