wind turbine News
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Where now with wind turbine impact assessment
Environmental Protection UK's recent event 'Where Now with Wind Turbine Impact Assessment' was a big success, providing valuable insight into an often confusing area. The event brought together over 120 delegates including practitioners experienced in noise assessment, renewable energy developers, local authority officers who have dealt with or are facing applications and community neighbours of ...
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Gordon Henderson MP visits site of PfR`s first wind farm
Partnerships for Renewables (PfR) granted planning permission to build two 2.3MW wind turbines, supporting local communities on the Isle of Sheppey. Partnerships for Renewables (PfR) - in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice - has been granted planning permission to build two Enercon E82, 2.3MW wind turbines. They will each be 121 metres in height and have a power output of 10GWh per year - ...
By Carbon Trust
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New way of predicting ice on wind turbines
As wind turbines become an increasingly important source of energy, there is a growing need to better predict when ice forms on them and prevents electricity from being produced. A research project at SMHI has developed new methods for projecting ice formation on wind turbines. There is growing interest in wind turbines as an energy source in Sweden, but wintertime the turbines are affected by ...
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Ramboll and Norwin install wind turbines on spectacular skyscraper in Bahrain
Bahrain World Trade Centre, which is one of the most noteworthy building projects in Bahrain, now enters its final phase. These days, three wind turbines will be integrated between the two 240 m high towers, which will become the hallmark for the spectacular building. The specially developed technical solution will be delivered by Danish engineers from both Ramboll and Norwin – and they now ...
By Norwin A/S
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Gamesa to install a further 34 Mw in Spain
Gamesa, one of the world’s main wind turbine generator manufacturers and the leader in Spain in the manufacture, sale and installation of wind turbines, has entered into a new agreement with the company Enel Unión Fenosa de Energías Renovables (EUFER) for the supply of 17 Gamesa G87-2.0 MW wind turbine generators, amounting to the installation of a total of 34 MW. The wind turbine generators ...
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Top 10 Wind Turbine Manufacturing Companies - Vestas Continues to Dominate as Emerging Chinese Players Provide Stiff Competition to Global Leaders
European wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, from Denmark, dominated the global market in 2011, with a market share of 12.7% on the basis of installed capacity, which was 5,054 Megawatts (MW). Looking forward, Vestas will continue to dominate the global wind turbine industry despite stiff competition from emerging Chinese wind turbine manufacturers. Global Information Inc (GII) is pleased to ...
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General manager of AVIC visit our company
During the general manager of AVIC inspect 614 institute, he also visit the new energy products , the PV inverter , wind turbine generator and large-sized wind turbine control system which were developed by our company. He pay high attention to wind turbine generator and made a request on the rapid industrialization of the ...
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Wind turbines - not pretty but not unhealthy - Ontario
New report from Ontario"s Chief Medical Officer of Health says there is no direct causal link between wind turbines and adverse health ...
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Torque Wind Turbine Video Online - How does it work?
Torque Wind Turbine presents a video where viewers can see the turbine rotating. It is a wind turbine that not only looks completely different than the wind turbines we are used to, it also works in a different way. It is a very dynamic and intelligent wind turbine that can work in nearly all circumstances from low wind speeds up to high storm wind speeds. It uses wind energy although the wind ...
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Proven in Europe and Asia, GE Energy’s 2.5-MW wind turbine to be launched in North America next year
Following its successful debut in Europe and Asia, GE Energy has announced that its 2.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine is coming to America. The 2.5xl, which is the latest evolution of the company’s wind turbine technology, will be launched in North America in 2010. More than 100 of the 2.5-MW machines already have been installed in seven countries and have compiled more than one million operating ...
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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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Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project Second Phase Update
A consortium comprised of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research, has been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm ...
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The Torque - small wind turbine with maximum return at lower height
The Torque is a small, modular build, vertical wind turbine of the newest generation, with countless advantages. Due to the sophisticated and patented design the Torque is the best working small wind turbine under all wind circumstances. The dynamic blade system optimizes the conversion of wind energy while moving with the wind direction and minimizes at the same time the loss of energy while ...
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Global Offshore Wind Turbine Market 2011-2015
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Offshore Wind Turbine Market 2011-2015 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0445023/Global-Offshore-Wind-Turbine-Market-2011-2015.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Wind_turbine TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Offshore Wind Turbine market to grow at a CAGR of 11.63 ...
By ReportLinker
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The first 60 kw Wind Turbine made ATB Riva Calzoni
In the past few days, the first 60 kW wind turbines, one of four that will be installed in plants in the south of the country, in Sicily, Campania and Basilicata. The wind turbine was manufactured in the new site of Artogne dedicated to clean and renewable energy, it has been opened in the beginning of March. The equipment is on the cutting edge of technology: materials and design absolutely ...
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Siemens receives order for 101-MW wind farm in Oklahoma, USA
Siemens has been awarded an order to supply 44 of its 2.3-megawatt (MW) wind turbines for the Keenan wind farm in Woodward County in Oklahoma. The purchaser is CPV Renewable Energy Company, a subsidiary of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), Inc. and a power generation development company focused on the North American market. The Keenan wind farm will increase Oklahoma’s existing 700-MW wind power ...
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Siemens to provide long-term service at the Bison Wind Energy Center in North Dakota
Siemens has signed a long-term agreement with the U.S. energy company Minnesota Power to provide service and maintenance for 149 D3-platform wind turbines installed at the Bison Wind Energy Center, located near New Salem, North Dakota. ...
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The new Torque wind turbine is the world’s most advanced small wind turbine
Torque Wind Turbine is presenting the world’s most advanced small wind turbine at the Clean Tech Business Day on December 9th 2014 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The driven scale model prototype provides interested customers, investors, part and generator manufacturers, distributors and installers, and of course the media, the opportunity to experience how this new wind turbine will ...
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Interaction of wind turbines and industrial plumes – new research
Initial findings by researchers at Glasgow University suggest that deposition of particle pollution could be higher around wind turbines when they are sited near industrial sites, as they concentrate the plume. The shortage of acceptable locations for wind turbines has led developers to consider siting them near industrial plant. However this new work - in response to concerns raised by ...
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Are motorways the best spot for wind turbines?
Wind turbine noise can be detected at low levels, even when it is heard alongside motorway traffic noise, a study finds. It is possible for louder motorways to drown out turbine noise, however. The participants in this listening experiment could easily detect wind turbine noise, but only once they knew it was present in recordings of environmental noise. Public annoyance with wind turbine noise ...
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