Wind, Think Tank, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
The reliability of an offshore wind turbine and the resources required to maintain it can make up ~30% of the overall cost of energy, thus determining and understanding offshore wind turbine failure rates is vital for modelling and reducing O&M costs and in turn minimizing the levelized cost of ...
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Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
PES caught up with Wim Keen, CSO of STEEL INSPECT. He was happy to tell us about the services the company provides to the offshore wind energy sector and gave an introduction to their unique total quality concept, Q7, which is used to manage the quality of complete offshore wind EPCI projects. PES: ...
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Wind, Exclusive Articles, Comment — 16 October, 2020
The global energy transition is underway. The uptake of renewables is accelerating, as the technology undercuts fossil fuel based energy generation and governments seek to achieve international climate targets. Renewable energy is now also accepted as an opportunity to drive green economic growth an...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
Anyone familiar with the current offshore wind (OSW) project pipeline along the United States' East Coast, knows that this undertaking has great potential to turn into the envisioned one trillion-dollar industry in the coming decades. The current plan is to install 13 offshore wind farms totaling 9....
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
The daughter craft for wind farms far from shore Over the last three years we have seen the introduction of purpose-built Service Offshore Vessels (SOV). These 70-100 m long vessels service wind farms, where a long distance to shore makes a land-based service organization impractical. Typically, 40-...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
With the world engaged in the energy transition and the environmental sustainability high on business agendas, scientists and governments are working to identify alternative technologies that will generate enough energy to meet the growing demand while reducing greenhouse emissions. The wind sector ...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
Anyone familiar with the current offshore wind (OSW) project pipeline along the United States' East Coast, knows that this undertaking has great potential to turn into the envisioned one trillion-dollar industry in the coming decades. The current plan is to install 13 offshore wind farms totaling 9....
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Wind, PES Essential, Exclusive Articles — 16 October, 2020
By 2040, it is expected that around 4GW of the UK's onshore wind capacity will be repowered projects. The next few years will see slow growth in this sector, around 100MW per year from 2020, but increasing to around 500MW per year by 2035. So as a significant number of wind turbines begin to reach t...
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