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US Special - Operations & maintenance - Maintenance fears in testing times

With wind plant owners looking to optimise performance and minimise costs in the face of the global ...

US Special - Employment - Technicians still in short supply

With wind turbines being installed faster than technicians can be trained to service them, the busin...

US Special - Supply chain - Third party sales opportunities

Opportunities for component supply in the wind industry do not just lie in selling to turbine manufa...

US Special - Operations & maintenance - Proactive service pays dividends

One of the great unknowns of the wind industry is accurate forecasting of future operating and maint...

Gearboxes out of fashion in China -- Sino-Japanese joint venture

Direct drive wind turbines are taking a growing share of the market in China. Most recently, Hara XE...

Wind roadmap from IEA

Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), announced at the wind pow...

Gamesa partners with MTorres on blade venture

Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa has partnered with smaller local competitor MTorres in a joint ven...

Researchers tackle gearbox failure

America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is trying to solve the mystery of why some win...

TPWind identifies 46 R&D projects

Forty-six wind research and development (R&D) projects have been identified by the EU's cross-in...

Inaccurate reports of blade rejection

Press reports suggesting turbine manufacturer Repower has rejected blades made for it by Suzlon in C...

Henan province sets up data masts

Five wind resource data monitoring masts have been installed across Henan province in central China ...

Hansen delivers first gearbox

Belgian gearbox manufacturer Hansen Transmissions has delivered the first gearbox from its new facto...

Foundation grants for 20 million pounds up for bidding

A £20 million global competition has been launched by the UK government and the Carbon Trust, an ind...

Engineers divided on generator issues -- Scant statistics on failures

Researchers in America are calling for a systemic database of component failures in wind turbines to...

German start-up Eviag to make 2 MW unit too

Eviag, a new German turbine manufacturer established in Duisburg last year, has acquired a licence t...

New Zealand team goes its own way

Persistence has paid off for Windflow Technology, a New Zealand wind turbine maker that has long bel...

Wind firms fund radar research

British wind energy companies have built up a £3.2 million aviation fund to invest in technologies t...

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