#turbine

Glennmont agrees to purchase clearvise AG’s 30 MW Finnish onshore wind farm.

Ofgem gives approval for a necessary new electricity transmission link from Orkney to the Scottish mainland.

United Kingdom: ABB has won a contract to supply transformers for the 8.25 MW turbines at Dong Energy’s 330 MW Walney 3 East offshore wind farm off Cambria, England.

Russia, Moscow: General Directors of RusHydro Public Company, Russia’s largest hydropower producer, and Power Machines OJSC, manufacturer of electrical equipment including power transformers, held a working meeting in Moscow to discuss prospects for future cooperation of the two companies.

Belgium, Brussels: General Electric has won EU approval for its €12.4 billion ($13.9 billion) acquisition of Alstom’s power business after agreeing to sell some of the French company’s turbine assets to Italian rival Ansaldo Energia.

Denmark: Siemens believes that using smaller high-voltage alternating-current (HVAC) transformers for offshore wind projects could reduce project costs by up to 30%.

Russia, Moscow: Russian hydroelectric company RusHydro plans to replace more than half of the main electrical equipment for hydropower plants by 2025 as part of a comprehensive modernisation programme.