Danish Offshore Wind A/S has

submitted an open door appli-

cation to the Danish Energy

Authority regarding the poten-

tial for the establishment of an

455MW offshore wind farm

at the Danish side of Kriegers

Flak. Danish Offshore is a joint

venture between the companies

WPD and Wind-projekt. The

area Kriegers Flak is situated

approximately 25 km east of

Mon and the application covers

at a maximum 91 x 5MW tur-

bines. WPD and Wind-Projekt

have already developed offshore

wind farms on the German and

Swedish side of Kriegers Flak.

The two projects are Kriegers

Flak I (Germany, 80 turbines

in the size of 5 MW, permis-

sions received for wind farms

and cabling) and Kriegers Flak

II (Sweden, 128 turbines in

the size of 5 MW, permission

received for wind farm, since

May 2005 owned by Vattenfall

having WPD as a consultant). If

the Danish side of Kriegers Flak

is also used for wind power, the

total complex will represent the

largest offshore wind farm in the

world with up to 299 turbines

and an output of up to 1.5 GW.

It is also the first international

wind farm area with projects

from three countries meet-

ing each other. Several wind

studies and the Environmental

Impact Assessments (EIA) for

the German and Swedish side

of Kriegers Flak showed that

the area is well suited for wind

power generation. www.wpd.se

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455 MW offshore wind farm proposed

Liberty turbine heads to Lake Erie

SolarWorld AG secures 8MW order

Sputnik wins Solar Prize

Conergy launches Asia-Pacific HQ

Greener building company launched

PV conference sets new recordThe 21st European Photovoltaic

Solar Energy Conference (EU

PVSEC) received a record-break-

ing number of visitors at the

venue this year in Dresden.

With 2,700 scientists, industry

representatives and politicians

from 95 countries and around

3,600 visitors to the parallel

trade exhibition, EU PVSEC has

positioned itself as a leading

global platform for exchange

between research and industrial

application. EU PVSEC 2006

was supported by the European

Commission, the Federal Ministry

for the Environment, Nature

Conservation and Nuclear Safety,

UNESCO, the World Council for

Renewable Energy (WCRE), the

European Photovoltaic Industry

Association (EPIA), the German

Solar Industry Association (BSW

e.V.) and the City of Dresden.

Conergy, one of the leading

solar energy companies in

Europe and a leading inter-

national supplier in other fast

growing fields of renewable

energies such as bio- and wind

energy has opened its new

Headquarters in Singapore to

expand its business further

into the Asia-Pacific region.

The opening ceremony was

officiated by Guest-of-Honour,

Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister

for the Environment and Water

Resources Singapore and Mr

Hans-Martin Rüter, CEO and

Founder of Conergy. With an

expected turnover of more

than 1 billion US$ in 2006 and

more than 1,300 staff, Conergy

is the largest solar company in

Europe. www.conergy.deA new company, GreenerLiving

Homes has been created to

enable people building their own

home, to create properties that

look and function like conven-

tional homes, but which signifi-

cantly reduce the impact on the

environment. The company aims

to make it easy for consumers to

have their very own eco-friendly

home helping its customers to

minimise the environmental

impact of their everyday lives.

Its properties will also have sig-

nificant health benefits for their

occupants, particularly for the

growing number of people with

asthma or allergies. The service

offering includes everything from

arranging an initial feasibility

study and producing bespoke

design work (by RIBA chartered

architects), to sourcing local

builders and the specialist materi-

als and systems required.

www.greenerlivinghomes.co.uk

Clipper Windpower Plc has

announced that under a sup-

ply Agreement with UPC Wind,

eight of the Company’s first

commercially-available 2.5 MW

Liberty wind turbines, the larg-

est wind turbines assembled

in the U.S. and the first to

deploy a unique distributed

powertrain, will be utilized in

the Steel Winds Wind Farm,

the first wind power project to

be built on the U.S. shores of

Lake Erie. Located just south of

Buffalo, New York, in the suburb

of Lackawanna, the Project is

currently under development

by UPC Wind and its partner

BQ Energy. Sited along the

Lake Erie shoreline, the Project

will provide for the redevelop-

ment of land long occupied by

an abandoned steel factory.

Project completion is expected

by year-end 2006.

www.clipperwind.com

SolarWorld AG (ISIN:

DE0005108401) has secured

its biggest export order to

date in an agreement with the

Spanish Instituto Technológico

y de Energías Renovables (ITER),

Tenerife, for the supply of solar

modules with a total capac-

ity of 8 Megawatt (MW) until

the middle of 2007. In 2005

SolarWorld AG had already

supplied solar modules with

an output of more than 2 MW

to ITER. With the SolarWorld

modules ITER will build Spain’s

biggest large-scale solar power

station on the Canary Islands.

www.solarworld.de

Swiss inverter manufacturer,

Sputnik Engineering AG has

received the Swiss Solar Prize

for “its notable commitment to

advancing the use of solar ener-

gy”. The Swiss Solar Prize aims

to raise the energy efficiency in

buildings and the production

of renewable energies, espe-

cially solar energy. Since 1991

the prize has been awarded

annually from the Solar Agency

Switzerland. The solar prize jury

is made up of 20 architects,

energy planners and engineers.

Sputnik Engineering AG was

founded in 1991 as a spin-off

company of the Engineering

School in Biel, Switzerland, and

has focused its activities since

then exclusively on the produc-

tion of inverters for grid-con-

nected PV systems.

www.solarmax.com

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