Latest Wind Power company news
West Coast Energy has announced a new opportunity for landowners who partner with the wind energy developer on small to medium sized wind energy installations. West Coast Energy will offer its project development expertise and financial strength as well as a guaranteed income stream or discounted energy to landowners over a project’s lifespan, in return for rights to erect a wind turbine on their property.
The launch of the new discounted energy scheme coincides with the Royal Highland Show,... [more]
Iberdrola Renewables has announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a new customer, We Energies of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We Energies will purchase 50 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable energy from Iberdrola Renewables’ Barton Wind Power Project in operation near Kensett, Iowa.
We Energies will purchase the wind energy from Portland, Oregon-based Iberdrola Renewables to augment the good work it is already doing toward meeting Wisconsin’s increasingly aggressive renewable target. The state... [more]
Wind Energy America Inc. has completed the commissioning of the first of two Gamesa G-87 2.0-megawatt (MW) wind turbines which is part of its wholly owned Zachary Ridge LLC (“ZR”), located on Buffalo Ridge in Osceola County, Iowa.
WEA has been working with Outland Renewable Energy, LLC, to retrofit and commission these turbines, acquired in September of 2008, in order to achieve full commercial operation. It is expected that commissioning of the second G-87 turbine will also be completed in Q... [more]
WSI (Weather Services International) is beginning to take orders for Q2 delivery of the new STAR (Storm-Threat-Alert-Respond) System, a tool integrating real-time weather, weather forecasts and alerting for lightning and storms that helps professionals in both wind turbine and utility operations respond to the effects of severe weather outages.
The STAR System is available in two versions. One is designed for wind farm operations and maintenance managers, the other for utility operators. Both... [more]
West Coast Energy has announced progress on two proposed wind turbine projects. Developments at Carsington in Derbyshire and Crimp in Cornwall have been consented.
West Coast Energy's Carsington development is the first of its kind to be consented in Derbyshire. With construction planned for 2011, the project comprises four wind turbines with a maximum generation capacity of up to 10MW. The cost of the wind farm is expected to be around Ł14m.
In addition, West Coast Energy's Ł4m Crimp p... [more]
Green Star Alternative Energy, Inc. has announced that an agreement to develop a 120 MW wind farm has been reached with Wellbury Infrastrukturberatungsgesellschaft GmbH.
A corporate structure is being created for this endeavour in a new Serbian subsidiary company, whose ownership will be maintained by both Green Star and Wellbury. The terms of the agreement include a joint 50-50 title, with complete recoupment of all expenditures by Green Star before any division of profits.
This advanced ... [more]
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