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1. voda 19 augustus 2019 16:58

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   Vestas Announced Q2 2019 Result
   
   Revenue and earnings decreased compared to last year’s second quarter while free cash flow improved. Highest ever quarterly order intake and combined order backlog at all-time high level. Guidance for 2019 narrowed. In the second quarter of 2019, Vestas generated revenue of EUR 2,121 million a decrease of 6% compared to the year-earlier period. EBIT before special items decreased by EUR 131 million to EUR 128 million. The EBIT margin was 6.0% compared to 11.5% in the second quarter of 2018 and free cash flow* amounted to EUR (75) million compared to EUR (173) million in the second quarter of 2018.
   
   The intake of firm and unconditional wind turbine orders amounted to 5,696 MW in the second quarter of 2019.
   
   The value of the wind turbine order backlog amounted to EUR 15.9 billion as at 30 June 2019. In addition to the wind turbine order backlog, Vestas had service agreements with expected contractual future revenue of EUR 15.6 billion at the end of June 2019. Thus, the value of the combined backlog of wind turbine orders and service agreements stood at EUR 31.5 billion an increase of EUR 8.5bn compared to the year-earlier period.
   
   Vestas narrows the 2019 guidance on revenue to range between EUR 11.0 billion and 12.25 billion (compared to previously EUR 10.75 billion to 12.25 billion), and on EBIT margin before special items to 8-9% (compared to previously 8-10%). Total investments* are expected to amount to approx. EUR 800 million (compared to previously approx. EUR 700 million). The adjustments are based on performance and improved visibility for the remainder of the year.
   
   Group President & CEO Henrik Andersen said that “In the second quarter of 2019, continued high demand for wind energy helped Vestas achieve a record-high order intake of 5.7 GW and 15 percent growth in Service revenue. Based on these strong sales results, our order backlog soared by EUR 8.5bn year-over-year to an all-time high of EUR 31bn, again demonstrating our global leadership in a highly competitive market. Together with our Offshore business’ increased profits, the first half of 2019 highlights the complementarity of our business model’s three main areas, creating a great long-term outlook for Vestas. Prices remained stable in the quarter, but further increases in tariffs, raw material prices and transport costs, continue to increase execution costs, causing our gross margin to decline compared to the same period last year. To finish the year as strongly as possible and prepare for high activity levels in 2020, we remain focused on executing our strategy and delivering an extraordinarily busy second half of 2019.”
   
   Key highlights
   Highest ever quarterly order intake and all-time high order backlog
   5.7 GW of order intake in Q2 including first order for the new EnVentus platform
   
   Total revenue of EUR 2,121m
   Six percent decrease compared to Q2 2018
   
   EBIT of EUR 128m
   EBIT margin at 6.0 percent impacted by competitive markets, tariffs, and back-end loaded activity level
   
   Strong service performance
   Revenue growth of 15 percent, and EBIT margin of 28.4 percent
   
   Increasing profit in MHI Vestas Offshore Wind
   Net profit of EUR 22m; an underlying improvement of EUR 49m YoY
   
   Outlook 2019
   Guidance for 2019 narrowed for revenue and EBIT margin based on performance and improved visibility
   
   Source : Strategic Research Institute
2. voda 20 augustus 2019 16:59

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   China Brings Solar Home
   
   China is the biggest manufacturer of solar photovoltaics, and with declining local costs coupled with potential pollution reduction and health co-benefits, domestic use of solar photovoltaics might surge even more dramatically in the very near future. For a while it looked like the world was comfortably settled into a bipolar order. The production pole was centred in and around China where many of the world’s goods and toys were made. The consumption pole, while increasingly scattered, still centred on the United States and Europe. This applied to solar photovoltaics as well, with the European Union particularly Germany catalysing massive uptake of household solar PV systems using significant subsidies. China was where most of these solar panels were being made. The manufacturing still continues to be concentrated in China, but now the consumption has shifted rapidly to China as well. In 2015, China had a total deployed solar capacity of 43 GW compared to more than 94 GW in the EU1. Last year China’s total deployed capacity of 175 GW dwarfed the EU’s 115 GW. China is now not only the world’s biggest producer of solar panels, but also of solar-generated electricity.
   
