As Windpower Monthly winds down for the end-of-year holidays, we leave you with a round-up of some o...
WORLDWIDE: Considering the overall cost of an offshore wind farm, subsea cabling may represent a rel...
EUROPE: Offshore wind turbines are largely fixed to the seabed with a permanent or semi-permanent su...
WORLDWIDE: Most of the current installed offshore turbines are in the 2-5MW range, three-bladed, pit...
NETHERLANDS: In the mid 1990s, Dutch manufacturing had a strong presence in the wind industry. Three...
WORLDWIDE: Problems linking offshore wind farms to the shore are resulting in damaged subsea cables ...
NETHERLANDS: Considering the Netherlands' proud maritime tradition, it is no surprise that Dutch fir...
Meteorological studies have shown that China has up to 500GW of exploitable resources in seas 5-50 m...
Faced with escalating grid-access problems, China is broadening its outlook and starting to develop ...
UK: A project led by Nottingham University in the UK and partially funded by German utility E.on aim...
GERMANY: At this year's Husum WindEnergy trade show, both Repower and Vestas launched extensions and...
Vast desert areas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) offer the prospect of a formidable sust...
UK: The French nuclear-energy firm is eyeing local and UK offshore markets....
UK: Alstom's 6MW Haliade 150 direct-drive turbine is at the centre of the French power company's str...
GERMANY: Direct-drive pioneer Enercon of Germany installed a prototype 3MW E-101 turbine in June, a ...
WORLDWIDE: As the number of available prime wind locations has dwindled, developers are looking to l...
EUROPE: The annual rise in wind-turbine installations means a bigger market for servicing, a major p...
From factory to transportation, installation, 20 years' operating in the field and finally obsolesce...
Almost all onshore and offshore wind turbines manufactured today are fitted with rotor blades compos...
GERMANY: Last month, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology ina...