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Oregon DOE Wants Horizon to Provide More Information on Proposed Wind Farm

The Oregon DOE (Department of Energy) is seeking further information from Horizon Wind Energy regarding its proposed wind farm.

16 Sep 2010

Ultrablade Fabric Solution Provides Benefits for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturers

Owens Corning, a leading global producer of reinforcement solutions for composite systems today introduced Ultrablade™ fabric solutions to help enable the market transition to longer, lighter and stiffer wind turbine rotor blades. The new solutions, which will be commercially available in January 2011, can help designers remove nearly a metric ton of reinforcement and resin from 2.0 megawatt (MW) wind turbines compared to same-size blade sets made with traditional E-glass.

15 Sep 2010

KenGen Commissions its First Wind Farm in Kenya

Kenya, rated as one of the biggest economy among the east African countries, is a poor electric power producing country.

15 Sep 2010

Performance Services to Build a Wind Farm in Lafayette

Performance Services, Inc, an Engineering and Construction company, has signed land lease agreements with the farmers of Lafayette, Indiana, to construct a 50 MW wind farm.

15 Sep 2010

British Wind Power Reaches Maximum Power Production

Britain has recorded its maximum wind generation output last Monday. According to the information provided by the National Grid during the 24 hour period the country produced 40.5 GWh of electric power from wind generation out of the total used power of 809.5 GWh.

15 Sep 2010

Gamesa Trades its Six German Wind Farms to IKEA Germany

Gamesa, a world known company for wind farm development and wind turbine manufacturing, has announced the sale of its six German wind farms to IKEA group in Germany.

14 Sep 2010

Alstom Receives Crucial €200-million order for Whitelee Wind Farm Capacity Extension

Alstom has closed a €200-million order from SPR (Scottish Power Renewables), an Iberdrola Renovables subsidiary, a Spanish energy group, towards building an extension of 217 MW capacity to the existing Whitelee wind farm located in Scotland.

14 Sep 2010

Novel Blade Repair System for Wind Turbines Launched by Gurit

Gurit will launch RENUVO™, a new Blade Repair System offering a fresh and novel approach to the blade repair market, at Husum Wind Energy.

14 Sep 2010

Helix Wind to Install Wind Turbines Over OMRF Rooftop

Mike Morgan, OMRF’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, said that his organization is convinced about the operating performance of the Helix Wind turbines.

13 Sep 2010