Aug 16, 2010
WindEnergyUpdate speaks to 2-B Energy’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Mikael Jakobsson, about a next generation turbine likely to feature in the UK’s Round 3, and why turbine reliability is crucial to project risk management.
Aug 16, 2010
This week’s WindEnergyUpdate news brief includes: Vestas, PNE Wind, Nordisk Vindkraft and HgCapital; Block Island wind farm; Cape Wind & the FAA; Sea Energy & Ampelmann; Corus; Siemens, Samsung & C&T Corp.; and Douglas Westwood.
Aug 13, 2010
As offshore wind energy developers in the Great Lakes region thrash out the logistics presented by the Jones Maritime Act and the Lakes' lock system, resistance from the local elite threatens to sway policy and undermine offshore wind energy altogether.
Aug 9, 2010
Wind Energy Update researchers are currently surveying European operators, interviewing over 30 offshore professionals and analysing national energy targets, regulations, permitting processes and markets.
Aug 9, 2010
This week’s intelligence brief includes the following companies and organisations: Ofgem, Balfour Beatty, Macquarie and Transmission Capital Partners; Dong Energy, National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), 2-B Energy & Aberdeen Offshore Wind; State Grid Energy Research Institute (SGERI) & Vestas; Gamesa & Iberdrola; REpower; ABB & RWE Innogy; Acciona; and Nexans.
Aug 5, 2010
Wind Energy Update speaks to Peter Jørgensen, Kriegers Flak project manager at Energinet.dk, Denmark’s grid owner-operator, about the potential of the world’s first offshore grid in Kriegers Flak in the Baltic sea.
Aug 5, 2010
Only recently out of the starting blocks, Ontarios’ feed-in tariff scheme is already being hailed a success. But to succeed, Ontario will need to overhaul its existing energy infrastructure and unravel its centralized energy paradigm.
Aug 2, 2010
Wind energy developers gather in London to resolve major challenges standing between Europe's wind energy industry and its ambitous targets.
Jul 30, 2010
Companies, organisations and projects in this round-up include: US Department of Energy, Kahuku Wind Power, Kahuku Wind Power project, First Wind, Clipper Windpower, Xtreme Power, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Ofgem, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise, The Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES...
Jul 29, 2010
Matthew Wright, executive director of Australian non-profit organisation Beyond Zero Emissions, walks WindEnergyUpdate through the world’s first step-by-step plan to an affordable, 100% renewable energy-powered nation.
Jul 29, 2010
Wind energy professionals who are able to recommend qualified researchers and experts have the chance to receive a £200 cash referral bonus.
Jul 29, 2010
Turbine testing facilities are sprouting out around the globe. But will testing conditions provided by NAREC's facilities and others provide the industry with even more robust components? And attract the vital private and corporate investment this energy sector requires?
Jul 23, 2010
Wind Energy Update speaks to Olivier Perot, CEO of REpower S.A.S., and Dr. Axel Birk, REpower’s Senior Vice President Global Service, about REpower’s lead market position in France and how it has achieved a successful offshore O&M strategy.
Jul 23, 2010
Lead story: 118 new offshore wind turbines connected to European gridCompanies and organisations included in this round-up include: The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Poseidon,E.ONClimate and Renewables, DONG, Vattenfall, Vestas, Repower, European Investment Bank, Stadtwerke München, ABB, transpower, Prysmian,Siemens Energy, TenneT, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and Mitsubishi
Jul 21, 2010
The new regulatory regime for UK’s offshore wind electricity transmission has incurred some teething problems, and greater coordination is needed on the grand design. Andrew Williams speaks to some of those in the industry to get their opinions on what needs to be done (and not done) to create a smooth integration process.
