Latest Wind Power company news
With the UK boasting 40% of Europe's total wind energy, the new range of Tratoswind cables has been designed to provide home-grown industrial, commercial and larger domestic wind power users with quality cabling for wind turbines that combines flexibility and durability.
Tratoswind is the latest generation of medium voltage power cables from Tratos Ltd. for use with wind turbines. Tratoswind cables have a maximum torsional stress of ±100º/m, a tensile load of 30N/sqmm on the copper cross sect... [more]
TUV NEL and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have announced a major new initiative that will assist the growth of the UK’s wind energy industry.
As the UK, particularly Scotland, is faced with some very challenging targets in terms of reducing greenhouse gases and the uptake of new and renewable energy technologies, TUV NEL’s new initiative, supported by DECC, will see the expansion of the company’s Myres Hill wind turbine test site. The latest funding for £750k will help su... [more]
Iberdrola Renewables has announced the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will purchase 300 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable energy from Iberdrola Renewables’ Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Power Project under construction near the villages of Odell and Emington, Illinois, south of Chicago. This represents its biggest power purchase agreement (PPA) ever.
TVA will purchase the wind energy from Portland, Oregon-based Iberdrola Renewables as part of its effort to add 2,000 MW of new renewable ... [more]
TCI Renewables is a leading independent renewable energy business that develops, builds and operates wind projects across the UK and North America. The company has a track record in developing both merchant wind projects for major clients and also medium to large scale green field sites often in partnership with landowners.
Following a competitive tendering process, Consense has been appointed by TCI Renewables Ltd, to manage community consultation for a series of planned projects.
Consen... [more]
Technip has joined StatoilHydro in celebrating the inauguration of the Hywind demonstration wind turbine, which took place last week in Karmøy, Norway. Located 10 kilometers offshore Karmøy, Hywind is the first full-scale floating wind turbine and has a capacity of 2.3 MW.
Following the award of the turnkey contract for the substructure of the wind turbine in May 2008, Technip’s operating center in Oslo, Norway, performed the project management and installation engineering. Detail design and ... [more]
Megger has provided Texas State Technical College with insulation, ground, circuit-breaker testers, and a special blade repair test lead kit for checking the condition of the lightning protection provisions in the blades of wind turbines, as well as supporting documentary material.
Students will now be able to gain hands-on experience of testing wind turbine systems, thanks to test equipment supplied to the college by Megger.
The instruments will be used to train some 135 students enrolled... [more]
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