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A consortium made up of Marubeni, the university of Tokyo, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, IHI Marine united, Mitsiu Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu and Mizuho Information & Research are participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.This experimental project consists of three floating wind turbines and one floating power sub-station off the coast of Fukushima. The first stage of this experimental project will begin in 2012 and consists of one 2 MW floating wind turbine, the world’s first 66kVfloating power sub-station and undersea cable. In the second stage of the project two 7 MW wind turbines will be added between 2013 and 2015.Fukushima Prefecture expects this experimental project to spawn a new industry in renewable energy and create employment as part of recovery efforts in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.Through the...
World market for small wind turbines sees dynamic growth and total capacity reaches 440 MWMore than 330 manufacturers of small wind turbines can be found in 40 countries all over the worldMore supportive policies could boost the small wind marketHusum/Bonn, 15 March 2012 (WWEA) – On the occasion of the 3rd World Summit for Small Wind during the New Energy fair in Husum (Germany), WWEA released today the first Small Wind World Report. For the first time, data about the status of small wind turbines all over the world has been gathered and published.The total number of small wind turbines installed all over the world reached 656'000 units as of the end of 2010, after 521'000 in 2009 and 460'000 in 2008. These small wind turbines represent a total capacity of around 440 MW (end of 2010), compared with a total capacity of 240 GW of large wind turbines.The largest share of the small wind turbines can be found in two countries, China (450'000 units/166 MW) and the USA...
Bonn/Comibatore (WWEA), 7 February 2012 - The world market for wind turbines set a new record in the year 2011 and reached a total size of 42 Gigawatt, after 37,6 Gigawatt in 2010. According to the preliminary data gathered by WWEA and published on the occasion of the 3rd WE20 by 2020 conference in Coimbatore/India, the total capacity worldwide has come close to 239 Gigawatt, enough to cover 3 % of the world's electricity demand. Amongst the individual countries, China kept its strong position reached a similar amount like in the previous year 2010: China installed around 18 GW of new wind turbines within 2011, coming to a total capacity of 63 GW, more than one fourth of the global wind capacity. The second largest market for new wind turbines was again the USA with 6,8 GW, followed by India (2,7 GW), Germany (2 GW) and a surprisingly strong Canada with 1,3 GW of new installed capacity. Spain, France and Italy added each around 1 GW. A strong increase in wind power...
projects installed in 2002-2003, projects installed in 2009-2010, and projects based on current wind turbine pricing and to be installed in ~2012-2013. The research shows that wind energy technology was far from static over this period, and estimates that the levelized cost of wind energy is now trending towards an all-time low within fixed wind resource areas.
Key findings include: When only accounting for capital cost and capacity factor trends, the levelized cost of wind energy based on current turbine pricing is estimated to be ~5%-26% below the previous low in 2002-2003, depending on the quality of the wind resource. When also considering plausible assumptions for O&M, financing, and turbine reliability trends, levelized cost reductions are estimated at ~24-39% since 2002-2003.These trends have been driven primarily by sizable improvements in capacity factors within individual wind resource classes due to hub height and...
One of the activities of Institute of Renewable Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IRE NASU) is determination of operational characteristics of wind energy facilities of domestic and foreign production installed in Ukraine. For this purpose Testing Laboratory for wind energy facilities (WEF) and wind farms (WF) has been created in the Institute. On October 25, 2011 the National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine issued «Accreditation Certificate» certifying the competence of Testing Laboratory of IRE NASU in accordance with requirements DSTU ISO/IEC 17025:2006 (ISO/IEC 17025:2005) in the field: wind energy facilities and wind farms testing: 1) Noise level measurement (DSTU 4225-2003 p.7.6, DSTU IEC 61400-11-2002); 2) Insulation resistance test (DSTU 4225-2003 p.7.15, GOST 7217-87); 3) Earthling resistance measurement; 4) Power characteristics measurement...
2011 was a stable year for the offshore wind industry with 235 new offshore wind turbines grid connected, worth approximately 2.4 billion Euros.Today the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published its annual offshore wind statistics for 2011 in Brussels showing that 235 new turbines with a total power capacity of 866 Megawatts (MW) were fully grid connected across nine offshore wind farms. Annual installed new offshore wind turbine capacity (fully grid connected)2008 2009 2010 2011
327 MW 584 MW 883 MW 866 MWNine offshore wind farms currently under construction will bring online an additional 2375 MW - increasing...
On December 10, 2011 Kyoto Protocol member states reached a basis agreement called Durban Platform.It was expected that the Durban conference will result in signing of a framework agreement but last minute the parties agreed to prolong Kyoto Protocol for second commitment period. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by May 1, 2012. The general goal of the second period is reduction of greenhouse gases emission for 25-40%. Ukraine obliged to cut its emissions for 20% till 2020 compared to 1990, and for 50% - till 2050. Next climate conference in Qatar will approve these quantity goals for emission reduction as amendments to the Kyoto Protocol. The second period will continue till 2017 and the new climate protocol shall come into force as of January 1, 2020. It means that member-states will have 3 years for its ratification.Conference participants have also adopted a road...
First ten wind turbines Fuhrlander FL-2500 with total capacity of 25 MW were commissioned at Ochakovskaya WPP on December 19, 2011. The project has been implementing by “Wind Park ”Ochakovsky” LLC. Electricity generated from wind will be fed into the grid of Nikolaev oblenergo (regional grid operator) and supplied to the consumers of Ochakov district, Nikolaev region. Estimated annual electricity production is 72 000 MWh.Wind turbine manufacturer has not only supplied wind turbines but provided technical supervision of erection and installation of the machines. The first phase of the wind farm was constructed in the record time – less than six months. Four more phases of Ochakovskaya WPP with total installed capacity of around 100 MW are planned to be commissioned in 2012. Heads of state administration of Nikolaev region, management of “Wind Park ”Ochakovsky” LLC, representatives of local authorities and mass media attended the opening...
On November 18, 2011 the Parliament of Ukraine passed the Law No 4065-VI “On Amendments to the Article 17-1 of the Law of Ukraine “On Electric Power Engineering” regarding determination of ratio of Ukrainian goods in the value of construction of electric power industry objects.The Law specifies that obligation as to 15% of the Ukrainian component as of 2012 will apply only to such objects construction of which began after 01.01.2012 and commissioning took place before 01.01.2013. Similarly, requirements about 30% and 50% will apply only to such objects construction of which began after 01.01.2012 and commissioning took place after 01.010.2013 and01.010.2014, respectively. Therefore, based on literal interpretation, objects construction of which began before 01.01.2012 are not subject to obligation as to “Ukrainian component”. The Law also stipulated that procedure of determination of the “Ukrainian component” shall be approved by the National...
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