American Wind Energy Generation Off to a Good Start in 2016
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the American wind power industry had its most productive first quarter for installations since 2012 as...
NREL Distributes Fourth Round of Funding for Competitiveness Improvement Project
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is awarding four subcontracts under the fourth round of funding through DOE’s...
Enbridge To Acquire 50-Percent Interest in French Offshore Wind Development Company
Enbridge Inc. recently announced it has agreed to acquire a 50-percent interest in Éolien Maritime France SAS (EMF), a French offshore wind development company,...
Renewable NRG and Ventus Install Wind Iris Lidar at First Uruguayan Wind Farm
Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG) and Ventus Ingenieria recently announced the acquisition and installation of a Wind Iris nacelle-mounted Lidar at the 20-MW Caracoles wind...
AWS Truepower Acquires Energy-Related Forecasting Assets from Meso Inc.
AWS Truepower, an international leader in wind and solar energy consulting and engineering services, recently announced that it has acquired the energy-related forecasting assets...
Allianz Risk Transfer and Partners Develop Swap Solution To Hedge Volatile Revenues of Wind...
Allianz Risk Transfer Limited (ART) and partners have developed an innovative risk management solution for hedging wind volume risks for wind farms. ART has...
Cyberhawk Completes ROAV Inspections for Forewindâs Dogger Bank Meteorological Masts
Cyberhawk Innovations, a world leader in remotely operated aerial vehicle (ROAV) inspection and survey, recently completed an operation and maintenance inspection project on Forewind’s...
Ingeteam Improves DFIGâs Fault Ride Through (FRT) Behavior with Crowbarless Solution
Ingeteam recently introduced its “crowbarless” solution, a modular fault ride through (FRT) system for power converters that will strengthen the grid compliance of doubly...
DNV GL-Led Project Gives Green Light for Wind-Powered Oil Recovery
The DNV GL-led wind-powered water injection (Win Win) joint industry project (JIP) shows that, for suitable fields, wind-powered water injection is technically feasible, capable...
Siemens Introduces Digital Services for Energy Powered by Sinalytics
The Siemens Power Generation Services Division has been advancing the development of digital trends, building upon its more than 20 years of experience collecting...
Virtual LiDAR Model Helps Researchers Plan for Wake Steering Experiment at SWiFT
A team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are planning a critical experiment at Sandia’s Scaled...
GE Reaches Milestone with 50,000 MW in Global Wind Installations
GE Renewable Energy recently announced it currently has more than 50,000 MW of onshore wind turbines installed across the globe. The company reached the...
Siemens Introduces Concrete Tower Technology To Reduce Energy Costs
Siemens recently announced the commercial launch of a concrete wind turbine tower technology that is designed to capture stronger winds at higher altitudes, resulting...
Adani Enterprises Enters Wind Energy Market with 70-MW Wind Turbine Orders with Inox Wind
Adani Enterprises, one of India’s leading conglomerates, has entered the wind energy industry after placing its first orders for wind turbine generators with Inox...
New Cable Connection Between Offshore Platforms
For the first time, two sister platforms in an offshore wind farm will be connected by a bridge system with the aid of a...
New Concrete Tower Construction Method for Wind Turbines
A team led by Professor Johann Kollegger at the Institute of Structural Engineering at Technische Universität (TU) Wien has developed a new tower construction...
ENEL Starts Construction of New 150-MW U.S. Wind Project
Enel S.p.A., through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGPNA), has started construction of the Lindahl wind project, which will be Enel’s...
Goldwind Americas Signs 160-MW Texas Deal with RES Americas
Goldwind Americas, a subsidiary of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Renewable Energy Systems...
SgurrEnergy Supports Canadian Wind Portfolio to Financial Close
A portfolio of wind projects in Canada has reached financial close after SgurrEnergy provided lender’s technical due diligence to support the financing process. SgurrEnergy,...
Senvion Secures Turbine Order in Japan and Opens Office in Tokyo
Senvion, one of the world’s largest and leading wind turbine manufacturers, recently announced the opening of its office in Tokyo to service the local...