   There are signs that the demand for solar PVs in China is far from fully expressed. Both the United States and Europe have been attractive markets for Chinese-produced solar cells. However, recent policy changes might incentivize producers to further target local Chinese markets. In the United States, the tariffs imposed on imports of solar panels in 2017 had a negative impact on solar system deployment and thousands of jobs were lost in the sector, mostly in installation3. Faced by rising stocks, China cut its own subsidies, leading solar panel producers to significantly reduce prices to offload large inventory internationally, despite tariffs4. Even then Chinese internal consumption and installations grew significantly through 2017 and 2018, showing greater viability of China as a competitive market2. Increased intensity in trade wars and US policy discouraging the uptake of solar PV (such as tariffs on panel imports) may by creating unsold inventory depress the prices of solar systems internally for China, further increasing local uptake. Removal or tapering down of subsidies in other markets in Europe may have a similar effect.
   
   The low price of solar systems, as well as the low labour costs for installation, means that achieving cost parity with the grid may be easier in China than in Europe or the United States, where overall household solar system costs continue to be comparatively higher. An Analysis in this issue shows just that; Jinyue Yan and colleagues in Sweden and China estimate the costs for solar electricity derived from both household and grid-scale systems, in each prefecture or city in China. They find that in all of the 344 prefectures, household solar systems can now generate electricity at a cost equal to, or lower than, the local grid-supplied electricity. Grid-level solar electricity systems can also generate electricity at a cost lower than coal-generated electricity in more than 20% of the prefectures.
   
   This grid parity is a critical milestone made even more remarkable by the fact that the solar electricity costs estimated by the researchers do not include subsidies. Doubtless these prices will continue to vary in the near future depending on national and international policy but the trend is downwards and continuing. Grid parity provides the economic incentive for domestic consumers to buy into solar home systems and signals a potentially massive uptake of the technology in households in the near future.
   
   Future policy-making is also expected to benefit solar uptake in China, particularly because of solar co-benefits such as pollution reduction and consequent public health and urban liveability gains. Urban air pollution negatively affects the lives of tens of millions of Chinese city dwellers in particular and has emerged as one of the most important concerns facing the Chinese government in recent years.
   
   In an Article in our July issue, Bart Sweerts and colleagues quantify the pollution reduction gains of solar energy uptake. They start with a recently compiled dataset of measured irradiance from 119 stations all over China between 1960 and 2015. Using irradiance data, they estimate solar energy potentials in 1960 and 2015 and find that the accumulated pollution due to coal power plant emissions during this period reduced solar energy production potential by close to 13%. Adopting solar PV thus creates a feedback loop where pollution reduction gains lead to greater solar energy production. Findings like this provide a clear signal to Chinese policymakers that mass-scale solar PV adoption reduces air pollution beside direct energy and climate gains.
   
   With growing economic and social impetus, China might be on the brink of further exponential growth in solar PV deployment. It certainly has the industrial base to facilitate such an energy transition once the social and economic tipping points are reached. The scaling in production needed to meet the potentially rising demand is something that China has done in the past and is certainly capable of in the future. China is also a country that is reinventing itself physically faster than any other country in the world. Entire new cities appear to have emerged on the skyline in the past decade and while the pace of development may have slowed down recently there continues to be plenty of opportunity to build human habitats and energy systems in entirely new ways. A new world is afoot in China and it may be powered by solar energy.
   
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3. voda 26 augustus 2019 17:05

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   Vattenfall Inaugurates Scandinavia Largest Offshore Wind Farm
   
   HRH Crown Prince of Denmark accompanied by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Dan Jørgensen officially opened Denmark’s, Scandinavia’s and Vattenfall’s largest offshore wind farm, Horns Rev 3. The 49 wind turbines on Horns Rev 25-40 km off Denmark’s west coast in the North Sea will increase the Danish power production from wind with around 12%. Enough to power the yearly consumption in 425,000 Danish households.
   
