direct drive wind turbine Articles
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Equinor cuts floating wind costs by 40% in design revamp
Equinor will use new installation techniques, concrete substructures and a shared mooring design to slice costs at its ground-breaking Hywind Tampen floating wind project in Norway, Halvor Hoen Hersleth, Operations Manager at Hywind Tampen, told the Offshore and Floating Wind Europe 2019 conference. Hywind Tampen, the world's first floating wind farm to supply oil and gas facilities, is set ...
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Siemens Gamesa buys 8.9 GW of Senvion service contracts; Norway to build floating wind farm at oil platform
Siemens Gamesa expands services portfolio to 69 GW with Senvion deal Siemens Gamesa has agreed to buy 8.9 GW of service contracts from embattled turbine supplier Senvion as well as the German group's onshore blade manufacturing plant in Portugal, the companies announced October 21. The 200 million-euro ($222.8 million) deal will expand Siemens Gamesa's operations and maintenance (O&M) ...
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Using Lidar for WRA Campaigns: Your Questions Answered (Part I)
In the course of conversations with wind developers new to Lidar technology, a number of questions seem to come up regularly. In this and future blog posts, I will attempt to answer these questions in some detail to benefit others who might be pondering them as well. Two very practical questions have to do with how WINDCUBE® Lidars might affect overall wind resource assessment (WRA) campaign ...
By NRG Systems
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