Wind

  • Alan Chivers of PMSS on O&M evolution

    Mar 31, 2014

    Wind Energy Update caught up with Alan Chivers, chairman of renewable energy consultancy, TÜV SÜD PMSS, at the European Wind Energy Association 2014 conference in Barcelona. Chivers offers his views on current and future operations and maintenance (O...
  • Maryland to spur early offshore capital

    Mar 24, 2014

    The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) has launched a new initiative, offering $700,000 to spur early offshore wind investments in the United States.
  • Svenska kraftnät signs contract with ABB

    Mar 24, 2014

    ABB has signed a contract worth $45m with Svenska kraftnät, the Swedish national grid operator.
  • Altus, Macquarie to finance up to $100m in projects

    Mar 24, 2014

    Old Greenwich, Connecticut-based Altus Power America Management and Macquarie Group have jointly introduced their Clean Energy Land Programme to finance up to $100m in solar and wind land energy projects in the United States.
  • Seaway Heavy Lifting wins contract

    Mar 24, 2014

    Dudgeon Offshore Wind, the entity owned by Statoil and Statkraft, has awarded offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting the foundation and substation installation contract for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm project.
  • Four businesses bag funding under DECC’s scheme

    Mar 24, 2014

    Four businesses have been allotted over £4m to spur on innovation in lowering the costs of generating offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom.
  • Salmond: transmission charging delays to cost £90m

    Mar 24, 2014

    Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond has highlighted that delays to grid charging reforms will cost Scottish electricity generators £90m.
  • Scotland prepares for two offshore wind farms

    Mar 24, 2014

    Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has given formal consent for two adjacent offshore wind farm applications in the outer Moray Firth.
  • Thibault Desclee de Maredsous of Alstom: Brazil now seeing importance of O&M

    Mar 24, 2014

    Alstom’s experience in Brazil is instructive for any original equipment manufacturer (OEM) looking to break into an emerging market. Product management director, Thibault Desclee de Maredsous, talks of operations and maintenance (O&M) and more.
  • Ingeteam’s Luis Moreno on OEM and ISP maintenance models

    Mar 24, 2014

    The Spanish engineering firm Ingeteam is an independent supplier of power converters, generators, turbine controllers, control monitoring systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition management systems.
  • Dudgeon deploys Galion Lidar sensor

    Mar 17, 2014

    SgurrEnergy’s remote sensing device, Galion Lidar, has been deployed by Dudgeon Offshore Wind, owned by Statoil and Statkraft, to undertake a wind measurement and analysis campaign.
  • DOE selects Romax for drivetrain design

    Mar 17, 2014

    The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen Romax Technology as the lead mechanical engineer in a consortium that will develop an innovative wind turbine drivetrain design.
  • Schneider bags Areva contracts

    Mar 17, 2014

    Areva has chosen Schneider Electric as its preferred supplier of power equipment for its offshore wind projects.
  • EERE offers funding opportunity

    Mar 17, 2014

    The US Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)’s Wind Programme last week announced a Notice of Intent to issue a funding opportunity, titled “Technology Incubator for Wind Energy Innovations”.
  • BOEM seeks public comment

    Mar 17, 2014

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in the US is seeking public comment as it prepares an Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyse potential impacts from proposed wind energy research activities offshore Virginia.

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