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Tag Archives | Wind Turbines
Partnership Between Fossil Fuels and Wind Power
You may be forgiven for thinking that fossil fuels and renewable energy don’t mix. But a UK company best known for supplying fossil fuel […]
The End for Mechanical Gearboxes?
Turbines are big sturdy beasts. They should be robust and able to stand a lot of what the elements can throw at them. But […]
Wind Power and Fashion
Wind power and fashion?? Do you mean to say that tall majestic functional wind turbines are now being seen as not just iconic, but […]
Green Light for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
One of the world’s largest offshore wind farms is now set to be built off the coast of East Anglia, England, after the government […]
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 […]
From Coal to Wind- Small Investors Welcomed!
Former coal collieries in England are about to have new life breathed in them. At Duckmanton near Chesterfield, the site of the former Markham […]
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 […]
Germany Wind Turbine Manufacturers Look At South Africa
A number of German wind turbine manufacturers and service providers are now focusing on the South African wind energy market. They are keen to […]
100% Wind Powered Trains in Holland by 2018
Just to clarify- the above headline doesn’t mean that there will be some newfangled form of train that is blown along the tracks like […]
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 […]
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 […]
Farmers for Wind
I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of onshore wind turbines on their land. When […]
Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine
In Ontario, Canada, the company “LTA Wind Power is developing a revolutionary type of wind turbine. A Hydrogen-filled Wind Turbine. In fact, it’s not […]
GE Set to Launch New Wind Turbine Model GE 1.85-82.5
GE are about to unveil a new turbine which will target class II wind locations, such as those in Brazil. It will be known […]
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 […]
The Most Powerful Turbine Award 2014 Goes Too…..
We’ve come a long way since the first 450-kW offshore wind turbine was installed in 1991 at Vindeby. Vestas’ massive V164-8.0 MW has a […]
UK MP Proposes Restrictions on Wind Farms
While many see the UK as one of the leading European countries embracing wind power, there are dissenters in Parliament. Christopher hope is the […]
Massive Wind Farm for Kenya
Renewable energy will be coming big-time to East Africa in the form of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project , which will be the […]
Pakistan Wind Power
30 different wind power projects The government of Pakistan is in the process of implementing no less than 30 different wind power projects. It […]
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 […]
Harnessing Wind Power in New Ways
Dr Daryoush Alleai is an engineer and pioneer and founder of a company called Sheerwind, which has developed an innovative wind turbine called Invelox […]
Twin Turbine Trouble in Derby, England.
There are two sides to every story and the pro-wind and anti-wind lobbies’ arguments can be seen in a microcosm in a corner of […]
