Installation work has been completed on the offshore substation for Dong Energy’s 320MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm in the German North Sea. The work started on 1 August when the unit was shipped from Aalborg in Denmark to the site 37km north-east of the island of Borkum. Christoph Mertens, senior director and head of Dong Energy Wind Power in Germany said: “Though we have more than 20 years’ experience in ...

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners-backed Singapore's Continuum Wind Energy Pte Ltd has acquired DJ Energy Pvt Ltd and Uttar Urja Power Projects Pvt Ltd from Delhi-based Sravanthi Group for an undisclosed amount. BMR Legal acted as the legal advisor to Continuum Wind and SB Partners advised the Sravanthi Group on the transaction. DJ Energy and Uttar Urja Power Projects own and operate 98.7 MW and 80 MW ...

Following a restructure of its Australian business, Investec Ltd. is seeking buyers for a wind farm estimated to cost 900 million Australian dollars (US$813 million) to build. “If I could divest it at a reasonable price, I would immediately,” Investec Australia’s Acting Chief Executive Ciaran Whelan said, referring to the bank’s ownership of development rights to the Hornsdale wind project in South Australi ...

Siemens Energy has received an order from the U.S. public utility Portland General Electric for the supply and installation of 116 wind turbines. The wind turbines, each with a rating of 2.3 megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 108 meters, are to be installed at the Tucannon River Wind Farm in the state of Washington. When it comes online in 2015, the wind farm's total capacity of 267 MW will be sufficien ...

India reinstated the wind farm subsidy after its expiry last year led to a 42% plunge in turbine installations. The Cabinet approved the proposal to revive the generation-based subsidy for wind farms of US$8.20 a megawatt hour. It also agreed to raise the cap on the total subsidy a wind farm can claim over 10 years by 61% to US$163,000. Wind farms built between 2012 and 2017 will be eligible for the subsidy ...

Renewable power producer Green Infra Ltd has acquired a majority stake in TVS Energy Ltd, a subsidiary of TV Motor Co., for an undisclosed amount. TVS Motor is selling 73.5 million shares constituting 90.46% of its stake in TVS Energy. Consequently, TVS Energy and its two units,TVS Wind Power Ltd and TVS Wind Energy Ltd, will cease to be subsidiaries of the company from Friday. This is the second acquisitio ...

Siemens is to build two wind farms in northern Poland totalling 66.7MW for Polish Energy Partners. Both facilities, one with 18 turbines and one with 11, will feature the German manufacturer’s 2.3MW 108 machines and deliveries will kick off in May 2014. Siemens expects to be able to commission and hand over the plants by late summer 2014. It has also agreed a five-year maintenance deal for the sites. Siemen ...

Vestas has been handed a 50MW deal from gas supplier Hanas New Energy for a project in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the centre of the country. Under the deal, Vestas will supply 25 V90 2MW turbines for the Yauchi wind farm. The deal includes a two-year service agreement with delivery set for Q3 2013. Vestas president for China, Jens Tommerup, said: "The relationship with Hanas New Energy so far ...

Chinese renewable energy companies are continuously pushing limits. After becoming the world leader in solar energy, the country is now home to the world’s highest wind energy project. China’s leading wind energy developer Longyuan Power recently announced that it has installed five wind energy turbines in Nagqu prefecture in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region. The project site is located at a height ...

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., China’s largest turbine maker by revenue, will provide 55 megawatts of equipment for a wind farm in Panama. A joint venture of Goldwind and Spain’s Union Eolica Espanola SL received $71 million in loans to develop the first phase of the Penonome wind farm, the Urumqi, China-based company said today in a statement. Banco Internacional de Costa Rica SA and Banco ...