   The first foundation for Horns Rev 3 was placed in the seabed in October 2017 and the first turbines began delivering electricity to consumers on 23 December 2018. During the construction phase, the turbines were shipped from the Port of Esbjerg but from 2024 they will be serviced from the Port of Hvide Sande, where Vattenfall will establish a new service hub.
   
   Mr Magnus Hall CEO of Vattenfall said that“Horns Rev 3 is the largest offshore wind farm in Scandinavia and shows our commitment to Denmark’s ongoing transition to a renewable energy system. The wind farm is a significant contribution to Vattenfall´s production portfolio and takes us one step further in our ambition to enable a fossil-free living within one generation.”
   
   Mr Gunnar Groebler, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Wind in Vattenfall said that “It has taken less than two years from the first foundation was built until the inauguration of Horns Rev 3. An impressive achievement of our employees and partners who now have completed the largest offshore wind farm in Vattenfall’s portfolio. It proves Vattenfall’s position as a leading offshore developer and our commitment to making offshore wind a corner stone in a future fossil-free energy system.”
   
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4. voda 26 augustus 2019 18:20

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   Enova Supporting Hywind Project
   
   Enova has approved an application for funding of up to NOK 2.3 billion to support the Hywind Tampen project for developing the world’s first floating offshore wind farm supplying renewable power to offshore oil and gas installations. Equinor and its partners are considering the possibility of supplying electricity from a floating offshore wind farm to the Gullfaks and Snorre fields. Today the licences received confirmation that the Hywind Tampen project has been granted funding of up to NOK 2.3 billion from Enova’s programme for full-scale innovative energy and climate measures. Earlier the Business Sector’s NOx Fund decided to support the Hywind Tampen project by an investment grant of up to NOK 566 million. Mr Pål Eitrheim, executive vice president for New Energy Solutions in Equinor said that “The support that the licences have received for the Hywind Tampen project demonstrates the will of Norwegian authorities to invest in and develop floating offshore wind farms and renewable energy supplies. With this support we have taken an important step forward in realising the project. Now it is up to the licences to further mature the project towards a final investment decision this autumn.”
   
   Mr Olav-Bernt Haga, project director for Hywind Tampen said that “The Hywind Tampen project will contribute to further developing floating offshore wind technology and reducing the costs of future floating offshore wind farms, offering new industrial opportunities for Norway, the licences and Norwegian supplier industry in a growing global offshore wind market.”
   
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5. [verwijderd] 29 augustus 2019 09:03

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   Netbeheerders schakelen reservesystemen in om extra stroom te leveren
   
   Netbeheerders zetten op twee plekken in Nederland tijdelijk hun reservesystemen in om iedereen van stroom te voorzien. Dat is nodig omdat het stroomnetwerk het groeiende transport van elektriciteit amper aankan.
   
   Binnenlandredactie 29-08-19, 07:50 Laatste update: 08:44
   Reservesystemen zijn normaal gesproken alleen een back-up bij storingen of werkzaamheden. Maar vanwege de toenemende vraag naar elektriciteit en de beperkte capaciteit van het stroomnetwerk heeft de ACM in twee gevallen een tijdelijke ontheffing verleend, zo blijkt uit navraag door BNR Nieuwsradio bij de Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM).
   
