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Siemens Wins Big Wind Turbine Order

Siemens Energy has been awarded an order for 70 wind turbines for the Los Vergeles wind farm in Tamaulipas, Mexico

10 Nov 2009

Gurit Gets Patent for Wind Turbine Blade Materials

Gurit's European patent EP 1 128 958, which covers its SPRINT product used mainly in the manufacture of wind turbine blades but also many other Gurit target market applications

8 Nov 2009

Innovative New Wind Turbine to get Power Conversion System From Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, is providing power conversion systems and generators for a new innovation in wind turbine design from Green Energy Technologies

18 Oct 2009

Siemens Wins Orders For Six Wind Turbines in America

Siemens Energy has been awarded six new wind turbine orders in North America, totaling more than 565 megawatts (MW)

14 Oct 2009

Rapidly Growing Wind Energy and Power Grid Markets in India Results in the Formation of AMSC India

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, today announced that it has formed AMSC India to serve India’s rapidly growing wind energy and power grid markets with AMSC’s power electronics and superconductor-based solutions

14 Sep 2009

Ninth US Wind Farm to be Built by Duke Energy

Duke Energy continues to add to its renewable power portfolio with the announcement that it will build and operate a 200-megawatt wind energy project near Casper, Wyo

2 Sep 2009

PPG Introduces HYBON 2026 Fiberglass Roving for Wind Power Use

PPG Industries has introduced HYBON 2026 fiber glass roving for use
in wind energy and other global markets. This high-performance fiber glass enables manufacturers to make larger wind turbine blades, which help to increase turbines' energy output

26 Aug 2009

ABB Solution to Integrate Wind Power into Mexican Electricity Grid and Improve Reliability

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to provide a Static VAr Compensator (SVC) solution to help strengthen the transmission grid in southern Mexico

25 Aug 2009

National Wind Solutions Buys Biodiesel Plant

The key to green energy is the ability to create power from sources that are renewable – plant materials, natural oils, sun and wind. Now that NWND has closed the purchase of a fully operational biodiesel plant in Texas, it is ready to move toward the production of truly green and renewable bio-diesel fuel

12 Aug 2009

Segway Inventor Takes His Private Island Off The Grid

Segway inventor Dean Kamen has resolved to live only on the energy he can produce with the island's renewables - a wind turbine, solar panels, and his own redesign of the Stirling engine. The key to using energy within his means is cutting energy consumption

30 Jul 2009