Latest Wind Power product news
ZephIR has announced a strategic partnership with remote power specialists Ampair to provide customers with a managed wind data and power service. Despite the very low power requirements of a modern lidar system such as ZephIR, a reliable and easily transported power supply is still important for the remote and harsh locations in which the system is often deployed. The strategic alignment provides ZephIR customers with an integrated and robust renewables power solution taking into consideration ... [more]
Commenting on the opening of the Thanet windfarm, the Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) said:
"The opening of the Thanet windfarm is a very positive step forward in the UK's progress towards securing a low carbon energy supply and meeting renewable targets, but we must continue to drive forward progress.
"UK's offshore energy resources, if harnessed, could provide a major proportion of the UK's electricity needs and put the UK at the forefront of a rapidly growin... [more]
Eneco has inaugurated its Tullo Wind Farm near Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire. The £26 million seven-turbine project has an effective capacity of 17 megawatts and is capable of generating sufficient green electricity to meet the average annual needs of around 9,000 homes. Local schoolgirl Amy Beattie, winner of a painting competition run by the company, will set the turbines turning at today’s inauguration ceremony where the guest of honour is Aberdeenshire’s Provost Bill Howatson.
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Thanet Offshore Wind Farm is now the biggest offshore wind farm in the world, with 100 turbines generating enough electricity to power over 200,000 households.
2Cs has played a pivotal role in the launch of the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The company was appointed to plan and manage the launch of Vattenfall’s Thanet Offshore Wind Farm; developing and implementing the overall creative concept and design for the launch as well as undertaking the entire event management.
The launch e... [more]
A report published by a consortium including DECC and some of the bigger energy companies earlier this year found that the full wind, wave and tidal resource potential of the UK is six times larger than current electricity demand and that harnessing just 29 per cent of this could create 145,000 jobs between now and 2050.
Following the opening of the world's largest offshore wind farm - Thanet Offshore Wind Farm in Kent - Friends of the Earth is reiterating its call on the Government to urgent... [more]
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]
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