Iberdrola Renovables, in a consortium with local energy company Neoenergia, won the tender for the construction of 9 new wind farms in Brazil. The tender for the projects was called by Brazil’s electricity industry authority, Agencia Nacional de Energía Elétrica (ANEEL).The complete tender was for 50 wind farms (1,520 MW), five hydroelectric plants (101 MW) and a biomass facility (64 MW).
read more... 08/09/2010
The UK regulator Ofgem announced the list of preferred bidders for the transmission contracts of several offshore wind farms.
read more... 06/08/2010
Gamesa, a Spanish producer of wind turbines, announced the signing of a new major contract for building, installing and maintaining wind farms in Spain.
read more... 23/07/2010
At present, UK is a global leader in offshore wind energy generation, its growing offshore wind capacity reaching 1,041GW, as E.ON’s Robin Rigg wind farm and DONG Energy’s Gunfleet Sands farms started producing electricity.
read more... 28/04/2010
According to European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) data, Spain and Portugal are the slowest among other European countries to approve new wind farms construction.
read more... 26/04/2010