   Een woordvoerder van netbeheerder Liander spreekt op BNR van een absolute noodgreep. In Haarlemmermeer wordt het back-upsysteem gebruikt om een aantal grote datacenters te voorzien van stroom, terwijl in Wieringermeer de extra capaciteit wordt gebruikt voor de transport van elektriciteit afkomstig van een groot windmolenpark.
6. izdp 29 augustus 2019 11:47

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   Zie hier het grote nadeel van privaat gemaakte netwerkbeheerders, die een monopoliepositie mogen bezitten.
   Met daarbij natuurlijk een zeer incapabele overheid die van geen kop of staart weet op energiegebied.
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   izdp schreef op 29 augustus 2019 11:47:

   Zie hier het grote nadeel van privaat gemaakte netwerkbeheerders, die een monopoliepositie mogen bezitten.
   Met daarbij natuurlijk een zeer incapabele overheid die van geen kop of staart weet op energiegebied.
   

   ik voel 'n groot "spanningsveld" daar :)
8. voda 30 augustus 2019 16:52

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   Germany Approves EUR 40 Billion Aid for 4 Coal Regions
   
   Reuters reported that Germany's cabinet backed a draft law on Wednesday to funnel billions of euros in financial support to regions affected by plans to phase out coal, days before two of them hold crunch state elections. The draft law envisages state aid totalling EUR 40 billion spread over the next 20 years, mostly to four regions affected by the plans to phase out coal by 2038, part of Germany's transition to renewable energy, known as the Energiewende. Two of the states to benefit are Brandenburg and Saxony, which both hold regional elections on Sunday
   
   A surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany AfD in the two former communist eastern states threatens to wreck Merkel's unwieldy right-left coalition government. Polls show the AfD is running neck and neck with the SPD in Brandenburg, a state the Social Democrats have run since German reunification in 1990, and is a close second to Merkel's Christian Democrats in Saxony. The AfD has sought to attract voters in the poorer East by prioritising coal jobs above the environment.
   
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9. voda 30 augustus 2019 19:23

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   Eolus Completes Swedish Wind Farm Sotterfallan
   
   Eolus has completed wind farm Sötterfällan in Jönköping municipality, Sweden. All conditions for the completion of the transaction between Eolus and KGAL regarding the sale of the wind farm comprising 36 MW have been fulfilled and the buyer has taken over the facility. In December 2017 Eolus signed an agreement with KGAL regarding the sale of wind farm Sötterfällan, comprising 10 Vestas V136 3.6 MW wind turbines. The agreement was made public through a press release on December 22nd, 2017. All conditions for the fulfillment of the transaction regarding the turn key wind farm have been met, payment have occurred and the buyer has taken over the facilities. Included in the agreement made public on December 22nd, 2017, was also the sale of wind farm Anneberg.
   
   Wind farm Anneberg was handed over to KGAL in January 2019.
   
   Eolus will deliver asset management services for the wind farm.
   
   Source : Strategic Research Institute
10. voda 30 augustus 2019 19:24

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    DEME & Eiffage Awarded Contract for Offshore Wind Farm in France
    
    A consortium including DEME and Eiffage Metal has been awarded a major EPCI contract for 80 foundations at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The scope includes the design, fabrication and installation of the steel foundations. The consortium contract has a total value of more than EUR 500 million. The 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, owned by EDF Renewables and Enbridge, will be located between 12 km and 20 km off the coast of the Guerande peninsula in western France. Water depths for the installation range between 12 and 25 metres. Design activities already kicked off in order to start the production of the foundations in spring 2020. The first foundations will be installed offshore, in rocky seabed conditions, during spring 2021, with completion being planned in summer 2022.
    
    The wind farm is expected to generate enough electricity to supply 20% of the Loire-Atlantique department‘s power.
    
    Mr Jan Vandenbroeck, General Manager French Subsidiaries at DEME said that “We are honoured to be awarded the first major EPCI foundation contract in France and to contribute to the country’s ambitious energy transition targets. The contract highlights our technical expertise in providing innovative solutions for the offshore wind industry. The Saint-Nazaire project will deliver drilled monopiles, a new step forward in the offshore wind industry.”
    
    Mr Antoine Brésolin, General Manager at Eiffage Métal said that “Eiffage is very proud to contribute to the first offshore wind farm in France. Already involved on this market in North Europe, where Eiffage Métal, through its subsidiary Smulders, has gathered lots of references for offshore wind farms in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, our Group will now develop its know-how in French waters. We look forward to working with EDF Renewables and Enbridge to complete this project safely and by integrating its environmental features.”
    
