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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 ...

Fostering a culture of safety

Such is the good safety record for workers in wind power compared with other industries that America...

Blade failure and load monitoring

Series blade failures have once again hit the wind power industry in America, with specialist servic...

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...

Steady technology transfer to China

A small German engineering company has become a key player in the explosive growth of China's wind p...

Turning out wind power graduates

Two year training programs for potential wind farm technicians are popping up at colleges throughout...

Urban wind power not a good idea -- Government report

Domestic-scale wind energy generators installed in urban areas are a bad idea, reports the UK's Carb...

Gearing up for big future -- Gearbox testing

Winergy AG, Siemens' wind turbine gearbox division, has announced the commissioning of a dedicated t...

Stealth solutions -- Radar concerns

The potential of applying stealth technology developed for American military aircraft to wind turbin...

Laser beam advantages -- Wind monitoring (2)

Lidar, a new technology for measuring wind strengths, comes into its own when assessing the availabl...

New Dutch offshore turbine design

What is being billed by its backers as a revolutionary wind turbine design for offshore use is quiet...

Strong guys create French original

Pioneering French turbine manufacturer Vergnet erected the first grid-connected prototype of its unu...

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