Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Corporation is ramping up activities in the offshore wind energy sector. At a time when Japan — as well the EU, the US, China, and countries around the world — are increasingly turning to wind, solar, and other clean, renewable energy resource development to fuel sustainable growth, news this week indicates that Mitsubishi Corporation – “a global integrated business ente ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded a contract to Siemens Government Technologies, Inc., to construct and operate the federal government’s largest wind farm. The Pantex wind farm, a first in the NNSA enterprise, will consist of five 2.3 MW turbines located on 1,500 acres of government-owned property east of the Pantex Plant. Energy savings from the wind farm average $2.9 million ...

Mitsubishi announced it is backing offshore wind projects in Germany, with an investment of €576 million (£481.2m).The Japanese firm is helping Netherlends-based grid operator TenneT connect wind farms to the power grid. TenneT said Mitsubishi will pay €240 million (£200.5m) for a 49% stake in the BorWin1 and BorWin2 grid connection projects and €336 million (£280.7m) for a 49% stake in HelWin2 and DolWin2. ...

Japan is planning to install the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will consist of 143 wind turbines located off Fukushima’s coast. Scheduled to be completed by 2020, it would generate 1 GW of energy. This is part of a project to make Fukushima totally renewable-energy-dependent by 2040; emphasized by further plans to build the largest solar power field in the country. The wind farm would be ...

The southern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are seeking to increase the contribution of renewable energy to meet their power requirements in the 12th Plan period (2012-17). They plan to set up wind farms on wastelands and form a green energy corridor for increasing transmission of renewable power.The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) is working with these states to prepare a ma ...

It has been reported that the USD 16 billion Mahindra group is set to enter the wind power business in India, though the group is not at the moment revealing the details of its plans.Mr.Parag Shah managing Partner at Mahindra Partners and Head of Mahindra Cleantech Ventures said that: “It is in a little confidential stage. It is work in progress.”?? What is clear is that the group, which has major ambitions ...

The board of directors of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has announced that for the further development of the Company, Mr. Wang Haibo, an executive director and vice president of the Company, has been appointed as the President of the Company with effect from 9 January 2013. In light of such appointment, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company, ...

AMSC, a global solutions provider serving wind and grid leaders, today announced that it has received a notice that China’s Supreme People’s Court will review the jurisdiction opposition brought by Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd (Sinovel) in the copyright infringement case that AMSC filed in Hainan, a southern Chinese province, against Sinovel and Dalian Guotong Electric Co., Ltd. (Guotong). The Supreme Court ...

Japan is likely to end up having installed 92MW-worth of new wind-power capacity in the financial year ending 31 March, the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) said this week. That represents an 8.2% increase on the 85MW of wind added in the preceding 12 months.  It has a total of about 2.5GW installed. Japan introduced a new feed-in tariff for wind projects on 1 July 2012 of 23.1 yen ($0.26) per kWh for 20 ...

To study the potential of harnessing wind power, four wind monitoring stations (WMS) will be set up in in Pilibhit, Sitapur, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur districts of Uttar Pradesh by the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET). After a year of analysis by C-WET, power plants based on wind energy will be developed in these areas on public-private partnership (PPP) model. This is the first time efforts are b ...