Wind Turbine Manufacturer Articles & Analysis
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The integration of renewable energy sources into electricity generation poses major challenges for existing electricity networks because they were previously geared towards the operation of centralized large-scale producers. A promising way to increase the security of supply in decentralized power grids is to produce green hydrogen. Hereby, smoothing out peaks in supply and demand can be ...
Is Wind Energy Actually Sustainable? Wind energy is usually considered a cleaner alternative to traditional sources of fossil fuel and is renewable, with much-reduced carbon emissions. However, its full range of implications is worth considering. Any discussion on the sustainability of wind energy necessarily involves wind turbine technology, recycling, and natural effects. Let’s explore ...
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From modest beginnings in the 1990s, where wind turbines produced a mere 0.5 MW of power, today’s turbines are capable of generating over 10 MW. Despite these advancements, the voltage output of wind turbines remained at 33 kV for many years. However, a significant shift occurred in 2017 when an offshore ...
Before we start our reasoning, we'd like to remind you that both are renewables, and therefore both are great energy options to turn to to improve our planet and to break our addiction to oil and gas. Today we will try to answer a question that we often ask ourselves when we are interested in renewable energies : between solar and wind energy, which is the most efficient? First, let's take a ...
Decarbonization of the power sector plays a key role in achieving climate neutrality and net-zero targets in line with the 1.5ºC goal of the Paris Agreement. Therefore, the rapid transformation from fossil to renewable energy sources such as wind or solar is becoming increasingly important and crucial for countries aiming for ambitious climate targets. Despite the global pandemic, the ...
Wind turbine rotor blade manufacturing involves incessant grinding passes that create large quantities of particulate and require innovative dust control solutions. ...
From their production facility in Cumbernauld, AG Barr Plc produces some of Scotland’s favourite drinks. This includes Irn Bru, Strathmore Water and Rockstar. Wishing to upgrade the site and expand, AG Barr faced either a substantial upgrade fee from Scottish Power in excess of £1,000,000 or to think outside the box and find other ways of delivering additional power. The natural fit ...
UK offshore load factors accelerate on tech breakthroughs: 10-year study The Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Operational report 2015 shows there has been a gradual increase in the load factor for the UK fleet since 2004 on the back of more productive wind turbines, wind farms being built at windier sites and improved plant availability. The Crown Estate manages UK sovereign assets such as ...
The German conglomerate Siemens started eyeing the town as a possible location to manufacture wind turbine blades. In December of 2010 they announced the project and were quickly swamped with applicants. ...
Is Europe leading in any specific area of the renewables industry? The EU is leading on wind turbine manufacturing: almost 40% of market shares were held by EU companies in 2013[2]. ...
London, Feb 4th 2015 –Wind Energy Update, in collaboration with E.On and Danish Wind Power Academy Americas, have announced they will host the first Wind O&M industry awards ceremony at the leading North American Wind Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Dallas Summit (April 13th-15th) These are the first awards of ...
2015’s official Wind Energy Forecast for the South African market was released today detailing the key market trends in 2015 for wind energy in in the country. ...
This paper studies the 'catching–up' process of China's emerging wind turbine manufacturing ecosystem, and analyses the dynamics of the shifting collaborative innovation network for the period 1980–2011. We have focused on the leading wind turbine manufacturers [i.e., ...
There are different types of clean energy technologies that are available today for electricity generation. Most of these have a number of benefits that different communities can explore and put into good use. Here are some clean sources of energy. Biomass Energy Biomass energy is an alternative source of renewable and clean energy that is one of the oldest and most effective sources of green ...
Defying conventional wisdom about the limits of wind power, in 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to one quarter of their electricity from wind farms. ...
GE, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, is too. Each of these corporate icons is placing big bets and hundreds of millions of dollars on a future powered by wind and solar power. ...
Or will the products be conceived here but be manufactured elsewhere? Siemens U.S. CEO Eric Spiegel offers some interesting thinking in a recent piece: “Where the Jobs Are: Higher Technology Manufacturing.” He takes issue with the idea that US manufacturing is doomed. Such thinking wrongly assumes that the ...
Innovation – improvement in products like batteries, processes like planning where to place wind turbines on a hillside, and business models like leasing solar panels to homeowners – is a reliable way to drive down the cost of energy and reduce its environmental impacts. ...
Overview When you think about generating electricity from wind, clean energy comes to mind. However, the wind turbine production process can be a major source of air pollution without the proper controls in place. ...
Less or more accurate power curve models are generally used to simulate the wind turbine electrical production versus the available wind speed. However, if such models are adapted to large machines, this is not the case for small ones. The objective of this paper is to study the impact of different small-scale wind turbines power curves and wind distributions on the electrical production. An ...