Renewable Energy World Markets

Sample Projects

Project Title: Shanghai Wind

          location: Shanghai, China

          startup date: 2005

          size: 21  MW

          project type: Wind

          descriptions: This is the first of two utility-scale wind projects to be built in Shanghai. It wil consist of 14 1.5 MW turbines.

Contractors:

          GE Energy   Wind Turbines

          Shanghai Power Industrial & Commercial - Owner

          Shanghai Wind Power Co. -  Constructor

Project Title: Victorville Project

          location: Victorville, CA

          startup date: 2011

          size: 500  MW

          project type: Solar, Stirling Dish Technology

          descriptions: Southern California Edison has signed a 20 year power purchase agreement. The agreement included the option to expand the project to 850 MW. Stirling dish technology converts thermal energy to electricity by using a mirror array to focus the sun's rays on the receiver end of a Stirling engine. The internal side of the receiver then heats hydrogen gas, which expands and causes the pressure to drive a piston, crank shaft and drive shaft assembly similar to internal combusiton engines. The entire conversion process takes place within a canister the size of an oil barrel, and requires no water and is emission free.

Contractors:

          Sothern California Edison  -  Power Purchaser

          Stirling Energy Systems -  Developer

Project Title: UPM's Rauma Paper Mill

          location: west coast, Finland

          startup date: 2006

          size: 107  MW

          project type: Biomass

          descriptions: The plant will burn bark, forest residue, peat, sludge and a small amount of recycled fuel in a bubbling fluidized bed boiler.

Contractors:

          Kvaerner Power - boiler