Belwind: Belgium’s Finest- Invisible from Land

Belwind: Belgium’s Finest- Invisible from Land
Alstom and Belgian developer, Belwind, have signed an agreement of cooperation to install, connect to the grid, operate and maintain one Haliade 150 6MW wind turbine at the Belwind wind farm, which  will comprise 55 wind turbines. It is  the furthest offshore wind farm in the North Sea (45km off the coast at Ostend) and has… Read the rest

Vestas V112 3.3MW Turbines for Kavakli Wind Farm, Turkey

Vestas V112 3.3MW Turbines for Kavakli Wind Farm, Turkey
Erciyas Çelik Boru A.Ş, is one of Turkey’s leading manufacturers and top exporters of spiral-welded steel pipes. It has signed an agreement to construct a wind power plant using 16 V112-3.3 MW wind turbines, yielding  52MW. The site, at Kavalki will be ready for turbine installation in the first quarter of 2014. They will be commissioned… Read the rest

Hooray Hooray for the London Array!

Hooray Hooray for the London Array!
On 4 July, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron opened the London Array and said it was “a great day for Britain and a big win for renewable energy”. The Danish company DONG Energy and its partners, Germany’s E.On and UAE’s Masdar, have just completed the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array. There are… Read the rest

UK Government New Incentives for Wind Farms

UK Government New Incentives for Wind Farms
The UK Government has presented new Wind Farm Planning Guidance which will enable local opposition to reject proposed wind farms. However the Government still considers that it can meet its national energy targets by offering greater incentives to local people in the form of subsidies. The package of measures will see a five-fold rise in the… Read the rest

South African Factory to Produce Wind Towers

South African Factory to Produce Wind Towers
South Africa’s heavy engineering group, DCD is to build wind turbine towers at Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province. The facility, due for completion in January, will produce around 110 tubular steel, 120-metre towers a year in the first instance. DCD is currently finalising contracts with its first two customers, Vestas and Nordex. At the same… Read the rest

UK Advisory Body gives Green Light for Low-Carbon Investment for Decades to Come

UK Advisory Body gives Green Light for Low-Carbon Investment for Decades to Come
The UK’s influential advisory body- the Committee on Climate Change has issued a report  outlining why investing in low-carbon technologies will, over the longer term, be more cost effective than gas. The Committee’s Chair, David Kennedy, said that the sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation, including both onshore and off shore wind energy,… Read the rest

Google Acquire Wind Power Company

Google Acquire Wind Power Company
You may recall that search engine supremo Google has invested in some novel innovations and technologies.  The self-driving car and the wearable computing device being a couple of the wackier ones. But there’s nothing wacky about wind power and that’s where Google have invested in the past. But they’ve gone a step further now, by acquiring… Read the rest

Hola to Spanish Wind Power!

Hola to Spanish Wind Power!
Renewable energy is gaining significant momentum in Spain. In April of this year the country set a new record when over half of its energy, 54%, was genereated from its own renewable energy sources.  And that figure will continue to increase as the county is blessed with lots of sun, water and wind, enlightened politicians, and… Read the rest

“Shadow Flicker” Flicked into Touch?

“Shadow Flicker” Flicked into Touch?
  Last week, a court ruled that “shadow flicker”  from a wind turbine would be of such a nuisance that, along with the degradation of the scenery,  it would constitute grounds to support an injunction to have the wind turbine installation stopped for good.Nevada Supreme Court so ruled in respect of a 75 foot wind turbine… Read the rest