Jan 25, 2011
In a nascent industry like wind vertical integration has its share of risks. But as a way to bypass supply chain bottlenecks, vertical integration has a clear upside at this stage of the sector’s development.
Jan 24, 2011
2010 sees up tick in offshore wind energy financeThis week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: European Wind Energy Association; North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative, Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan & the European Commission; Gamesa, Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Forth Ports PLC; Spanish Wind Energy Association, Gamesa...
Jan 24, 2011
Wind Energy Update speaks to Philippe Cochet, Senior Vice-President of Alstom Hydro & Wind about Alstom’s pact with EDF Energies Nouvelles to jointly bid for the France’s proposed 6GW of offshore wind, and to learn more about Alstom’s latest 6MW direct drive turbine.
Jan 21, 2011
Manufacturers and operators are pursuing a number of avenues to solve wind energy’s biggest bugbear: intermittency.
Jan 18, 2011
This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: Dong Energy, Scottish & Southern Energy, PGGM, Dutch Ampère Equity Fund & Triodos Investment Management; Maryland Offshore Wind Task Force; Gamesa, Western Wind Energy Corporation & UniSource Electric; RWE Innogy; Vestavind Offshore, Reinertsen, Vattenfall, Technip, ViciVentus, AF Gruppen...
Jan 18, 2011
A research project led by Gamesa is looking to give Spain a head start in the production of bigger turbines for offshore wind farms.
Jan 17, 2011
Jan 17, 2011
Wind Energy Update speaks to Maxime Pachot, offshore wind turbine manager in the Marine Division of Bureau Veritas, about the first guidelines to be issued for floating offshore wind turbines.
Jan 10, 2011
The US wind industry has reached a utility scale wind capacity of 36,698 MW, with many of the turbines fast approaching the end of their warranty periods.
Jan 10, 2011
As the UK enters round three, offshore wind projects in Europe are fighting for funding. Wind Energy Update speaks to Annette Schmitt, energy director at consulting firm KPMG, in Frankfurt, about European developers’ strategies for securing funding and garnering returns on offshore wind investments, as well as the challenges ahead for German offshore wind farm developers.
Jan 10, 2011
Cape Wind seeks project financeThis week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Cape Wind, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Grid; Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation and Freshwater Wind; Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and American Superconductor; RWE Innogy, Linnhoff Offshore AG and...
Jan 7, 2011
Ontario’s burgeoning wind energy market could face a slowdown as investor concerns grow over the future of the province’s flagship feed-in tariff (FiT) programme.
Jan 6, 2011
With an estimated 40,000 new turbines to be installed in the US by 2015, wind turbine OEM’s are desperate to source reliable components from local suppliers. Importing components from Europe and Asia can be costly and lengthy. New wind component suppliers need to secure manufacturing capacity strategies now if they are going to seize their share of this evolving market.
Jan 4, 2011
US: Offshore leasing process begins off Massachusetts This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: American Wind Energy Association; The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement & the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Moray Offshore Renewables, EDP Renewables, SeaEnergy Renewables & The Crown Estate; Siemens & ...
Jan 4, 2011
Wind Energy update speaks to Philippe Degonzague at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Paris, to learn more about why France is holding back on offshore wind.
