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WINDENERGY 2014 RECHARGE OFFICIAL EVENT DAILY ProducedHAMBURG by RECHARGE rechargenews.com ANDREW LEE A rgentinas renewables programme is well shielded to ride out the economic storm battering the country, claimed the governments renewable energy under-secretary. Argentina seen as one of the worlds key emerging wind and solar markets is struggling with a contracting economy, falling currency and strikes, but Sebastian Kind said the global wind industry should take comfort from measures put in place to reassure international investors in its renewables sector. Of course the country is suffering turbulence in terms of the depreciation of the currency and so on, said Kind, the countrys most senior renewableenergy official, in an interview with Recharge at the Global Wind Summit. Its an unfortunate situation. But the renewables programme [is] so well shielded out of Argentinian risk that we are still on track, even though we are in this situation. Kind led the design of the countrys RenovAr programme, which has driven procurement of 6GW of wind and solar since the current government came to power in 2015. The programme features safeguards such as US-dollar-denominated 20-year power-purchase agreements, underwritten by the Argentinian Treasury, and a $500m World Bank guarantee. Vestas turbines under construction at the 100MW Corti wind farm in Argentina. Argentine renewables build-out protected from economic crisis He claimed the derisking mechanism of the framework has been proved by the power prices achieved under RenovAr, which have been among the lowest in the world around $40/MWh at the last tender round. We obtained investment-grade-economy prices although we are not an investment-grade economy, said Kind. The official said he is not necessarily expecting prices to fall further in the 400MW MiniRen tender for renewables projects of up to 10MW that comprises the latest round of RenovAr next month, and is designed to keep the programme bubbling while the country addresses transmission capacity issues. We got very fast to a very low [power price range] very quickly. There is still margin. We can still squeeze a little bit more out of that, but we know we cant expect another 50% of discount in the tariff. Andrés Gismondi, Vestas sales director for Latam South Cone, said the wind OEM which is weeks away from opening a nacelle factory in the country and has 1.5GW of projects under execution there remains steady in a long-term commitment to the Argentine market. Hacking kings Alpha-I and Power2U win wind-power hackathon LEIGH COLLINS 4 rechargenews.com development skills. António Vidigal, chief executive of EDP Innovation added: We believe that our industry is moving from capital intensive to knowledge intensive, and EDP is betting on an Open Innovation Model which allows EDP to leverage on external talent. It was also the right place and time to launch our EDP Open Data initiative, which puts digital and domain knowledge together. We look forward to partnering in new hackathons. The teams were challenged with two tasks over 48 hours during the Global Wind Summit, with Siemens Gamesa mentoring work on blockchain applications for hybrid systems optimisation and EDP Renewables mentoring the predictive maintenance and O&M optimisation solutions. Two other entrants, Chlorophyll and ODS AI, won the €2,000 prize for the best technical achievement on each challenge, while InnoEnergy awarded an In-Kind prize namely, business coaching services to both Alpha-I and Ginkgo. Photography Pampa Energia Recharge Teams from Alpha-I and Power2U hacked their way to €5,000 prizes at the second edition of the Hack the Wind energy hackathon, held under a deal between industry advocacy body WindEurope and European sustainable-energy innovation outfit InnoEnergy. The decision was announced by a jury experts in the wind sector, led by mentor companies EDPR and Siemens Gamesa, and including Recharge editor-in- chief Darius Snieckus. We believe in the benefit that can be obtained from open innovation environments, as way to generate new ideas on the challenges of our industry, said Antonio de la Torre, chief technology officer of Siemens Gamesa. Hack The Wind gave us deep insights on what crossfunctional teams are to achieve, combining blockchain knowledge, data analytics capabilities, understanding of the energy domain, and not least, front-end OFFICIAL SHOW DAILY Global Wind Summit 2018 Visit us at Stand 318, Hall B7 Visit us at Stand 318, Hall B7 Produced by RECHARGE rechargenews.com Poland to unveil 1GW renewables tender BERND RADOWITZ Photograph Bernd Radowitz P olands energy regulator is expected to announce details of a clos WINDENERGY 2014 RECHARGE OFFICIAL EVENT DAILY ProducedHAMBURG by RECHARGE rechargenews.com BERND RADOWITZ Siemens Gamesas offshore wind boss, Andreas Nauen Photography Siemens Gamesa A fter Taiwan, Japan will be the next big market for offshore wind power in Asia, with projects of at least WINDENERGY 2014 RECHARGE OFFICIAL EVENT DAILY ProducedHAMBURG by RECHARGE rechargenews.com ANDREW LEE A rgentinas renewables programme is well shielded to ride out the economic storm battering the country, claimed the governments renewable energy under-secretary. Argentina seen as one of the Equinors Dudgeon project off the UK New investment in ports could save 5.3% on offshore LCOE CHRISTOPHER HOPSON Equinor and Petrobras to build offshore wind projects in Brazil ANAMARIA DEDULEASA Photograph Equinor B razilian oil group Petrobras and Norways Equinor have signed a memorandum of u L TA GI M DI OR W TF NE PLA AN INVESTMENT IN KNOWLEDGE ALWAYS PAYS THE BEST INTEREST Benjamin Franklin RECHARGE has been reporting from of the renewable energy industry, the front lines of the renewables where only the what is reported, industry on five continents since not the why not the ho Spanish wind sector welcomes energy reforms CHRISTOPHER HOPSON S pains long-suffering wind industry has given a big welcome to major government reforms of the electricity sector, designed to encourage the wider deployment of renewables, while rolling back many of the restrictions imposed by the pr The WindEnergy Hamburg app 2018 Extremely practical: the services offered by the WindEnergy Hamburg App. It helps you to make the ideal preparations for your visit. 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More than 50 conference sessions and over 500 speakers and presenters will put you at OEMs may soon begin outsourcing offshore blade supply KARL-ERIK STROMSTA G lobal turbine OEMs that have outsourced a growing portion of their onshore blade production may soon begin doing so for offshore projects as well, TPI Composites chief executive Steve Lockard tells Recharge. Historically th 20-21 November Amsterdam Okura Hotel Connecting renewable energy buyers and sellers TOPICS INCLUDE: Corporate sourcing strategies and business models Markets and regulation Demand growth and diversification: How to turn 50 corporates into 50,000? Innovation Standardisation Guarantees of origin Cit Vietnam approves higher FIT for wind Fishermen working near Vietnams first wind farm, the 99.2MW Bac Lieu facility, in the southern province of the same name ANDREW LEE V ietnams government has signed off an increase to the countrys wind power feed-in tariff (FIT), in a bid to spur higher levels WINDENERGY 2014 RECHARGE OFFICIAL EVENT DAILY ProducedHAMBURG by RECHARGE rechargenews.com ANDREW LEE Photography AFP/Getty Nordex S 14 outh Africas renewables sector hopes intensive lobbying can persuade its government to avoid another self-inflicted policy wound, just when it seemed the three years or so. Along with others in the renewables lobby, it hopes the 60-day consultation window that opened after the publication of the draft IRP can be used to Boom and bust procurement can be very damaging to the development of a localised supply chain, SAWEA tells Recharge in a statement. 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