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Gamesa mulls UK factory

UK: Spanish turbine firm Gamesa is considering opening a factory in the UK to supply Britain's plann...

The ITC's ruling against GE, new facts come to light

US: The International Trade Commission (ITC) found that GE does not actually use the three US patent...

The world's first 10MW turbine and how it is designed to work

NORWAY: Plans for the world's first 10MW turbine look like they might be coming to fruition with Nor...

Turbine blade split ignites row between Gamesa and Infigen Energy

US: The owners of a wind project outside San Diego, California are scrambling to understand why a la...

GE fights back with new lawsuit against Mitsubishi

US: GE has struck back in its wind turbine patent battle with Mitsubishi (MHI) and filed a new lawsu...

French energy agency examines floating turbine applications

FRANCE: Four projects to develop floating wind turbines are among 19 applications for grants from th...

Germany looks to the future and with heavy offshore investment

GERMANY: The breakthrough for German wind arrived last year, as the first of the country's planned d...

Alberta plans to bring wind forecaster online this quarter

CANADA: The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) expects to have a fully functioning wind forecas...

Alstom to open US wind turbine factory

US: Alstom, the multinational French conglomerate, is hoping to add its name to the list of US-made ...

Repower delivers first turbines to RWE as part of EUR2 billion deal

GERMANY - Repower Systems is to supply RWE Innogy with 48 6.5MW turbines for its 295MW offshore 'Nor...

Windtech: More lidar - Ahead-of-time wind monitoring

American company Catch The Wind is developing laser technology to scan the airspace ahead of wind tu...

Windtech: Smarter Blades - Laser sensors for load control

Laser-based wind direction sensor systems integrated into individual rotor blades could increase ene...

Finland needs more balancing capacity

FINLAND: More balancing power capacity is needed to cope with the forecast deviations and production...

Strategic shift helps GE Energy buck the downturn with $1 billion deal

US: Christmas came early in December for GE Energy as it landed a $1.4 billion contract to kick off ...

Windtech: Hydraulic transmission - Potential variable speed breakthrough

High-pressure oil hydraulic transmissions have long been considered for wind turbine drive trains, b...

Windtech: Blade testing - Centre in Asia open for business

A new test centre for turbine rotor blades at Vadodara in Gujarat, India, is now open....

Windtech: Gearbox oil - Magnetic debris filtration

Keeping oil free of debris is important for ensuring the long life of turbine gearboxes, which have ...

Windtech: Generator inside out - Siemens direct drive prototype

Siemens Energy took just 18 months to establish that removing the gearbox from a wind turbine is a v...

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