Fourth annual China Wind Technology and Investment Summit

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Excerpt: China's wind power is increasing at a fast pace. In the next 20 years China will add an average of about 25 million kilowatts of wind power installed capacity, and make a yearly investment of more than 25 billion Euros in the wind power market. The land-based wind energy resource in Xinjiang accou …

Trends in wind forecasting and site assessments

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Excerpt: Economic uncertainty and constrained capital have significantly increased scrutiny of potential wind projects. That makes accurate and timely site assessments more important for reducing financial risk. Even after projects are online, operators continue to look for ways to reduce O&M cos …

Trends in Wind Energy Development

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Excerpt: Project Development While wind-generated electricity continues to grow as a premier source of renewable energy in the U.S., project developers are being asked to find more efficient, cost-effective, and profitable ways to harness this resource. In 2010, the U.S. wind industry installed 5,116 M …

Lidar you can leave alone

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Excerpt: UK-based Natural Power has combined its product innovation business (ZephIR) with remote power specialists Ampair to offer a managed wind data and power service. Despite the low power requirements of a modern lidar system such as ZephIR, a reliable and easily transported power supply is still import …

A certified data logger for the wind market

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Excerpt: A manufacturer of data loggers offers a model that prevents any data manipulation. Ammonit says its Meteo-40 meets the high standards of MEASNET site assessments and is the first data logger on the market that offers data certification. Meteo-40 can be used for wind site assessment, wind farm mo …

Trends offshore

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Excerpt: The offshore wind-industry trends are just taking shape, but they seem to center around the turbines, their foundations, and the equipment and vessels needed to place them. That an offshore industry is testament to the persistence of Cape Wind developers (10 years of persistence) and finally, an acc …

Plenty of room for wind power as gov expands tall-grass area

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Excerpt: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to double the size of the “Tallgrass Heartland” area in the Flint Hills. A voluntary agreement recently worked out with landowners, power companies, and preservationists protects the area from future wind farm development by holding almost 11,000 mi2 of …

Kansas utility to add 200 MW from wind

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Excerpt: Kansas City Power & Light is blowing up its wind power portfolio by more than 65% by agreeing to buy power from a project slated for Western Kansas. The Kansas City-based electric utility signed a power purchase agreement for about 131 MW from the CPV Renewable Energy Co. LLC wind f …

Where the winds are – in Kansas

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Excerpt: The Department of Energy's Wind Program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a wind resource map for the state of Kansas showing a predicted mean annual wind speeds at 80-m up. It’s presented with a spatial resolution of about 2 km (interpolated to a finer …

Trends in construction

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Excerpt: One of the most prominent trends in the wind construction sector is moving toward low-cost providers without giving up experience. Also, with the experience many companies now have, each is developing its own approach to constructing quality farms faster. It’s no surprise that specialized …