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Turbines of the Year – what makes a winning entry?

What do the winning entries in this year’s Turbines of the Year awards tell us about the trends at w...

ZF ships first Vestas V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine powertrain

The first prototype of the giant Vestas V236-15.0 MW powertrain has left ZF Wind Power’s plant in Be...

ZF prepares for 15MW offshore wind powertrain serial production with end of-line test rig

ZF Wind Power has announced it will launch an end-of-line test rig that will enable serial productio...

Nordex and Fraunhofer IWES develop new wind turbine testing method

German manufacturer Nordex and research institute Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energie Systems (Fra...

ZF building powertrain test rig for 30MW wind turbines

ZF Wind Power has started building a new test and prototype centre featuring a test rig to validate ...

GreenSpur Wind designs 15MW offshore turbine generator without rare earth magnets

UK electromagnetic engineering firm GreenSpur Wind has designed a 15MW offshore wind turbine generat...

Exclusive analysis: the Vestas V236-15.0 MW powertrain

ZF Wind Power invited Windpower Monthly’s Eize de Vries to take a look at the fully integrated 15MW ...

Nordex pushes N149/5.X prototype to 5.7MW

A new gearbox and scaled-up electrical system has boosted the power rating of Nordex's first install...

Siemens to list merged wind component units

Siemens has revealed plans to merge its wind generator business with its mechanical drive manufactur...

Medium-speed gearbox demand set to rise

Latest figures from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) predict a noticeable increase in demand fo...

Big and bold -- Vestas launches new 5.6MW turbines

Vestas has unveiled a radical new onshore wind turbine platform, with its first models featuring a p...

SGRE opens 10MW test centre

SPAIN: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has inaugurated a new technology centre in the outskir...

Swedish cold climate centre picks site

SWEDEN: A new wind turbine test centre, designed to push machines to their cold climate limits, is t...

Lubricant monitoring to be piloted at 99MW High Plains

UNITED STATES: New gearbox condition monitoring technology is being tested on three wind turbine dri...

MHI Vestas' V164-9.5MW to be tested in United States

UNITED STATES: MHI Vestas will verify its V164-9.5MW turbine's gearbox and main bearings at Clemson ...

Winergy shows 25-year-old 'fault-free' gearbox

GERMANY: Gearbox manufacturer Winergy is displaying a gearbox from the decomissioned turbines at the...

Winergy installs Australia's largest test bench

AUSTRALIA: Siemens-owned Winergy has installed the largest test bench for wind turbine gearboxes in ...

SKF inaugurates large-size bearing test centre

GERMANY: Swedish industrial group SKF opened its new test centre in Germany for large-size bearings ...

Adwen begins 8MW testing

GERMANY: Adwen has installed the drivetrain of its 8MW offshore wind turbine on the test bench at th...

Moventas upgrades UK testing facility

UK: Finnish gearbox manufacturer Moventas is incorporating a 3.6MW test rig in its Huddersfield work...

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