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Yingli Green Signs Its Largest Module Supply Agreement to Date in Israel
Yingli Green Energy, the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") module manufacturer in the world, known as "Yingli Solar", today announced its largest supply agreement to date in Israel and the Middle East, under which the Company will deliver 27.5 MW of multicrystalline PV modules between February and April of 2014.
The Company will supply its YGE 72 Cell NH Series modules to a solar power plant that will occupy more than one million square meters of land i...
Solar
- Mar 11, 2014
New Operations and Maintenance System Reduces the Cost of Offshore Wind
A new system for wind farm operations and maintenance is set to significantly reduce the maintenance costs. The system has been developed by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) using data from energy company Essent/RWE. It efficiently collects and analyses data from offshore wind farms and is used in order to continuously improve the cost-reducing strategy for operations and maintenance.
Operations and maintenance (O & M) account for approximately 25% of the costs of ...
Wind
- Mar 11, 2014
Trina Solar Announces Sale of Wuwei Solar Power Plant to Huadian Fuxin
Trina Solar, a global leader in photovoltaic ("PV") modules, solutions, and services, today announced it has successfully sold its 50 MW Solar Power Plant in Wuwei, Gansu province to Huadian Fuxin Energy Corporation (HK: 00816) ("Huadian Fuxin"). Huadian Fuxin will assume 100 percent ownership of the project from Trina Solar with the completion of the transaction.
"We are delighted to have successfully sold our first large-scale project in China," said Mr. Ji...
Solar
- Mar 11, 2014
City of Dalian Places Order for 1200 BYD Electric Buses
1200 zero-emission, electric buses made by BYD Company Ltd will soon hit the streets of China’s “Bright Northern Pearl”, Dalian. Dalian’s municipal government has signed a cooperative agreement with global electric vehicle and battery leader, BYD. The agreement stipulates the purchase of 600 BYD electric buses in 2014 and another 600 in 2015, totaling 1200 units. BYD took the opportunity at the signing event to announce the opening of a new electric bus manufacturing f...
Clean Transport
- Storage - Mar 7, 2014
Oil & Gas Drilling Contractor Songa Offshore Selects IFS
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Songa Offshore, an International midwater drilling contractor active in the North Atlantic basin, has chosen to deploy IFS Applications™ for Offshore Service to support its onshore and offshore operations. The contract includes licenses and services worth approximately Nkr 40 million.
Songa Offshore operates five semi-submersible drilling units with an additional four rigs being delivered in 2014 and 2015. The company c...
Oil and Gas
- Mar 10, 2014
Vestas Signs 30 MW Order As Part of a 207 MW Framework Agreement
Vestas has signed a framework agreement to deliver 207 MW across five locations in Turkey to a joint venture between the German utility EnBW and the Turkish holding company Borusan, with the first 30 MW order firm and unconditional.
The deal represents the largest customer framework agreement in the Turkish wind power market ever.
As part of the framework agreement, Vestas will supply nine V112-3.3 MW turbines for the extension of the Bandirma wind power plant located in the Balikesir...
Wind
- Mar 7, 2014
German Reliance on Russian Gas Threatens Europe: Poland
Germany's reliance on Russian natural gas poses a threat to European sovereignty, Polish Prime Minister Doland Tusk said Monday amid rising East-West tensions over Ukraine.
"Germany's reliance on Russian gas can effectively limit European sovereignty. I have no doubt," Tusk told reporters days ahead of a Warsaw visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
General News
- Mar 10, 2014
EU Edges Towards Renewable Energy Targets
The European Union is making steady progress towards its 2020 renewable energy target, a key effort in curbing the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, official data showed Monday.
Renewables -- predominantly wind but including tidal and biomass sources as well -- accounted for 14.1 percent of the EU's energy consumption in 2012, up from 13 percent in 2011, the Eurostat statistics bureau said.
The EU has set itself a 20-percent target for renewable energy use by the...
Natural Gas & LNG
- Mar 10, 2014
