Europe green energy

ABB, the power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $125 million from the Belgian company C-Power NV to link a wind farm 30 kilometers off the coast of Belgium to the mainland grid. The transmission link is part...  more

ABB, the power and automation technology group, announced it has invested about $13 million in Aquamarine Power, a Scottish company that has developed technology to convert energy captured from waves near shore into clean, usable ...  more

SunEdison, a solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, has successfully interconnected a 70 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Northeast Italy, near the town of Rovigo. The deploymen...  more

THINK and its Spanish distribution partner, Going Green, have embarked on relationships with several new customers on the back of recent promotions and the introduction of air-conditioning as standard to the THINK City – the world...  more

Vestas has received an order for 20 units of the V82-1.65 MW wind turbine for the Vellappaneri Wind Farm project in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The contract comprises supply and commissioning of the turbines, a VestasOnline® B...  more

Eleven companies and 22 research centres specialising in offshore wind energy technologies have joined forces on the Azimut. Offshore Wind Energy 2020 project, for the purpose of generating the know-how required to develop a large...  more

Vestas is pleased to officially announce the opening of its office in Berlin, which will allow Vestas to better serve its customers in Eastern Germany and to better participate in important national debates about wind energy polic...  more

ABB, the global power and automation technology group, announced that it has made a strategic investment in Pentalum Technologies, an Israel-based company developing advanced wind sensing technology for control and optimization of...  more

ABB, the power and automation technology group, announced that it has signed an agreement with China National Nuclear Power (CNNP) to provide enterprise asset management (EAM) software solutions for the company’s extensive new-bui...  more

Gamesa, the manufacturer and developer of wind turbines and wind farm, held its inaugural 2010 Patents and Inventors Contest, an annual event recognising the effort and hard work of its employees in a field essential to the compan...  more