Wind Energy: Iran to invest in construction of wind farms in Armenia

The MAPNA Group will invest in building wind farms in Armenia with an initial capacity of 50 Mw.

The MAPNA Group is a group of Iranian companies involved in development and execution of thermal and renewable power, oil & gas, railway transportation and other industrial projects as well as manufacturing main equipment including gas and steam turbines, electrical generator, turbine blade and vane, HRSG and conventional boilers, electric and control systems, gas compressor, locomotive and other pertinent equipment.

A delegation from Armenia's Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources Ministry visited MAPNA on the sidelines of a visit to the Islamic Republic on October 31-November 1.

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Alternative Energy USA: Proposed 62-turbine wind farm for Bingham in Maine gets preliminary OK

Denmark: Vestas US Subsidiary lands big order for wind farms - by Cathy Proctor

Two Colorado companies are teaming up to build more wind farms across the United States.

Danish Vestas Wind Systems, with four manufacturing plants along Colorado’s Front Range, said Friday it’s reached an agreement to supply up to 610 megawatts worth of wind turbines to Broomfield’s Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. — better known as RES Americas.

Vestas also announced Friday it had received the first order from the RES supply agreement, for 60 megawatts worth of wind turbines.

The agreement calls for Vestas to supply its V100-2.0 MW turbine for all of RES’s wind farm projects, up to 610 megawatts. Those projects are expected to happen in 2014 and 2015.

The two companies previously worked together building the Cedar Point wind farm near Limon, in eastern Colorado.

The Cedar Point wind farm, which started operations in 2011, has 139 of Vestas’ V90-1.8 megawatt turbines. It’s capable of generating up to 250 megawatts of electricity.

The wind farm was the first large-scale project to use Vestas’s Colorado-made turbines.
Vestas said it couldn’t say where the turbines destined for RES’s projects would go in the United States.

Read more: Vestas lands big order for wind farms - Denver Business Journal

The Triton - Alternative energy offers alternative to stock market

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Alternative energy offers alternative to stock market

Wind farming is experiencing explosive growth in the United States as state and federal mandates drive heavy demand for renewable energy sources. The Department of Energy reports that 20 percent of America’s electricity can come from wind. Developing wind power is an investment in rural America. Having said that, the next question is how can investors get involved in wind energy? Companies that manufacture and install windmills need land for windmill operation. These companies are typically not in the real estate business, so they go to companies that specialize in purchasing or leasing tracks of land. In rural areas, many different farm land owners may have to be put together to cover an area to develop a windmill farm. I am not going to get into the details of research and negotiations needed to close these deals. Needless to say, the windmill companies are not equipped to handle this process of setting up a place to put a windmill farm.

The investor on this kind of program can get upward of an 18 percent return per year. Similar to a short-term note this is typically a two-year program where you get interest payments and then your principal is returned at the end of the term.

Business Journal: Principle Power plans Portugal offshore windmill project

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Principle Power plans Portugal offshore windmill project

Principle Power, which makes windmills that are erected in deep bodies of water, said it’s signed a deal with Portuguese energy utility Energias de Portugal (EDP) to install a wind power project off the coast of Portugal.

NDTV.com: Dutch attempt to save the windmills - by Sam Daniel

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Dutch attempt to save the windmills - by Sam Daniel

Holland has always been known for its majestic windmills but now most of them have collapsed and the Dutch government is striving hard to restore and preserve the existing heritage structures. Till a century ago over 10,000 windmills had dotted the countryside in Holland. The country is below sea level and it were these machines that had kept the land dry by pumping river water back into the sea. After electric pumps took over, these windmills dwindled to just over a thousand.

Now the government is trying to preserve these as national monuments by extending financial support. Every weekend frank and his family work on their old mills to bring them back to running condition.