By Steven Bushong, Associate Editor Wind turbines are learning to talk. Just as a patient shares symptoms with a doctor, wind turbines are increasingly able to communicate to each other and their manufacturers, decreasing the number of unexpected faults while increasing energy production. The language is data or, depending on the scale of information, big…
SKF signs strategic partnership agreement with Envision Energy
SKF has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Envision Energy, a leading global provider of wind turbines. The partnership strengthens an ongoing and highly successful cooperation established during recent years, which has been focusing on bringing reliable, high performance wind turbines to the market. “SKF has a close development cooperation with Envision Energy,” says…
Kyzen will demonstrate alkaline cleaners at Mid-Atlantic Design-2-Part
Kyzen has announced plans to exhibit in Booth #316 at the Mid-Atlantic Design -2-Part Show, scheduled for June 11 to 12 at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Company representatives will showcase Kyzen’s METALNOX M6319CP and METALNOX M6380 chemistries. METALNOX M6319CP is a heavy-duty, low-foam alkaline chemistry designed to remove a wide range of…
Capital Safety donating fall protection equipment, training to Habitat for Humanity
Capital Safety, home of the DBI-SALA and PROTECTA brands and a KKR portfolio company, is donating fall protection equipment and training for select personnel for all 2014 Habitat for Humanity build sites near its two Minnesota operations in the Twin Cities and Red Wing. Capital Safety products are used around the world to keep those…
JEC Americas 2014 opens today, features windpower suppliers
Composite manufactures from across the globe have gathered at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta for the third annual JEC Americas Exhibition and Conference. The event brings together leaders from the full spectrum of the global composites value chain, upstream and downstream. This year, the JEC Group leveraged its relationship with Messe Frankfurt and…
Day three at AWEA’s Windpower 2014: The wrap up
The good news and bad news continued on day three of North America’s biggest wind show and conference. The bad news, said at least one presenter, is that there are not enough attendees. “The booths are expensive, so why have we not at least heard from an AWEA representative to thank us for our support?”…
Photoblog: AWEA Windpower 2014, Day Three
Windpower 2014 attendees: Read the most recent windpower news on the Windpower Engineering and Development homepage and check our Twitter (@windpower_eng) for updates from the show floor and beyond. Missed Tuesday’s photoblog? See it here. Missed Wednesday’s photoblog? See it here.
Photoblog: AWEA Windpower 2014, Day Two
Windpower 2014 attendees: Read the most recent windpower news on the Windpower Engineering and Development homepage, check our Twitter (@windpower_eng) for updates from the show floor, and each day watch out for a new photoblog! Missed yesterday’s photoblog? See it here.
Photoblog: AWEA Windpower 2014, Day One
Windpower 2014 attendees: Read the most recent windpower news on the Windpower Engineering and Development homepage, check our Twitter (@windpower_eng) for updates from the show floor, and each day watch out for a new photoblog!
Wind Talk: Bosch Rexroth previews its offerings for WINDPOWER 2014
As a well-known producer of hydraulic systems, gearbox technology, and condition monitoring equipment, Bosch Rexroth is a comprehensive supplier to wind turbine manufacturers worldwide. In this Wind Talk podcast, Dietmar Tilch, managing director at Bosch Rexroth Monitoring Systems GmbH, discusses what AWEA WINDPOWER 2014 attendees can expect to see from the company at the trade…
Building a culture of safety in windpower businesses
Compared to long-established industries such as oil and gas, windpower is a young venture. Many of its leaders, however, come from more mature fields. In their new wind-industry roles, they’ve brought with them – to varying degrees – safety-first work processes. The incident reporting funnel, for example, which brings accidents experienced in the field to…
Capital Safety acquires Altiseg
Capital Safety, home of the DBI-SALA and PROTECTA brands, has acquired Altiseg Equipamentos de Seguranca de Trabalho Ltda. – EPP (Altiseg), a leading fall protection company in Brazil. Capital Safety is a global leader in fall protection and height safety, and leads the fall protection industry in South America. “This acquisition expands our footprint in…
Dialight introduces obstruction light with 10-year warranty
Dialight, a leader in LED lighting technology, has unveiled the first Class I, Div. 1 LED SafeSite High Bays to come with a 10-year full performance warranty. Featuring Dialight’s latest world class in-house designed power supply, the SafeSite LED High Bay improvements mark a major step forward in lighting reliability in hazardous area environments. This…
How U.S. windpower exporters can be ready for the global market through 2015
A new report from the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) says Canada, China, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico will be the top five markets for U.S. renewable energy exports during the next two years, and the windpower sector will overtake the solar sector as the largest exporter of renewable energy products. In this WindTalk…
Moxa partners with SUBNET to showcase SubSTATION server and local HMI software
To demonstrate the hardware independence of its SubSTATION Server software and SubSTATION Explorer local HMI software packages, SUBNET has selected Moxa as a preferred hardware provider for a demonstration at the Distributech Africa Conference March 17 to 19 in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as several other high-profile international venues throughout 2014. SUBNET will…
Gateway Safety’s Luminary safety eyewear targets pinch points
At just four-fifths of an ounce, Gateway Safety’s Luminary safety eyewear is ultra-lightweight—but it more than carries its weight in both comfort and protection. Luminary’s superior comfort features were engineered to target the “pinch point” areas behind the ears and at the bridge of the nose. As part of the Temple Technology Safety Eyewear line,…
Capital Safety launches new website
Capital Safety, home of the DBI-SALA and PROTECTA brands, has launched a new website inspired by the company’s commitment to quality, innovation, and safety as a global leader in fall protection. The new site is designed to be more user-friendly and to provide customers around the world with the insights and information they need with…
GE to provide wind energy in Scotland
GE announced that it will supply SSE Renewables with 10 GE-1.6 MW wind turbines for the Langhope Rig Wind Farm in Scotland. Once operational, the 16-MW Langhope Rig Wind Farm will generate the equivalent energy needs of approximately 15,000 Scottish homes (based on household consumption of 3,300 kWh a year). It is located on the…
Sweden’s Erikshester windpower farm to be powered by GE turbines
Further advancing its growth in the Nordic region, GE will provide Erikshester Vindpark AB (Erikshester Wind Farm), located in Vetlanda, Sweden, with six GE 1.6-100 wind turbines. The announcement brings GE’s wind energy total in the region to more than 300 MW of power. Once operational, the Erikshester Wind Farm will produce 9.6 MWs of…
Keep a safe distance from power lines when using AWPs, urges non-profit
The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has called on aerial work platform (AWP) operators and managers to always be aware of and keep safe distances when working near power lines, in light of accident data which points to electrocutions as one of the largest causes of AWP-related fatalities in the U.S. The not-for-profit federation highlighted this…