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soccer fields. Te new 6 MW wind turbine is designed specifically for offshore use - in terms of serviceability it uses 50 per cent fewer components including rotating parts.
100MW wind farm Following a development phase of more than four years and a construction period of nearly one year, Verbund, Austria’s leading electricity company, is commissioning the 100MW wind farm of Casimcea I, close to Romania’s Black Sea coast. A further wind farm of approximately 100MW is also under construction. When fully commissioned, the 43 Enercon E-82 turbines with a hub height of 108 metres will generate 240 GWh/y of electricity - enough to supply 155,000 Romanian households. Te contract also included construction of a 750 MVA transformer station to feed the power into the Romanian power grid. Te second 100MW wind farm is due to be completed next year, as part of the €340m that is being invested by Romania in wind power up to 2016. “Wind energy is the perfect supplement
to hydropower and has the highest degree of competitiveness among all of the new forms of renewable energy,” commented Verbund ceo Wolfgang Anzengruber. “We opted for an investment in Romania because of the outstanding wind conditions and the prevailing good general framework. With the commissioning of the 100 MW wind farm, Verbund is once again underlining the great importance of wind energy in the pan-European generation portfolio,” he added. In a separate development, Verbund has acquired
five wind farms in Germany with a total capacity of 86 MW. Situated in Rhineland-Palatinate, these wind farms will be coming online between the end of this year and mid-2013. Meanwhile Vestas has received its first Italian order
for V100 wind turbines. Tis consists of 11 units of the V100-1.8MW wind turbine, representing a total capacity of 19.8MW for the Santa Luce wind power plant which will be located in Tuscany. Te contract includes delivery, transportation, installation and commissioning of the turbines, a VestasOnline business Scada system, plus a 15-year service and maintenance active output management (AOM) 4000 agreement. Te AOM 4000 is a full-scope service contract, consisting of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and consumables, which offers solid risk management for customers who want an availability guarantee measured against an agreed threshold. Tis type of contract offers customers assured performance avoiding unforeseen operational costs of any kind. Te order has been placed by Santa Luce, a special
projects company within Fera. Fera is among the top ten companies developing wind power plants in the Italian market and is actively investing in new power generation technology. Fera has previously developed other wind power
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plants in Italy with Vestas technology with a total installed capacity of approximately 45MW. Delivery of the first turbines for the Santa Luce wind farm is expected to start shortly and the project is expected to be commercially operational before the end of 2012. “We are pleased to announce the signature of
the very first V100-1.8MW project in Italy. With a proven and reliable technical platform and a high performance, the 2MW platform has won the customers’ recognition at a global level. Launched to the market in mid-2011, the V100-1.8MW has already a track record of 369 units installed globally, representing close to 700MW,” said Juan Araluce, acting president, Vestas Mediterranean and chief sales officer, Vestas Wind Systems. Te Santa Luce wind power plant will produce
approximately 53GWh per year, which corresponds to a saving of 21,000t/y of carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, it will provide enough electricity to cover the residential electricity consumption of more than 46,500 people in Italy.
Two spaced elevation Skanska Infrastructure Development and Jämtkraft are investing 50/50 in a wind power plant with a total cost of about SEK1.2b (€141m). Te new wind farm, Mullberg Wind Park, is located at Rätan in Berg municipality, Jämtland. It is being developed by Eolus Vind. Te wind farm is located on two spaced elevation ridges in the terrain with altitude of 520- 600 metres above sea level. Te permit allows for 31 turbines in a combined generating capacity of 80 MW and a total height of 180 metres and an annual production of more than 200GWh, which will be able to support approximately 45,000 households. Skanska enters the project as an investor and
contractor. Power company Jämtkraft is contributing its knowledge of electricity production and trading. “With the completion of the Mullberg Wind
Park, Skanska will in an environmentally friendly way produce more electricity than we dispose of in all our construction sites and in all our properties in Sweden. We will eventually be able to offer green, self- produced electricity for our own developed residential, industrial and office properties. It’s a great step forward for our environmental work,” says Göran Carlberg, development director at Skanska infrastructure development. Jemtska, a company jointly owned by Skanska and
Jämtkraft, is the project contractor and is responsible for building the wind farm and connection to the mains. Generation is expected to begin in 2013. In business news, Lely has acquired the activities of
Aircon. Te company will continue under the name of Lely Aircon. Aircon develops and builds specialised wind turbines which produce a high energy density and are low in noise. Since 2006, when its product became commercially available, Aircon has installed nearly 100 wind turbines worldwide. ●
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