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Denmark’s Rødsand II offshore wind farm has commenced operation in the Bal ...

Denmark’s Rødsand II offshore wind farm has commenced operation in the Baltic Sea. E.ON opened the 207 MW wind farm, which was completed in 122 days, six weeks ahead of schedule. The farm consists of 90 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines and is located to the south of the island of Lolland, and three kilometres to the west of its predecessor, Rødsand I. Following news in the October issue of Energy World that Siemens will be manufacturing blades and supplying up to 600 MW of turbine capacity to southern Ontario, Canada, the company has received a follow up order for 72 turbines of 2.3 MW capacity for the Comber Wind Limited Partnership Project in Essex County, Ontario. The purchaser is Brookfield Renewable Power, a producer and developer of renewable energy for which Siemens has already supplied wind turbines for the Gosfield project in Ontario. The 166 MW wind farm is scheduled for completion in September 2011. Moving to Turkey, a 24 MW wind farm will be built near the city of Hatay in the southern part of the country. The farm will comprise eight 3 MW Alstom ECO 100 wind turbines and is expected to be operational by 2012. The construction of the wind farm will mark the first time that Alstom turbines will be used in Turkey. Alstom will supply, install and commission the wind farm, and provide operation and maintenance services for the first five years. In 2009, 343 MW of new wind capacity was added in Turkey, representing a yearon- year growth rate of 75%. Installed capacity is expected to grow at between 500-1000 MW per year, reaching more than 5 GW before 2015. Turkey targets 20 GW of wind power capacity by 2023, says Alstom. Elsewhere, in Germany, a wind farm near Magdeburg in the central region of the country will be expanded to add a further 7.5 MW of capacity. General Electric (GE) will be supplying three 2.5 MW turbines for expansion of the Groß- Santersleben Süd wind farm, where eight GE 1.5 MW wind turbines are already operating. GE and Germania Windpark, a German wind farm developer, have also signed a full service agreement covering the new turbines. GE has also announced a joint venture with Harbin Electric Machinery (HEC) to manufacture and supply wind turbines to customers in China. China, already the world’s largest wind turbine sales territory, is projected to grow an additional 500% as the country’s installed wind capacity increases from the 2009 level of 25 GW to 150 GW by 2020. China’s electricity demand is growing at a rate of 12% per year and the government’s supportive renewable energy policies played an important role in GE’s decision to invest in the joint venture, says the company. The new company will manufacture GE-designed wind turbines for nearshore (classified as three km from the shoreline on land, or in the water up to ten km from the coast offshore) and offshore applications in China. Under the new joint venture, HEC will own 51% and GE 49% of the company. As part of the overall wind partnership, HEC is purchasing a 49% interest in the existing GE Shenyang wind factory, which will continue to manufacture land-based wind turbines. GE will work with the new joint venture to develop wind turbines for offshore projects in China using direct drive technology.
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