World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

April 3, 2005 – Vol.10 No.2

WORLD WIND WATCH.

Now we’re talking. A wind farm of significance for the U.S. East Coast.

Vestas has announced it will be supplying 120, 1.65-megawatt turbines for a 198-megawatt wind farm to be built this year in upstate New York. That facility, to be known as the Maple Ridge Wind Farm (formerly known as the Flat Rock Wind Farm,) is being co-developed by Zilkha Renewable Energy and PPM Energy.

The project is being built to comply with New York’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and is the largest renewable project (yet) under the mandate that is aimed at bringing new renewables up to 25 percent of the states generating capacity by 2013.

Vestas will install and commission the turbines as well as maintain them for five years.

Vestas also announced it will be supplying 23, 2-megawatt turbines for Taiwan Power Corporation for a project in Changkong. That project will be built in 2006 and will be Taiwan’s second largest. Visit Vestas at http://www.vestas.com/ .

The construction of wind energy in New York State is just beginning. AES has announced it has signed a joint venture agreement with Spanish renewable energy operator EHN which will lead (eventually) to more than 350 megawatts of wind capacity in the state.

The agreement, too, will go beyond New York’s border. The new partnership has plans for wind farms in a total of 14 states. The first two projects will be limited, however, to the New York counties of Niagara and Clinton.

EHN has 2480 megawatts of wind generating capacity in 89 facilities in its portfolio, as well as small hydro, biomass and solar capacity totaling 120 megawatts. The company, too, builds its own 1.5 megawatt wind turbine through its INGETUR subsidiary, and to top things off produces 35,000 tons per year of biodiesel fuel. A busy green company.

Just last week AES announced it would purchase SeaWest Holdings and its wind power assets. Visit AES at http://www.aes.com/ EHN at http://www.ehn.es/ .

Gamesa has opened up a new green market, the Emerald Isle. The Spanish company has announced it will be supplying 14, 850-kilowatt turbines for the Altagowlan and Moneenatieve wind farms being built by Moneenatieve Wind Farm Ltd.

By the end of 2004 Ireland had more than 300 megawatts of installed wind capacity. Gamesa is the second largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world, behind Vestas. Visit Gamesa at http://www.gamesa.es/ .