Latest Wind Power product news
SolarWorld have been selected to power the North American headquarters of Vestas, a leader in providing high-tech wind power systems. Both SolarWorld and Vestas have their headquarters for the Americas in the Portland area. SolarWorld employs more than 1,000 workers at its main U.S. site in Hillsboro, Ore., and more than 250 in Camarillo, Calif., where it has operated a solar-panel manufacturing site since the late 1970s. Vestas employs about 400 people in Portland and 3,000 nationwide. The comp... [more]
One of the key aspects to developing an effective operational wind farm is understanding the wind resource and quality across the site by collecting and analysing as much data as possible from a range of points horizontally and vertically across the area of interest. Fully vendor-independent, secure and offering unlimited roll-back of data changes, vuWind collects, stores, qualifies and provides customers with on-line access to any type of time series meteorological data throughout their entire ... [more]
Technip in association with Nénuphar, Converteam and EDF Energies nouvelles has launched the Vertiwind project to test a pre-industrial prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine. The partners of the project are Seal Engineering, ISITV, IFP Energies nouvelles, Arts et Métiers, Bureau Veritas, Oceanide.
Free of the constraints related to the foundations of fixed wind turbines, the Vertiwind concept opens new perspectives for wind farms offshore numerous countries notably in th... [more]
Natural Power’s global technical team have delivered comprehensive energy yield and site assessment studies on a proposed wind farm project in Alaska for non-profit rural electric co-operative Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA). This has been Natural Power’s first involvement in Alaska, and marks a milestone in terms of the rapid growth of the company’s activities in North America.
The project drew on Natural Power’s global expertise, with the delivery including input from technical te... [more]
The not-for-profit organisation, called LEO (Local Energy Organisation) has been created by wind farm developer Infinergy and renewable electricity supplier Green Energy UK to enable homes closest to the Vectis Wind Farm to receive a 10% discount on Green Energy UK’s renewable electricity as well as an annual £100 rebate on their bill. LEO will also provide an annual fund for community projects decided upon by residents.
The new resident-run energy organisation has been set up on the Isle of ... [more]
40% of UK wind farm plans never go ahead because of objections about radar interference. At the British Wind Energy Association’s annual conference this week, Ed Miliband declared radar to be one of the UK’s major barriers to using wind energy to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets.
QinetiQ and Vestas Wind Systems have announced the successful trial of a unique radar mitigation technology for wind turbines. Using a jointly designed 44m prototype turbine blade manufactured by Vestas, the te... [more]
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