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Spain leads the way on reserve power capability

SPAIN: Spanish utility and wind operator Iberdrola is leading a €8.15 million project called Syserwi...

Husum Trade Fair: Systems streamlined to perfection

Wind energy suppliers at the Husum WindEnergy trade fair are continuously optimising technology to l...

Sharing best practice as offshore scales up

EUROPE: It covers an area more than three times the size of Luxembourg, it is in the middle of the N...

The technological evolution continues

Husum in the north of Germany is the place to go this September for the latest innovative technologi...

Generator design can drive the future of wind

Many electrical drive options have been used by the wind turbine industry during the past 30 years, ...

Wind tower advances lift hub height restrictions

Increasing hub heights and larger rotor diameters on today's wind turbines bring greater loads on th...

A breeding ground for new ideas

In the late 1970s, in response to oil price increases, a number of government-funded programmes were...

The wind manufacturers' quest for lighter materials

The blades of a wind turbine account for about 20% of its total cost. A wide range of materials has ...

There is still room for more growth

In the early days of wind turbine development it was recognised that large wind turbines would be ne...

Are we closing in on the ultimate wind turbine?

About 85% of all wind turbines installed on land last year -- and nearly all offshore turbines -- us...

Industry drives power engineering evolution

After three decades of modern wind power it might be supposed that the technology had reached a plat...

MHI v GE - the 2.4MW patent war round up

UNITED STATES: Windpower Monthly lists the various stages in the ongoing battle between GE and MHI o...

Cutting the cost of offshore wind energy

EUROPE: Estimates of offshore operation and maintenance costs vary considerably. Although a number o...

Monsters of the deep - two 10MW offshore turbine projects

EUROPE: Although Europe's offshore wind industry is gearing up for a massive expansion programme, on...

US looks to high tech to see off Asian wind manufacturing threat

US: America's manufacturing sector has hedged part of its future on the promise of new green jobs in...

Windicator: Quarterly update of industry share price performance and global installed capacity

As world capacity growth continues to slow and cheap gas in North America quells demand for wind pow...

Investment in offshore research will prevent costly errors

UK: Looking back to the early days of wind power, it's clear that the UK played a leading part in th...

Modern turbines continue to push technicians' knowledge

As turbines have grown and some elements of repair and care have reduced in relation to power output...

Breaking down the cost of wind turbine maintenance

Cutting costs by preventing failure instead of running wind turbines until they break lies at the he...

Wind turbine evolution can win on reliability

EUROPE: The next decade should see both global onshore and offshore wind markets continuing to expan...

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