Greater Gabbard, one of the largest offshore wind farms under construction in the world, has moved a step closer to generating 500MW of renewable electricity. The installation of all the 140 turbine foundations is now complete and thirty wind turbines are now in place. Located approximately 25km off the Suffolk Coast, the wind farm development [...]
Evanston’s proposed wind energy power plant off the shores of Lake Michigan is closer to becoming reality. Three developers met this summer’s deadline and have submitted responses to the City of Evanston’s request for information about building such a facility, according to Nathan Kipnis, architect and member of the environmental organization Citizen’s for a Greener [...]
The consortium behind the 1GW London Array project has revealed that the first two transformers have been delivered to the onshore… (newenergyfocus) Source: newenergyfocus, August 31, 2010;
Huaneng New Energy Industrial Cooperation, a subsidy of China Huaneng Group, plans to invest 6 billion yuan (695.3 million €) into the… (capitalvue) Source: capitalvue, August 31, 2010;
Favourable economic and operating environment coupled with focus on offshore wind power development to result in phenomenal growth of wind power installations in China. According to the research report “China Wind Power Market Outlook 2014” by TechSci Research, The wind power installation in China has been experiencing exponential growth in recent years due to favourable [...]
Marine Innovation & Technology, a naval architecture and offshore engineering firm, is using Digital Prototyping software from Autodesk to… (marketwatch) Source: marketwatch, August 31, 2010;
Located around 20 km off the British coasts of Kent and Essex, offshore construction on the first 630-megawatt phase of the project is due… (7thspace) Source: 7thspace, August 31, 2010;
SWAY AS, based in Bergen, Norway, has a world‐leading concept for floating foundations for offshore wind turbines. Since 2005 the company has also been developing a new wind turbine and has now decided to create a separate business entity for it called “SWAY TURBINE”. The main focus of the new company will be to prototype [...]
Wind farm with 80 turbines being built north of Rügen – 50% share in joint venture Hochtief Construction and the Belgian DEME Group have been contracted to construct major elements of the German Baltic EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm. The joint venture will deliver and erect the foundations and will handle logistics for the construction [...]
On October 27-29, 2010 SGS presents its wide range of Wind Energy Services at the Delphi International Renewable Energy Conference (DIREC) 2010 with special focus on its Owner’s Representative Services. The DIREC 2010 will take place at the India Expo Center & Mart in New Delhi, India. SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and [...]
