Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company, has purchased a 465-mile direct current transmission line from the Square Butte Electric Cooperative for approximately $70 million. The 250-kilovolt line purchased by Minnesota Power connects its Arrowhead Substation in Hermantown, Minnesota with Center, North Dakota.
An order for 24 units of the V90-2.0 megawatt wind turbine was received by Vestas. The V90-2.0 megawatt wind turbines are to be installed in Huelva in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. A five-year service agreement, a VestasOnline Business SCADA solution, supply and installation are part of the project. Additional details with reference to the project and the customer are withheld at customer’s request.
WindLogics is a specialist wind resource company that offers three types of services, Wind resource assessment, financial analysis and operational services. The operational services or Visionpoint offered by the company include operational assessment and wind energy forecasting. The operational services analyze weather patterns, influence of global climate, and wind pattern during the period of measurement. The operational assessment integrates short-term, mid-term and long-term analysis. The on-time and accurate wind energy forecasting is required for energy traders and system operators to increase the efficiency of wind plant.
California’s public power utility, Modesto Irrigation District (MID), will expand and extend its existing power purchase agreement (PPA) with Iberdrola Renewables. The new agreement covers the extension of the current 25 MW power supply contract to the end of June 2015. From 1 July 2015 through the subsequent thirteen years, Iberdrola Renewables will supply 50 MW of wind power.
An amendment was executed by Western Wind and Southern California Edison to the Power Purchase Agreement for the 120 Megawatt Windstar Project. This was announced by Western Wind Energy Corp. The 120 Megawatt Windstar Project is located in Tehachapi, California. The terms are updated to reflect current market conditions through this amendment, though the agreement details are confidential.
A wind turbine on-site has been installed at Heritage Aviation, the newly constructed General Aviation Facility at the Burlington International Airport. This 100kW wind turbine is a Northwind 100, manufactured by Northern Power of Barre VT. A solar hot water system and a 25kW solar electric system have also been installed by Heritage Aviation to complete its on-site portfolio of renewable energy generation.
An agreement to secure $90 million of institutional equity financing was signed by EDP Renovaveis through its subsidiary unit, Horizon Wind Energy LLC. This financing is provided by JPM Capital Corporation in exchange for a partial interest in EDP Renovaveis’ 101 megawatt Lost Lakes Wind Farm that was installed at Dickinson County, Iowa in December 2009.
DONG Energy and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a Division company of Siemens Financial Services, have signed a Joint Venture contract to acquire a 50 percent stake of the offshore wind farm project Lincs, currently owned by UK energy company Centrica, against payment of 50 percent of the incurred development costs, currently estimated to EUR 55 million (GBP 50 million).
The Hunter Project of Mass Megawatts Wind Power has been considerably completed and testing of the new wind augmenter and wind diverter has commenced. This project will be operational after the completion of the initial testing of the new technologies and testing of the furling system. The wind velocity is increased to more than 50% by the wind augmenter resulting in a 3-fold increase in the production of energy. This increase is highlighted in the initial test results. The wind diverter also brings about an additional increase of 100% more power output from the blades.
Steven K. DeWolf, Dallas attorney and wind energy developer, has recently signed on with publisher LexisNexis-Matthew Bender to be a co-author of a forthcoming book dealing with legal issues related to wind energy.
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