Turbine Monitoring News
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The Economist: An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind
The wind blows more strongly at higher altitudes. That is why wind turbines have grown ever taller. The blade tips of today’s biggest now reach up a dizzying 260 metres, the height of the Transamerica building in San Francisco. Many dream of capturing stronger winds even higher up than that, but building taller turbine masts and constructing blades able to withstand the terrifying ...
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Introducing POGMI and POGMO
Sea-Lix is excited to announce the arrival of brand new ranges of turbine-driven monitoring platforms. Our new POGMI range is available for pipe-sizes from DN80 to DN200, either flanged or for mounting with saddle-clamp. The unit is fitted with a 30 W generator providing flow-dependent electricity to power a range of sensors as well as data transmitting equipment. This POGMI is prepared for ...
By Sea-Lix AS
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Successful conclusion of turbine deployment
Australian-based tidal turbine developer MAKO Tidal Turbines (MTT) has announced that the tidal turbine field demonstration in the Tamar River has now come to a successful conclusion. The field demonstration of aMAKO1.2 tidal turbine was undertaken with assistance from the Australian Maritime College and AMC Search Pty Ltd, both part of the University of ...
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SgurrEnergy introduces UAVs to suite of services
SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group’s clean energy business, has introduced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to its existing inspection service offering after obtaining the Civil Aviation Authority‘s Permission for Aerial Work and following extensive testing in 2016. The renewable energy and grid integration consultancy’s UAVs, or drones as they’re more commonly known, are ...
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Don’t throw caution to the wind with offshore turbine maintenance
The European Union’s push away from fossil fuels toward renewables, along with falling costs, has seen offshore wind thrive. And the sector is about to receive another boost, now that the focus on and investment in floating wind turbines is reaching fruition. This incredible feat of engineering has the potential to totally reshape offshore renewables, allowing for greater volumes of ...
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Global wind turbine inspection services market growth
In the US, Transparency Market Research (TMR), a market intelligence company, earlier this week released their report on the "Wind Turbine Inspection Services Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends, Analysis, Growth and Forecast 2015 - 2023". According to the report, the global wind turbine inspection services market has been gaining momentum due to the growing wind energy ...
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Wind Iris Lidar Installation at Caracoles Wind Farm
With assistance from RNRG team member Dale Lamell, Ventus Ingenieria recently installed a Wind Iris nacelle-mounted Lidar at the 20MW Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay. The Wind Iris is being used to monitor turbine performance and offer optimization solutions for the project. Here's an overview of the trip, told in pictures: RNRG and Ventus arrive at the Caracoles wind farm ready to install a Wind ...
By NRG Systems
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Wind turbines not a risk to human health, says MIT study
The review took into consideration health effects such as stress, annoyance and sleep disturbance among others that have, in the past, been raised in association with living close to wind turbines. "No clear or consistent association is seen between noise from wind turbines and any reported disease or other indicator of harm to human health" the study found. The MIT authors considered a number ...
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Romax Technology shares knowledge to solve key reliability issues at Wind Energy O&M Forum Europe
Romax Technology will be demonstrating how to enable predictive maintenance as part of an in-depth, three-hour workshop taking place at Wind Energy O&M Forum Europe 20-21, January, Hamburg, Germany. With an increasing focus on cost reduction for the operations and maintenance of wind energy, European operators are turning to companies like Romax to reduce the cost of running turbine fleets. ...
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Shoreham Port takes next step in renewable energy initiative
energyTEAM client, Shoreham Port, has been making significant progress in reducing its carbon footprint and the demand that it's every day activities have upon fossil-fuel energy sources. Shoreham are investing in improving energy efficiency and generating renewable energy within the Port, working towards a more sustainable future. Annual electricity consumption at the Port is 1.7GWh ...
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PGE Energia Natury PEW Selects GE Turbines for Polish Wind Farm
Sixteen GE 2.5-100 Wind Turbines to Power the Karwice Wind Farm Farm to produce 40 megawatts (MW) of power for Poland and region Project Further Establishes GE’s Commitment to Renewable Energy in Poland Helping to modernize the Polish power infrastructure and reinforcing its commitment to the country’s energy sector, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will provide PGE ...
