Wind Energy

VBMS, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., announces that it has been awarded the Borssele Alpha contract in consortium with NKT Cables by TenneT for the installation of two export cables that will connect the Borssele offshore wind...

Gamesa has achieved a new milestone in the development of its offgrid technology with the installation and start-up of a lithium battery for the storage of power at the prototype installed by the company in La Muela (Aragon). ...

EthosEnergy has been awarded three multi-million dollar contracts for a series of control system upgrades for two steam turbines and four gas turbines at various power plants in Oregon, Iowa and Michigan.   The full scope...

Alliant Energy’s Iowa utility is moving forward with its New Wind Project, which will bring up to 500 megawatts of new wind generation to Iowa. That’s enough to power 215,000 homes. Alliant Energy is currently working...

Direct-drive wind turbines from Siemens are gaining ground on the German market: Siemens has now received five orders for 23 of these state-of-the-art wind turbines. Two of the wind farms are situated in Germany's northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein, while...

The program for Wind O&M Dallas 2017, the world’s foremost conference for global wind energy stakeholders,  is today October 12, being launched by Wind Energy Update. Taking place April 10-12,2017, and with its most ambitious agenda and...

High-fidelity, hub-height wind measurement has arrived off the south coast of Massachusetts thanks to a newly installed WINDCUBE® Vertical Profiling Lidar. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), working with AWS Truepower of Albany, New York, has installed the WINDCUBE at WHOI’s Martha’s...