OEM announces a project with several firsts

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Excerpt: Nordex USA Inc. will be supplying 34 wind turbines to Exelon Wind LLC for the Beebe Community Wind Farm in Gratiot County, Michigan. The 81.6-MW wind farm will be the first major project worldwide and the first in the United States to use the Nordex N117/2400 turbine, the latest addition to the comp …

GWEC: Global wind energy grows by 21% despite economic challenges

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Excerpt: According to annual statistics released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). global wind power capacity grew by 21% in 2011, and Canada ranks sixth globally in terms of new installed wind energy capacity. The wind industry installed a record level of just over 41,000 MW of new clean, reliable w …

Chinese OEM builds in South America

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Excerpt: Renewable-energy developer Mainstream Renewable Power and the  fourth largest wind turbine manufacturer, Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. signed a 50/50 joint venture to build the first phase of the Ckani Wind Farm in the Antofagasta region of Northern Chile. The agreeme …

Completion of Steel Winds II expansion in New York

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Excerpt: The Steel Winds II expansion in New York has reached completion.  U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins and other local leaders joined First Wind officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the wind project site, which was built on the shores of Lake Erie on the abandoned Bethlehem Steel mill site. The 35-MW proj …

200 MW Bishop Hill wind farm under construction in Illinois

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Excerpt: Invenergy Wind LLC and a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp say that renewable energy, tax-equity financing is in place to support Invenergy’s Bishop Hill Wind Project  in Illinois. The 200-MW project is going up in Henry County, Illinois. ”Invenergy welcomes U.S. Bancorp as an investor in our Bis …

OEM to supply 10 MW more to Ontario

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Excerpt: A 10-MW wind farm planned for Highgate, Ontario, near the northern shore of Lake Erie between Chatham-Kent and London, will be the first Canadian project by wind energy firm Gamesa Technology Corp. The company will supply five turbines for the Gesner Wind Farm, which is being developed by Saturn …

Wind ready to deliver affordable power – part of BC’s energy strategy

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Excerpt: The Canadian Wind Energy Association is encouraged by British Columbia’s commitment to “clean and green” power in the province’s new natural gas strategy. The Association is concerned, however, that the province is choosing to meet its rapidly emerging new demand for electricity in the short …

Energy storage company readies for more growth

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Excerpt: Xtreme Power Inc., developer and manufacturer of Dynamic Power Resource digital power management and energy storage equipment has promoted Alan J. Gotcher, Ph.D., to president, CEO, and a member of Xtreme Power’s board of directors. Company co-founder and former CEO Carlos Coe, Ph.D., will now ser …

Experimental floating wind-turbine platform get a corrosion coating

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Excerpt: A coatings supplier is taking part in a project to test an offshore corrosion-protection system on WindFloat, a semi-submersible floating structure for offshore wind turbines that has been deployed with a 2-MW Vestas turbine off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal. Hempel provides test products fo …

Sensor and Web companies team to display weather data and more on Web

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Excerpt: Atmospheric Systems Corporation (ASC) and Vista Engineering are working to streamline wind instrumentation data to end users. Vista’s Engineering’s web-based Vista Data Vision (VDV) lets users collect data from multiple sites and view it from a single dashboard. VDV creates web based graphs …