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CORRECTION: ASCC to partner Dongfang Steam Turbine Works on turbine project

With reference to our special report on China, distributed with the November issue of Windpower Mont...

Suzlon blade fails while waiting for fix

UNITED STATES: A wind turbine rotor blade scheduled for replacement in the US by manufacturer Suzlon...

Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - Making life comfortable at home

Closing the gap between demand for wind power equipment and its supply has this year been a main foc...

Blue H France to develop offshore prototype

FRANCE: A newly established and wholly owned French subsidiary of Dutch firm Blue H is being entrust...

Offshore initiative to drive down costs -- Price saving potential of £30 billion

UK: Five major international energy companies are collaborating in a £30 million research and develo...

Special Report - Opportunity and Risk in China - Quality issues - Lots of turbines but too little electricity

In China, meeting government targets for installed wind power capacity does not necessarily mean tha...

The drive train explained

The drive train, or power train, is the system that sits between the rotor, which concentrates wind ...

Technology advances

The growing size of the wind power market is prompting an increasing number of electrical manufactur...

Vestas opens Singapore R&D centre

Danish turbine supplier Vestas has opened its Asia research and development (R&D) centre at Fusi...

Solution for turbine lights

A preliminary study into minimising the use of warning lights on wind turbines in Germany -- a poten...

A heavyweight discussion

One of the key challenges in building the large generators that wind turbines without gearboxes requ...

Danes transfer blade know-how to Baoding firm

Denmark's SSP Technology has signed its first turnkey contract with a Chinese firm. Under the deal i...

Government subsidises domestic technology

China's government has confirmed plans to subsidise domestic wind equipment research and development...

GE winds up production of European turbine

GERMANY: GE Wind has begun series production of its 2.5 MW turbine at its Salzbergen works in German...

Repower unveils 3.3 MW unit

Germany's Repower Systems has unveiled its new 3.3 MW wind turbine, a further development of its 1.5...

Industry finds itself footing radar bill

Wind turbines can disturb radar images and put both civil and military aircraft at risk, but researc...

A potential game changing move -- Siemens' direct drive experiment

The advent of large scale serial production of wind turbines, the need to further reduce wind plant ...

Sonic sound scatter -- Wind monitoring (1)

After years being considered a technology on the brink of commercial success, sodar systems for use ...

Clockwise or anti-clockwise -- Woman power

Looked at face on, most of the world's wind turbines rotate clockwise. LM Glasfiber, the world's lar...

Hydrostatic hypothesis -- Ground level gearbox

Norwegian technology start-up ChapDrive has erected an old Vestas 225 kW turbine at Norway's Valsnes...

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