http://www.WindNewsPortal.com/Latest Wind energy and Wind technology news articlesenWind News PortalWind News Portalhttp://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9594.htmlFri, 5 Mar 2010 11:20:10 GMTNRG Energy, Inc. has signed a binding letter of intent to purchase the South Trent wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas. Upon successful conclusion of the acquisition, South Trent will become the fourth plant in NRG's onshore wind portfolio. The 101 megawatt (MW) wind farm, which came online in January 2009, consists of 44 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines capable, at maximum capacity, of powering more ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9581.htmlThu, 25 Feb 2010 19:20:03 GMTWind 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 ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9580.htmlFri, 19 Feb 2010 19:17:45 GMTCape Wind's proposal to build America's first offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal would provide most of the electricity used on Cape Cod and the Islands from clean, renewable energy - reducing this region's need to import oil, coal and gas. Cape Wind will create new jobs, help stabilize electric costs, contribute to a healthier environment, increase energy independence and establish Massachusett ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9563.htmlFri, 19 Feb 2010 17:48:41 GMTThe 150-megawatt Spring Valley Wind Project will be Nevada's first major wind project and is expected to be generating electricity by late 2011. The project would create more than 150 jobs during the construction phase and approximately 10 permanent positions. NV Energy and Pattern Energy Group LP announced that the two companies have entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement for the sale ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9564.htmlThu, 18 Feb 2010 17:51:48 GMTElement Power has recently acquired a 1.4 GW portfolio of wind development assets from EcoEnergy, for an undisclosed price. "The acquisition of these projects from EcoEnergy augments both our greenfield development efforts and our previous acquisitions, and contributes to our portfolio of well positioned, high quality assets," stated Raimund Grube, Element Power's President and COO for North Am ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9582.htmlThu, 11 Feb 2010 10:24:22 GMTFounded in 1934 and based in Shenyang, China, Shenyang Blower Works (Group) Co., Ltd. (SBW) is a large state-owned enterprise that provides a wide array of industrial equipment including large-scale compressors, blowers, fans, heat exchangers as well as large-scale nuclear power pumps, boiler feed pumps and petrochemical pumps. The company has more than 5,700 employees and approximately US$1.4 bil ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9555.htmlTue, 9 Feb 2010 11:56:53 GMTWSI (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 ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9554.htmlMon, 8 Feb 2010 13:05:02 GMTNew ethernet technology is being utilised by a wind power generating company to better maintain and control their installations. The company is an innovator in wind technology and a driving force in the development of the wind power industry, with installations all over the world. The customer has developed numerous "wind farm" sites and relies on the benefits of efficient and reliable networks br ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9529.htmlWed, 3 Feb 2010 13:19:05 GMTUK based Consense has launched into the American market with a community outreach project for global renewable energy developer, Mainstream Renewable Power. Consense provides online community outreach programmes for the renewable energy sector. The first US project for Consense is Mainstream's 467MW Green River Wind Farm in Illinois. Consense will use its Open Debate system to engage stakehold ... [more] http://www.Windnewsportal.com/Wind_article9544.htmlFri, 29 Jan 2010 10:50:20 GMTThe SBHS (Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme), unveiled by Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, will give grants of up to 40 per cent of project costs, capped at GBP100,000. The funding is open to small and medium-sized businesses to install renewable energy heating systems. SMEs in England and Scotland can also borrow GBP5,000 to GBP200,000 interest-free for the installation of renewab ... [more]