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On my radar with Eize de Vries: Why secrecy on issues with floating wind will not make them go away

Wind turbine problems at two floating UK wind farms within operating periods of one to six years hav...

On my radar with Eize de Vries: Turbine technology and power ratings matter, but ‘the rotor is the motor’

With 2024 only just off the starting block, we have already clocked three new large-scale offshore t...

On my radar with Eize de Vries: Why materials innovation will play a key part in delivering wind energy targets

Technology innovation sits at the heart of wind industry advancements, ranging from upsized turbines...

On My Radar with Eize de Vries: Why low quality can come at a high cost

Long before even hearing of the “cost of poor quality” concept, I remember adults in our community n...

Wind OEMs are having to fight on many fronts

The prominence of Chinese machinery in our selection of the year's best new wind-energy hardware can...

Making sense of takeover deals

The consolidation of wind-turbine OEMs has taken another couple of small steps in recent weeks. Firs...

Vestas rewrites the rules for onshore technology

The headline figures -- nameplate capacity of 5.6MW and rotor diameter of up to 162 metres -- are st...

Weather shows need to change

Those of us who work in the renewables industry largely understand the difference between weather an...

OPINION: Making the most of the offshore wind boom

With the pace of offshore deployment increasing, the supply chain needs to keep pace. Here, vessel s...

OPINION: Making the most of the offshore wind boom

With the pace of offshore deployment increasing, the supply chain needs to keep pace. Here, vessel s...

Hywind points floating offshore in right direction

WORLDWIDE: Recent reports of Statoil's Hywind Scotland project, the world's first commercial floatin...

How digital tools will drive turbine design

WORLWIDE: The influence of big data and cloud computing is being felt by all of us, not least in our...

Slow growth beats boom and bust

Another year of sluggish growth, squeezed margins and fierce price competition from natural gas lies...

Big oil sees value of clean energy

With a few exceptions -- the conversion of Dong Energy (Danish oil and natural gas) to offshore-wind...

Viewpoint: Keeping the pressure on innovation to cut costs

Offshore wind costs continue to fall dramatically. At £74.75 (€84.90) for Triton Knoll and £57.50 (€...

Viewpoint: Floating technology is key to making offshore global

Offshore wind farms using floating foundations are a hot topic in the industry at the moment, domina...

Offshore needs the big players

For all the optimism and confidence on display in London at the WindEurope/RenewableUK offshore wind...

Wind backs words with deeds

This issue falls between two of wind power's biggest events of the year -- the American Wind Energy ...

Viewpoint: Bigger turbines on land as offshore grows in reach

I remember talking to people 15 years ago about how wind-industry technology was really starting to ...

Viewpoint: Floating technology taking shape to be next big thing

Although the first offshore wind turbine was installed more than 25 years ago, the onshore industry ...

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