VADODARA: Former vice-chancellor of M S University (MSU) Anil Kane has bagged the World Wing Energy Award 2014 that recognizes his contributions as one of the pioneers of wind power in India, Asia and worldwide. The board of the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) had decided to confer the award on Kane on the occasion of the 13th World Wind Energy Conference 2014 in Shanghai. Kane received the award on Tu ...

The country's first two wind farms, West Huay Bong 2 and West Huay Bong 3, were announced as operational by Ratchaguri Electricity Generating Holding, a stakeholder in project shareholder Aeolus Power. Both projects have an operating capacity of 103.5MW from 45 Siemens 2.3MW turbines. In July the 7.5MW Theppana wind farm in Chaiyaphum province, supplied with turbines from China's Goldwind, also went online, ...

NorthWind Power Development Corp., a company controlled by Ayala Corp., will start the third phase of the Bangui Bay wind farm in Ilocos Norte province to add 18 megawatts to the existing 33-MW project. Energy Department records showed the expansion project would raise the total capacity of Bangui wind farm to 51 MW, solidifying its status as the biggest wind farm in Southeast Asia. NorthWind has already re ...

Intertek, a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, is now recognised as a certification body in India for wind turbines under India’s Centre for Wind EnergyTechnology (C-WET) program. This expands Intertek’s global renewable energy capabilities, allowing manufacturers across Europe, China, and India to take advantage of Intertek’s industry-leading response time, capacity, and expertise. ...

MORE FUNDS have been earmarked to partially fund ongoing construction of Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp's 54-megawatt (MW) wind energy project in San Lorenzo, Guimaras. In a disclosure on Friday, Trans-Asia said it disbursed P54.077 million from proceeds of its stock rights offering in November 2012, through which the company raised P1.627 billion. The latest amount adds to the P935.435 million ...

The government has been warned that it would fail to implement the wind power development strategy if it does not raise the buy price to UScent12-13.5 per kwh. The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) now buys electricity at UScent7.8 per kwh from ashore wind power plants and UScent9.8 from the plant at sea, in accordance with a Prime Minister’s decision released in mid-2011. However, the low prices set by the gove ...

LISTED Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. of the Phinma group on Monday announced it has allocated more funds from proceeds of its stock rights offering (SRO) in 2012 to finance the construction of its wind- farm project. “Trans-Asia has disbursed the amount of P165,605,000 from the proceeds of its 2012 stock rights offering,” the company said in a disclosure to the exchange. The funds will be used ...

Latin America has become one of the hottest growth markets for the wind energy industry. Wind power development in Brazil, in particular, is growing rapidly and will provide the bulk of Latin America's wind market in the coming years. By 2016, Brazil could see yearly installations top 1.5GW as the pipeline of contracted projects comes online and transmission is constructed to connect the plants. According t ...

  Gamesa and Areva have enteredinto exclusive negotiations to create a 50/50 joint-venture (JV) company in the field of offshore wind power.   According to the companies, the offshore market represents one of the most promising areas for the development of renewable energies over the next decade, particularly in the coastal countries of northern Europe, where the installed base should reach over 25 GW ...

The company said that it disbursed last Wednesday a total of P50 million from proceeds of its SRO in November last year through which the company raised P1.627 billion. The latest amount adds to the P649.83 million released last year to fund the same project.   “The corporation shall use the funds for expenses in relation to its investment in a 54-MW wind energy project in San Lorenzo, Guimaras…” the d ...