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  • Areva Considers Acquiring Alstom’s Wind Turbine Unit

    21 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The French government-owned nuclear group, Areva, said it could consider the possibility to acquire Alstom’s wind turbines business if an opportunity presented itself, according to Reuters. At the parliament hearing on nuclear energy held yesterday,  Areva CEO Luc Oursel said: “Concerning the wind activities, if any opportunities were to arise in the future, and given […]

  • Blue Water Transports World’s Largest Wind Turbine

    20 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Blue Water has handled the logistics and transport of the world’s largest wind turbine – the V164 8MW produced by Vestas. The assignment was to handle four sea freight transports from Aalborg, Lindoe and Southampton in connection with the installation of the test turbine. The first transport in the project included the very large and […]

  • Wind Turbines Could Cause More Accidents at Sea

    14 November 2013

    The Dutch Coast Guard fears that more accidents will occur as more offshore wind farms are being built, writes Dutch daily newspaper DeTelegraaf. “The North Sea is already one of the busiest seas in the world. The new upcoming wind turbines will not make it any safer,” warns Ed Veen, director of the Dutch Coast […]

  • VIDEO: UPC Tests Wind Turbine Floating Platform

    4 July 2014

    Hydrodynamic test at UPC wave flume has been conducted on a scaled model of a monolithic floating concrete offshore platform for wind turbines. Alternative floating offshore substructures for offshore wind farms (AFOST) project, under the KIC-InnoEnergy (EIT), is currently in the prototype verification phase. Scaled testing and development of detailed engineering for full scaled test […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation Complete at Gwynt y Môr

    17 June 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    All 160 wind turbines at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm are now installed. A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Worker,  supported by Sea Bravo and Sea Echo, was deployed to install Siemens’s 3.6 MW turbines. Now, the work is underway on the last wind turbine to fit the blades. Cable laying vessel Sia, owned by […]

  • LM Wind Power to Develop Innovative Turbine Blade

    19 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    LM Wind Power has announced the launch of an innovative research project to develop wind turbine blades with flexible tip lengths. The company is leading a consortium that will develop a cost effective, flexible blade length concept with the potential to reduce cost of energy by 8-10%. This project addresses the untapped potential of optimizing […]

  • Azimut Project Leads to Development of 15MW OW Turbine

    13 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Eleven Spanish companies and 22 research centers, coordinated by Gamesa, have successfully completed their applied research activities within the Azimut project, which aims to enable the development of the world’s largest capacity wind turbine by 2020. The project has reached the objective of generating knowledge as well as key technologies that will enable the development […]

  • All Riffgat Wind Turbines Feeding Power to the Grid

    7 March 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    In a record time of less than three weeks after  grid connection of the Riffgat offshore wind farm, the energy company EWE has put all 30 wind turbines into operation. “Since the beginning of this week, the turbines are able to feed a maximum of 108 megawatts of power to the grid and supply 120,000 […]

  • Gram & Juhl to Launch Turbine Condition Monitoring Service

    3 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Gram & Juhl has announced the opening of a state-of-the art Diagnostic & Monitoring Service at the end of 2014. With this new service, Denmark-based company will be offering the full Turbine Condition Monitoring package i.e. TCM® hardware, software, and installation services for both factory and retrofit installations along with 24/7 Diagnostic & Monitoring and […]

  • RenewableUK Applauds Wind Turbine Fire Protection Study

    18 July 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    RenewableUK has responded to research into fire protection, entitled “Overview of Problems and Solutions in Fire Protection Engineering of Wind Turbines”. The report aims to look into incidences of fire within wind turbines, highlighting that the main cause is lightning strikes.The authors have therefore chosen to draw their conclusions from data reported in newspapers and on […]

  • Intertek to Evaluate Cape Wind’s Turbine Design (USA)

    11 October 2012
    R&D

    Intertek has signed a deal to evaluate and assess the offshore turbine design for a major European manufacturer to ensure compliance with US and Canadian electrical safety requirements. The work therefore forms a key part of the manufacture, preparation and assessment of the proposed turbines and will help to minimise any potential delays that are […]

  • UK: Marine Current Turbines Moves to New Headquarters

    2 October 2012

    Marine Current Turbines have completed move to the Bristol & Bath Science Park, located at Emersons Green, north Bristol. Their engineering, project and business development teams are now located under one roof. The completion of the move last week coincided with the first anniversary of the Science Park, which acts as a hub for the […]

  • VIDEO: IDEOL Floating Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbine

    25 January 2013

    Based on the Damping Pool system and concrete fabrication, the IDEOL foundation solution enables to install wind turbine without the usual shallow water limitations, at costs more competitive than bottom-fixed foundation beyond 35-40 meters depth, where winds are better and noise/visual/fishing conflicts much lower. [mappress] Offshore WIND staff, January 25, 2013; Image: ideol-offshore

