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The gearbox challenge

More than any other single component, gearboxes have proved to be the Achilles heel of the wind turb...

The role of bearings in gearbox failure

As the largest rotating machines in series production, wind turbines continue to break the bounds of...

Who supplies to whom - wind industry gearboxes and bearings

Most wind turbine manufactures hedge their bets by having relationships with several gearbox vendors...

Faster identifcation and repair of problems

Ever since the wind power industry was apparently caught unawares by the major series failure of gea...

Useful business tool now available -- Wind speed index for Britain

A new wind speed index covering the UK is expected to provide wind farm developers, investors and po...

Dispute over cost benefit analysis

In a cost-benefit analysis report looking at the possibility of 30 North Sea wind farms generating 6...

A more conservative approach

The power engineering division of the world's largest company makes no bones about it: the challenge...

Eluding the variable speed patent -- Getting set for US sales

EU Energy, the new UK owner of turbine manufacturer DeWind, has concluded a joint co-operation agree...

Government funds technology lab -- Major wind turbine test site

The federal and Prince Edward Island governments are investing millions to establish a Canadian Wind...

Prince Edward Island's new online wind atlas

Prince Edward Island has unveiled a new online wind atlas designed to provide wind power developers ...

Restarting Iwate plant hit by lightning strikes

Wind power developer Eurus Energy Japan says it is ready to restart its 42.9 MW wind farm of Mitsubi...

World Wildlife Fund ranks 30 most polluting power plants

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has named and shamed the operators of the 30 most climate polluting po...

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