No Bird Collisions At Offshore Wind Site, Study Determines

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:37:32 +0000

For more than two years, the floating offshore wind turbine TetraSpar at METCentre off the coast of Norway has been monitored by a bird camera. No bird collisions have been recorded. The Norwegian company Spoor that is responsible for the bird monitoring. Since January 2022, they have mapped bird activity … [continued]

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Repowering Project Aims for Pinnacle of Success

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:17:00 +0000

Clearway Energy Group reaffirmed its commitment to renewable energy, and to its support of West Virginia’s push for cleaner energy, with a repowering of the Pinnacle Wind Farm. The project extends the wind

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There’s Value in Old Power Generation Components

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:18:00 +0000

Equipment from both renewable and thermal energy power plants is finding new life in the recycling market. The market for recycled power equipment components is getting a boost due to ongoing global supply

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Siemens’ Renewable Arm Cutting 200 U.S. Jobs

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:07:37 +0000

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) plans to lay off 200 workers at two U.S. wind power equipment manufacturing facilities. The company on Feb. 9 said the job cuts are due to a reduction in orders for commercial wind turbines. An SGRE spokesperson said more jobs cuts at the plants—one in Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other […]

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POWER Digest [March 2020]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Siemens Buys Out Iberdrola, Readying to Spin Off Gas and Power and SGRE Businesses. Siemens AG will acquire Spanish renewables giant Iberdrola SA’s full 8.1% stake in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE)

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POWER Digest [January 2020]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Engie Will Close 1 GW of Coal Generation; Adding Solar, Wind. French energy group Engie in mid-December said it will close 1 GW of coal-fired power generation assets in Peru and Chile over the next five years

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UK Economy-Wide Coalition Urges Government To Support Onshore Wind

Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:45:28 +0000

An economy-wide coalition of UK companies and organisations has called on the country’s new Energy Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, to support the development of new onshore wind farms in an effort to extricate the technology from its current persona non grata status so as to further boost the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. 

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Volcanic Rock Offers New Take on Energy Storage

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), known for its wind turbines used in both large onshore and offshore projects, in June began operation of an electric thermal energy storage (ETES) system in Germany

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