#wind farm

New York: A wind farm with up to 68 turbines in Steuben County has been approved by New York’s Electric Generation Siting Board.

Work on a $43 M wind farm on Inverclyde’s hillside will start next week and the BayWa R.E. will start building eight 110 m tall turbines in the hills above Greenock and the Port.

TenneT has awarded Petrofac work on the Beta high voltage alternate current substation platform in the North Sea for the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm.

Siemens has appointed engineering outfit BAM Nutall to tackle the bulk of civil engineering work on the onshore substation for Innogy’s 860 MW Triton Knoll wind farm.

Germany: Northland Power has completed installation of the offshore substation for the 269 MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea.

Denmark: Denmark’s government has put up the tender for the first of three wind farms, aimed at turning Denmark into a net-zero emissions society by 2050.

Global breakbulk and project heavy lift carrier AAL has delivered a 305-tone Toshiba transformer to the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm in Victoria.

Marocco: In cooperation with Energie Eolienne du Maroc, ABB will be supplying a $16 million hybrid substation for a wind farm developed by Nareva in Morocco.

Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply power transformers for the UK’s East Anglia ONE wind farm, located in in North Sea waters.

Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity has finalised negotiations for three power projects valued at $7 billion and is ready to finalize the contracts for all three projects.

Germany: wpd has begun construction of offshore wind farm in Nordergründe in German North Sea, laying first monopile deep foundation at the 111MW project.

Australia, Victoria: The biggest single component of the Ararat wind farm, the USD 300 million (AUD 400 million) project in south-west Victoria, arrived to Australia from Shanghai and was travelling through Elmhurst last week on its way to the site.

After 16 months of construction work, the transformer substation for the offshore wind farm Sandbank is on its way to the construction site 90 kilometres west of Sylt in the German North Sea.

Brazil: Brazil’s largest wind energy substation, the 1,200 MW SE Curral Novo do Piaui II facility, was switched on last week.

France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a turnkey contract worth approximately €100 million ($110 million) from Eletrosul Centrais Electricas S/A (Eletrosul) to integrate wind farms located at Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, into the country’s transmission grid.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order to provide substations and related power infrastructure for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm situated off the Sussex coast, as well as the onshore substation to efficiently integrate the new wind farm into the country’s transmission grid.

Denmark, Fredericia: Energinet.dk has been granted permission for $577 million investment into a grid connection for the 600 MW Kriegers Flak wind farm in the Baltic Sea off Denmark.

Poland, Stettin: Vortex Energy as the general contractor has completed the first construction phase of a 42 MW wind farm in Radziejów, Poland, having built access roads, laid the cables and poured foundations for 21 wind turbines.