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What is a Suction Bucket Jacket??

Does it sound like something you’d need in your loft water tank, or maybe something to fix a leak in your plumbing system? No. The Suction Bucket Jacket is something that could profoundly affect the offshore wind industry. DONG Energy has collaborated with the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) to bring about an innovative and… Read the rest

USED WIND TURBINES FOR SALE – Used Wind Generators

Looking for well-priced Used Wind Turbines? For best-priced Second Hand Wind Turbines from around the world – here! Used Wind Turbines and used Wind Generators from MywindPowerSystem.com. All Major Brands – Best Prices – Reconditioned and Refurbished Wind Turbines are also available under warranty. MyWindPowerSystem can also assist in getting the wind turbine/s you buy… Read the rest

Drivetrain Technology

The end of this month sees an important conference, to be held in Bremen, Germany from 27 to 29 October, 2014: It is the 5th International Conference on Wind Turbine Drivetrains. What do we mean by the drivetrain for wind turbines? For modern horizontal turbines, the components are as follows: blade or rotor, which converts the… Read the rest

Three Blades or Two Blades?

Just when we all thought that the three-bladed wind turbine was the industry standard, several major wind-power companies are testing a departure by dropping one of the three blades and spinning the rotor 180 degrees to face downwind. The attraction is that if a two-bladed turbine can produce as much energy as a three-bladed one, the… Read the rest

Plans “Floated” for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm

Plans have been unveiled for a floating offshore wind farm project in Scotland. The Kincardine offshore wind farm is a proposed demonstrator floating project located near Aberdeen, approximately eight miles from the coast. The proposers are called Pilot Offshore Renewables. This is an Aberdeen-based joint venture between an offshore wind developer and consultancy firm MacAskill Associates… Read the rest

Siemens win Big Dutch Offshore Contract

Siemens has just clinched a deal with the Dutch Offshore Wind consortium called the Gemini Project. The contracts are for the construction, financing, and operations in Dutch offshore waters- a first for Siemens. Siemens will deliver 150 turbines, each with a capacity of 4MW, and a blade diameter of 130 metres. Included in the deal is… Read the rest

Siemens Notch up Second Project in Peru with Cobra Energia

Cobra Energia, the Spanish wind developer, has awarded Siemens Energy another order to expand its onshore wind power fleet in Peru by an additional 97MWs. The Tres Hermanas wind power plant will include a combination of 25 Siemens direct drive SWT-3.0-108 wind turbines and eight geared SWT-2.3-108 units (pictured below). The contract also includes six… Read the rest

UK Needs To Get its Wind Power Act Together!

Wind watchers and commentators around the globe have been confused and wrong-footed by the UK Government’s on/off like/dislike g0/stop attitude to the future of wind farms. Is it any wonder that probable investors in the UK wind industry are reluctant to commit when the UK Government seems to be a dithering headless chicken when it comes… Read the rest

Who’s Who in Wind Power: Henrik Stiesdal

If you have to ask who is Henrik Stiesdal, then it’s clear you don’t know much about wind power. In Denmark and also around the world, Henrick Stiesdal is revered and admired as a father of the wind industry we see today: The Siemen’s late fifties CTO was making a name for himself a long time… Read the rest

Siemens say UK “Recognise the Potential of Offshore Wind Energy”

It has just been announced that manufacturing giant Siemens and the UK’s Associated British Ports are to invest a total of £310m in UK wind turbine factories, creating 1,000 jobs at the Green Port facility at Hull, North East England, and Paull, East Yorkshire. Siemens will put up £160m which is double the original investment of… Read the rest