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Hunterston Exports Power for the First Time

SSE Renewables has exported power from its offshore wind turbine test facility at Hunterston on the North Ayrshire coast for the first time. Hunterston is the UK’s first onshore test site for offshore turbines. The current features turbine under test is a 6MW Siemens 154 direct drive machine, some 177 metres high. The scheme is being… Read the rest

The Composition of Turbine Blades

Wind turbine blades are the heart and soul of a wind turbine. Have you ever wondered what wind turbine blades are made from? In my ignorance, I thought it was aluminium, the same as aeroplanes. In fact, the very earliest prototype wind turbine blades were made from a variety of materials, including balsa wood, Bakelite (an… Read the rest

Danes Produce Half of their Electricity from Wind

For the month of December, last year, wind power provided the country of Denmark with just over half-about 55%- of its electricity. That’s a record. It is the first time any country has generated and used over half of its electricity from wind power alone for an entire month. During Christmas week, it provided 68.5%. Denmark… Read the rest

United States Chooses Turbines for First Offshore Wind Farm

The award of the lucrative contract to supply the United States’ first offshore wind farm has been eagerly anticipated. It was announced in a supply and maintenance contract announced just before Christmas. It will be for the huge Cape Wind wind farm located on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. And the… Read the rest

The World’s Largest Order for Onshore Wind Turbines Goes to….

Siemens. They have been asked by MidAmerican Energy to supply no less than 448 turbines. Yep, as the title suggests it is the world’s largest order ever for onshore wind turbines. The turbines are for five wind farms that are to be established in the US state of Iowa. The output will be 1050 MW which… Read the rest

New Turbines at EWEA Biannual Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition

For three days at the end of last month in Frankfurt, international exhibitors displayed their new offshore turbines and wind-related products, such as a huge HVAC submarine cable, and some offshore foundation developments to support the turbines. Here’s a selection of what was presented that we will expect to see in 2014 and beyond: Samsung showed… Read the rest

53 Siemens Turbines for Turkey

Three new wind farms are being built in Turkey at Mugla, Edirne-Tekirdag and Kirklareli by the Turkish Group Güriş. 53 Siemens D3 wind turbines representing a total capacity of 165 MWwill be produced and shipped to the locations. These D3 turbines have the cutting edge gearless direct drive technology from Siemens. Commissioning is expected to take… Read the rest

New Wind Farms for The Phillipines

A very small percentage of the total energy output of the Phillipines is from wind power, but the country wind energy sector has significant potential and could provide over 70GW of power. The 33 MW Bangui Bay wind farm (unusual in wind farms in that it is on the beach) is the only operating wind farm… Read the rest

Two New Wind Farms for Northern Poland

The Polish wind power plant developer and operator PEP S.A. ( which stands for Polish Energy Partners S.A.) has commissioned Siemens to build two wind power plants in Northern Poland. The delivery of the turbines to the first wind project will start next year, in May. The plan is for 18 Siemens model SWT-2.3-108 wind turbine… Read the rest

Siemens Curtail the B53 Turbine Blade

Just a few hours after one of its wind turbines threw a blade in the Imperial County town of Ocotillo, Siemens Energy announced it is shutting down all its turbines worldwide that use the same blade until their safety can be assessed. The faulty wind turbine at Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo Express Wind facility lost one of… Read the rest