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Boulder Wind Power Expands Generator, Power Conversion Portfolio

Boulder Wind Power (BWP), a Colorado-based developer of permanent-magnet generators and full power converter technology for utility-scale wind turbines, has expanded its product...

Spanish Companies Conclude Research To Help Create 15 MW Wind Turbine

The Azimut project, a Spanish initiative aimed at developing a 15 MW wind turbine by 2020, has completed its applied research activities undertaken...

Alstom Uprates ECO122 Turbine, Works On Taller Towers For Low-Wind Sites

Alstom has announced an upgrade to its ECO122 wind turbine from 2.7 MW to 3 MW, as well as a new partnership to...

Siemens Rolls Out Uprated D3 Wind Turbine Platform

Siemens has uprated its D3 onshore platform wind turbines from 3 MW to 3.2 MW. The new SWT-3.2-101, SWT-3.2-108 and SWT-3.2-113 machines will...

Vestas Announces Large Diameter Steel Tower For 3 MW Turbines

Vestas has launched its patented Large Diameter Steel Tower (LDST), a solution to increase the tower height for its 3 MW turbines to...

LM Wind Power Works To Create Flexible Blade Concept

LM Wind Power is leading a four-year research project to develop turbine blades with flexible tip lengths - a technology concept the company...

GE Launches Space Frame Tower For Wind Turbines

GE has introduced its new, five-legged space frame tower for multi-megawatt wind turbines. The company says the new product enables towers up to...

DOE Taps Romax And Partners To Develop Wind Turbine Drivetrain Design

Romax Technology has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as the lead mechanical engineer in a consortium project to develop...

GE Rolls Out 2.75 MW Turbine Model

Turbine maker GE has unveiled a 2.75 MW wind turbine (with an energy storage option) as the next iteration from the Brilliant product...

GE Eyes 15% Cost Reduction Of Offshore Wind With New DC Solution

GE has completed trials of PassiveBoost, a technology the company says is designed to allow remote power networks to go direct current (DC)...

Siemens Takes Part In Collaboration To Create New Blade Composite System

DSM, 3B - the fiberglass company, Siemens Wind Power and DTU Wind Energy have teamed up to create a new composite system for...

Leine Linde Launches Slip Ring With Integrated Diagnostic System

Leine Linde Systems GmbH has announced its new ADSR product, a slip ring for wind turbines that has an integrated diagnostic system for...

3TIER Teams Up With Google To Provide Public Wind And Solar Data

3TIER, a renewable energy assessment and forecasting company, has announced the public release of wind and solar annual averages from its global datasets...

Morgan Advanced Materials Offers Slip Rings For Wind Turbines

Morgan Advanced Materials' Electrical Carbon business has announced that its slip rings can be used on wind turbines to help reduce down time...

GE Opens Wind Turbine Drivetrain Repair Lab In New York

GE has opened what it dubs the Global Wind Turbine Drivetrain Repair Innovation Lab at the site of the company's Power Generation Repair...

GE Introduces 2.85-103 Wind Turbine For Japan

GE has announced its 2.85-103 wind turbine for Japan. With 2.85 MW in rated power and a 103-meter rotor diameter, the wind turbine...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Installs 5.5 MW Offshore Wind Prototype

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) has completed the installation of its 5.5 MW offshore wind turbine prototype at the Kimnyeong Wind Farm,...

Galion Lidar Used As Part Of Wind Turbulence Measurement Campaign

An investigation into the capabilities of remote scanning LIDARs to measure wind turbulence was recently conducted as part of a collaboration between renewable...

Fraunhofer IWES Constructing Oil Sensor Test Stand

The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) is constructing an oil sensor test stand on its grounds in Bremerhaven,...

GICON’s Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Receives U.S. Patent

Germany-based engineering company GICON has received a U.S. patent for its SOF floating offshore wind turbine foundation. The company's patent lasts until July...

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