China, EU hope to make renewables tech recyclable in next decade
Wind turbines are 85%-95% recyclable, but blades are challenging because they are made of composite materials
Greece adds only 230 MW in wind capacity in 2022, aims at 7 GW by 2030
Greece connected wind farms with a combined 230 MW to the network last year. Total installed capacity rose by just 5.2% to 4.68 GW.
Chinese company CSSC Haizhuang unveils world’s largest wind turbine prototype
CSSC Haizhuang Wind Power is assembling the prototype of what would now be the biggest wind turbine on the planet
Australia backs CWP Renewables in world’s biggest power plant project
The Three Gorges Dam is the biggest individual producer of electricity on the planet. CWP Renewables is set to surpass it.
MET Group buys 42 MW wind farm in Bulgaria from Enel
Switzerland-based energy company MET Group has signed an agreement to buy a 100% stake in a 42 MW wind farm in Bulgaria from Italian Enel Green Power, the renewable energy arm of Enel Group, and expects to close the transaction by the end of 2020. The acquisition of Bulgaria’s 5th largest wind farm is part […]
Terna Energy to more than double its wind power capacity in Evia island
Terna Energy is rapidly expanding its wind power portfolio in Greece, particularly in Evia. Vestas said it closed a deal with the company to deliver and install 40 turbines on the island with an overall capacity of 144 MW. Terna Energy has placed a 144 MW order for the Karystia wind power project in the […]
Final turbine installed at Europe’s biggest onshore wind complex Fosen
The 1.06 GW Fosen complex in central Norway, Europe’s largest onshore wind power project, has seen its final turbine installed. The last of the 277 turbines supplied by Vestas was erected at the sub-project Geitfjellet, Recharge has reported, quoting the project’s majority owner, Norwegian state-controlled power utility Statkraft. Statkraft CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen has recently said […]
Iberdrola contracts Vestas for wind turbine maker’s latest project in Greece
Denmark-based Vestas Wind Systems A/S has won a 16 MW auction-derived order from Spain’s Iberdrola for the Pyrgari wind farm, the latest in a series of orders for the wind turbine maker to secure in Greece. Vestas said the contract with Iberdrola, the world’s number-one producer of wind power, for the Viotía, Greece site includes […]