wind turbine gearbox News
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Global Wind Turbine Gearbox Market to Exceed $8 Billion by 2020, Wind Rotor Blades Drop to 49K Units Installed
The global wind power market witnessed tremendous growth in 2011, as annual wind power capacity installations recovered after a slight dip in 2010. In fact, Global wind energy installed capacity increased at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 26.5% from 74,122 Megawatts (MW) in 2006 to 240,000 MW in 2011. The wind turbine industry provides employment to over 450,000 people worldwide. ...
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China will have a major impact on the cost of environmental and energy investments
Whether it's consumables such as activated carbon or SCR catalysts or whether it's big equipment such as reverse osmosis systems or wind turbines, it will be Chinese activity which determines the price. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company based on the forecasts and demand analyses conducted in each of its market reports on water, air and energy subjects. The reality is that ...
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GE Announces Global Wind Turbine Repair Innovation Lab in Albany, NY
Innovation Lab to Focus on Uptower Drivetrain Repairs for GE’s Global Wind Turbine Fleet Site Features Advanced Manufacturing, Tooling, Machining and Equipment to Develop Repair Technologies to Reduce Wind Turbine Cost of Life Part of GE’s Investment of More than $400 Million in the Capital Region over the Past Four Years GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the opening of its Global ...
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Special tool from seebaWIND Service facilitates changing gearboxes on wind turbines
The manufacturer-independent service provider seebaWIND Service GmbH replaced a gearbox using a tried and tested special construction in only three days. seebaWIND specialists replaced the gearbox of a Senvion MM92 wind turbine for the first time at the Waldhausen wind farm near Würzburg. It was the first gearbox change on this turbine type and was carried out by a manufacturer-independent ...
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BASF acquires extrusion technology from B.C. foam: PET foams for the wind energy sector
BASF has purchased the PET foam business of the Italian company B.C. Foam S.p.A., headquartered in Volpiano. The companies have agreed not to disclose the purchase price for the transaction. The acquisition includes production facilities and intellectual property rights, as well as a special extrusion process which enables the production of high-performance PET foams with very high densities. ...
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Sail-inspired turbine promises cheaper wind energy
A Tunisian invention that harvests wind energy through adesign inspired by sailboats promises cheaper, more efficient wind energy. The bladeless wind turbine, the Saphonian, named after the wind divinity that was worshipped by the ancient Carthaginians, also promises to be more environmentally friendly than existing wind turbines that produce noise and kill birds through their blade rotation. ...
By SciDev.Net
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