10-11 April 2013, Edinburgh, UK Wind Farm Development: European Offshore 2013 Leading the Development of European Offshore Wind Project Delivery Following the great success of 2012, the event has developed into a strong platform for the offshore wind industry to meet and discuss the pressing issues and share the success stories of this ever growing [...]

Conditions are ideal for the first international fairs dedicated to the Argentinean renewable energies industry. Eolica Argentina 2012, the fair dedicated to the wind energy industry in Argentina, and Solar Argentina 2012, the event on photovoltaic, thermal and concentrated solar energy, open tomorrow at the La Rural fair centre of Buenos Aires, and will continue [...]

Towards the end of 2011 the U.S’s total installed wind power capacity stood at around 43,641 MW, with Canada adding a further 5,177 MW. Now that North America nears 50,000 MWs of wind power in operation, it is vital that wind farm owner / operators get the most out of their O&M expenditure, maximize generation [...]

For five years wind operations managers cited reliability, availability and WTG capacity as the main figures they worked off and were held accountable for. As world energy needs come to the forefront of political and consumer discussion once again it appears the only criteria that matters to wind operators is generated power. The critical driver [...]

Export and inter-array cables are exposed to a hostile, high-risk environment during a wind farm’s operational life. Given that they comprise a hefty portion of an offshore wind farm’s capital expenditure costs, preventive maintenance for submarine conductors should be a priority for operators, according to the latest Offshore Operations and Maintenance report from Wind Energy [...]

A cursory glance at the cost of generating electricity from offshore wind vs. coal for example has many questioning the long term sustainability of this renewable energy. But that is only one snapshot in time of an industry that is set to employee tens of thousands, drive billions of pounds into the UK economy and [...]

Grenoble, September 5th , 2011 – McPhy Energy, a leader in solid hydrogen storage technology, has announced that Nottingham University has chosen the company’s solution for mid-term storage of renewable energy in a residential micro-grid under its “Creative Energy Homes” (CEH) project. The ongoing CEH project aims to stimulate sustainable design ideas and promote new [...]

Offshore wind is a burgeoning industry right at the tipping point of moving from a test bed of new construction strategies and technology to a fully-fledged part of many European countries power generation portfolio. Offshore wind is exciting; the scale of the wind farms and their turbines is huge. The amount of power that they [...]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently turned its attention to the wind industry. As it stands, there are no national metrics for comparing the wind industry against other businesses, but with developments in the pipeline, this could change quicker than expected, and would be of major benefit to the industry. When such laws [...]

With new demands in emerging markets, the wind turbine manufacturing industry is seeing repositioning from the traditional centres of production from Europe to emerging market entrants in Asia and South America. While some leading OEM’s are opening production facilities in China and Vietnam, tier one manufacturers are making a significant step towards producing their components [...]