  • The Netherlands: RWE Tests Two Offshore Turbines Onshore

    7 November 2012
    R&D, Technology

    This week, RWE Innogy and Essent have inaugurated two Repower 6M wind turbines in the Dutch city of Eemshaven. The turbines have each a rated power of 6.15 MW and a hub height of 114 meters. This type will also be used in the wind farm Nordsee Ost in German waters. The two on-shore installed […]

  • REF Publishes Study on Wind Turbine Lifespan (UK)

    21 December 2012
    R&D

    The Renewable Energy Foundation has published a new study, The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark, showing that the economic life of onshore wind turbines is between 10 and 15 years, not the 20 to 25 years projected by the wind industry itself, and used for government projections.   The work has […]

  • UK: Humber May House New Turbine Factory

    18 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    French turbine manufacturer Areva Wind has announced it is considering four possible sites along the northeast coast of Britain for a new factory, and the Humber is understood to be on the shortlist of possible locations, the Yorkshire Post writes. The Humber is competing against other port sites on the east coast on the Tyne, […]

  • Australia: Adelaide Unlikely to Develop Offshore Wind Turbines

    6 June 2012
    Authorities

    Parliamentary select committee has been informed that there are no hurdles for wind turbines to be built in the hills and offshore Adelaide coast, reports ABC News. However, Andrew Grear from the South Australian Planning Department said that they were considering putting a ban on some hill sites. Greens MP Mark Parnell stated that it […]

  • Norway: Floating Wind Turbines Have Unending Potential

    5 June 2012
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    An unending potential lies in the world’s oceans which provides energy resource larger than the global need is, John Olav Tande of the Norwegian SINTEF research foundation stated. The fact that at the end of 2010, 98.5% of the world’s wind turbines were on land is now going to change, as the idea of capturing […]

  • Vattenfall to Connect Wind Turbines to Railway Grids (Sweden)

    29 November 2011
    R&D

    Connecting wind farms to national power grids is often an expensive and fairly complicated process. An R&D project is looking into the possibility of connecting wind farms to existing railway power grids instead, as a lower-cost option. Wind power is a priority for Vattenfall, and the company plans to invest SEK 26 billion in new […]

  • Turbines to Harness Tidal Energy in Admiralty Inlet (USA)

    28 July 2011
    Environment

    Below the surface of America’s coastal waters could be the energy needed to power your clothes drier and other appliances. Some say the tides have the potential to power about five percent of U.S. households by producing nearly 9 GW of renewable energy. A pilot project to test this potential is in the works in […]

  • Siemens Installs First 6MW Wind Turbine (Germany)

    9 June 2011

    Siemens Energy has installed the first prototype of its next generation offshore wind turbine in Høvsøre, Denmark, and has today initiated the first trial operation. The new SWT-6.0-120 wind turbine with a power rating of 6 megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 120 metres uses the innovative Siemens direct drive and proven rotor technology. […]

  • NRG Energy Narrowind List for Turbine Vendors (USA)

    16 May 2011

      NRG Energy Inc. is nearing a key decision on a contract for wind turbines for its Mid-Atlantic Wind Park off the coast of Delaware, marking… By Steve Gelsi (marketwatch) [mappress] Source: marketwatch, May 16, 2011;

  • SeaTwirl Offshore Wind Turbine Stores Energy (Sweden)

    27 September 2011
    Technology

      Though there are some alternative wind turbine designs out there, generally speaking the windmill is a relatively mature technology. By Dave Levitan (spectrum.ieee) [mappress] Source: spectrum.ieee, September 27, 2011

  • Crazy Ideas for Offshore Wind Turbine Access (UK)

    20 September 2011
    R&D

    Any competition that has winners will inevitably have losers too. So as the Carbon Trust​ yesterday revealed 13 new concepts that it… By Jessica Shankleman (businessgreen) [mappress] Source: businessgreen, September 20, 2011

  • Wisconsin Residents Prefer Offshore Wind Turbines (USA)

    27 April 2011

    A poll of Wisconsin residents finds strong support for increasing the use of wind energy, even if doing so would raise electricity bills… (chicagotribune) [mappress] Source: chicagotribune, April 27, 2011;

  • The Netherlands: Positive Ecological Impact of Offshore Wind Turbines

    23 November 2011

    A recent study by Dutch scientists into the impact on the local ecology of an offshore windfarm has found that it was… (utilityweek) [mappress] Source: utilityweek, November 23, 2011