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12. voda 2 september 2019 12:59

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    Bouw twee lange energiedammen in zee
    
    Waarom de Noordzee vol bouwen met duizenden windmolens als je op een fractie van de ruimte evenveel of nog meer 100% schone elektriciteit kunt opwekken met constant vermogen? FD-redacteur Bert van Dijk pleit voor nieuw onderzoek naar de haalbaarheid van twee grote energiedammen aan de kust.
    
    Grote problemen vragen om grootse oplossingen. Een stijgende zeespiegel, klimaatverandering en ruimtegebrek op de Noordzee. Nederland worstelt met de energietransitie, maar heeft mogelijk een onconventionele oplossing binnen handbereik: Dynamic Tidal Power (DTP).
    
    DTP werkt door gebruik van tot voor kort onbekend gedrag van getijgolven. Een dam die tientallen kilometers in zee steekt, eindigt met een kilometerslange dwarsdam en vormt zo een grote letter T. Aan weerszijden ontstaat onder invloed van eb en vloed een waterstandsverschil, dat duizenden turbines in het bouwwerk aandrijft.
    
    ‘In vergelijking met wind- en zonne-energie zou deze elektriciteitsproductie een vrijwel constant vermogen bieden’
    • Kees Hulsbergen
    
    Constant vermogen
    
    Kees Hulsbergen, oprichter van onderzoeksbureau Hulsbergen Hydraulic innovation & Design H2iD, kwam dit principe in 1996 op het spoor. Hij stelt voor om twee dammen te bouwen van 50 kilometer lang, elk met een maximumvermogen van 15 gigawatt. In tegenstelling tot het natuurlijk wispelturig gedrag van energie uit wind en zon, zal een combinatie van twee dammen een nagenoeg constant vermogen uit het getij kunnen halen. Dat komt doordat hun productiecurven onderling een faseverschil hebben dankzij het langs de kust trekken van de getijgolf.
    
    €80 mrd
    
    Hulsbergen schat dat zijn tweelingdammen samen goed zullen zijn voor 60 terrawattuur per jaar met volmaakt voorspelbaar en gelijkmatig gedrag. Dat is ruim de helft van het huidige elektriciteitsverbruik in Nederland.
    
    Uit voorlopige berekeningen blijkt dat de aanleg van twee 50 kilometer lange T-dammen met turbines ongeveer €80 mrd zou gaan kosten, voor een kostprijs van nog geen 7 cent per kilowattuur. '€80 mrd klinkt veel, maar 30 gigawatt opgesteld windvermogen inclusief netaansluiting en backupvermogen gaat ook die richting op', zegt Hulsbergen.
    
    Golfluwe lagune
    
    Bovendien biedt een dam veel andere voordelen. Zo is het ruimtebeslag twintig keer kleiner dan wat nodig is om dezelfde elektriciteit met windmolens op de Noordzee op te wekken. Daarnaast creëren de dammen 'vanzelf' een golfluwe lagune zo groot als Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland en Utrecht samen. Alles wat Nederland daar zou willen aanleggen, zoals ‘Schiphol-West’, Maasvlakte III, steden, vakantieoorden en natuur, wordt daardoor volgens Hulsbergen aanzienlijk goedkoper.
    
    Nadelen heeft Hulsbergens plan ook. Het is onbewezen, want nergens in de wereld ligt zo'n grote energiedam. Beter en meer onderzoek kan daarom helpen het initiatief naar een volgende fase te helpen.
    
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    Waar ik gelijk aan denk is onze kust en de verstoring van zandaanvoer.
    De zandmotor loopt nu al een tijd als groot project voor praktijkonderzoek hoe onze kustlijn als beschermingswal in stand te houden.
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    izdp schreef op 2 september 2019 15:01:

    Waar ik gelijk aan denk is onze kust en de verstoring van zandaanvoer.
    De zandmotor loopt nu al een tijd als groot project voor praktijkonderzoek hoe onze kustlijn als beschermingswal in stand te houden.
    

