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REpower Systems AG signed a contract for the delivery of two REpower MM82 wind turbines with its Australian partner Hepburn Wind.
With this Hepburn Wind will own and operate the first community wind farm in Australia.
The REpower turbines with a rated power of 2.05 megawatts each and a hub height of 69 meters will be erected near Daylesford, a city located in the state of Victoria about 100 kilometers north-western of Melbourne.
REpower will take responsibility for the entire planning of the park and the installation of the turbines including all the necessary infrastructure and grid connection construction work. Thereby Hepburn Wind receives a turnkey wind farm – completely operational – out of one hand.
03.06.2010
By the summer 2011, WinWinD will deliver three new wind turbines to Aulepa Wind Park, owned by Estonian energy company Eesti Energia. The most powerful wind park in the Baltic countries will gain 9 MW of new capacity and its annual energy production will grow by 23 GWh.
The construction work of the second stage of the wind park will begin in June and a year later the three turbines will be erected and will be ready to generate electricity. The additional WWD-3 turbines will be of the same type of 3 MW WinWinD turbines, running in the Aulepa Wind Park today.
Opened in summer 2009, Aulepa Wind Park has 13 wind generators with the total capacity of 39 MW. After the completion of the second stage the wind farm will have total capacity of 48 MW and the annual energy production will be raised up to 123 GWh. The 48 MW capacity wind farm will cover the yearly demand for electricity of 43,000 homes.
31.05.2010
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s first upgraded, twenty-cylinder 28/33D prototype engine recently passed a series of tests on the test bed at the company’s St. Nazaire, France works, and was awarded type approval by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) classification society. The V28/33D engine range has 12-, 16- and 20-cylinder configurations, a state-of-the-art design featuring a high power density, and maintains full compliance with IMO-II and EPA Tier-II legislation. The 280-mm bore and 330-mm stroke engine with its simple, functional and compact design has a minimal number of components and is tailored for three main segments: multiple propulsion applications including all types of fast ferry, naval ships, super-yachts; an STC (sequential turbocharging) edition; and as gensets for offshore applications.
The new engine is characterised by its perfectly balanced ratio between power and weight, high performance, shock resistance, quiet running and high reliability for maximised availability. With its ease of installation and maintenance, it is a textbook example of a diesel engine featuring low operation and life-cycle costs. Additional design features include the new, in-house-developed safety and control system – SaCoSone – and the new, high-efficiency TCA33 turbocharger, which has been especially tuned for the V28/33D engine. Due to a higher pressure rate, the turbocharger can reach values of up to 500 kW per cylinder.
28.05.2010
 Siemens Energy has received an order from Aker Solutions to supply a steam turbine-generator for currently the biggest biomass-fired combined heat and power plant in the UK. Aker Solutions is a global provider of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services to the natural resources and energy markets. As the EPC contractor, Aker Solutions will design and build the power plant adjacent to the Tullis Russell paper mill in Scotland under contract to the RWE power renewables, the UK subsidiary of RWE Innogy. Following the start of commercial operation scheduled for late 2012, the power plant with a capacity of 50 megawatts will provide an efficient, low-carbon supply of power and process steam to the paper mill.
The Siemens scope of supply for the biomass-fired power plant encompasses an SST-800 steam turbine-generator. In addition to design, engineering and production Siemens will also install the turbine-generator.
The biomass-fired power plant will eventually be fired with a wide range of harvested wood and wood waste totaling approximately 400,000 tons per year.
25.05.2010
One gas turbine V94.2 with power output 162 MW (ISO condition) has been manufactured and shipped to the Fars power plant and one steam turbine E-Type with power output 159 MW to the Abadan power plant.
20.05.2010
EDF Energies Nouvelles announces that enXco, its US subsidiary and US utility Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) reached an agreement to proceed with the 201 MW Lakefield Wind Project.
The original Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between enXco and IPL for the Lakefield project was signed in June 2009. The PPA received approval by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commision (IURC) in January 2010.
In March, IPL terminated unilaterally the PPA, following which enXco initiated arbitration against IPL. Subsequently IPL and enXco addressed IPL’s concerns and resumed the PPA as originally agreed. This allows the project to continue as initially planned with a revised project schedule anticipating commercial operation in late Q3 2011.
The Lakefield Project, to be built in southwestern Minnesota, is the second PPA between the two companies. The Hoosier Wind Project in Indiana is in operation and provides IPL with approximately 2% of the electricity sold to its retail customers. When Lakefield is operational, IPL anticipates wind energy will provide power for about 7% of its utility sales.
19.05.2010
E.ON has put major onshore wind plant into operation in southern Portugal. The Barao Sao Joao wind farm has an installed capacity of 50 MW and cuts CO2 emissions by about 60 tonnes annually.
In Spain and Portugal alone, E.ON now operates onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 360 MW. In all, E.ON already has onshore wind plants with a capacity of over 2,756 MW in Europe and the United States. In addition, E.ON is consistently pushing ahead with its offshore activities. In German, UK and Danish waters, plants with a capacity of about 300 MW are already in operation, some of them together with partners, over 400 MW are being constructed and roughly 4,000 MW are at the planning and development stage.
18.05.2010
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