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Offshore turbine models -- the magnificent seven

EUROPE: Europe's offshore wind developers now have a increasingly wide range of supersize turbines t...

EDF EN: Sharing risk and cost

WORLDWIDE: EDF EN, the renewables arm of French utility EDF, has built up a pipeline of over 14GW wi...

Tightening every link in the chain to cut costs

WORLDWIDE: Bigger turbines and cheaper finance may be the principal means by which the offshore wind...

XXL monopiles create vessel design hurdle

WORLDWIDE: Monopile foundations are growing in size and weight to accommodate the huge turbines plan...

An in-depth approach to foundation design

German offshore wind developments in the North and Baltic Seas are further from shore and in deeper ...

Greater choice as turbines step up in size

The European offshore wind-turbine market continues to be dominated by a handful of manufacturers an...

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...

Jacket required for harsh marine locations

WORLDWIDE: Developers of future UK offshore wind farms have a number of challenging issues to addres...

Floating foundations may have a buoyant future

WORLDWIDE: A poll conducted by renewable energy consultancy GL Garrad Hassan at the Husum 2012 Wind ...

IN DEPTH: Cost imperative drives monopiles to new depths

WORLDWIDE: Monopile foundations, by far the most popular foundations to date for offshore turbines, ...

Foundations types and depth limits - Alternative solutions

WORLDWIDE: As wind power moves further from shore and into deeper waters, the choice of foundation g...

IN DEPTH: Foundations to meet future growth

WORLDWIDE: Figures published recently by the European Wind Energy Association allow us to construct ...

Finding the optimum low-wind design combination

WORLDWIDE: Power from wind depends upon two main variables: the wind speed cubed at hub height and r...

Low wind focus opens up new markets

WORLDWIDE: The trend for development of low wind sites has gathered pace in the past couple of years...

Husum 2012 - Special Report

As the Husum trade fair gets underway, Windpower Monthly has produced a special report looking at th...

Innovators respond to sheer scale of task to improve safety at height

WORLWIDE: The wind industry's explosive growth in recent years has been characterised by ever-larger...

Taking turbines beyond their design lives

Many wind farm owners in Europe are facing the prospect of turbines approaching the end of their des...

Pioneering spirit lives on in US wind sector

UNITED STATES: The US is one of the world's largest wind markets with a huge untapped potential, yet...

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