Subscribing to this RSS feed gives you all the lastest news from GH http://www.garradhassan.com Garrad Hassan is today being presented with the most prestigious business award in the UK, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2008. The award has been given to GH for its excellence in International Trade. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#66 Garrad Hassan (GH) and nine other industry and academic leaders have already been collaborating to put together a successful proposal for EU support for the new RELIAWIND project, with the aim of measuring and understanding historical reliability to create a new generation of more intelligent and reliable wind turbines expected to generate electricity more cheaply. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#65 Garrad Hassan and Partners (GH) in Bristol, UK is acting as the Technical Advisor to the Morocco state-owned utility Office National de l'Electricité (ONE) in support of an RFP for a 300 MW wind farm to be developed near Tarfaya on the Atlantic coast in Southern Morroco. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#64 Garrad Hassan (GH) announces reaching its target for 2007, providing reliable forecasts for 3GW of wind energy worldwide. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#63 Garrad Hassan (GH) releases new version 3.6 of its wind farm design software, GH WindFarmer. The leading software package with its powerful features is available in 10 languages and with high quality global support. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#62 Garrad Hassan (GH) advised the Queensland Government of Australia on the AUD 460 million sale of their five Australian wind farms including a wind farm development pipeline to Transfield Services Infrastructure Limited. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#61 In January 2008 Joao Cruz will join Garrad Hassan (GH), where he will lead wave energy activities within the GH Marine Renewables Group. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#60 Garrad Hassan (GH) announces the opening of a new office in Turkey. Garrad Hassan now has offices in 17 countries: Australia (Newcastle and Melbourne), Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Spain (Barcelona and Zaragoza), Turkey and The USA (San Diego, Austin, Peterborough and Portland). http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#59 Garrad Hassan (GH) is proud to release version v3.80 of GH Bladed, its wind turbine design software. Cutting edge developments include the new Hardware Test and the Advanced Transmission Interface Module options. New exclusive features are also now available in the Base and the Advanced Processing Modules. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#58 This month Garrad Hassan (GH) launches their new international Asset Management and Optimisation Services group, AMOS. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#57 Insensys, the leading provider of fibre optic load measurement systems for blades and Garrad Hassan the leading developer of pitch control algorithms have combined forces to develop an integrated package which enables turbine manufacturers to achieve significant reductions in rotor, shaft and tower loads. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#56 Garrad Hassan (GH) has secured funding support to carry out an important new study for the innovative Wave Hub project, off the coast of the South West of England. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#55 Garrad Hassan Canada Inc. (GH) will host a seminar and offer two days of professional training in conjunction with the Canadian Wind Energy Association's 23rd Annual Conference and Trade Show. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#54 Garrad Hassan (GH) has acted as Technical Adviser to DONG Energy regarding the Spanish and Portuguese wind farm portfolio in DONG Energy’s sale of all of its shares in its Iberian renewables business, Energi E2 Renovables Ibéricas S.L. (E2-I) to E.ON for a price equalling an enterprise value of EUR 722m. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#51 Garrad Hassan (GH) has achieved spectacular success in China with the sale of its wind turbine and wind farm design software products: GH Bladed and GH WindFarmer. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#53 On October 1st 2007 Lars Landberg will join Garrad Hassan (GH). Lars will be based in Copenhagen, Denmark where he will open a new GH office. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#50 Garrad Hassan Ibérica announces the opening of two new offices: in Monterrey, Mexico and Porto, Portugal. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#49 Garrad Hassan (GH) advised Trinergy on the €1.8 billion (US$2.5 billion) sale of their German and Italian wind farms to British-based International Power Plc. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#48 In conjunction with Wind Power Asia (28-30 June 2007), Garrad Hassan held an evening seminar in Beijing on GH WindFarmer. The seminar complemented the day to day support provided by our Chinese office experts to our users and gave a live introduction for newcomers. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#47 On June 26 2007 Alstom announced its acquisition of the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Ecotècnia for €350 million. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#46 Garrad Hassan (GH) have been contracted by npower renewables to undertake the Front End Engineering Development (FEED) study for the 750MW Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of North Wales. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#45 GH will undertake the design and implementation of the control system for Tidal Generation Limited’s (TGL) 500kW prototype tidal turbine. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#44 Garrad Hassan currently forecast for approximately 30% of wind energy in Texas, USA. Texas is currently the highest ranking state in the United States for wind energy production, with a total installed capacity of 2,749 MW (AWEA, March 2007). http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#43 Garrad Hassan has developed an interface between the GH SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) solution and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MWT92 2.4 MW turbine. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#41 Garrad Hassan has recently been selected by Airtricity to provide its GH SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) solution for monitoring and control of the 209 MW Roscoe wind farm in Texas. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#42 Garrad Hassan has been awarded a contract to supply its GH Forecaster service to the Hellenic Transmission System Operator (HTSO / Desmie, the Greek TSO) with the objective of forecasting short term wind energy production throughout Greece for the next three years. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#40 Garrad Hassan was contracted by Energias de Portugal (EDP) to act as the technical advisor for wind energy projects and engineering on the Horizon Portfolio, which EDP has agreed to buy from Goldman Sachs in a deal valued at $2.15 billion. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#39 The leading wind farm design software has just become even better. New exclusive features include an advanced noise impact assessment, a wake model for large offshore wind farms, new procedures to help you process your wind data and a GL certified link to GH Bladed. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#38 Garrad Hassan is very pleased that the UK just passed the 2000 MW of wind energy milestone. The UK took 14 years to reach the 1000 MW barrier but has reached the 2000 MW barrier in less than an additional two years. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#37 On 5th December 2006, Garrad Hassan signed a Consultancy Agreement with China Zhejiang Windey Engineering Co. Ltd. to provide engineering design and training services to Zhejiang Windey for its new 1.5MW wind turbine development. