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Company Profile: Focus on reliability opens doors

Winwind has long designed its wind power turbines with fewer gears than conventional models to reduc...

Technical Digest: Experimental 10 MW unit - Vertical axis offshore

A multi-discipline group of companies within the British offshore wind industry is jointly developin...

Offshore: Research finding - Confidence key to lower cost

The cost of building offshore wind projects could decline by 15-20% within five years, provided comp...

Technical Digest: Wind forecasting - Head to head competition

A contest sponsored by Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal power marketing agency in th...

Technical Digest: Wind forecasting - Reliability data request

In Canada, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) has requested proposals for a centralised win...

Technical Digest: Wind hydrogen - Hybrid experiment

Three Enercon 2 MW turbines will be the driving force behind a EUR21 million hybrid renewable energy...

Technical Digest: Wind measuring - More accurate pitch control

Catch the Wind, an American company, is hoping to commercialise a LIDAR-based wind measurement syste...

Technical Digest: Siemens and GE - Side by side testing

America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) expects by this month to have completed constr...

Technical Digest: Blade materials win - Composite research fund

Bayer MaterialScience, a subsidiary of the German-based giant better known for aspirin, was one of 2...

Technical Digest: Big leap in concept - Economic conductor

Validation of the economics of a potential 10 MW superconductor wind turbine using high temperature ...

Technical Digest: Component replacements - Innovative tower crane

A revolutionary crane developed by Vestas saves time and money on major wind turbine repairs, says t...

Europe: Floating turbine cable in place

Norway is making its own mark on the global wind stage despite its small amount of installed capacit...

United States: Offshore potential - GE Energy takes interest in ScanWind

American turbine giant GE Energy has bought Norwegian offshore wind turbine manufacturer Scanwind fo...

United States: Surprise win for GE in patent war flare up

Mitsubishi faces ban in US wind market for infringing GE patent....

Europe Offshore: Krieger's Flak - Establishing a sea grid blueprint

Having been put on the back burner for some time, Krieger's Flak is the project that everyone in the...

Technical Digest: Hydrodynamic - A different drive train

A hydrodynamic drive system developed for wind turbines by the German Voith group may now be put thr...

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