A Chinese-owned firm in the US is suing President Barack Obama after he blocked a wind farm deal on national security grounds. Ralls Corp, which is owned by two Chinese nationals, was installing wind turbines close to the training site in Oregon, which, according to the facility's web site, is used to test unmanned drones - a highly sensitive and prized U.S. technology. Mr Obama signed the order blocking th ...

Indo Rama Synthetics have developed a subsidiary company to extend the company’s activities into the renewable energy market. Rama Renewables have now officially entered the market through a contract with Gamesa Wind Turbines Private Ltd, a global technology leader in wind energy. Gamesa will supply 30 MW of wind energy generators to Indo RamaRenewables.The order involves the supply of 15 wind mills, G97-2. ...

Indian wind power giant Suzlon Group made a profitable showing at the HUSUM Wind Energy trade fair. Through it’s subsidiary, REpower Systems SE, Suzlon sealed a deal with Polish company WSB Neue Energien GmbH for the delivery and construction of 22 REpower MM92 wind turbines. The turbines, each with a rated power of 2.05 megawatts (MW), are intended for the Taczalin project near Legnica in the Polish provin ...

National Wind LLC has been acquired by Trishe Wind Energy Inc., on Sept. 26th 2012. Trishe Energy Group is based in India, but has an international reputation for the development of wind power, with more than 4,000 MW of wind capacity completed or under development in the U.S. and India. National Wind will continue to develop community wind projects in the U.S. A development agreement between National Wind ...

Chinese turbine maker Goldwind has signed a deal to provide three of its low-wind 2.5MW machines to a project in Thailand. The company signed an agreement with Electricity Generating Public Company (EGCO), a subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of Thailand, to provide the turbines to the Theppana wind farm, located about 250km northeast of Bangkok. It will be Goldwind’s first project in Southeast Asia a ...

China has approved the development of 2,000 MW worth of wind energy in theHami province, which will cost approximately $2.5 billion. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) expects the 2,005-MW wind energy project to create significant breakthroughs for the province in the near future. The approval of the 10 such wind energy projects in the province will attract investments to the tune of 16 b ...

Industrial machinery maker Hitachi Zosen Corp. is leading a group including Toshiba and JFE Holdings Inc. that plans to build $1.5 billion of offshore wind farms in Japan. The seven-member group will complete 7.5MW of pilot plants by 2016. They will then build wind farms with a combined capacity of 300MW over 10 years, as Hitachi Zosen’s Tokyo-based spokesman,Tomomitsu Yamamoto,told Bloomberg by telephone. ...

Gamesa has signed a deal to supply 24 of its G87 and G90 2MW turbines to Chinese developer Longyuan Group for a wind farm to be built in Jiangkou, Fujian Province. Spain's Gamesa says it has prepared an “integral solution” to suit the conditions of the site, including supplying a "Class S" version of the G87 turbine that can be installed in “close to Class I” sites – increasing energy production by 8% compa ...

In addition to their current financial woes, Vestas Wind Systems A/S is cutting a further 1,400 jobs to lower costs by more than 250 million euros ($311 million) in preparation for a decline in wind turbines installations it expects next year. The world’s biggest maker of the machines said it expects to have 19,000 employees at the end of the year, down 16% from the end of last year. It’s still considering ...

Suzlon Energy has had to face the effects of a worsening economic environment, and have reported it’s biggest ever quarterly loss of 849 crore in April-June. Suzlon Energy, who produce wind turbines, have made fewer sales and have had to cope with rising interest costs and a wildly fluctuating currency. Sales rose a modest 9% to 4,770.66 crore, and chief financial officer Kirti Vagadia has admitted, "The fi ...