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US Department of Energy celebrates new DOE 1.5 research wind turbine
Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have joined industry representatives and managers from DOE’s National Laboratories to celebrate the latest tool to advance the Department’s wind energy research: a state-of-the-art wind turbine installed at DOE’s National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, near Boulder. The turbine, which is the first ...
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GE 1.5-Megawatt wind turbine commissioned for DOE program designed to move US wind energy technology forward
As part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to drive new levels of performance in wind turbine technology, which will help ensure further U.S. wind industry growth, a GE (NYSE: GE) 1.5-megawatt wind turbine today was commissioned at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) in Boulder, Colo. Building off the experience of the country’s largest installed turbine base, the GE 1.5 ...
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GE PulsePOINT* Technology Helps Wind Operators Reduce Costs and Achieve Optimal Energy Production
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced a new technology that can help give wind farm operators a competitive edge by identifying problems with wind turbines before they can cause downtime or major failures. Using advanced software, GE’s innovative PulsePOINT* Advanced Monitoring and Diagnostic Services help operators reduce costs and achieve optimal energy ...
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Carbon trust halves data centre emissions, by design
The rise in carbon emissions threatened by the projected exponential growth of data centres could be halved in the UK, thanks to a new design service launched by the Carbon Trust today. The new service has already been piloted in the design of multi-billion pound data storage and processing facility, The Lockerbie Data Centre, Scotland, where it is expected to help reduce operating costs by ...
By Carbon Trust
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MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.
Wind power has emerged as a viable renewable energy source in recent years — one that proponents say could lessen the threat of global warming. Although the American Wind Energy Association estimates that only about 2 percent of U.S. electricity is currently generated from wind turbines, the U.S. Department of Energy has said that wind power could account for a fifth of the nation’s electricity ...
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Array Technologies Announces SmarTrack Production Boost of up to 5%
Array Technologies, a market leader in single-axis solar tracking, have made its performance enhancing software SmarTrack even smarter – adding functionality to increase utility-scale energy harvest. Detailed research and projections from independent engineers at DNV GL spotlight the real-world and accurate energy gains now available to Array customers with SmarTrack. During extensive beta ...
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Ground breaking trial at world`s second largest offshore wind farm concludes
A two year trial to collect wind speed data at sea, using innovative laser-based measurement devices mounted on floating buoys, has concluded. RWE Innogy, together with the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, tested the Light Detection and Ranging units (LIDAR) technology at what is soon to become the world’s second largest offshore wind farm. The 576MW, 160 turbine ...
By Carbon Trust
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Carbon Trust launch £2m project to increase energy yields from offshore wind farms
Latest research project unveiled to help cut the cost of offshore wind power by increasing the energy yields from Round 3 wind farms located up to 290km from the UK coast. The Carbon Trust today unveiled their latest research project designed to help cut the cost of offshore wind power by increasing the energy yields from Round 3 wind farms that will be located up to 290km from the UK coast. ...
By Carbon Trust
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U.S. EPA adds Global Tech Giants Google, Ingram Micro as Green Power Partners
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing its list of the top organizations using the most renewable electricity in North America. The Green Power Partnership’s top 50 purchasers use more than 14 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electricity use of more than 1.2 million average American ...
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VALECO embraces WINDFIT for wind farm optimization strategy
“Test it keep it”, could be the motto to sum up Windfit’s journey inside the fleet of European wind turbine operator Valeco’s. Windfit boxes generalized on Valeco’s fleet of wind turbines to pursue 100% optimization goal Valeco’s wind farms equipped with Windfit have shown results convincing enough to have Valentin Odoul and his team promote Sereema’s ...
By Sereema
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Searoc Successfully Install Floating Wind Lidar For Garden State Offshore Energy – Seazephir Noted As ‘The Future Of Offshore Data Collection’ For Wind Farms.
International marine engineering company SeaRoc are delighted to announce the successful delivery and deployment of a SeaZephIR product to Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE), a US joint venture project between Deepwater Wind and PSE&G Renewable Generation. Garden State Offshore Energy is a planned utility scale project of approximately 1,000MW installed capacity, over 20 miles offshore due ...
By SeaRoc Group
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GE’s Wind PowerUp* Technology Improving Output on More than 1,000 Units Worldwide
1,000+ GE 1.5-77 Turbines Harnessing Wind PowerUp*; Helping Boost up to 5 Percent AEP Platform Continues to Improve AEP for Existing Global GE Fleet Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announces that its Wind PowerUp* platform has secured more than 1,000 units under contract to date. PowerUp, a GE Predictivity™ solution, is a customized software-enabled platform ...
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GE Expands Brilliant Platform with Plant-Level Wind Management Tools
Advanced Software Applications with the Goal to Optimize Power Output at the Plant Level Capabilities Include Reduced Wake Losses of Approximately 5-10 Percent; up to 8 Percent More Profit Harnessing the Industrial Internet and GE Predictivity™ Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announced the expansion of its brilliant wind platform to include plant-level wind ...
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We’ve got the power: GE-powered wind farms can increase output by up to 5 percent
Five Percent Incremental Power Delivers up to 20 Percent More Profit per Turbine for Wind Operators Using GE’s 1.5-77 Turbine Before-and-after Wind Farm Power Output Analysis Validates Performance Improvement Continuous PowerUp Platform Available for Incremental Power Output Increases Today, GE (NYSE: GE) announced PowerUp, a customized software-enabled platform that will increase a ...
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GE Announces Cumulative 3.9 Gigawatts of US Orders, Expansion of Brilliant Wind Platform
Strong U.S. Orders Backlog Positions GE for 2014 3.9 Gigawatts of U.S. Orders Since PTC Extension on January 1, 2013 GE Grows Brilliant Wind Fleet in U.S. with Installations in 2014 and 2015 Expands Platform with 2.2-107 and Plant-Level Management Software Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announced a cumulative 3.9 gigawatts (GW) of firm and unconditional wind ...
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E.ON Climate & Renewables to Install GE’s Brilliant PowerUp* Platform across Five Wind Farms
PowerUp Platform to Provide More Power to EC&R’s Fleet of 469 GE 1.5-77 Turbines Additional Power Could Equate to 19 New 1.5-77 Wind Turbines for E.ON Fleet Agreement Complements GE and E.ON’s 842 Turbine Service Agreement GE (NYSE: GE) today announced E.ON Climate & Renewables’ (EC&R) contract for GE’s newest brilliant offering, PowerUp*. PowerUp is a ...
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EDP Renewables Adds GE’s Wind PowerUp Technology to Increase Output for GE Wind Fleet
GE’s PowerUp Software to Increase Output, Adding More than 420,000-Megawatt Hours of Energy Increased OEM and Developer Collaboration to Continually Introduce New Enabling Technologies 402 GE Wind Turbines at Five EDPR Wind Farms in Oklahoma, Indiana and Illinois to Receive Technology EDP Renewables (EDPR) will use GE’s (NYSE: GE) Wind PowerUp, a GE Predictivity solution, to ...
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GE’s Wind PowerUp* to Increase Power Output at Five European Wind Farms
First Customized Software-enabled Platform PowerUp Services to be Installed in Germany and Romania PowerUp Services to Enhance Installed Base, Provide Up To Five Percent Higher Annual Energy Production (AEP) Today, GE (NYSE: GE) announced European wind farm operators ENERTRAG AG and Monsson Group have selected GE’s Wind PowerUp* for wind farms in Germany and Romania. PowerUp services, ...
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