Wind, Ask the Experts, Exclusive Articles — 25 April, 2021
In this changing world of the pandemic, PES was pleased to catch up, albeit remotely, with Geoffrey Vancassel, CEO and founder of Sterblue. This seemed very apt for a company that doesn't need a physical presence to serve its clients. Their state-of-the-art software can save their clients huge amoun...
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Wind, Press Releases, Renewable News — 25 April, 2021
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has provided technical due diligence services and energy yield assessment to Neoen for the financing of its 404MW Mutkalampi wind farm in western Finland. Neoen has now reached financial close for the project, which will be th...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 25 April, 2021
Utility-scale wind turbine energy technology has developed rapidly over the past 20 years, from a few hundred kilowatts to multi-megawatt installations capable of producing enough electricity to power thousands of households. As windfarms increase both in physical size and generation capacity, with ...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 25 April, 2021
Lidar wind measurement campaigns can offer a number of key benefits over a traditional met mast approach to wind resource assessment in the development of wind farms. As always, to get the best data solution it's important to take a few simple steps. Here are our top tips. In many respects Lidar can...
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Wind, PES Essential, Exclusive Articles — 25 April, 2021
It could meet Europe's electricity demand seven times over, and the United States' electricity demand four times over. In the last decade, offshore wind power has developed from an expensive rookie to a competitive source of energy. As the world's interest in offshore wind grows, there is a rapidly ...
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Wind, Think Tank, Exclusive Articles — 22 April, 2021
Decision-makers in the wind-energy industry are faced with a choice of three options when their wind energy converters (WECs) approach the end of their design life: they can either dismantle, repower or continue the operation of their WECs. In many cases, available lifetime reserves allow cost-effec...
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Wind, Talking Point, Exclusive Articles — 22 April, 2021
Energy generation and storage is rapidly being moved from the centre to the edges of the network, with far-reaching consequences for grid management and oversight. Across the world, the policy direction is increasingly towards distributed generation with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmen...
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Wind, PES Essential, Exclusive Articles — 22 April, 2021
Fears that automation will lead to mass unemployment are a recurring social and economic issue. In recent decades, these fears have been fed by the rapid spread of industrial robots, the use of which has become prevalent in the wind industry. While robotization within the industry has many positive ...
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