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On My Radar with Eize de Vries: Down the wind industry memory lane on the way to Husum

When I first drove to the Husum Wind trade fair many years ago, following prompts from experienced w...

Opinion: Floating wind could be profitable in little more than a decade

A report on the future of floating offshore wind in Norway shows it could become profitable sooner t...

Opinion: Distribution of value in the wind industry is broken – it’s time for a new settlement

Former Siemens Gamesa insider says turbine manufacturers are in dire need of the bright future they ...

Onshore wind is UK litmus test

One of the last pieces of legislation passed through the UK parliament under the premiership of Ther...

Viewpoint: How developers can prepare for UK onshore lifeline

Following a UK government announcement that wind farms on remote islands will become eligible for su...

OPINION: CfD access is only the first step for UK onshore wind

Allowing onshore wind power in the UK access to existing support schemes would certainly be a step i...

Comment - Floating turbine technology could create a whole new industry

GL Garrad Hassan senior policy consultant Oscar Fitch-Roy considers the possible industry benefits f...

Husum's future depends on vision and compromise

GERMANY: Husum WindEnergy's slogan of 2012 confidently read: "The leading international wind trade f...

On gearboxes and generators

Letter from Staffan Engström: The author writes: I have read your informative article on the el...

Failure fallout

A video clip of a runaway wind turbine in Denmark and its dramatic disintegration, filmed from the w...

Vestas owners take action

For a long time, owners of wind turbines in the Netherlands delivered by Vestas Wind Systems have be...

No advantage in removing the gearbox

Removing the gearbox is not an easy solution (Windpower Monthly, December 2005). What you achieve is...

The answer is to remove the gearbox

Your article series, The Gearbox Challenge (Windpower Monthly, November 2005) demonstrates impressiv...

Norwegian blades

From Jos ter Laak, NGUp Engineering BV, Delden, The Netherlands You report the market entrance of Um...

Words on blade ownership

From Dr Ing. Roland Stoer, technical director, EUROS GmbH, Berlin, Germany Regarding your report on ...

Illuminating the bar room

Few topics generate as much heat and as little light as the integration of wind energy into power sy...

Bright people these Bavarians -- BMW might just spot the opportunity presented by its liquid hydrogen technology to return to its early roots. The result could be a piece of very elegant engineering

BMW has a fleet of liquid hydrogen powered automobiles touring the world to demonstrate that this is...

Lean blades for tomorrow's world

Tomorrow's blades will be made from raw materials in a sophisticated and highly integrated process c...

In search of facts

While there is a reasonable consensus on the need for renewable energy, sorting out which type of ma...

A cure for impotence

That the world can do something serious about global warming without inflicting noticeable pain on e...