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Siemens, Dong, test new offshore turbinesBerlin (UPI) Jan 11, 2011 Danish utility Dong Energy has teamed with Siemens Wind Power to test a new generation of offshore wind turbines. Siemens Wind Power, one of the world's most successful turbine makers, will supply two of its new 6 megawatt, direct-drive offshore turbines plus an updated model of its 3.6 MW turbine with a 393-foot rotor. The turbines, the latest in Siemens technology, are to be installed at test sites in British and Danish waters, Dong said in a recent statement. The deal is part of an $8 ... read more |
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 Italy wind farm seized by prosecutors Italian prosecutors on Wednesday seized a 27.5-megawatt wind farm in the southern Calabria region over a series of alleged planning irregularities, Italian news agencies reported. ... more | .. |
 New Ideas To Enhance Efficiency Of Wind Turbines One issue confronting the efficiency of wind as a promising renewable energy source is the wind itself-specifically, its changeability. While the aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine is best un ... more | .. |
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 Nordex USA Wins 41MW Order For Iowa Wind Farm Nordex USA has announced an order with wind farm developer RPM Access for a 41 Megawatt wind farm in Delaware County Iowa, just weeks after finalizing a 75 Megawatt order with EverPower Wind Holding ... more | .. |
Massive offshore wind proposed for R.I. A proposed 1,000-megawatt offshore wind farm near Rhode Island would be the largest in the United States, developers said. ... more | .. |
 Repair And Inspection Services For The Expanding Wind Power Industry East River Rigging (ER2) is combining Industrial Rope Access with expert technicians to provide cleaning, inspection, maintenance and repair services to the Northeast wind industry. As one of ... more | .. |
 Vestas Selects Broadwind Towers For Glacier Hills Wind Project Broadwind Energy has announced that its Tower Tech Systems subsidiary was selected as the supplier of wind towers for the Glacier Hills Wind Park project. The Glacier Hills Wind Park is locate ... more |
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 GL Garrad Hassan Chosen For SMart Wind's 'Hornsea' Zone SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ... more |
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Poland's Solidarity shipyard turns to wind turbines Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard, the 1980 birthplace of the Solidarity trade union led by freedom icon Lech Walesa that toppled communism in 1989, started work on making wind turbines on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 German utilities lobby for offshore wind The operators of Germany's first offshore wind farm on Tuesday urged the German government to increase incentives to expand the generation of renewable power at sea. ... more | .. |
Chinese wind power producers plan Hong Kong IPOs: report Two of China's top power producers plan to raise 2.5 billion US dollars by listing their wind-power units in Hong Kong, reports said Tuesday, the latest among several green firms to list in the city. ... more | .. |
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 Buoyant Times Ahead For Offshore Resource Assessments Natural Power have announced the successful long-term trial of a product development activity within the company named SeaZephIR - a patented autonomous floating platform with integrated lidar syste ... more | .. |
 Suzlon eyes China's wind power market Indian wind turbine giant Suzlon Energy said it plans to increase its presence in China, anticipating that China will become the wind energy hot spot of the future, a company official said. ... more | .. |
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Google blows into offshore wind project Google has agreed to invest, along with other partners, in a massive offshore wind power project along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. The Atlantic Wind Connection "backbone" deep-water cable trans ... more | .. |
Color of turbines a factor in bird deaths The color of a wind turbine affects how many insects it attracts, revealing why birds and bats are sometimes killed by the turbines, a British study says. Scientists say insects are attracted to ... more | .. |
China's wind power capacity to increase five-fold by 2020 China's wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, a report forecast Wednesday, as the country steps up its drive to develop clean energy. Total insta ... more | .. |
Wind power to grow massively until 2030 Wind power could satisfy more than one-fifth of the global power demand by 2030, an industry group and environmental organization Greenpeace said Tuesday. Total wind power capacity would rise to ... more |
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