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Aim to be pitch perfect

WORLDWIDE: Blade pitch-control systems feature high on the list of turbine failures, but regular mai...

Getting technicians to far-shore wind farms

EUROPE: Maintenance access is part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator's project to cut the cost of off...

Specialised vessels cut costs

WORLDWIDE: A new generation of purpose-designed service jack-up vessels can offer lower day rates by...

Statoil plans five 6MW floating turbines off Scotland

UK: Statoil is planning to install five 6MW floating turbines for a test site 20 kilometres off the ...

Statoil plans five 6MW floating turbines off Scotland

UK: Statoil is planning to install five 6MW floating turbines for a test site 20 kilometres off the ...

TechTalk: Criticism can be healthy, but stick to the facts

A recent article in scientific journal Nature on the rapidly melting Arctic warned of an "economic t...

Construction of 10MW testing rig gets under way

GERMANY: Construction work on Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology's 10...

Delays at Scotland's first offshore turbine test site

UK: Delays have taken place in the construction of the foundations for Mitsubishi's 7MW SeaAngel tur...

Chinese typhoon knocks out 17 wind turbines

CHINA: Eight wind turbines have blown down by typhoon-strength winds in south China's Guangdong Prov...

Fixed-foundation performance on a floating platform

WORLDWIDE: The Japanese could well be closest to commercialising floating offshore wind technology, ...

Floating turbines - Japan enters the stage

JAPAN: In recent years, discussion of floating offshore wind technology centred on Europe and the US...

Floating turbines - Japan enters the stage

JAPAN: In recent years, discussion of floating offshore wind technology centred on Europe and the US...

Gunfleet Sands III officially opened

UK: Gunfleet Sands III, the site of the first two Siemens 6MW turbines to be installed offshore, has...

Goldwind claims 1.5MW milestone

UNITED STATES: Goldwind's 1.5MW direct-drive turbine has achieved GL Garrad Hassan's "commercially p...

First cables in place for Nordsee Ost

GERMANY: Power cable installer VSMC has completed the first stage of laying 52 inter-array cables fo...

Vestas begins testing on first V164 80-metre blade

DENMARK: The first prototype blade of Vestas' 8MW V164 - has been produced at its research centre on...

Close up - Vestas V164 nacelle and hub

DENMARK: As Vestas gears up for the first prototype of its 8MW V164 turbine, Windpower Monthly techn...

Close up - Vestas V164-8.0 nacelle and hub

DENMARK: As Vestas gears up for the first prototype of its 8MW V164 turbine, Windpower Monthly techn...

Application lodged for 6MW floating platform tests

UK: The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has applied for consent to install and operate a floatin...

Close up - Stiesdal reveals story behind B53 failure

GERMANY: Earlier this year two 2.3MW Siemens turbines in the US each lost a rotor blade in separate ...

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