Wind Turbine Engineering Articles & Analysis

Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that it has acquired a wind farm in West County Cork, Ireland. This three-turbine site is designed to deliver a total combined capacity of 5MW of clean energy. The project, acquired by Ameresco, will generate carbon-free energy, which will be distributed directly ...

By Aquaria Srl

Recognizes the clean energy transition as an opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy Recommends five best practices to bring local communities and workforces into planning with clean energy project developers, purchasers, investors and regulators As clean energy deployment accelerates across the U.S. with solar and wind power now supplying more electricity than coal ...

By Ceres

“Test it keep it”, could be the motto to sum up Windfit’s journey inside the fleet of European wind turbine operator Valeco’s. Windfit boxes generalized on Valeco’s fleet of wind turbines to pursue 100% optimization goal Valeco’s wind farms equipped with Windfit have shown results convincing enough to have Valentin Odoul and his team promote Sereema’s ...

By Sereema

By the end of 2017, offshore wind had only been deployed commercially across seven markets, with UK and Germany accounting for 68% of the grid-connected capacity. However, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables, global offshore wind power demand will increase almost sixfold over the coming 10 years with projects deployed commercially across 18 countries by 2027.As ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Inox Wind Limited, one of India’s leading wind energy solutions provider, has signed an exclusive agreement with AMSC (NASDAQ:AMSC), a global solutions provider serving the wind and power grid industry, to launch the 3MW wind turbine which is especially suitable for low wind regimes in India. The 3MW wind turbine platform is a globally operating and proven platform. This agreement comes on ...

By Inox Wind Ltd

GE launches 5.3 MW onshore wind turbine with efficiency, logistics gains GE Renewable Energy is to release a new 5.3 MW onshore wind turbine which includes improvements in energy output, installation, and maintenance efficiency compared with earlier models, the company announced September 24. Larger, higher efficiency turbines and growing installation experience have dramatically reduced wind ...

By New Energy Update - Reuters Events

2 aerospace researchers from Iowa State are investigating now one opportunity of wind turbines. Engineers Hui Hu and Anupam Sharma explore the likelihood of including a little optional rotor to turbines. The architects considered their model and saw 2 noteworthy issues. First, they are huge round auxiliary parts which don’t have a form of an airfoil and that’s why they can not reap ...

By Composite Technology Corporation (CTC)

Mortenson, a leading renewable energy contractor, has been selected to build what will be the largest single-phase wind farm ever built in North America. The 600-megawatt Rush Creek Wind Project, owned and operated by Xcel Energy, will be home to 300 turbines and an 83-mile transmission line near Limon, Colo. "We are pleased to be selected to construct this significant project for Xcel ...

By Xcel Energy

Japanese tech has been the byword for cutting edge for decades. Even with the increased competition from companies based in South Korea and China, Japan still filed the second most patents in the world in 2015 (PDF link), and it has one of the highest numbers of patents per person in the world. Much of this drive for innovation can be traced back to the Japanese focus on STEM education in ...

By Miraikikai, Inc.

The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is awarding four subcontracts under the fourth round of funding through DOE's Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP). The CIP aims to help manufacturers of small and mid-size wind turbines improve their turbine design and manufacturing processes while reducing costs and improving efficiency as they work ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

In Wettendorf in Lower Saxony, seebaWIND Service GmbH is upgrading four Fuhrländer FL2500 wind turbines with aerodynamically improved rotor blades. The innovative product was developed by BayWa r.e. and adapted for Fuhrländer FL2500 and Nordex N100 wind turbines with the help of seebaWIND Service. In a further development, the partners have been able to increase the turbine yield by ...

By seebaWIND Service GmbH

The manufacturer-independent service provider seebaWIND Service GmbH replaced a gearbox using a tried and tested special construction in only three days. seebaWIND specialists replaced the gearbox of a Senvion MM92 wind turbine for the first time at the Waldhausen wind farm near Würzburg. It was the first gearbox change on this turbine type and was carried out by a manufacturer-independent ...

By seebaWIND Service GmbH

Torque Wind Turbine is presenting the world’s most advanced small wind turbine at the Clean Tech Business Day on December 9th 2014 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The driven scale model prototype provides interested customers, investors, part and generator manufacturers, distributors and installers, and of course the media, the opportunity to experience how this new wind turbine will ...

By Torque Wind Turbine

Kliux Energies has selected ADVANTICSYS remote monitoring technology to manage their renewable-energy generation facilities. Two Spanish technology companies joining their strengths in the quest for a quality product in the energy market. Kliux Energies is a Spanish company with a global presence in distributed energy solutions and energy generated at site of use, tailor-made to the ...

By Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L

The certified G97-2.0 MW turbine is the first to be equipped with Gamesa’s infused blade. This model is already being marketed in India. Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has achieved a new product strategy milestone by having its G97-2.0 MW turbine, equipped with an infused glass fibre blade, obtain the first class A type certificate issued by independent ...

By Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

According to reports, the company has selected a site on Hawaii where it hopes to develop and test its latest innovation. Makani Power, which Google acquired last year and absorbed into its Google X division, is running the project and has designed lightweight kites that can harness energy from high-altitude winds. Alden Woodrow, Google X business team lead, visited Hawaii earlier this month to ...

By Climate Action

33 GE 2.85-100 Wind Turbines Will Power the Dunmaglass Wind Farm GE Designed Wind Turbines Specifically for the Site to Meet Specific Requirements Second Project with SSE and GE in Scotland Announced in 2014 Further advancing the growth of renewable energy throughout the United Kingdom, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will supply SSE Renewables with 33 GE 2.85-100 wind turbines for ...

By General Electric

Strengthens GE’s Power & Water technical capabilities, developing best-in-class innovations for customers across the globe Facility capitalizes on $500 million in recent Power & Water investments and further expands GE’s commitment to advanced manufacturing Power & Water Advanced Manufacturing facility will create more than 80 high tech jobs General Electric (NYSE: ...

By General Electric

Statistics from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook indicate that global energy demand is predicted to increase by 40 per cent by 2030, driven by energy consumption in the developing world. “Another challenge is high energy prices. We need to liberate the market in order to create as much competition as possible in order to drive energy prices down,” Pieter ...

By Aurecon Group Brand (Pte) Ltd.

By J. Matthew Roney At the end of 2013, the wind farms installed in more than 85 countries had a combined generating capacity of 318,000 megawatts, which would be enough to meet the residential electricity needs of the European Union’s 506 million people. New data from the Global Wind Energy Council show that wind developers built 35,000 megawatts of new generating capacity worldwide in ...

By Earth Policy Institute