Wind Tower News
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Osbit supplies tower lifting tools to GE for Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Osbit, the UK-headquartered offshore technology company, has delivered twin wind turbine tower lifting tools to GE Vernova’s Offshore Wind business. The tools will initially be used in constructing the world’s largest offshore wind farm to date, Dogger Bank. The wind farm, a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor and Vårgrønn, will be situated around 130km off ...
By Osbit Ltd.
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The Nordex Group now participating in EoLO-HUBs project to drive recycling of high-value rotor blade materials from wind turbine blades
Currently, 85 – 95% of a Nordex wind turbine is already recyclable. For many of the materials used, there are established recycling processes for environmentally-friendly disposal – especially for steel and concrete, which make up the largest share of a wind turbine in the tower and foundation. Turbine rotor blades consist of a combination of different materials such as wood, ...
By Nordex SE
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Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy to Unlock A New Era of Offshore Green Hydrogen Production
Image: Schematic Structure of the Offshore Electrolysis - H2Mare. Source: Siemens Energy To reach the Paris Agreement goals, the world will need vast amounts of green hydrogen and wind will provide a large portion of the power needed for its production. Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy announced recently (Jan 13) that they are joining forces, combining their ongoing wind-to-hydrogen ...
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Equinor Selected for Largest-ever U.S. Offshore Wind Award
On January 13th 2021, Equinor was selected to provide New York State with offshore wind power in one of the largest renewable energy procurements in the U.S. to date. Under the award, Equinor and incoming strategic partner bp will provide 1,260 megawatts of offshore wind power from Empire Wind 2, and another 1,230 MW of power from Beacon Wind 1 - adding to the existing commitment to provide New ...
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Molas NL applied to offshore 4.0MW wind turbines
In June 2019, Movelaser Molas NL nacelle-based wind lidar was installed at an offshore wind farm in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province.It was applied to the power curve verification of offshore wind turbines.The wind turbine is Siemens 4.0MW model with a hub height of 90 meters and a blade length of 62.5 meters.The cost of setting up a offshore wind tower is millions of RMB, which is difficult to ...
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South Africa wind developers eye fresh bids to meet short-term deficit
South Africa's proposed renewables plan overestimates coal-fired capacity in the coming years and the wind industry must prepare cost-competitive projects for potential procurement announcements, wind developers told the Africa New Energy 2018 conference. In August, South Africa published its draft 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), calling for 8.1 GW of new wind capacity and 5.7 GW of new ...
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Energy Department Announces New National Laboratory Collaborations with 38 Small Businesses
At Earth Day Texas 2017 last week (4/21), the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 38 small businesses that will collaborate with national lab researchers through the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. SBV facilitates access to the DOE national labs for American small businesses, enabling them to tap into the intellectual and technical resources they need to overcome critical technology ...
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Global wind could hit 2.1 TW by 2030; Germany pilots wind plus pumped hydro
Global wind energy capacity could reach almost 1.68 TW in a moderate scenario and almost 2.1 TW in an advanced scenario by 2030, supplying up to 20% of global electricity, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)’s Global Wind Energy Outlook report released on October 21. GWEC’s Moderate Scenario reflects a world that maintains the trends from the past decade, with wind ...
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Gamesa lands a new order for the supply of 200 MW in Mexico
The company will install 95 of its G114-2.1 MW turbines at a wind farm being built in the north of the country Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, has received a new order1 for the supply of 200 MW at a wind farm located in the state of Coahuila, in northern Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will install and commission 95 of its G114-2.1 MW ...
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Energy game-changers look to future
Researchers now know how to keep the whole of the US powered by wind, water and sunlight without ever needing to fall back on emergency fossil fuel generators. They have also discovered how to extract hydrogen from methane without spilling any greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. And they have worked out a new and simple way to get the best available power from a wind turbine, and how to charge ...
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Mainstream to take delivery of South Africa’s largest locally-manufactured wind turbine tower order
Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power, today started overseeing the transportation of wind turbine tower sections from their manufacturing facility near Cape Town to the Noupoort Wind Farm site in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Mainstream is currently building three wind farms in the country’s Northern Cape which have a combined capacity of 360 megawatts. All 157 ...
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Mainstream starts construction of two wind farms in South Africa
Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power celebrated the start of construction of two wind farms in South Africa’s Northern Cape which have a combined generation capacity of 280 megawatts. The Khobab and Loeriesfontein wind farms, which are situated alongside each other within the Hantam Municipality, represent a total investment value of approximately 7 billion South African ...
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Wind energy reaches greater heights
Original story at MIT News Wind turbines across the globe are being made taller to capture more energy from the stronger winds that blow at greater heights. But it’s not easy, or sometimes even economically feasible, to build taller towers, with shipping constraints on tower diameters and the expense involved in construction. Now Keystone Tower Systems — co-founded by Eric Smith ...
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Wind turbines may lure bats into fatal errors
Scientists in the US might just be about to answer one of the great puzzles of biodiversity and renewable energy: why one of nature’s most agile flyers, a creature with the most sophisticated ultrasonic tracking system, should be so fatally attracted to wind turbines. Blades on the giant towers of wind turbines can rotate faster than a bird can fly, and are known to cause huge numbers of ...
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GE Launches Advanced Technology Space Frame Tower for Wind Turbines
Space Frame Tower Provides Cost-Effective Way to Go Taller in New Locations Enclosed Lattice Tower Available on GE’s Multi-Megawatt Wind Turbine Platform Up to 139-Meter Space Frame Tower Shipped on Standard Trucks and Ocean Vessels for Logistics Ease Today, GE’s (NYSE: GE) renewable energy business announced the introduction of its new space frame tower for multi-megawatt wind ...
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GE Introduces Smart, Powerful 2.75-120 Wind Turbine
Next-Generation GE Brilliant Turbine Generates 5 Percent More Annual Energy Production than GE’s 2.5-120 Available with Turbine-Integrated or Centralized Energy Storage for More Predictable Wind Power Various Tower Technologies, Spanning 85-139 Meters, Help Tailor Turbine for Site Conditions Today at the European Wind Energy Association’s annual conference, GE (NYSE: GE) ...
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Good winds boost wind power in Brazil
The wind market is reaching high levels in global investments in power, and currently is the component of the energy mix that is growing faster. Recently, GWEC – the global wind power council – released the statistics related to the 2013 market, which presented a cumulative capacity of 318,137 MW, which represents an increase of nearly 200,000 MW in the past five years. In Brazil, ...
By Alstom
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Alstom secures third wind turbine contract in Western part of Japan
Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply and supervise the installation and commissioning of 29 units of the ECO 74 wind turbines. Each wind turbine will have an output of 1.67MW and will be equipped with 70m towers. The wind farm is estimated to be fully operational in 2016. The wind farm will have a capacity of 48MW and a projected annual output of 85 million kWh, enough to supply ...
By Alstom
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Pattern´s Ocotillo Wind Project Prevails in Federal District Court
Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California ruled in favor of the Ocotillo Wind project and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in two separate suits before the Court. The Court granted Pattern's and the BLM's summary judgment motions in a case brought by the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation and in a ...
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Pattern´s Ocotillo Wind Project is First to Transmit Energy over the Sunrise Powerlink
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9, 2013/PRNewswire/ -- Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) today announced that its Ocotillo Wind project in Southern Californiareached commercial operation in December and is transmitting energy to the Sunrise Powerlink, a newly constructed 117-mile 500-kv transmission line linking San Diegoand the Imperial Valley. The Ocotillo Wind project, a 265 megawatt (MW) wind power ...
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