Leading renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, has conducted a technical lender’s engineer assignment supporting the 49.5MW Tenaga wind farm to financial closure. The wind farm, located approximately 30km southwest of Gharo, will help Pakistan cope with the power shortages which continue to hinder development throughout the country. SgurrEnergy has been involved in the project since 2011… Read more »
Moventas, the leading wind gearbox manufacturer and service provider, is now offering revolutionary new up-tower repair capability to its customers in North America. Moventas is proud to announce new patent-pending up-tower repair capabilities that promise to save wind farm owners significant downtime and expense. Effective immediately, all failed ‘low-speed’ planetary stage gears and bearings in… Read more »
• 66 Siemens SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines ordered• Expected to power about 50,000 average U.S. homes• Order also includes service and financing Siemens has been awarded an order from Apex Clean Energy to supply, support installation and provide long-term service for 66 wind turbines for the Grant Wind project in Grant County, Oklahoma. The Grant Wind… Read more »
Osnabrück, 29.09.2015. The showing of independent service provider seebaWIND Service at HUSUM Wind was a great success. The trade fair, which took place from 15 to 18 September in Husum, brought the company new customers and enquiries about service contracts for Germany and abroad. The bankability of seebaWIND’s full maintenance contracts has been optimised –… Read more »
JAN DE NUL SECURES FIRST OFFSHORE WIND CONTRACT WITH NOBELWIND FOR ITS NEWLY ACQUIRED JACK-UP HEAVY LIFT VESSEL VIDAR On Tuesday 15th September 2015, Jan De Nul Group and the offshore wind project Nobelwind signed the first offshore wind contract for Jan De Nul’s recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel Vidar. It concerns the… Read more »
It is clear that the tide has turned for DIAB. As the wind energy market in China and the USA recovers from the downturn that occurred between 2010 and 2012, sales keep surging for this Laholm based company owned by Ratos. DIAB reports a very strong first half of 2015. After a strong first quarter of the… Read more »
• Siemens will provide 10 years of service and maintenance for 149 D3-platform wind turbines Siemens has signed a long-term agreement with the U.S. energy company Minnesota Power to provide service and maintenance for 149 D3-platform wind turbines installed at the Bison Wind Energy Center, located near New Salem, North Dakota. Under terms of the… Read more »
Apprentice deckhands conclude year-long programme to secure Maritime Studies Diploma and explore long-term career opportunities in offshore wind23rd September, Isle of Wight – Class-leading offshore energy support vessel operator, Seacat Services, has announced the graduation of the first group of young seafarers from its Maritime Apprenticeship programme. The successful graduates have taken the first step… Read more »
Nantes, September 22, 2015 ‐ Meteodyn will be at the EWEA Conference & Exhibition ‐ key event for wind industry decision‐makers in Europe. This year, the event takes place in Paris – France ‐ where our headquarters are based, one more reason to be one of the official sponsors of the event. By the end… Read more »
The Danish-Swiss wind turbine optimiser ROMO Wind is presenting its patented iSpin technology for measuring wind in front of the rotor at this year’s HUSUM Wind trade fair. Today, Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Jensen visited the stand. He got to know more about the innovative measuring method and watched a demonstration of the… Read more »
Hamburg: Senvion, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, erected its 2,000th onshore wind turbine in Germany. The 2,000th turbine, a Senvion 3.4M114 NES, forms part of the Behrendorf wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein – 15 kilometres north-east of Husum. Together, the 2,000 turbines generate over 2,565,000 kW per year on average – enough… Read more »
Husum, 17 September 2015 – Denmark’s foreign minister, Kristian Jensen, is visiting HUSUM Wind today. Besides attending a reception at the Danish pavilion, he will also be visiting a number of other exhibitors. All in all there are exhibitors from 25 countries at the fair. In addition to Denmark there are a number of exhibitors… Read more »
This week at the leading biennial trade fair for the wind industry, HellermannTyton presents two tried-and-tested products that cost-effectively protect cables in wind turbine towers against the effects of abrasion. Tornesch 15/09/2015: Refitting torsion cables in wind turbines is an onerous undertaking. It costs around two man days alone to replace just one of up… Read more »
The offshore wind industry often needs versatile vessels that can easily be refitted and reconfigured to perform a range of different duties, from transporting people to carrying heavy equipment. Using vacuum resin infusion and composites from DIAB, CTruk Boats lead the way in meeting this requirement with an innovative approach using a movable deckhouse structure…. Read more »
Rheine, 14/09/2015 – Availon, the leading cross-brand provider of wind turbine generator services, announced today positive developments of its business Japan, a market where they have received an increasing number of orders for main wind turbine generator components. Availon addresses the needs of the booming Japanese market in collaboration with local company EOS Engineering &… Read more »
Moventas sets a new performance standard in the onshore 3 MW wind turbine gearbox class. Testing and verification procedures of the first prototypes of an Exceed high torque platform gearbox have been completed, and the results are even better than estimated. Launched in August 2014, the Exceed is a 3 MW and up product platform… Read more »
The Danish-Swiss wind energy optimiser ROMO Wind installed its patented wind measurement technology iSpin, which measures wind directly at the spinner, in 16 Nordtank NTK 1500/64/80 turbines in the Sustrum/Renkenberge wind farm (Germany). The results of the measurements: the yaw misalignments in the turbines were between 11.8 and 21.7 degrees. After this had been rectified,… Read more »
Transport & installation work for GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V. EverSea NV (a subsidiary of the Belgian DEME Group) has finalized the execution of an offshore project in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The company performed transport and installation work on two platforms for GDF Suez E&P Nederland (part of the ENGIE Group),… Read more »
