First gearbox-generator combo goes to German OEM

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Excerpt: Wind gear manufacturer Moventas and generator manufacturer The Switch, have announced the delivery of the first commercial order for FusionDrive, a gearbox and generator combination. The first delivery is going to Germany-based DeWind. “We think FusionDrive is the next big thing for the wind …

Canada a hot wind market for U.S. OEM

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Excerpt: Advanced technology wind turbines have been selected to power nine new wind projects in Ontario, Canada, adding about 650 MW of clean energy to the province’s electricity grid. When the projects are fully built out by 2015, GE wind turbines will be delivering about 1,200 MW of wind energy in t …

U.S. Fish and Wildlife updates guidelines for wind-farm development

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Excerpt: In March, 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its final Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines. These present a tiered approach for the consideration and analysis of potential impacts to wildlife and habitat from onshore, wind-energy development. The five-tier process and other guid …

Cable spacers solve problem of many cables and not much pole space

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Excerpt: Growing communities need more electrical power and usually more electric lines strung conveniently overhead on poles. When a conventional pole carries its max number of lines, the local electrical company has several options. The experience of a small electrical cooperative is useful in under …

Three spindle machine cuts turbine hub in less than one shift

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Excerpt: Astraeus Wind Energy's MAG Megaflex machining system has passed its initial supplier qualification by completing "Operation 20" metal-cutting processes in record time on a Clipper Windpower C96 turbine hub, one of the industry's largest. The system simultaneously machines all three blade faces, …

Utility-scale inverter also controls power storage

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Excerpt: An industrial manufacturer has introduced an advanced utility-scale inverter in its new Series 6001 energy storage grid-connect inverter, engineered to provide improved power stability for wind and solar energy customers. Engineered by Eaton Corp. for utility-scale grid-connect battery applicati …

A Canada FIT for wind farms

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Excerpt: The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is pleased that the Ontario Government’s review of the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) program has made a commitment to procure all the energy required to meet its aggressive renewable energy targets by 2015 and to examine in 2013 the potential for additional ren …

Poland adds 55 MW more

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Excerpt: Turbine manufacturer Nordex has obtained a follow-up order in Poland or the delivery and installation of turbines for a wind farm for the Polish subsidiary of E.ON Climate & Renewables. Until 2013, the manufacturer will be delivering a total of 22 large N90/2500 turbines for the projects “ …

Good news and bad news in the wind world this month

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Excerpt: Let’s start with the good news. An extension to the Production Tax Credit (PTC) has found bipartisan support in Congress. Recent news tells of Democrat and Republican Congressmen from wind states Washington and Iowa recommending an extension of the PTC. Others on both sides of the aisle feel the s …

Financing secured for 69 MW Oahu wind farm

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Excerpt: A U.S. based, wind-energy company announced it has obtained $236 million in financing for its 69 MW Kawailoa Wind project on Kamehameha Schools’ Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu’s North Shore. A subsidiary of developer First Wind closed a $220 million non-recourse construction and term loan …