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Pattern Energy Associates with Samsung to Take Over Wind Projects in Ontario

Pattern Energy Group declared that it has associated with Samsung Renewable Energy to take over Ontario’s wind power generation projects from Boralex and ACCIONA.

11 May 2011

UK Wind Turbine Manufacturer Gains MCS Certification for VAWT

quietrevolution, a leading UK manufacturer of small wind turbines and the fourth fastest growing cleantech company in Europe, has gained Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certification for its innovative vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). To date only nine small wind turbines globally have been MCS certified and quietrevolution’s qr5 turbine is the first in the VAWT category.

10 May 2011

Juhl Wind Announces Acquisition of Woodstock Hills Wind Farm

Juhl Wind, a community wind power company, declared that it has assumed total possession of the 10.2 MW Woodstock Hills wind farm, placed closed to its headquarters located in Woodstock, Minnesota.

10 May 2011

Offshore Commercial Wind Farm in Germany Commences Operation

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg has announced the commissioning of the EnBW Baltic 1 offshore wind farm covering an area of around seven square kilometers and lies around 16 KM north of the Darss/Zingst peninsula in the Baltic Sea.

9 May 2011

Apex Wind Energy Deploys Triton Advanced SoDAR Systems to Assess Wind Level

Apex Wind Energy (Apex) and Second Wind have declared the starting of wind farm optimization (WFO) attempts at the utility scale Midwest wind generation site by utilizing two Triton advanced SoDAR systems provided by Second Wind.

9 May 2011

Right Placement of Wind Turbines Increases Power Production Efficiency

Right placement of wind turbines increases the productivity of wind farms – says a new research from the University of Adelaide.

9 May 2011

Fraunhofer Institute to Test Endurance of Large Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) located in Bremerhaven has taken the arduous job of opening a facility to test oversized rotor blades up to 90 meters length in the early part of summer this year.

4 May 2011

ACG to Display Composites Solutions Wind Turbine Blades

Advanced Composites Group Ltd (ACG), Richmond Aerovac and GRPMS, all members of Umeco Composites Structural Materials (UCSM) – a Division of Umeco plc, will be co-exhibiting on Stand T30 at the 2011 ALL-ENERGY show in the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre - Bridge of Don, Aberdeen on the 18th and 19th May 2011.

3 May 2011

Department of Veterans Affairs Powers Massachusetts National Cemetery with Wind Power

The Department of Veterans Affairs has recently performed a ceremony to dedicate a new wind turbine installed at the Massachusetts National Cemetery.

28 Apr 2011

Great Escape Restaurant Goes Green

The Chicago based Great Escape Restaurant, which utilizes wind energy generated electricity for almost all its usages has earned the distinction as the only eco-friendly restaurant in the United States.

28 Apr 2011