Better Tools of the Trade
The last thing a wind technician wants to haul up a turbine is a heavy, cumbersome torque wrench to repair a hydraulic actuator out...
Building New Towers – One Piece at a Time
As the demand for taller wind turbines increases, the challenge of transporting steel structures pushing 200 meters to their final destination increases along with...
Technologies Transforming Wind
Wind power is on the rise. In the U.S. alone, the wind industry invested more than $11 billion in new power plants in 2017...
Making U.S. offshore wind a reality
Expect the path to offshore wind in the U.S. to be filled with its fair share of challenges, but facing and solving those challenges...
Looking for lightning
Lightning and tall objects don’t really play well together.
And since wind turbines are, by their very nature, extremely tall, that means nature often uses...
Showing true ‘metal’
Humans have been making things from copper for more than 8,000 years. Through the centuries, this versatile, highly conductive metal has gone from being...
Keeping an Eye on Bats
Whenever big mechanical systems are constructed, there’s always a risk that it might interfere with wildlife. That is often the nature of progress.
Massive wind...
New tech grows from tiny seed
Wind can’t be made, but what if there was a way to take better advantage of the wind that’s available?
The experts from Biome Renewables...
Frost Warnings
Colder climates often have some of the best constant winds needed to spin a turbine. Unfortunately, that frigid air also creates an added challenge...
Smart maintenance and wind power
Labeled as the “industries of the future,” all renewable power generating sectors are highly appreciated. Onshore and especially offshore wind turbines are one of...
Wind-energy boom
In the past two years, the U.S. has seen impressive growth in the wind-energy market. Wind Systems magazine made the right predictions at the...
Increasing AEP: A coordinated approach
As wind turbines age, their ability to efficiently create power starts to decline.
To help fix this problem, wind-farm owners and operators can replace parts...
Cutting production time
An important process to get newly designed wind turbines up and spinning rests in the design phase.
Blade development can be a slow, arduous process...
Hybrid growth expected
The hybrid solar wind energy storage market is set to grow from its current market value of $1 billion to more than $1.5 billion...
Another successful WINDPOWER
At this year’s WINDPOWER show in Chicago, booths of more than 400 companies filled the McCormick Convention Center; 100 of them exhibited their expertise...
Offshore Wind makes waves
Since Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island started generating power at the end of 2016, several states are building up...
Extracting wind power from high altitudes
As you drive down the highway these days, wind turbines off in the distance are a familiar sight, sprouting up from the landscape like...
Optimizing wind and current trends
Pressure from wind owners to shift from availability driven operational models to performance optimized strategies has never been stronger. The trick, however, is being...
Making turbines last longer
Wind turbines are built to last 20 years. But as assets approach that 20-year lifespan, companies involved in wind-farm assessments such as UL are...
Maintaining A Healthy Gearbox
On December 12, New Energy Update presented a webinar on gearbox upkeep, focusing on how a gearbox’s maintenance requirements should be approached in order...
