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Integrated Moog Technology Hopes to Boost Reliability for GE Wind Turbines

Moog has integrated its next-generation slip ring with a fiber optic rotary joint (FORJ) as a replacement for the carbon-brush slip rings that control...

Vestas Secures 136 MW Repowering Order

Vestas has received a 136 MW order to repower an undisclosed wind project in the U.S., consisting of 62 V120-2.2 MW wind turbines. The order...

Nordex Group to Launch N169/5.X Turbine for U.S. Market

The Nordex Group is expanding its 5 MW product portfolio by launching a turbine variant of its Delta4000 platform tailored to the requirements of...

ARESCA Calls for Support in Adoption of Industry Standards

The American Renewable Energy Standards and Certification Association (ARESCA) is calling for interested experts to participate in the American National Standards (ANS) consensus body.  Also...

Vestas Secures EnVentus Canada Order

Vestas has received a 347 MW order to power the Pohénégamook - Picard - Saint-Antonin - Wolastokuk (PPAW) wind project in Quebec, Canada.  The order...

Luxcara Signs Turbine Supply Contract for Waterkant Project

Luxcara has signed a preferred turbine supplier agreement with Ming Yang Smart Energy for its offshore wind project, Waterkant, in the German North Sea.  The...

Nordex Readies U.S.-Based Wind Turbine Manufacturing

The Nordex Group says it will begin manufacturing nacelles for both the current N163 wind turbine variant, along with a product specifically for the...

Skyborn Signs Turbine Delivery Agreement with Siemens Gamesa for Gennaker Project

Skyborn Renewables has signed an updated master supply agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the delivery of 63 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines with a...

Vestas Signs Agreement with Vattenfall, BASF for Nordlicht Wind Projects

Vestas has secured a conditional agreement to supply 112 V236-15.0 MW wind turbines for Vattenfall’s and BASF’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind projects,...

Hoffmann Green, VALOREM Group Pour Clinker-Free Wind Turbine Foundation

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies and VALOREM Group have poured what the companies call the world's first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonized...

Vestas Receives 660 MW Germany Offshore Order

Vestas has received a firm and unconditional order to deliver offshore wind turbines for the first phase of RWE’s Germany Nordseecluster project.  The company was...

Vestas Signs Conditional Agreement for 1 GW Northern Europe Offshore Wind Project

Vestas has signed a conditional agreement to supply turbines for an otherwise undisclosed offshore wind project in Northern Europe. Additionally, the project has a capacity...

Avangrid Partners with Yale Student Startup on Turbine Blade Recycling

Avangrid has donated 300 pounds of decommissioned wind turbine blades to WindLoop, a startup composed of Yale University students, to test a blade recycling...

DNV Revises Industry Standards for Next Gen Turbine Blades

DNV has revised its DNV-ST-0376 rotor blade standard, the result of a joint industry collaboration in response to what it calls the dynamic landscape...

Wind Blade Recycling Plant Declared Project of Regional Interest by Navarra Government

ACCIONA’s wind blade recycling plant, Waste2Fiber, has been declared a project of regional interest by the Government of Navarra, allowing acceleration of the project’s...

Vestas Unifies Technology and Operations Senior Management

Vestas is uniting its technology and manufacturing & global procurement into one technology and operations organization (CTOO), to be led by its current CTO,...

Havfram Awarded Windanker Project Contract by Iberdrola

Havfram has signed a contract with Iberdrola for the installation of 21 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines at its 315 MW Windanker project, located in...

Offshore Wind Research Facilities Hopes to Accelerate U.K. Turbine Development

Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre in Northumberland, U.K., is currently working towards development of an advanced wind turbine blade and...

Dogger Bank Makes Statement on Site Incident

On May 1, damage was sustained to a single blade on an installed turbine at the Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm.  In line with...

TPI Collaborates on Polymer 3D Printers for Wind Turbine Tooling

TPI Composites has partnered with the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to utilize what has...

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