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Siemens ready to acquire Areva wind venture in Gamesa agreement
Siemens is prepared to purchase Spanish-French wind power joint venture Adwen as part of a scheduled fusion of its wind assets with those of Spain's Gamesa, as reported in the Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday.
read more... 23/03/2016
Vattenfall will construct 3.6 GW of offshore wind in UK
Sweden’s Vattenfall has begun plans for one of the biggest offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Norfolk Vanguard and bordering Norfolk Boreas will each have a capacity of 1.8 gigawatts. In the meantime, a new British study expects to reduce the cost of offshore wind to 12.8 cents, which would still lead to a quarter more expensive electricity than in Germany in spite of the better or equal conditions in the UK.
read more... 22/03/2016
Siemens wins $81 million wind turbine agreement for Bosnian utility
Bosnia's power utility Elektroprivreda HZHB (EPHZHB) declared on Friday it had awarded a 72 million euro ($81 million) agreement to German industrial group Siemens to provide wind turbines for its future 44 megawatt (MW) wind farm.
read more... 21/03/2016
China wasted one fifth of wind power generated in 2015 due to low utilization efficiency
China wasted a total of 33.9 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of wind power in 2015 due to low utilization efficiency, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said, the equivalent of 20% of total generated wind power.
read more... 18/03/2016
British utility SSE vends stake in Clyde wind park for $510 million
British utility SSE Plc declared it would vend a 49.9 percent stake in a flagship wind park in South Lanarkshire to Greencoat UK Wind Plc and GMPF & LPFA Infrastructure LLP (GLIL) for 355 million pounds ($510 million).
read more... 15/03/2016