Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Denmark’s Vestas (VWS.CO: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, said on Monday it won a 180 megawatt turbine order for a project in the United States. The order is for 109 units of its 1.65 megawatt V82 turbine to be installed by 2009 for the North American division of E.ON (EONG.DE: [...]
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas Inc. has signed agreements worth more than US $700 million to receive GE Energy 1.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbines for projects in 2009 and 2010. GE Energy will supply RES with nearly 500 MW of new wind energy capacity, and will provide commissioning and operations services as well as maintenance support. [...]
Posted in Wind Energy on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Siemens Energy has received an order from the wind project developer Eolfi for a wind farm in France, to be located 30 km north of Troyes. With a total capacity of 41 megawats (MW), the Les Grandes Chapelles wind farm will be the largest wind project Siemens has installed in the country to date. [...]
Posted in Wave Power on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Wave power is the most promising source of ocean energy for South Africa and a “very conservative” estimate is that some 8000 to 10,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity could be generated from the Cape’s West and South Coasts, says eminent marine engineer Professor Deon Retief. Retief headed the Stellenbosch Wave Energy Converter project, which was [...]
Posted in Solar Energy on 2008-03-03 | No Comments »
Swiss company Sputnik Engineering has committed to ramping up production of its SolarMax inverters to 400 megawatts (MW) of capacity by the end of 2008. The ambitious target comes as the company is also about to open a new manufacturing facility in Port, Switzerland in March.
The company sold devices with [...]
