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Gearbox Express Rolls Out The Revolution
Mukwonago, Wis.-based service provider Gearbox Express says its new product combines upgrades and a new thought process for wind energy gearboxes from 1.5...
New Battery Design Could Help Solar And Wind Power The Grid
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life 'flow' battery that...
Vestas Says Turbine Upgrades Yield More AEP
Vestas says two product upgrades can boost annual energy production (AEP) by at least 13% on medium- and low-wind sites. Based on its...
Gamesa’s 2 MW Turbine Surpasses 15,000 MW Milestone
Gamesa says its 2 MW turbine has passed the 15,000 MW milestone. Since the initial 2 MW turbine was installed in Spain in...
DNV Software Introduces Analysis Module For Offshore Wind Turbines
DNV Software and Fedem Technology have introduced a new coupled analysis module integrated with Sesam Wind, DNV's software solution for strength and fatigue...
SgurrEnergy Introduces Wind-Monitoring Product
International renewable energy consultancy SgurrEnergy has launched its own wind-monitoring meteorological mast, SgurrMetMast, for use in wind resource assessments. SgurrMetMast is available in...
Vestas Releases New Variants Of 3 MW Wind Turbine Platform
Vestas has released to the market three new product variants of its 3 MW platform: the V112-3.3 MW, the V117-3.3 MW and the...
GE Business Unit Refines Superconductor Technology
GE Power Conversion has successfully completed trials of Hydrogenie, a power generator incorporating technologies using superconductors that the company says enable highly efficient...
Moventas Puts Wind Turbine Drivetrain To The Test
Moventas says the FusionDrive wind turbine drivetrain has proven to work well during testing at the company's research and development center in Finland....
ematec Introduces Rotor Blade Lifter For Wind Farms
ematec AG, a German manufacturer of special-purpose machines, has announced its RBT Rotor Blade Lifter. According to ematec, Nordex AG is already utilizing...
E.ON Selects geoAMPS Software To Help Manage Wind Farms
geoAMPS has announced that it is providing software to E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R) North America to help manage the developer's many wind...
PPG Earns GL Certification For Fiberglass Roving Products
Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries says that its fiberglass business has earned Germanischer Lloyd (GL) certification for the HYBON 2002 XM and HYBON 2026 XM...
SgurrEnergy’s Galion LIDAR Wind Scanning Device Receives New Certification
SgurrEnergy says it has received an independent validation of its Galion LIDAR wind scanning device from Deutsche WindGuard. Deutsche WindGuard's LIDAR performance verification...
GL Garrad Hassan’s Wind Turbine Design Software Gets An Update, New Features
GL Garrad Hassan has released Version 4.4 of Bladed, an integrated software package for the design and certification of onshore and offshore wind...
3B’s Direct Roving Product Gains GL Approval
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has approved 3B-the fibreglass company's HiPer-tex W2020 direct roving product, which is used for wind turbine blade applications. This new...
SAKOR Rolls Out New Dynamometer System For Wind Power Testing
SAKOR Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of automated test instrumentation systems, has released its AccuDyne AC dynamometer system for wind power testing applications. The...
Siemens’ 6 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Receives Certification
GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has awarded Siemens Wind Power offshore prototype certification for the testing of its new 6 MW offshore wind...
Goldwind Turbines Certified For North American Wind Energy Market
Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. Ltd. says several of its permanent magnet direct-drive (PMDD) wind turbines have received ETL certification by Intertek....
Romax Releases Wind Turbine Predictive-Maintenance Platform
Romax Technology, a provider of engineering services and technology for the wind energy industry, has released its InSight wind turbine health management platform....
Normandeau Rolls Out Wind-Wildlife Collision-Risk Model
Normandeau Associates Inc. says it has developed a spatial avian- and bat-collision-risk model for wind resource areas in the central U.S. Wildlife managers,...