SAB North America’s tray cables and flexible motor supply cables achieve UL WTTC approval

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Excerpt: SAB North America’s TR 600 Cable Tray Cables and Flexible Motor Supply Cables have achieved key UL WTTC standard for use in the design of Wind Turbines. The TR 600 series cable earned approval in accordance with UL subject 2277. SAB North America announced that its full line of tray cables and …

Building a new industry in America: Components for Wind Turbines

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Excerpt: by Ed Weston Despite the push from Washington and state capitals for ‘green jobs,’ the wind industry has found them harder to create than expected.  Latest estimates of domestic content of US turbines are estimated at less than 50%.  With the help of organizations like the Great Lakes WIND …

NREL and Great Lakes WIND target midsized turbine designers and manufacturers

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Excerpt: The U.S. DOE and NREL have launched the Midsize Wind Turbine Development Project to help close the existing technology gap and facilitate development and commercialization of midsize wind turbines. The Laboratory is sponsoring workshops in Ohio and Oklahoma, facilitated by Cleveland-based Great Lake …

American Wind Energy Association on the Stimulus Plan suspension proposal

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Excerpt: The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today issued the following statement from AWEA CEO Denise Bode: “At a time when the construction unemployment rate is nearly 25% and the manufacturing unemployment rate is 13%, this proposal would cost 50,000 American workers their jobs. The truth …

Quick-locking pin speeds assembly work

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Excerpt: The design features a solid, spring loaded “wedge-shaped plunger” that combines ease of use with secure fastening. The wedge-shaped plunger easily retracts when inserting the pin into a hole. The angled, ramp-like face of the wedge ensures smooth insertion. Once fully inserted, the plunger sprin …

Overview of wind power storage media

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Excerpt: Wind power storage development is essential for renewable energy technologies to become economically feasible. There are many different ways in which one can store electrical energy, the following outlines the various media used to store grid-ready energy produced by wind turbines. For more on appli …

Community wind shapes a growing trend

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Excerpt: An emerging group of wind-farm developers are focusing on midsized project farms and in places utility companies are overlooking. These community-wind projects, ranging from five to 80 MW, are cropping up in part due to recent financial incentives and guidance from firms such as OwnEnergy Inc, Brook …

A powerful idea: Wind turbines in the city

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Excerpt: Not all wind farms have to be located far from power purchasers. A recent ribbon-cutting for a 120 kW turbine was right in Cleveland, Ohio, where the turbine is visible to thousands driving by on I-480 and Pearl Rd. Electrical Design Consultants President David Graneto, Pepper Pike, Ohio, says p …

Solving the use-it-or-lose-it wind energy problem

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Excerpt: Examine a utility’s load curve over the course of a week and the trace looks like a roller-coaster. Demand for electric power peaks about 5 pm each day and declines to a low at about 2 am. Look closer and you see demand changing almost by the second. So there are two problems here that befuddle el …

Analyzing building-integrated wind

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Excerpt: Russell M. Tencer/CEO, Wind Products LLC/New York, NY Controversy seems to follow the installation of wind turbines on building rooftops, and for good reason. On one hand, there can be considerable wind with harvestable kinetic energy at roof level. Accessing this clean, renewable sou …