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Wind Turbine Lubrication
Lubricating Wind Turbine Gearboxes Wind Turbine Lubrication is crucial if you operate any machinery with moving metal engine parts. You will know that oil […]
Brazil Wind Power – Should It Add More
There can be no doubt that Brazil Wind Power has done a great job of moving away from those contaminating fossil fuels. As an […]
UK Farmers Should Farm the Wind and the Sun
It’s a technique that’s been used to good effect in Ireland; allowing and encouraging farmers to use renewable energy technology on their land. That […]
Quieter Wind Turbines With Owl Feathers!
The Owl. A silent deadly nocturnal killer swooping down on its prey. A wind turbine. What on earth could link them? Let us tell […]
Great Expectations for North Sea Wind Power
RenewableUK, the UK renewable industry group, considers that the East of England could become a hub for trade in renewable energy with Scandinavian countries […]
The Calming Effects of Wind Turbines
In the debates about the environmental effects of wind farms and wind turbines, it’s unfortunate that a lot of media coverage is given to […]
Christmas Break in United States for Wind
When people across the world think of Christmas, they probably think of giving and receiving presents, Goodwill to all men and a time for […]
GEV Show Wind Turbine Maintenance Rig
As anyone involved in wind power knows, one of the more expensive and time-consuming parts of the business is maintenance of the tower, nacelle […]
Germany Leads the Way in Wind
Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and nearly a third of its electric power comes from renewable energy. That fraction is increasing… Indeed it […]
New Study – No Link to Wind Turbine Health Effects
A Health Canada study has found no link between exposure to wind turbine noise and negative health effects in people. While the closer people lived […]
UK – More Power from Wind than Nuclear
Before we all get too excited about the headline, I should say that this achievement was only managed for one day. Earlier this week, […]
$100 Billion for Oil vs Renewable Energy
Don’t take my word for it! A French investment bank, Kepler Chevreuxhas, has produced a ground-breaking piece of analysis which should have considerable implications for the […]
Small Scale Wind Turbines and Scotland
While the UK seems to be whipping itself into a frenzied panic about the possibility of Scotland voting itself out of the Union of […]
Eolian Renewable Energy – Mount Waldo
In the town of Frankfort, Waldo County, Maine, Eastern United States, is a small mountain about 1,060 feet (320 m) high. Granite from the surrounding area was […]
One Turbine – One Field And A Lot Of Bother
A long-running battle with campaigners over the building of a wind turbine could cost a Nottinghamshire council a staggering £80,000 in legal fees. The 66m […]
Lost in Translation
There’s nothing more likely to cause consternation and confusion that a bungled translation. When I was a representative of the UK at the International […]
Vestas 3.3MW Turbines for Izmir Wind Farm in Turkey
Giant Dutch manufacturer Vestas has clinched an order for 33 megawatts of wind turbines for a wind project in Izmir, Turkey. The order for the Fuat RES […]
New 170MW Onshore Wind Farm for India
The company Inox Wind (which is a subsidiary of Gujerat Fluorochemicals) has secured a contract to provide wind turbines for an onshore wind farm […]
BT Buys 50% Output from Scottish Wind Farm
BT, the giant communication company, has agreed a £300m deal to buy enough energy to meet the needs of all its Scottish operations for […]
Vestas Deal for Oakfield Wind Farm, Maine
Vestas Wind Systems have won a 148-megawatt order from First Wind Holdings Inc. in Maine. This is the Danish manufacturer’s fourth project with this U.S. […]
GE Win Contract for 400MW Texas Wind Farm
New Generation Power Texas (a diversified global developer, investor, owner and operator of energy infrastructure assets in the areas of Utility Scale Power Generation) has […]
Businesses See Sense in Wind Power Investment
A few weeks ago the Scandinavian home furnishing colossus, Ikea, announced plans to build a wind farm on property it owns in Illinois. This […]
Number of UK Onshore Wind Turbines?
How can there be such a discrepancy between the figures quoted in the title? The answer lies in what you call a wind turbine […]