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#35 The 5th BWEA regatta was held on 5 September 2006, sailing from Port Solent in Sunfast 37 yachts. The event attracted 43 boats fielded from 33 companies in the wind energy industry. The GH crew put in an admirable performance in the light winds and changing tides to finish 3rd, the best placing to date for a GH boat. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#34 Helmut Klug will be joining GH's German office in January 2007. Helmut has worked in the wind energy world for 16 years and is a well-known figure both nationally in Germany and internationally. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#33 Following the highly successful training in turbine design during April, GH has recently given training in wind farm design to a large number of Chinese wind farm development engineers. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#32 Garrad Hassan America Inc is pleased to announce the opening of its newest North America office. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#31 On 28th June at the Asia Wind Energy Conference in Beijing, Garrad Hassan signed a major wind turbine design and technology transfer contract with Baoding Tianwei Wind Power Technology Co. Ltd. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#30 On 30th May in the Garrad Hassan Bristol office, Mr Ding Qiang, the President of Baoding Tianwei Group Co. Ltd. from Baoding, Hebei Province, China and David Quarton signed an Agreement through which GH will assist Baoding Tianwei in the development of a 1.5 MW wind turbine. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#29 The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) employed GH to undertake a study of grid integration of wind across Canada and the US and develop a unified set of grid connection rules for wind farms. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#28 GH was commissioned by 3i, Europe's leading private equity company, to advise on the recently announced acquisition of Gamesa Energía y Servicios, S.A. and Siemsa Este, S.A., divisions of the wind turbine manufacturer Corporación Tecnológica Gamesa. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#26 Garrad Hassan has submitted its response to the UK Energy Review. The submission argues that renewables can contribute to the UK energy needs on a large scale and that in order to do so large scale imaginative thinking and political guts are needed. Download PDF here http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#27 GH has recently provided training to Chinese wind turbine design engineers as part of a three day Workshop held in Beijing. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#25 At the closing ceremony of the annual European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) conference in Athens last week Andrew Garrad was presented with the Poul la Cour Prize for outstanding personal achievement in wind energy. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#24 GH is delighted to announce that Germanischer Lloyd WindEnergie (GL Wind) has awarded a Certificate for the new GH software module which combines WindFarmer and Bladed. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#23 Under the DTI Technology programme GH has been awarded a grant to investigate the Performance Characteristics and Optimisation of Marine Current Energy Converter Arrays. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#22 Following a competitive tender, GH has been engaged by the Carbon Trust to assist with the development of successor activities to the Marine Energy Challenge http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#21 The world's leading wind farm design software reaches another significant milestone, providing extended capabilities and putting the latest advances in wind farm technology at your fingertips. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#20 The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) commissioned Garrad Hassan and Partners (GH) to carry out a technical feasibility study of the seven proposed wind energy Strategic Search Areas (SSAs). The report including its appendices is available here. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#18 The development of the engineering models within Tidal Bladed has been completed. The validation phase of the project is now beginning. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#17 Garrad Hassan (GH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Weiping Pan as the Chief Representative of its operation in China. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#16 GH's Wind farm SCADA system will be installed this month at the 120 MW San Juan Mesa project for Padoma Wind Power. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#15 The Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, today announced the appointment of Les Evans to the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#14 At the Copenhagen Offshore Conference Garrad Hassan unveiled the latest version of GH Bladed which incorporates new features for offshore wind turbine design including the ability to model multiple-member space-frame support structures. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#13 Principal findings of COD were released in October which contain a major input from GH`s Strategic Studies and Offshore Departments. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#9 Andrew Garrad participated in the European Policy Seminar on Offshore Wind Power in Copenhagen on 27th October as part of the Copenhagen Offshore Conference. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#10 Garrad Hassan (GH) has appointed Lars Falbe-Hansen to lead its new operation in Denmark. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#8 Marc LeBlanc, who is responsible for GH's activities in Canada, was elected to the CanWEA Board of Directors at the AGM held in Toronto on October 18, 2005. This appointment builds on GH's substantial activity in the Canadian market. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#12 At the end of October Greenpeace China launched its strategy document which was written by GH to illustrate the potential of wind energy in Guangdong and Hong Kong. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#11 Garrad Hassan`s Bristol Headquarters had a lucky escape this week when the adjoining warehouse was destroyed in a massive blaze. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#7 Garrad Hassan are proud to announce 3 new training courses scheduled for October in Toronto, Canada. Please see the Training section for full details. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#5 To reflect its position as the world's leading wind energy consultancy Garrad Hassan launch a new website, detailing the entire range of services and products offered. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#2 GH is becoming increasingly involved in marine renewables and has won a number of contracts in this exciting new area. One important project currently underway is to adapt the GH Bladed software for tidal stream turbines. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#4 In response to growing business opportunities in markets around the world, GH has opened four new offices during the last year. The new offices are located in Ottawa, Canada; in Barcelona, Spain; in Beijing, China; and in Portland, USA. http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#3 The world's leading wind energy consultancy has joined the Danish Wind Industry Association as an industry member. Bjarne Lundager Jensen, the DWIA director says "The presence of Garrad Hassan will sharpen the competitiveness of the industry, when even more resources are accumulated in Denmark. It is nice to see how the wind power industry in Denmark continuously can create new jobs." http://www.garradhassan.com/corporate/news.php#6