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Profile: Redstone College

Since its founding in 1965, Redstone College in Denver, Colorado has been committed to providing students with quality, skill-based educational opportunities centered around industry...

Responding To Student Concerns About Wind vs. Cheap Oil

If you read my article last month, you may have enjoyed some of the naïve but entertaining questions prospective wind energy students ask the...

Improving LCOE By Training The Human Assets

When I worked for large international wind companies, like GE and Nordex, I saw entire infrastructures — engineering, EHS management, spare parts warehousing, SAP...

Educational Opportunities Abound At WINDPOWER 2015

The U.S. utility-scale wind energy industry gathers once again this month for the American Wind Energy Association’s annual WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition. The 2015...

Validation Of Journal Bearings For Use In Wind Turbine Gearboxes

That also applies to gearboxes in windpower turbines functioning as the main constituent of the drive train. Journal bearings now offer a technology that...

AWEA WINDPOWER 2015

Companies and individuals representing the global utility scale wind energy industry will gather once more next month, as the American Wind Energy Association hosts...

DOE Unveils Updated Wind Vision Report

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report looking at the future of wind power through 2050 and the economic benefits that...

Wind Power Led New U.S. Electric Generation In 2014

American wind power added significantly more new electricity than any other resource in 2014, according to U.S. Department of Energy data released in early...

Thousands Attend EWEA OFFSHORE 2015 In Denmark

Over 8,000 delegates from 54 countries descended on Copenhagen this year to attend the EWEA OFFSHORE 2015 event at the Bella Center — the...

Turbine Component Safety Compliance

As wind energy continues to grow, the increase in the annual number of wind turbine installations will draw more manufacturers of wind turbines and...

Siemens To Supply Three Projects In South Africa

Siemens has secured a large wind power contract in South Africa with an order for 157 wind turbines for three projects in the South...

The Shift Toward Optimization

As the wind power industry matures, project developers, owner-operators, and financiers are asking for ever more reliable predictions of power output from both new construction...

Predictive Maintenance Methodology Streamlines Operations

Operations and maintenance (O&M) of wind turbines is estimated at 21 to 24 percent of the total cost of energy from wind. As turbines...

Real-Time Monitoring of Bearing Conditions Emerges

At Hannover 2013, SKF unveiled a new and innovative technology that promised to revolutionise the way in which engineers use and interface with bearings....

Norvento’s nED100 Reaches Milestone for Medium-Scale Wind

Medium-scale wind turbine manufacturer Norvento has completed the TÜV SÜD design evaluation process for its nED100 100kW turbine. In doing so it has set...

Blade Dynamics Awarded Funding for Offshore Blade Development

Blade Dynamics announces today the award of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the GROW:OffshoreWind program for a £1m Advanced Blade Tip development project, due...

2015 Turbine Directory

GE Energy 1 River Rd Schenectady, NY 12345   (518) 385-2211   www.ge-energy.com/wind   @GErenewables   gepowerandwater GE Chosen to Supply Turbines for Wind Project in Poland GE announced that it will...

Electrical Acceptance Testing for Wind Energy Sites

The wind industry in North America is booming. Yes, it always seems like it’s on a roller coaster, but 2015 looks to be the...

BASF Receives Type Certification for Offshore Grout

MasterFlow 9500 from Master Builders Solutions by BASF is the first product of its kind to receive a DNV GL (Det Norske Veritas Germanischer...

NREL’s SOWFA Wind Farm Simulation Software Offers Holistic View of All Turbines on a...

Wind energy is blowing away skeptics — it’s so close to achieving cost parity with fossil fuels that just a little extra efficiency is...