Worlds largest wind farm going up (where else?) in Texas

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Excerpt: General Electric says it received orders in 2008 for 667 of its 1.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbines from Mesa Power LLP, a company founded by T. Boone Pickens, the former oilman and founder of BP Capital. This energy investment firm and Pickens launched Mesa Power to build the world's largest wind power …

Australia gets $2 billion, 1 GW wind farm

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Excerpt: Plans for the 1-GW Silverton Wind Farm in New South Wales, Australia have been approved, and when completed, will be the largest in the country. The farm is one of the largest on-shore wind projects in the world with a potential operational capacity in excess of 1,000MW. The farm will generate about …

The world’s largest turbine…for now

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Excerpt: The world’s largest wind turbine, for the time being, is the E-126 from Enercon GmbH. The unit sports a 126-m rotor, about 413 ft, and is said to be a more sophisticated version of the earlier E-112 which was rated at 6 MW. The company erected the turbine in Emden, Germany and will be testing …

A short course on tightening bolts

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Excerpt: Engineers at Boltech Mannings, West Newton, Pa, suggest a better way to tighten a nut or tension a bolt. Traditional methods of tightening nuts, bolts, and studs such as slugging, hand wrenching, or impact wrenching, says the company, are often inefficient and dangerous. Accurate and dependable …

A better way to lift tower tubes

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Excerpt: Turbine towers can be a dickens to lift and put into place. Engineered Lifting Technolgies, a subsidiary of Hanes Supply Group, Buffalo, NY, says it can make the task a bit easier with its tower-erection equipment. The system consists of all necessary brackets, rigging, and hardware for installi …

ABB wins $20 million order for voltage compensators

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Excerpt: ABB, a power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $20 million from Oncor, Dallas, TX, to supply a Static VAr Compensator (SVC) unit to support the transmission grid in North Texas. SVC devices provide fast-acting reactive power compensation in high-voltage networks, whi …