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Germany’s Siemens will install 18-MW of wind power in north west Japan after being awarded a contract from Japanese developer Eurus Energy. Siemens will deliver and maintain six turbines Six 3-3.5 MW turbines which will be installed at Japan’s Akita Port and are expected to be operational by mid-2014.
Shanghai Electric and Siemens have announced the completion of the 50-MW wind power plant at Guangrao in China’s Shandong Provice. It is the first project jointly delivered by the two companies which signed an alliance at the end of 2011, using two subsidiaries - Siemens Wind Power Turbines (Shanghai) and Shanghai Electric Wind Energy Co.
Read Full Story Companies from the US, China, Germany and Japan will face each other on December 6 in an auction to buy A123 Systems Inc, a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was partly funded by the US government.
Siemens’ Drive Technologies Division has been awarded the contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to provide eco-friendly propulsion and power generation system for the 20 Triple-E class container ships it is building for Demark’s AP Moller-Maersk Group (Maersk Line).
Germany’s Siemens Energy has won an order to supply solar receivers for a parabolic trough power plant to be built in India.
Siemens AG, the world’s largest maker of offshore wind turbines, is making big moves into Asia’s onshore sector with the announcement of a big win in Thailand and plans to take on its competitors in the hotly contested China market.
German electronics giant Siemens has signalled an intention to set up two joint ventures with utility Shanghai Electric, in order to form a strategic alliance for the development of wind power projects in China.
A new complex solar project has captured a final USD346 million of investment from Hanas New Energy Group (Hanas) and construction has begun. The 92.5MW integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) trough solar power plant in Ningxia, China, is Asia's first ISCC.
China has growing strength in wind turbines
China has taken on the Western companies that dominate the USD70 billion international wind-turbine market, striving to repeat its 2010 coup when the Asian nation sold more than half the world's solar panels for the first time, according to a detailed report by Bloomberg. Armed with at least USD15.5 billion in state-backed credit, China's biggest windmill makers Sinovel Wind Group and Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology won their first major foreign orders in the past year.
The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of multinational deals in the hybrid and electric car market. Latest to the table is China's Geely-owned Volvo.