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Sweden’s Erikshester Wind Farm to be Powered by GE Turbines
Six GE 1.6-100 Wind Turbines Will be Installed at Erikshester Wind Farm GE Continues to Play a Significant Role in Sweden’s Growing Renewables Industry Contract Includes Five-Year Service Agreement Further advancing its growth in the Nordic region, GE (NYSE: GE) will provide Erikshester Vindpark AB (Erikshester Wind Farm), located in Vetlanda, Sweden, with six GE 1.6-100 wind ...
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GE’s New LifeMax* Advantage and FlexEfficiency*Advantage Platforms Unlock Full Performance, Value of Installed Gas Turbines
Portfolios Blend Hardware, Software and Data Analytics to Improve Performance, Asset Life Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) Orders First LifeMax* Advantage Solutions for GE 9E Gas Turbine Fleet GE Surpasses 100 Million Hours of Captured Operating Data on the World’s Largest Gas Turbine Fleet Platforms Support GE’s Predictivity* Portfolio of Solutions That Enable Better Operational ...
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Toto Costruzioni Selects GE Wind Turbines to Power Italy’s Puglia Region
First Order for GE’s 2.85-Megawatt Wind Turbines in Italy Toto Costruzioni’s Inaugural Wind Farm in Ponte Albanito Project Marks Sixth GE-Powered Wind Farm in Puglia, Italy GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will supply Toto Costruzioni S.p.A. with eight GE 2.85-103 wind turbines for a wind farm in the Puglia region of Italy. The wind farm operator is Ponte Albanito S.r.l., ...
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GE’s new Flexefficiency advantage and Lifemax advantage platforms unlock full performance, value of Installed Gas Turbines
Portfolios Blend Hardware with Software to Expand Performance and Asset Life Channeling the Industrial Internet through GE’s Data Analytics Capabilities Taps into the Power of “Big Data” GE Surpasses 100 Million Hours of Captured Operating Data on the World’s Largest Gas Turbine Fleet Platforms Support GE’s Predictivity* Portfolio of Solutions That Enable Better ...
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NRG Systems Introduces iPackACCESS for Wind Farm Forecasting and Performance Monitoring
NRG Systems, manufacturer of measurement equipment and turbine optimization systems for the global wind and solar energy industries, has introduced the iPackACCESS, a communications module for the SymphoniePLUS3 data logger that enables wind farm operators to integrate real-time meteorological data into their Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Designed with both performance ...
By NRG Systems
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GE Software Powers Research on Efficient Wind Energy Production
GE today announced that it is working with Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to investigate ways to improve wind farm productivity and efficiency. The results of the study will directly contribute to future product and service designs. The project is part of a larger Department of Energy (DOE) investment of $9 million to an IIT-led consortium to enhance the ...
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Timken Online Intelligence System to Monitor Wind Turbines in Minnesota
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) announced it has reached an agreement with Northern States Power-Minnesota, an Xcel Energy Company, for remote monitoring of wind turbines at Xcel Energy's Nobles Wind Farm in southern Minnesota. Timken will supply 134 of its Online Intelligence Systems (OIS) for the 1.5‑megawatt wind turbines at the facility. The initial agreement includes two years of condition ...
By FirstEnergy
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NIB allocates EUR 25 million to Danish Vestas for wind turbine innovation
NIB and Danish Vestas Wind Systems A/S have signed a new 4.5-year loan agreement totalling EUR 25 million for financing Vestas' R&D programme. The loan, which is an extension of the EUR 30 million loan NIB signed with Vestas in December 2009, is earmarked for developing a new type of a 3 MW wind turbine for low and medium wind regimes. The R&D programme is focused on improving the design ...
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New wind turbines at pixel revealed
Grocon today unveiled new wind turbine technology atop its carbon neutral Pixel building in Carlton. CEO Daniel Grollo said there would be three wind turbines on the building's Green Roof, with the first installed only last week. 'These wind turbines have a vertical axis, meaning they spin around a pole, unlike wind turbines on wind farms with a horizontal axis,' he said. 'They are 1 kilowatt in ...
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