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EDF hires Siemens and Van Oord to build first offshore wind farm

Miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2011 EDF Energy Renewables has selected German engineering giant Siemens and Dutch marine technology firm Van Oord to build EDF's first offshore wind farm, which will be located off the northeast coast of ...

Interserve wins contract with one of Europe’s largest energy-from-waste plants

Miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2011 Interserve, the international support services and construction group, has won a €11.4 million contract to provide mechanical and process engineering services to one of the largest energy-from-wa...

Dong Energy to build artificial reefs at offshore wind farm

Miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2011

DONG Energy is set to use 5,000 large undersea boulders to create new artificial reefs at the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm it is building off the coast of Denmark.

EU offshore wind making good progress in 2011

Martes, 16 de agosto de 2011 The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has published offshore wind energy statistics for the first half year of 2011, showing a comfortable 4.5% increase in installations of offshore capacity com...

Learning curve continues for offshore wind supply chain

Martes, 16 de agosto de 2011 Rapid expansion of the offshore wind industry, especially in the UK, means the associated supply chain is playing catch up; striving to streamline supply under pressure from wind farm developers to cu...

Supercritical carbon dioxide could hold the secrets for CSP

Martes, 16 de agosto de 2011 As the solar industry prepares to meet in San Francisco in three week’s time, at the 2nd CSP Plant Optimization Summit (7-8 September), Zhiwen Ma, Senior Engineer at NREL, has been speaking abou...

Report says flight from nuclear should mean good days ahead for renewables demand

Martes, 16 de agosto de 2011 A new report from GBI Research suggests that the flight from nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan should remain a strong driver of Europe’s re...

China poised to double solar capacity by year’s end

Sábado, 13 de agosto de 2011 China will double its solar capacity to around 2 GW by the end of the year as the world's largest solar-panel maker ramps up domestic installation, according to a report by the Energy Research Institu...

A fresh breeze blowing inland: mapping wind resources in Germany

Viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011 Germany has a great wind resource which could easily meet 100% of its electricity demand. In this article, Peter Herbert Meier from TÜV SÜD Industrie Service explains how his company drew up...

Wind industry faces challenge of finding light, cost-efficient drivetrains for next gen turbines

Viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011 As turbines increase in size and move into harsher offshore environments, drivetrain developments must keep apace if downtime is to be reduced. Direct drive systems or hybrid systems offer a solution,...

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