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| European Wind Energy Conference - Warsaw | Megajoule developed and tested a methodology for mapping wind resources in any location on the globe, using the WRF (weather research and forecasting) model. Amongst its projects, Megajoule made the first wind resource map for East Timor in cooperation with Martifer Renewables in 2008, as well as many studies of micrositing wind parks in Central and Eastern Europe using Mesoscale Modelling data. Guilherme Chagas, head of the Mesoscale unit, believes that “the high-quality Mesoscale results produced at Megajoule|Inovação can significantly reduce the time to market of wind development projects. By complementing measurement campaigns with our accurate Mesoscale data, we can also help to reduce the uncertainty associated with short-term measurement campaigns and have a much better picture of the wind behaviour over the lifetime of a wind farm.” The next possibility to meet and talk with the managing directors of MEGAJOULE and Megajoule|Inovação will be the EWEC 2010 that will take place this April in Warsaw. http://www.ewec2010.info/ | |
| British Designed, Polish Manufactured Boiler an Example of Cooperation | Martin Oxley, CEO of the British Polish Chamber of Commerce (BPCC), said: “If there are two areas of greatest interest when it comes to the Polish economy these days, they are infrastructure and energy. If Poland is to increase its share of energy generated through renewables to 20% by 2020, from 3% today, it means a vast amount of investment will be required.” In one situation, Torftech has been manufacturing its boilers in Poland for export to markets like Canada, Holland, Denmark and Germany, but the Świdnica plant will be the first such commercial project undertaken by the company in Poland itself. | |
| WIND FARM PROFESSIONALS NEEDED- Poland/South Eastern Europe | The ever increasing global need to generate power from sustainable sources has lead to rapid increase in projects of this nature - particularly in wind energy. As such a number of Polish businesses now want to recruit all types of wind farm professionals for projects across South East Europe. | |
| EBRD/Iberdrola Subsidiaries Team for Eastern Europe Wind Development | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced plans to finance projects in several emerging wind energy markets in eastern Europe.
The EBRD, a London-based international financial institution that supports projects in 29 countries from central Europe to central Asia, said it would acquire 25% stakes in the Hungarian and Polish subsidiaries of the Spanish wind power Iberdrola. The EBRD will invest a maximum of EUR125million for the stakes and will also evaluate the possibility of collaborating with Iberdrola in the Romanian market. | |
| Polish Power Market Prices Affect Renewables | Vattenfall [VATN.UL] and others will not invest in new power generation in Poland until prices rise to make such outlays worthwhile, something that may take a few years, an official at the Swedish utility said on recently.
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| Future of Renewable Energy - Market Barometer | The ‘Market Barometer – Future of Renewable Energy’ in Poland congress was held on January 20-21 in Warsaw. The conference provided very optimistic views on the development of renewable energy market in Poland. | |
| Pellet Operation in Poland is Progressing | MHG Systems Ltd and Polish Research Innovation Group Ltd – R.I.G. – plan an enterprise resource management system for pellet production and short rotation forestry (SRF) in Poland. As a first phase the delivery consists of management systems for R.I.G.´s own pellet production based on agro wastes, wood wastes and SRF. MHG Pellet ERP and MHG SRF ERP enable tracing of origin of feedstock, management and monitoring of feedstock quality and quantity, logistics, and development of carbon footprint of pellet supply chain. | |
| STX Group Wins $428M Deal to Supply Wind Turbines | STX Group, a South Korean business conglomerate, said Wednesday that it has clinched a 300 million euro (US$428 million) order to build wind farms in eastern European nations including Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. | |
| Jabil Circuit to Manufacture 45MW of Solar Modules at Polish Plant | BP Solar has signed an agreement with Jabil Circuit to manufacture BP Solar modules for the European market in Jabil’s plant in Poland. The deal calls for an initial capacity of 45MW in 2009, with the opportunity for expansion as demand increases. BP, which is increasingly outsourcing its production, joins SunPower and Day4 Energy as customers of Jabil's PV module contract-manufacturing program.
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| Iberdrola Renovables Opens Office in Romania | Iberdrola Renovables has 700 MW of wind projects well along in their planning stages. Adrian Goicea, a Romanian national, has been appointed Country Manager. With this move, IBERDROLA RENOVABLES has bolstered its presence in Eastern Europe, adding to its existing operations in Poland, Hungary, Estonia and Bulgaria.
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| Technical Support for Wind in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania | Wind Prospect’s consultancy division has signed a five-year contract to provide development and technical services to GE Energy. | |
| Polish AIT PV Modules Announce Innovative Interconnection System | AIT Revolution 6 modules have an time saving front-side electrical interconnection. | |
| Greenergy Planning Investments in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. | Greenergy, a company that operates small co-generation power plants, is spending €20 million on acquisitions and developments this year, according to CEO József Spilkó as told to MTI-Econews and reported in the Budapest Business Journal.
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| CEZ Eyes Renewable Options in Central and Eastern Europe | PRAGUE, Sep 1 (Reuters) - Czech power group CEZ is eyeing smaller renewable energy projects in central and eastern Europe to make up for a lack of large-scale acquisition opportunities, CEZ's head of acquisitions Vladimir Schmalz said. | |
| New Study Explores Wind Potential for Central and Eastern Europe |
The following study covers the development and dynamics of the wind energy industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Political will and administrative procedures are dramatically changing as the need for energy security, and the ambitious European Union renewable energy targets drive the wind energy market in the CEE region. Nevertheless, sluggish policy developments, effects of the global financial crisis, in addition to supply bottlenecks and grid connection problems slow down the momentum, thereby exposing the markets largest shortfalls, and highest potential. Wind energy boasts of increased attention in the region also due to looming power crises forecasted in many largest CEE countries, such as Turkey and Poland.
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