Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
As applicants prepare submissions for Crown Estate Scotland's ScotWind programme, the leasing round for offshore wind farms in Scottish waters, our industry must sharply turn its attention to the formation and delivery of successful supply chain partnerships that will enable us to apply our knowledg...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
The pace of the clean energy revolution is speeding up in an international effort to curb global warming and offshore wind power is set to play a pivotal role in achieving the CO2 reduction targets of many of the world's coastal countries. It is widely perceived that offshore wind is set to grow by ...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
Bolted joint assemblies are a critical part of a wind turbine as they have a direct impact on the structural integrity and the performance of the turbines. Applications can be found in all parts of the turbine such as foundations, tower flanges, nacelle, blades and internal components where the bolt...
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Wind, Exclusive Articles, Comment — 21 June, 2021
The UK's offshore wind industry is forecast to account for a quarter of the world's offshore wind capacity by 2022. It will also be the only country in the world to generate more wind power off the coast than on land There is growing pressure from public and private bodies to avert the climate crisi...
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Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
Kaveh Etemadi, Managing Director, ROBUR Wind GmbH and Director Global Sales of the whole Business Unit ROBUR WND, spoke to PES about his holistic vison and approach to wind: turbines, assets and services. This company offers a total package throughout the life of a turbine, with training and H&S...
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Wind, Think Tank, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
Currently there is an abundance of data. A recent report from GlobalData highlighted how the ever-increasing deployment of smart devices and technologies within smart energy grids is creating an exponentially growing pool of utility big data. In fact, utilities are increasingly implementing technolo...
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Wind, Think Tank, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
Smart turbines: embedded intelligence is the next engine growth factor for the automotive industry. Specialists estimate that in less than 10 years, the software element will represent 60% of the value of a vehicle, compared to 20% today. When you think about the pace of change in the wind industry ...
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Wind, Think Tank, Exclusive Articles — 21 June, 2021
Nowadays there is apparently almost no problem that cannot be solved with AI. If cars can even drive completely autonomously, should it not be easy then to find defects and other abnormalities on images from rotor blades of wind-turbines? However, where is the algorithm that detects defects in real ...
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