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Nov 28, 2011
Wind Energy Update speaks to TAG Energy Solution’s business development director, John MacAskill, about how the company is positioned to net a healthy share of Europe's burgeoning offshore wind foundation market.
Nov 25, 2011
For five years wind operations managers cited reliability, availability and WTG capacity as the main figures they worked off and were held accountable for.
Nov 25, 2011
Export and inter-array cables are exposed to a hostile, high-risk environment during a wind farm’s operational life...
Nov 21, 2011
This week, Ron Baker, AMG Intellifast, reviews developments in using high-pitched sound frequencies to provide information on the load in a bolt being stretched as it is tightened.
Nov 21, 2011
This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes: The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition, American Wind Energy Association; TenneT, MT Højgaard, Seatower, the German Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry of Economics, the Federal Environment Ministry (Germany); Scottish Enterprise, and more.
Nov 18, 2011
A new study shows that a little extra effort during the surveying phase could dramatically reduce the avian impact of wind farms, with minimal impact on wind farm productivity.
Nov 14, 2011
The release or discussion of O&M cost data is still not discussed by leading operators, arguably out of a growing concern that public and policy enthusiasm for windpower would be dampened.
Nov 14, 2011
A combination of lower‐cost equipment and gains in output efficiency will lower the cost of electricity from onshore wind turbines by 12% in the next five years, according to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Nov 14, 2011
Wind Energy Update catches up with Helmut Herold, managing director of REpower’s Canadian subsidiary REpower Systems Inc., to learn more about the company’s cold climate turbine models, Canada's importance as a key growth market, and REpower’s sourcing strategy in international markets.
Nov 14, 2011
This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes: The US Department of Energy, ABB, AWS Truepower, Duke Energy; Vestas; Korea Electric Power; Gamesa; Scottish & Southern Energy; and more.
Nov 14, 2011
With investment in green energy at an all-time high, wind energy developers and operators have never had it so good. But is there a risk that things are perhaps a little too good?
Nov 8, 2011
The key to making money in offshore wind is to secure long term, lucrative contracts. So how do you find who is tendering, when and what they look for in a partner? Most agree that you must talk with your customers about what they need and meet their requirements.
Nov 7, 2011
Offshore wind continues to boom. Since 2003, more than 500 o¬ffshore wind turbines have been installed – 35 per cent of them in 2010 alone...
Nov 7, 2011
Wind Energy Update speaks to Andrew Scott the Energy Technologies Institute’s Programme Manager for offshore wind, about its latest RFP for floating offshore turbine foundation solutions.
Nov 7, 2011
With O&M costs expected to contribute roughly 50% of operational expenditure costs in the first and last 5 years of the project’s lifecycle, a lean, flexible O&M strategy is crucial to maintaining a profit margin, according to a new report.
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