Wind Farm Monitoring News
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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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EnergieTEAM and BaxEnergy hit the 100th wind park milestone
BaxEnergy and EnergieTEAM reinforce their long-lasting collaboration with the integration of the 100th wind park monitored by the former. The French group develops, builds and operates wind farms throughout France since 2002, nowadays standing among the top three leading operators in France with its 100 wind parks, 1.095 MW and 440 wind turbines. The partnering history dates back to 2014, when ...
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Energy Revolution: This is How Intelligent Technology Supports Upheaval
It is no longer a secret that fossil fuels such as hard coal and lignite are harmful to the environment. Germany would like to become greener and continue to rely on renewable energies as a result of the energy revolution. Intelligent technology in particular should support people in this and make power generation more eco-friendly. The problem of climate changePhasing out nuclear energy ...
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Offshore wind analytics to cut opex to less than quarter of costs
Growing predictive maintenance capabilities, drones and multi-turbine control strategies will combine with logistics innovations to lower operations and maintenance (O&M) costs, industry experts said. Sweden's Vattenfall launched last month its pioneering 93 MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, north-east Scotland. The new 300 million-pound ($393.0 ...
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NREL to Lead One Exascale Computing Project, Support Three Others
Scientists at the Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will lead an effort to model the complex and turbulent flow of wind through large wind plants as part of DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which is gearing up U.S. computational capabilities to prepare for the next generation of supercomputers. NREL will also provide support to three projects related to ...
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Energy ministers of the G7 Group officially inaugurate Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm
Today (May 08, 2015) the Nordsee Ost wind farm will be officially inaugurated on the occasion of the meeting of the G7 Energy Ministers in Hamburg. The inauguration will be attended by the German Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel, and his fellow ministers from the G7 states, as well as Peter Terium, CEO of RWE AG, Hans Bünting, CEO of RWE Innogy, and Mel Kroon, CEO of Tennet. With an ...
By RWE AG
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Gamesa and Iberdrola launch a new, next-generation system for operating wind farms from a distance
Gamesa and the Iberdrola Group, through its engineering and construction subsidiary, have launched a wind sector-pioneering system which enables the remote management, using a single interface, of any make of wind turbine, anywhere in the world. Leveraging both firms' know-how and experience in the wind sector, this new system, called WindCORE® + WindOne®, enables operators to control ...
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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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Meteo-Logic Offers Accurate Localized Weather Forecasts for Wind Farms
Meteo-Logic, an innovative provider of custom-made accurate weather forecasting, launched today a new service specifically designed to provide the wind farm energy industry with highly accurate localized weather forecasts. Meteo-Logic offers detailed weather parameters and tools required for making weather-sensitive decisions for specific locations at specified times. This is done while ...
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NASA Satellite Measurements Imply Texas Wind Farm Impact On Surface Temperature
A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the turbines. The land surface temperature around the west-central Texas wind farms warmed at a rate of .72 degrees Celsius per decade during the study period relative to nearby regions without wind ...
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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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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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Possible effects of giant wind farms on the weather
Wind power can make a large contribution towards renewable energy targets but there are concerns about their impacts on the weather. A new study models the effects of a hypothetical giant wind farm in North America on the weather. The researchers suggest that it could be possible to use these effects positively. The EU set itself the target of increasing the share of renewables in energy use in ...
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New IEC Standard to help improve wind turbine quality
Wind power technology has seen remarkable developments in recent years, spurred on by its promise as a dependable source of renewable energy. As a result, it has moved from a niche form of power generation to acquire complete legitimacy in the energy sector. To respond to this rapid evolution in the technology, the IEC has published the second edition of its Standard for measuring the power ...
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