Equinor halves Arkona share
Equinor owned a 50% share of the project, which was completed in October 2018. It will now own 25%, alongside the funds managed by Credit Suisse, while the remaining 50% is owned by RWE Renewables after the merger deal with E.on. Equinor, then Statoil, joined the...
Repowering Potential for SGRE in Senvion Deal
Following a unanimous creditors’ assembly vote last week, the two companies entered an exclusivity agreement allowing Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to pursue negotiations for a purchase of "selected services and onshore assets" from Senvion. Senvion launched...
US Wind will need Storage to lure Corporate Buyers; Europe Turbine Life Extensions could hit 4 GW/year
US wind industry will need storage to beat solar to corporate deals The U.S. wind industry will need to implement new energy storage solutions in the coming years to fend off surging competition from solar and maximize its share of the corporate renewable energy...
Largest Ever Turbine Installation Tests floating Wind Potential
Last month, the Windplus consortium began attaching the turbines for Windfloat 2, the first floating wind farm in continental Europe. The 25 MW project comprises three 8 MW MHI Vestas offshore wind turbines, the largest ever used for a floating wind farm, attached to...
Vestas cuts Jobs Due to Lack of European Interest in 4MW
In an email to employees seen by Windpower Monthly, the manufacturer explained it was responding to "lower European market demand" and needed to "sustain (its) competitiveness". The manufacturer currently employs over 600 people in production at the Ringkøbing plant....
Technological Progress Pumps Up US Project Performance
The DoE's latest wind technologies market report, compiled by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, found an average capacity factor in 2018 of 42% for projects built since 2014. By comparison, the wind farms that came online from 2004 to 2011 achieved an average...
First Major US Offshore Wind Farm delayed by Government
Christopher Martin and Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bloomberg The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts. The Interior...
IEA, EDF unit to Build 300 MW Wind Farm in Nebraska
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives and EDF Renewables North America will build the 300 MW Milligan 1 Wind Farm in Saline County in southeast Nebraska. The project award is valued at about $98 million, according to IEA, and will be able to power up to 115,000...
IEA, EDF unit to Build 300 MW Wind Farm in Nebraska August 6, 2019
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives and EDF Renewables North America will build the 300 MW Milligan 1 Wind Farm in Saline County in southeast Nebraska. The project award is valued at about $98 million, according to IEA, and will be able to power up to 115,000...
Wind included in Queensland Auction Shortlist
Five wind projects, some with storage, have been included in a shortlist of ten projects in Queensland's reverse auction seeking 400MW of clean generation capacity in a bid to reach 50% renewables by 2030. Queensland’s Renewables 400 initiative, which is also seeking...