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Sway floating test model sinks off Norwegian coast

NORWAY: Norwegian wind turbine manufacturer Sway has said the 1:6 test model of its floating offshor...

GE installing first 4.1-113 turbine

SWEDEN: GE is installing its 4.1-113 turbine in Gothenburg harbour, Sweden, the first time the US co...

Areva launches new M5000 turbine

FRANCE: Areva has extended the rotor size of its flagship offshore turbine, the M5000....

Siemens launches 154-metre rotor 6MW turbine

DENMARK: Siemens has launched a version of its 6MW offshore turbine with a 154-metre rotor....

Close up - NGenTec's air-cored axial-flux permanent magnet generator

NGenTec's chief marketing officer Charles Gamble and business development manager James Murray spoke...

RWE acquires two 6M machines for offshore test

NETHERLANDS: RWE Innogy has signed a deal with Repower for two of its 6M 6.15MW turbines....

Floating Lidar trialled in North Sea

BELGIUM: A full-size prototype of a floating Lidar offshore wind resource assessment system, known a...

Mitsubishi to unveil 7MW offshore turbine

EUROPE: Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe (MPSE) is set to unveil its Sea Angel 7MW wind turbine at th...

Uncovering the true cost of a project

WORLDWIDE: In my early days as a design engineer at a rural technology development centre in South A...

Planning can reduce high-cost cabling risks

WORLDWIDE: Considering the overall cost of an offshore wind farm, subsea cabling may represent a rel...

Vestas to build first V164 assembly plant

DENMARK: Vestas has announced plans to build a Danish assembly plant for its V164 7MW offshore turbi...

Iberdrola and Natural Gas Fenosa win in Extremadura tender

SPAIN: Spanish utilities Iberdrola and Gas Natural Fenosa have landed 124MW and 86MW respectively of...

Hywind and Sway - Norway's two floating turbine designs

NORWAY: A few years ago the idea of building offshore wind farms just a few kilometres from land see...

Mingyang finalises testing on 6MW offshore turbine

CHINA: Mingyang is in the final stages of testing its Aerodyn-desgined 6MW SCD offshore turbine....

Moventas is acquired by Clyde Blowers in €100 million deal

UK: British private equity firm Clyde Blowers has signed an agreement to acquire wind turbine gearbo...

Alternative solutions for offshore foundations

EUROPE: Offshore wind turbines are largely fixed to the seabed with a permanent or semi-permanent su...

E.on to launch wind/hydrogen storage trial

GERMANY: E.on is launching a €5 million project to store wind energy via the country’s gas pipeline ...

Next generation floating turbine planned for Italy

EUROPE: Floating turbine specialist Blue H is planning to trial a new version of its floating turbin...

Alstom turbine crashes on Spanish highway

SPAIN: High winds and alleged lack of maintenance has have caused a 35-metre high Alstom turbine to ...

DOE funds offshore research plan

UNITED STATES: The Department of Energy (DOE) is to fund a study into offshore wind and grid interco...

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