Latest Wind Power product news
40% of UK wind farm plans never go ahead because of objections about radar interference. At the British Wind Energy Association’s annual conference this week, Ed Miliband declared radar to be one of the UK’s major barriers to using wind energy to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets.
QinetiQ and Vestas Wind Systems have announced the successful trial of a unique radar mitigation technology for wind turbines. Using a jointly designed 44m prototype turbine blade manufactured by Vestas, the te... [more]
Renewable energy credits, also called "green tags", are tradable environmental commodities issued by an appropriate oversight entity to represent a set amount of energy produced (typically 1,000 kilowatt hours) from renewable natural resources, such as solar, wind and biomass.
Phoenix Partners Group has introduced an electronic trading platform for renewable energy credits, the first of its kind within the environmental brokerage community.
The web-based platform provides a real-time foru... [more]
Vestas has received an order from EDF Energies Nouvelles for delivery of 37 x V90-2.0 MW wind turbines for Sardinia, Italy. The contract includes supply, installation and commissioning of the turbines and a five-year service agreement. The wind turbines will be delivered to a project in the municipality of Bonorva in Sardinia during 2009 and 2010.
At the end of 2008, EDF Energies Nouvelles had an installed capacity of 1,171 MW in the Mediterranean countries (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, T... [more]
Vestas has received an order for a total of 76 units of the V90-3.0 MW turbine for two projects in Romania. The contract comprises supply, installation, a VestasOnline® Business SCADA solution, as well as a five-year service agreement. The first turbines are expected to be installed by the end of 2009.
The order has been placed by EDP Renováveis that is currently the third largest wind energy operator in Europe and the fourth largest operator in the world.
At the customer’s request, detail... [more]
Danish company Skykon has announced that it has acquired the Vestas plant near Campbeltown. The agreement will save the seven-year-old wind tower manufacturing plant from closure, bringing long term job security to the 100-strong workforce.
Skykon now has ambitious plans to create a world-leading wind tower manufacturing facility which will supply innovative onshore and offshore solutions to the world's top tier turbine producers. The development strategy includes the expansion of the facilit... [more]
EcoSecurities has made its first APX Registry transfer of Voluntary Carbon Units (VCUs) to The CarbonNeutral Company, a carbon offset and carbon management business. These Verified Emission Reductions (VERs), verified to the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) were transferred following the successful registration and issuance of VCUs from a wind project based in India.
The launch of the VCS registries allows for the issuance and electronic transfer of VERs which have been verified to the VCS and... [more]
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