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10.12.09

I begynnelsen av oktober ble Vindklyngen tatt inn i arenaprogrammet, et nasjonalt klyngeutviklingsprogram i regi av Innovasjon Norge, SIVA og Forskningsrådet. Dette innebærer økt tilførsel av utviklingsmidler og en unik mulighet for å synliggjøre og utvikle leverandørmiljøet innen vindkraft i Midt- Norge. Samtlige bedrifter som har vist interesse så langt vil bli invitert til en KICK OFF på nyåret hvor målet er å bli bedre kjent og diskutere konkrete prosjekter/problemstillinger som kan tas tak i. Leverandørmiljøet med tyng

01.10.09

NorWind successfully installs six jackets for offshore wind at Alpha Ventus, Germany’s first offshore wind farm NorWind has successfully build and installed the world’s first jackets for the offshore wind industry based on the concept of pre-installed piles at Germany’s first offshore wind farm, the Alpha Ventus Project.

Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) lokaliseres til Bergen

Two of the eight national research centers for environmentally-friendly energy were yesterday awarded to the Christian Michelsens Institutt (CMR) located in Bergen.

NorWind and Grieg Logistics are among the industrial companies supporting the application that has now secured several million NOKs in annual development finance for the next five years.

In addition to the wind center CMR has also been given responsibility as the Center for CO2 storage. In total the Bergen community receives NOK 25 million annually, of which 15 million is earmarked for research on energy from wind at sea.

It was the Minister of Oil and Energy, Mr. Terje Riis-Johansen, who assigned the center positions during the Energy Week 2009 in Oslo on Wednesday 4 February. Commenting on the award, the CMR-director Hans Roar Sørheim says:
- Power generation from wind energy at sea is a new and large industrial opportunity for Norway and Norwegian industry in an area where no ready-made technological solutions yet exist.

The impact for the Grieg Group is that company now will be located close to the reasearch center of gravity at one of their strategic focus areas.
NorWind currently presides over a project with the objective to establish an industrial cluster on the western coast of Norway which form will establish a venue for the commercialization of offshore wind power.

(For more information about the national research centers for environmentally-friendly energy, read more on the homepage of the Research Council.