    Iedere dijk voor de kust levert meer zand op.
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    Met 50 km in zee?
    Lijkt me toch een forse onderbreking met grote gevolgen voor een lang deel na die dammen.
    
    Nog iets verder en we raken zo de warme golfstroom kwijt.
    Krijgen we alsnog al die elfstedentochten en stoken we ons blauw ;-)
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    Deutsche Bucht Wind Turbines Installed Offshore Germany
    
    Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus has installed 31 turbines on monopiles at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. As the Balance of Plant contractor, Van Oord was responsible for the design, engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the foundations, inter array cables, and offshore substation. The Aeolus was deployed for the transport and installation of the wind turbines.
    
    In January, the company installed the last of 31 monopiles. In July, the cable installation vessel Nexus and trencher Dig-It installed and buried more than 40 km (25 mi) of inter array cables.
    
    Installation and cabling of the two mono bucket foundations and their turbines are planned for 4Q.
    
    Owned by Northland Power, the 269-MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm is expected to meet the needs of about 328,000 households per year.
    
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    Vestas Receives 60 MW Order in Finland
    
    Vestas has secured an order from the Nordic developer OX2 backed by the UK investor Infracapital for the wind projects Kröpuln and Storbacken in Western Finland that will be realised on a merchant basis without any direct financial support. The projects have a total capacity of 60 MW of V150-4.2 MW turbines delivered in Power Optimised Mode to maximise power production based on the sites’ specific wind conditions. The contract includes supply, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a 30-year Active Output Management service agreement and a VestasOnline® Business SCADA solution to lower turbine downtime and optimise the energy output. The order confirms the strong and long-term collaboration between Vestas and OX2, as the two partners have now announced new wind projects together every consecutive year for the past 13 years. Wind turbine delivery is planned to begin in the second quarter of 2021, with commissioning expected in the third quarter of 2021.
    
    Mr Paul Stormoen CEO of OX2 said that “Vestas has developed turbines and service structures very well fit for the Nordic unsubsidised market and we are very happy to strengthen the long-standing relationship between OX2 and Vestas with this project.”
    
    Mr Christer Baden Hansen, Vice President Sales North & West, Vestas Northern & Central Europe said that “This merchant order underlines how a tailored technical solution that leverages our market experience and project expertise enables a highly competitive business case for our long-term customer OX2 and their partners. These wind projects once again confirm wind energy’s increasing competitiveness and offer lowest cost of energy to the Finish energy consumers.”
    
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    EPCG Shareholders Approve Investment in Gvozd wind farm project
    
    Shareholders of state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore have approved an investment into a joint EUR 58 million project with Austria’s Ivicom Holding to build the Gvozd wind farm. Mr Ivan Mrvaljevic head of development and engineering at EPCG said earlier this year that EPCG could launch construction on the Gvozd wind farm in 2020, and that the wind farm was expected to go on stream in 2022, according to earlier reports. In 2018, EPCG signed a memorandum of understanding with Ivicom Holding concerning the project to build the 50 MW Gvozd wind farm, which is planned to produce 140 GWh of electricity annually.
    
    At the time, EPCG said that financing for the wind farm project on the Gvozd-Krnovo location in the municipality of Niksic would be in the form of loans, for the most part drawn from international finance institutions and that feed-in tariffs are not planned for this project.
    
    Source : Strategic Research Institute
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    EPS invites EOI for Construction of 66 MW Kostolac Wind Farm
    
    State power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije has issued an invitation for expressions of interest in international public bidding for the Procurement of Goods, Works and Associated Services for the Renewable Energy Project Kostolac – Wind Park, Serbia, which will be EPS first wind farm. The project includes the construction of a 66 MW wind farm in Kostolac, 90 km east of Belgrade on the Danube River, the invitation reads. The application deadline is October 1, while tendering for the project is expected to take place in Q4/2019, EPS said in the invitation published in local newspapers. The investment will be financed from a KWf loan. EPS and KfW signed a loan agreement worth EUR 80 million in November 2017.
    
