Winding down maintenance costs
It is no secret that the wind-turbine market is growing. Seen by many as the long-term answer to the future of power generation, the...
Wind: Largest Renewable Energy Source in the U.S.
The U.S. wind industry achieved two remarkable milestones in 2019 thanks to the ingenuity and hard work of the country’s wind-energy workforce. First, we...
U.S. Forecasts Call for Offshore Wind
Offshore wind projects are major undertakings that involve a vast array of stakeholders, so the key to the success of an offshore project is...
A new concept for offshore turbine tower construction
There are approximately 340,000 wind turbine generators (WTG) throughout the world: 320,000 onshore and 20,000 offshore. The power output of the majority of these...
Why women need to consider a career in renewables
Gender equality in the workplace is an increasingly pertinent issue. Across industries, there appears to be a continued imbalance with regards to the success...
Inspection of Composite Turbine Blades with Ultrasonic Phased Array Technology
1. Introduction
In-service wind turbines operate in harsh environments. While the wind blades are subjected to a high-level of stress, other components of wind turbines...
New high-performance main bearing solutions for wind turbines
Today’s modern wind turbines can produce more than 7 MW of electrical power per unit — with offshore prototypes capable of achieving an output...
Improving the Service Life of Rotating Equipment
Wind turbines are typically designed to support a 20-year life cycle. Components are often subjected to extreme operating and climate conditions that can affect...
Building an American CTV supply chain
It’s no secret that, to build an offshore wind industry, you first need to build boats. U.S. offshore wind is still nascent, but, with...
Challenges of Bolt Tensioning
If you are involved in wind-energy construction or operations and maintenance, you know that foundation anchor bolt tensioning requires careful attention to the equipment...
The Need for Remote Sensing
Autonomous vehicles. High-resolution maps. Weather forecasts. With advances propelling the technology forward over the past couple of decades, Lidar (light detection and ranging) has...
Concrete spar buoy made with new materials and formwork
More than 80 percent of the ocean resource potential is in deep water. That is ideal for floating offshore wind power. This power is...
How do offshore wind farms change the wind?
November saw the start of the X-Wakes “Interaction Between the Wakes of Large Offshore Wind Farms and Wind Farm Clusters With the Marine Atmospheric...
Case study: Turbine ‘multi-tasking’
Argentina is serious about increasing its renewable energy resources, aiming for 20 percent of its power to come from renewables by 2025. The country...
Additive Manufacturing in Blade Production
Additive manufacturing (AM) has been around for a little over 30 years. It brought agile development into the manufacturing world because companies could now...
Extending the Lifetime of Wind Turbines
Wind turbines have a planned service life of approximately 20 years. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrated that many turbines are able to operate beyond...
Offshore wind’s westward expansion
Permitting and financing offshore wind projects is a complex business — but one that has made great strides on the East Coast of the...
Wind energy the competitive choice for canada
n Canada and around the world, wind energy is providing more affordable and clean energy than ever before. Today, wind energy is installed in...
Offshore Wind is Ready for its American Moment
Offshore wind has arrived in the U.S., and it is poised to take flight off the East Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management...
MARKET OUTLOOK: U.S. experiencing wind-power boom
American wind power has seen a consistent string of strong years and so far, 2019 is proving to be no exception. In fact, in...
