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Downwind and light -- Subaru's 2 MW turbine

Fuji Heavy Industry has erected a prototype of its new Subaru 2 MW turbine at a site in Kamizu, Ibar...

Storage options

Of the various storage technologies, pumped storage is the most firmly established, with around 22,0...

Japanese test floating platforms

Tokyo Electric Power Company and Tokyo University have begun a ยด60 million ($523,000) research proje...

Measuring the wind -- New software

A new tool for wind resource assessment has been developed by Mistaya Engineering Inc, a specialist ...

Magnet generators -- New materials

Development of magnetic materials during the last decade has led to significant improvements in the ...

Turbine failure at Windpark Kreekraksluis under investigation

All but one of the 26 NedWind 500 kW turbines that make up the Windpark Kreekraksluis from 1995 are ...

Active shape control -- Blade theory

As part of a EUR 20 million EU project to speed up development of huge offshore wind turbines with r...

Bigger cables are better -- Optimising connections

Use of cables and transformers with electrical current ratings that correspond to the rated output o...

Investigating the cause of fire at Nissan car plant turbine

Independent experts are investigating the causes of a fire on a Vestas turbine at Nissan's new wind ...

Support for island systems -- Short term storage

A technique for smoothing the output from wind turbines over shorter timescales was unveiled in Hawa...

Dealing with misalignment -- Gearbox bearings

Timken, a minor supplier of gearbox bearings to the wind industry, but a large player on the world b...

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