    According to the invitation, project development is already under way (the Environmental Impact Assessment Study has been completed, along with the Feasibility Study with the Preliminary Design and Building Permit Design for the Kostolac Wind Farm, and the Conceptual Solution for internal roads), and a building permit has already been obtained for most of the project.
    
    The project is divided into two tenders. Tender 1: Wind turbines, foundations, electrical works including 20 wind turbines with a maximum wind turbine rotor height (hub height) of 117 m; and Tender 2: Civil engineering works including internal roads and connections to access roads. The objective of the project is to increase and diversify energy resources and contribute to the generation of electricity in Serbia without the emission of harmful gases, and hence without adverse environmental impacts. The project will also contribute to sustainable economic development, social development, and environmental and climate protection, according to the invitation.
    
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    SCADA EDGE Brings the IoT to The Wind Farm
    
    The management and visualisation software is a key component of wind turbine generators. The system controls and manages the wind turbines and the wind farm in order to ensure a maximum yield. With Nordex OS™ SCADA EDGE the Nordex Group now offers the next generation of their operations control system on the basis of a virtual, hardware-independent automatic solution. Nordex OS™ SCADA EDGE is based on an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) platform jointly developed with Software AG and its Cumulocity IoT solution.
    
    In order to keep the cost of energy as low as possible wind farms have to be operated at the best possible performance and availability levels. This can be achieved when each individual turbine is constantly adjusted by the SCADA system for interaction with other turbines in the wind farm, the ongoing wind data processed in real time, as well as the local grid conditions. These standard conditions are fulfilled by the current proven Nordex Control 2 SCADA system. In addition to this, the new Nordex OS™ SCADA EDGE offers the possibility of accessing and displaying more data as well as including other components of the wind farm - such as the substation or battery storage. As this is a virtual solution, the new SCADA system can also be applied to other wind farm components to be added later. It is fully hardware-independent and thus future-proof as it also operates on future generations of server hardware.
    
    With the standard IIoT platform data and processes can be used both centrally and decentral. As an "on-premise solution“, Nordex OS™ Control Center is used to collect all data worldwide centrally in Hamburg, Germany.
    
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    New business Area Within Feasibility Studies for Offshore Wind
    
    Semco Maritime to leverage two decades of offshore wind project experience into a new business area focusing on the concept and feasibility phases of offshore wind projects. Semco Maritime has a significant footprint in the offshore wind market, providing EPC solutions for offshore high-voltage substations (in cooperation with long-term partners Bladt Industries and ISC Consulting Engineers) as well as services and maintenance for offshore wind balance of plant. All in all, these business areas have been part of Semco Maritime’s offerings for almost two decades, and adding a new business area dedicated to concept and feasibility studies extends Semco Maritime’s offerings to cover almost the full life cycle of any offshore wind project. The offerings provided by Semco Maritime may include studies related to how to transmit offshore wind power to the onshore power grids factoring in the balance between project capital versus operational expenditures and asset availability.
    
    Mr Tommy Flindt, Director of Technology, Offshore Wind said that “We have found that our unique in-house technical skills and experience can be leveraged into the early concept phases of developing offshore wind sites, ensuring that proper considerations are evaluated and that the right decisions are taken at an early stage. We have decades of successful EPC experience and feedback from sites in operation, and it will all be available to the benefit of our customers.” Mr Tommy Flindt added that “The studies for the offshore wind market cover a wide range of technical disciplines. As for some selected competencies, we are partnering with other strong engineering companies in the market. These partnerships have already been tried and tested on a number of successfully delivered studies for the European, Taiwanese and US offshore wind markets where our EPC and service experience has created good value and been of benefit to our customers.”
    
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