Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, is looking to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, Nikkei has learned. A plan is under way to develop 11 solar power plants and 10 wind power plants in the prefecture, on farmlands that cannot be cultivated anymore and mountainous areas from where population outflows continue. The total cost is ...

Chennai, India, November 5, 2019. Ingeteam, an independent global supplier of electrical conversion and turbine control equipment, has reached 1GW of production output within the first year of operations at its production facility in India. The company, which recently expanded this new facility, continues to implement its growth plans in the Indian wind energy sector. Ingeteam established its new cutti ...

Asia is set to become the world leader in the wind energy over the next few decades and "dominate" both the onshore and offshore wind power industries, said a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Monday (Oct 21). According to the report Future of Wind, Asia will by 2050 account for more than half of all onshore and more than 60 per cent of all offshore wind power installations ...

There is no better time than now for wind power to step up the energy transition and to define our role in the future energy system: the cost reduction of wind energy, the improvement of the efficiencies and reliability of wind turbines and the mounting threat of the climate imperatives are making the case for wind energy.  Following the events during the UN Climate Action Summit in New York last month, the ...

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the Electricity and Renewable Energy Authority (EREA) of Vietnam have initiated a partnership with the purpose of mapping the potential for offshore wind off the coast of Vietnam. The Southeast Asian nation needs to invest billions in its future energy production to accommodate growing national demand. A high-level Vietnamese delegation is currently on a study tour to the ...

The company will install 42 units of the Siemens Gamesa 4.X platform, with 145 metres rotor and unit rating reaching 4.8 MWThis is the second contract that SGRE has received from the local independent power producer Xinjiang TBEACommissioning is expected before the end of 2020 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) continues to grow its business in China with the first contract to supply the Siemens Gamesa ...

ONYX InSight has been selected by Dongkuk S&C to replace the main bearing on a wind turbine generator at their wind farm in the Jollanam Province, South Korea South Korea, 1st October – ONYX InSight, a leading provider of predictive maintenance in the wind energy industry, was chosen by Dongkuk S&C to replace one of the three main bearings at its Shinan project in South Korea. Following a ...

Zurich, Switzerland, 02 September 2019 – Sulzer Schmid, a Swiss company pioneering UAV technology for rotor blade inspections, and NNAISENSE, a world leading artificial intelligence specialist, have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence engine to automatically detect rotor blade damages on wind turbine. This leapfrog technology is expected to bring the twin benefits of imp ...

Through a subsidiary, Filipino energy giant Aboitiz Power signed an agreement Friday to acquire Mekong Wind Pte. Ltd. in Vietnam for $46 million. The deal to buy 100 percent of Mekong Wind Pte. Ltd. (Mekong Wind) is still subject to customary closing conditions, but is expected to be sealed in the fourth quarter of this year. Mekong Wind, previously controlled by Singapore-based Armstrong Southeast Asia Cle ...

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has invested an undisclosed amount in Australia’s Bango Wind Farm, the investment manager’s third wind farm investment in the country under its Grassroots Renewable Energy platform. Bango Wind Farm is a 244-megawatt construction-ready project in New South Wales with a total project value of A$500 million ($337.5 million). It will be the first wind farm in the world t ...