Romax, the design and engineering specialist, has demonstrated its commitment to maximising sustainable energy yields across the wind energy industry, with the news that Indian based wind turbine manufacturer Inox Wind, has crossed its 500th order for its Romax designed 2MW wind turbine gearbox. Wind power in India now accounts for almost 10 per cent… Read more »
• Slogan: “WINDforce: Adding Value to Your Wind Business”• Digitalization and automation makes technology even more efficient From the wind turbine to the distribution grids: Siemens has fanned out its solutions for the wind power sector as broadly as the challenges facing the energy turnaround. From September 15 to 18 the company will be presenting… Read more »
After evaluating sites on 4 continents and over 50,000 hours of collected wind data, study confirms Triton is as accurate as met towers for wind resource assessment A study released today by Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has evaluated over 50,000 hours of wind data gathered from customer sites on 4… Read more »
In order to increase the profitability of wind turbines, components also have to come down in price – and that includes the sensors. But quality must not suffer as a result. Kübler’s Markus Brunner, Global Industry Manager Wind, explains how smart design is maintaining high standards and maximising profit. Cost pressures during the construction of… Read more »
If you thought Denmark had already won wind power’s world title, it’s time to think again. A host of pretenders are snatching at the crown, in what will become perhaps a more democratic industry with opportunities stretching far and wide. We consider the other nations waiting in the wings… Our globe-trotting journey has to begin… Read more »
Since being founded in 1881, G. Lufft GmbH has been the leader in the production of climatological measuring equipment – always with the motto “tradition meets innovation”. Now, they bring their wealth of experience to the offshore market with a new range of weather sensors. PES investigates… All of the digital Lufft sensors of today… Read more »
A multi-sector recruitment specialist, Mane is a rising star in the offshore arena, and has enjoyed a particularly buoyant year thus far – driven chiefly by a reinvigorated European market. We found out a little more about the organisation’s wind energy credentials and took a look at its plans for future growth… BackgroundMane provides Technical… Read more »
An industry is only as good as its people. With wind energy growing and developing at a pace, finding skilled employees is just one of industry’s big challenges. PES speaks to Lars Poslednik of Mensys Group about putting the right people in the right positions. PES: Welcome back to PES. Would you like to acquaint… Read more »
Although just over a year old, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is already a major player in the wind industry. The company’s parent companies are two of the global leaders in wind power and offshore ventures, while its 8MW turbine is a potential game-changer. We spoke to the company’s Matt Whitby… PES: Welcome to PES. Would… Read more »
As well as offering an enormous benefit to the global environment, the offshore wind industry faces huge challenges from the local environment in the shape of extremely tough operating conditions. Olaf Borgwardt of novatic talks to us about how his company is helping protect the future of wind power. PES: Welcome to PES. Would you… Read more »
This issue’s roundtable is a PR special, to reflect the massive impact that the industry has had on boosting wind power’s reach and penetration in recent years. Certainly, there have been challenges along the way, but there have been many, many more successes. We wanted to find out more about the pitfalls and benefits of… Read more »
As wind farm installations get larger and more remote, the issue of housing and sustaining site workers becomes an increased burden, both in cost and logistics. PES speaks to the CEO of Site Facility, Jakob Heskjær, about how they are overcoming the issue, by bringing the workforce to the work. PES: Welcome back to the… Read more »
For many years, Denmark has been at the forefront of wind technology, with manufacturers maintaining an edge on competitors through their long history in the industry. However, Danish wind power knows it has to constantly evolve and improve to keep its place at the top of the table. Denmark is home to many small and… Read more »
DBB Jack-Up Services A/S and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S extend their framework agreement for offshore wind operations and maintenance services by another two years. In December 2014, years of successful cooperation between DBB Jack-Up and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind resulted in the signing of a framework agreement for offshore wind operations and maintenance services… Read more »
Osnabrück, 09.09.2015. seebaWIND Service GmbH has been awarded the tender invited by the ENGIE energy group. The manufacturer-independent service provider has been responsible for service, maintenance, and 24/7 remote monitoring of the Karstädt-Blüthen wind farm in Prignitz County (Brandenburg) since August. With 32 Nordex N60 wind turbines and a total capacity of almost 42 megawatts,… Read more »
Hamburg/Warsaw: Senvion, one of the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturers, has commissioned 18 of its two-megawatt (MW) turbines with Martifer Renewables S.A., Poland. The wind farm is in operation in Gizałki, about 90 kilometres south-east of Poznań. It is the third biggest Senvion wind farm in Poland and the biggest with Senvion MM100 turbines worldwide…. Read more »
In Husum, ex-Minister for the Environment, Jürgen Trittin, praises the “success story of Butendiek” / 288 megawatt wind farm provides renewable energy from the North Sea to around 370,000 households. The planning company and wind farm operators from Bremen, wpd, celebrated the official opening of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in the NordseeCongressCentrum in Husum… Read more »
While changes to the timing and swiftness of the UK Government’s announcement of its early withdrawal of the Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) is surprising, that it was coming is not. Alan Shanks, Partner at HBJ Gateley gives PES his views on the future of wind farm subsidies. The UK government’s manifesto warned before the election… Read more »