Protecting workers at height
Anytime a technician must operate high above the ground, fall protection becomes a paramount concern.
That fall protection covers several aspects: both the safety of...
Keeping the Turbines Turning
With more than 550 GW of wind power installed world-wide, this renewable energy source is finding its way into all segments of society. Not...
Rotos 360
Repairing turbine blades in the best conditions can be a difficult process, but when needed on turbines spinning miles off the coast, the difficulty...
Ahead Wind, Inc.
As the wind-energy industry continues to grow and expand, the markets will only get more competitive. That is why it’s critical for companies to...
Extending the life of a turbine
Lubricants are important in many industries where friction ranges from being inconvenient to financially disastrous.
Making sure parts run smoothly is paramount when it comes...
Profile: Norbar Torque Tools Inc.
When wind technicians are working in the field, they need quality tools that will not only get the job done, but get it done...
Profile: Hydrogenics
As the name implies, wind energy only produces power when the wind is blowing; however, a wind farm is often generating energy even when...
Profile: Sotek Inc
The path that brought Sotek to the wind industry is a bit serendipitous.
The company had been a leader in the manufacturing of precision metal...
Profile: Green IT Energy Applications
It all started in an Iowa cornfield.
Today, Green IT Energy Applications is one of the renewable energy industry’s leading providers of software and IT...
Profile: Biome Renewables
When it comes to the annual energy production (AEP) for a wind turbine, the industry says that gains of more than 1 to 2...
Harvest Energy Services
As anyone involved in the wind industry knows, there are a lot of moving parts involved in getting a wind farm up and running...
‘We can weld anything’
When a company makes a name for itself by handling massive steel objects, it seems only logical that those objects would involve the creation...
Profile: NRG Systems, Inc.
A wind farm is essentially a large power plant that can end up costing millions of dollars. Financing that wind farm usually involves two...
Profile: CloudVisit Energy
Wind farms are often in remote areas that aren’t always easily accessible. And once at a site, wind technicians still have to fight the...
Profile: Stahlwille Tools LLC
When it comes to quality tools, the proof can be found in Stahlwille’s name.
Almost all of Stahlwille’s tools are made in Germany, and those...
Profile: Clobotics
Before Clobotics President George Yan began his company, he recalls visiting a wind farm and being surprised at what he saw.
“I saw this fellow...
Profile: Wanzek Construction
The cost of maintaining wind turbines is a growing concern to owner-operators and often the main threat to profitable operations. But the renewable services...
Profile: Uptake
Thousands of sensors embedded in wind turbines send out terabytes of data. Making sense of that data and transforming it into useful information to...
Profile: Team-1 Academy
What happens when a wind-turbine technician is working at 300-plus feet, and something goes wrong? That tech is going to have to know more...
American Chemical Technologies, Inc.
American Chemical Technologies has offered its polyalkylene glycol-based lubricants to a variety of industries, and now the company is showing how it can help...
