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What can the U.S. offshore wind market learn from Europe?

Case study: Yaw misalignment savings from simple SCADA data

DNV studies offshore wind potential off coast of Maine

AI: Wind energy’s paragon and net-zero’s protagonist

Biden Administration opens Gulf of Mexico to offshore wind leases

Cranes cost 50% of wind turbine maintenance expenses. Here’s how to reduce that

Selecting the right remote operations partner for your wind portfolio

Leading Light Wind submits New York offshore wind bid for 2.1 GW of power

Competence is just as important when building the offshore wind workforce

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Mammoet providing heavy lift services on 2 US offshore wind projects

Mammoet, an engineered heavy lift and transport services provider, has secured contracts for two offshore wind projects in the United States, both of which begin construction in 2023. Together, the two contracts cover a range of port scopes, including the load-in, load-out, handling and temporary storage of XXL monopiles, plus the pre-assembly of turbines in…

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What can the U.S. offshore wind market learn from Europe?

By Andy Malpas, U.S. Offshore Wind Market Director, Kent The United States is in the midst of a clean energy revolution with offshore wind emerging as a pivotal source of renewable power. With an abundance of coastal winds, the United States could soon stand at the forefront of offshore wind production. The global offshore wind…

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Mammoet providing heavy lift services on 2 US offshore wind projects

Mammoet, an engineered heavy lift and transport services provider, has secured contracts for two offshore wind projects in the United States, both of which begin construction in 2023. Together, the two contracts cover a range of port scopes, including the load-in, load-out, handling and temporary storage of XXL monopiles, plus the pre-assembly of turbines in…

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What can the U.S. offshore wind market learn from Europe?

By Andy Malpas, U.S. Offshore Wind Market Director, Kent The United States is in the midst of a clean energy revolution with offshore wind emerging as a pivotal source of renewable power. With an abundance of coastal winds, the United States could soon stand at the forefront of offshore wind production. The global offshore wind…

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Leading Light Wind invests in workforce development for New York offshore wind

Leading Light Wind, an American-led offshore wind project in the New York Bight, announced three initiatives to establish Staten Island as hub for the American offshore wind industry. The first is a $900,000 partnership with CUNY College of Staten Island to develop the next generation of offshore wind workforce; an Offshore Wind Scholars Program to…

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Case study: Yaw misalignment savings from simple SCADA data

Case study by Bitbloom This case study looks at getting more from existing turbine operation data. Cubico Sustainable Investments is one of the world’s largest privately-owned renewable energy companies with a portfolio of more than 6 GW across 12 countries. The company, which is backed by the resources of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and PSP Investments,…

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ONYX Insight and Nearthlab unveil whole turbine predictive maintenance partnership

ONYX Insight, a global provider of predictive maintenance solutions (PdM), and Nearthlab, an autonomous drone solution company, have entered into partnership to deliver a whole turbine predictive maintenance solution for wind farm operators. The industry is currently seeking to make operations more efficient amidst the backdrop of a labor, resource, and inflation-challenged environment. Together ONYX…

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Peregrine to redevelop 80-MW Iowa wind farm in operation since 2001

Peregrine Energy Solutions, an integrated multi-technology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage, will operate, redevelop and expand the assets of Old Gold Energy Center (formerly known as Top of Iowa I), an 80-MW operating wind asset in northern Iowa. The assets were acquired by Peregrine through a partnership with a global…

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Two new offshore wind ports proposed by AE1 for New York Harbor

Attentive Energy One (AE1), a joint venture of TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power, today announced plans for two offshore wind port facilities in New York Harbor generating $400 million in economic activity in the state. In connection with the 1,400-MW proposal, which AE1 submitted to NYSERDA in January 2023, the project has entered into…

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Krebs & Riedel releases new solution for grinding large gears for wind turbines

