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ECN Says Its Active Wake Control System Helps Boost Output
The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) says its Active Wake Control system is capable of increasing the electricity production of wind...
The Switch’s 8.6 MW Offshore Generator Passes Initial Testing
The Switch says that its 8.6 MW permanent magnet generator (PMG) for offshore wind use has successfully passed initial no-load testing. According to...
Vestas Launches V105-3.3 MW Turbine For Windy And Turbulent Conditions
Vestas has unveiled the V105-3.3 MW turbine, an expansion of its 3 MW platform. The company says the new model is aimed at...
GE Unveils New 3.2 MW Wind Turbine Meant For U.K., Ireland And Turkey
GE has introduced its 3.2-103 brilliant wind turbine for the U.K., Ireland and Turkey. Building on GE's 2.5 MW fleet, the 3.2-103 generates...
Vestas Introduces De-Icing System For Wind Turbines
Vestas has unveiled its new Vestas De-icing System (VDS), which the company says can help boost the business case for operating wind farms...
GL RC Focuses On Wind Turbines In Path Of Tropical Cyclones
GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has published its new Technical Note for the Certification of Wind Turbines for Tropical Cyclones. According to the...
Moog Launches AC Modular Pitch System For Wind Turbines
Moog, a provider of blade pitch control, slip ring and rotor monitoring solutions for the wind energy industry, has launched its new AC...
GE Introduces PowerUp Platform For Wind Turbines
GE has announced PowerUp, a customized software-enabled platform that the company says could increase a wind farm's output by up to 5% taking...
REpower Announces 3 MW Low-Wind Turbine For Canadian Market
REpower Systems SE has launched its 3.0M122 wind turbine as a 60 Hz variant for the Canadian market. According to the company, the...
Technostrobe Launches LIDS Technology For Wind Turbines
Technostrobe has launched its LIDS (Lighting Intensity Dimming Solution) Technology for wind turbines. The company says the product, which stems from a development...
WindSentinel Offshore Buoy To Utilize Sea Lion Protection Barrier
AXYS Technologies Inc., in conjunction with Sound and Sea Technology (SST), has developed a sea lion protection barrier system for the WindSentinel offshore...
UpWind, SMART BLADE And 3M Partner On Blades Upgrades
UpWind Solutions Inc., an operations and maintenance (O&M) independent service provider for the wind industry, along with SMART BLADE, a German engineering research...
Company Announces New Tech For Small Wind Turbines
Windtech Inc., a Minnesota-based wind power generation equipment company, has announced exclusive rights to patented Zero Contact Transmission (ZCT) drive technology for small...
Vestas Completes 80-Meter Blade For Offshore Wind Prototype
Vestas has produced the first prototype 80-meter blade for the V164-8.0 MW offshore wind turbine at its R&D center on the Isle of...
Three N.Y. Wind Farms To Receive Climb Assist Systems
Power Climber Wind, a division of SafeWorks, will provide climb assist systems for three New York wind farms. Power Climber Wind will install...
Sakor Technologies Makes Testing Product Available For Wind Applications
Sakor Technologies, a provider of instrumentation products for dynamometer testing, says its dynamometer system is available for testing wind power applications. Sakor says...
Narec To Test Samsung’s 7 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype
Samsung's prototype 7 MW offshore wind turbine was delivered this week to the National Renewable Energy Centre's (Narec) new test facilities in Blyth,...
SD Myers Introduces SampleSafe System For Wind Farms
Tallmadge, Ohio-based SD Myers Inc. has recently introduced the SampleSafe system for installation on cabinet-style wind farm transformers. Designed to allow safe sampling...
Vestas Powers Up Wind Industry’s Largest Test Bench
Vestas has begun operation of what it says is the wind industry's biggest test bench at its global testing center in Aarhus, Denmark....
GE, Sandia National Lab Work Toward Quieter, More Productive Wind Turbines
GE Global Research and Sandia National Laboratories have research that could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Using high-performance computing...