Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
With the wind being an unpredictable beast, optimising the performance of turbines and reacting quickly to changes in conditions involves a huge amount of data gathering and analysis. Sereema takes a look at how digital technology is being used to enable quick decision making with everyone in sync. ...
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Wind, PES Essential, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
The high prices paid for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management leases in the recent New York Bight Auction have drawn attention to the high stakes involved in developing offshore wind projects. The highest winning bid was more than a billion dollars for lease area OCS-A 0539 paid by Bight Wind Holdi...
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Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
PES was delighted to have the chance to speak with Mahmoud Hamada, PhD, MBA, Managing Director of SAMAWATT, to find out how machine learning algorithms can help reduce grid imbalance penalties. With government subsidies covering these penalties no longer an option, how can small and medium-sized ren...
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Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
While traditional turbine inspection methods can be slow and error-prone, advancements in Artificial Intelligence technology may hold the answer to finding defects faster. A solution that will only grow in importance as wind farms themselves grow and offshore locations become increasingly hard to re...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
The weather plays an important role in the operation and maintenance of wind farms, helping to determine output, scheduling maintenance and predicting potential downtime. Accurate forecasting is therefore essential for forward planning. But what about hindsight forecasting? Can looking back over the...
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Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 27 March, 2022
Spotting the onset of damage to turbine blades quickly allows for fast decision-making in a wind farm's maintenance planning efforts. Using sensor technology to remotely monitor turbines can help avoid severe damage and reduce the need for turbine shutdowns that pause energy production and revenue g...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 26 March, 2022
Atlas Copco has been providing tensioning solutions for the wind industry since 2005. The initial tensioners were supplied to European manufacturers for the build of wind turbines within their facilities. As time progressed the range expanded to Asia and then the rest of the world. Due to the demand...
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Wind, Exclusive Articles — 26 March, 2022
As the wind industry battles the challenge to reduce its own impact on CO2 emissions in the making of greener energy, could flying cranes be a possible solution for transporting spare parts, tools and equipment for turbine service and maintenance? PES was fascinated to learn more about the possibili...
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