As wind turbines get bigger and more powerful, the industry continues to try to reduce production costs. This requires production methods that can produce gears cost-effectively and in high quality, even with complex flank modifications. Gear sizes in wind power typically range from 800 to 4,000 mm, with some gears even reaching a diameter of…

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DNV studies offshore wind potential off coast of Maine

DNV has completed a series of reports for Maine’s Governor’s Energy Office for the Maine Offshore Wind Initiative. The initiative was launched in June 2019 to outline a clear roadmap to develop floating offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine, while ensuring balance with Maine’s maritime industries and environment. Maine has abundant coastline and some…

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Global lightning data now integrated into Vaisala’s Helideck Monitoring System

Vaisala announced today the integration of lightning data from Vaisala’s Global Lightning Dataset GLD360 — part of its Xweather suite of weather and environmental data services — into its Helideck Monitoring System. Built to meet the demands of challenging offshore environments, Vaisala’s Helideck Monitoring System now utilizes reliable and accurate thunderstorm and lightning information from GLD360,…

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WindESCo successfully completes wind industry’s first major wake steering installation

WindESCo has announced the successful installation of its Swarm technology across Longroad Energy’s Milford I & II wind plants in Utah, featuring a combined capacity of 306 MW. The commissioning of Swarm at Milford marks the wind industry’s first full-scale implementation of commercial wake steering and collective control technology. Wakes at the wind farms create…

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Northstar Marine Services adds vessels to support US offshore wind development

Northstar Marine Services, marine transportation and support services provider, acquired the 265-ft anchor-handling OSV, the Northstar Navigator, and the 208-foot purpose-built spill response vessel, the Northstar Responder. These vessels will be used to support upcoming offshore wind work and a wide variety of other marine projects in the northeast United States. With more than 12,000…

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AI: Wind energy’s paragon and net-zero’s protagonist

By Rob Budny, VP of Renewables, SparkCognition The Russian invasion of Ukraine exposed the starkest challenges of fossil fuel dependence on a global level. The volatility of record-high power and fuel prices rocked economies and consumers while global CO2 emissions soared to a historic high and put the goals of the Paris Agreement at risk.…

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Biden Administration opens Gulf of Mexico to offshore wind leases

In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today is proposing the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is part of the Administration’s latest actions to expand offshore wind opportunities to more regions of the country, building on investments in the…

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TDI-Brooks to perform geo sampling off East Coast for offshore wind lease area

Research company TDI-Brooks has been awarded a geophysical, geotechnical and benthic sampling survey campaign to study seabed conditions within offshore wind project lease area and potential export cable corridors off the U.S. East Coast. The data collected will help determine safe and responsible project design and engineering along with identifying potential geohazards and benthic habitats.…

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Clean Energy Services launches wind tech training program

In response to an acute shortage of trained technicians to meet the growth in renewable energy, renewable energy companies have come together to form a renewable training program in Houston that is designed specifically for veterans and others seeking a career in the energy transition. Clean Energy Services, a provider of O&M services for the…

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First Keystone spiral-welded wind tower installed with GE turbine

Keystone Tower Systems and GE Renewable Energy just announced a major milestone in the development of tapered spiral welding with the installation of the first commercial spiral-welded wind tower on a 2.8MW GE turbine. The installation is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Keystone and GE to design and produce spiral-welded towers for GE…

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DOE sets aside $30 million to lower cost of wind turbine manufacturing

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $30 million funding opportunity to advance the cost-effective domestic manufacturing of materials, including lightweight composites, that allow wind turbines to produce power more efficiently. Because wind energy is the largest source of renewable power in the United States and one of the most affordable sources of energy…

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February 2023 Issue: We Can Better Maximize the Potential of Wind Portfolios

Windpower Engineering & Development is a growing wind-power resource targeting professionals involved in all aspects of a wind farm’s lifecycle, including developers, engineers, technicians, manufacturers and researchers that work to site, build, maintain, repair and optimize wind-related components, software and projects. The goal at Windpower Engineering & Development is to educate and expand the knowledge…

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