Finnish manufacturer Satel has recently released its Satelline TR4, a compact UHF transceiver with transmitting power of 1,000 mW. The item is compatible with the protocols of Pacific Crest, Trimble and Satel. Its type certifications make the TR4 ideal for integration in end devices that are intended for international use. With a weight of only 18 g, transmitting power…
Battery second use offsets electric vehicle expenses, improves grid stability
Editor’s Note: The article posted here was originally posted on NREL’s Newsroom by Anya Breitenbach. Breitenbach examines battery second use (B2U) strategies that may be able to offset expenses for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). For more information on B2U strategies, click this link. Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have the potential to dramatically drive down consumption of…
SgurrEnergy named company of the year at British Renewable Energy Awards
Renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, were victorious at the British Renewable Energy Awards (BREA) this week, winning the top award category as the ‘Company of the Year’. The accolade recognized the efforts of the business, which has successfully driven the advancement of renewable energy in the UK during the previous year. Technical director, and joint founder…
Industrial router combines wired, Wi-Fi and cellular connections
Moxa’s WDR-3124A industrial wireless router combines 802.11n Wi-Fi and 3G cellular connectivity, 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and GPS interfaces into one device. The company has released an application flyer to show how its router may be used in practice, noting intersection monitoring and wireless connectivity in public transport vehicles. Download further information at this link. Router…
NREL and Clemson University collaborate on wind energy testing facilities
Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Clemson University will partner to share resources and capabilities in the operation and development of testing facilities. The CRADA also includes the exchange of staff for training and research and development purposes, including collaborative participation in facility commissioning…
Lloyd’s Register Energy to perform preparedness analysis for the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm project
Statoil has given Lloyd’s Register Energy a contract to perform a risk and emergency preparedness analysis for the Hywind Scotland pilot park project. “We are delighted to support Statoil with our risk management and hazard expertise in this industry-leading project,” says Arve Sandve, Business Development Manager at Lloyd’s Register Consulting. The Norwegian international energy company plans…
Gamesa rewards an invention that enables automatic turbine rotor positioning
Gamesa has celebrated the fifth edition of its Patents and Inventors Competition, which is designed to acknowledge its employees’ efforts to develop innovative new technology with the potential to set the company’s technology offering apart from that of its competitors. This year’s prize has gone to a rotor positioning invention for which the patent application has…
Siemens surges, but Vestas Wind Systems remains top wind turbine installer in 2014
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has maintained its position as the world-leading wind turbine installer in 2014, having achieved global capacity installations of just over 6,053 megawatts (MW), according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest findings also show that of the world’s top five wind turbine installers in 2014, Siemens has…
How fluctuating oil prices affect everyday life
Editor’s Note: A drop in oil prices might seem like a good thing at first (cheaper prices at the pump for one), but they can also symbolize a weak global economy. Cheap oil and gas prices may also negatively impact renewables. Although as some analysts have pointed out, wind and solar energy tend to be…
Wind Plant Optimization from the Wind Topical Expert Meeting
These comments come from the recent Field Test Instrumentation and Measurement Topical Expert Meeting and were submitted by Sandia National Labs. On October 7 and 8, the International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind Topical Expert Meeting (TEM) on Field Test Instrumentation and Measurement Best Practices was held at Texas Tech University. The event, hosted by the…
Invelox now integrates three turbines in one system
SheerWind recently announced their newest innovation as part of its Invelox technology. The technology integrates three turbines in a row or series and increases the electrical power output for a single tower. SheerWind’s Invelox system is a large funnel that captures, concentrates, and accelerates wind before delivering it to turbines safely and efficiently located at…
Wind industry leaders honored with awards at AWEA Wind Energy Fall Symposium 2014
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has announced the recipients for its 2014 AWEA Awards, honoring wind industry supporters, leaders, innovators, and advocates for their outstanding efforts on behalf of wind energy. The recipients were recognized during AWEA’s Wind Energy Fall Symposium in San Diego, California. “This year’s award winners exemplify some of the very…
Network briefings bring business leaders together to discuss energy challenges
As part of a greater engagement to understand the challenges the energy market is facing, Lloyd’s Register Energy is launching a series of executive engagements around the globe to help facilitate industry discussion on key challenges the energy sector is facing. Launched at Adipec 2014 in Abu Dhabi, the largest oil and gas gathering in…
Television ads say “Thank you” to American wind power champions in Colorado and Iowa
Television ads set to run this week in Colorado and Iowa will thank members of Congress who are some of American wind power’s biggest champions. The television ads thank U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley and U.S. Representative Bruce Braley of Iowa and Senator Mark Udall of Colorado for their legislative leadership and their frequent, strong and…
World’s largest wind-solar hybrid installation unveiled in Jamaica
The world’s largest hybrid renewable energy project to date was recently commissioned on the rooftop of the Myers, Fletcher, & Gordon (MFG) law firm in Kingston, Jamaica. Developed by WindStream Technologies, the landmark urban installation consists of 50 WindStream SolarMill units to harness available wind and solar resources. The SolarMill is a new distributed energy…
2014 Influencer U.S. Senator, Iowa, Chuck Grassley
No one in Washington, D.C., is a bigger champion of the wind energy production tax credit than U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, according to Bob Eschliman, the news editor at a suburban paper outside Des Moines, Iowa. Indeed, Grassley is the father of the wind energy tax credit, having sponsored the first-ever provision enacted in 1992, and…
2014 Influencer Ohio State Senator Chris Widener
At a recent AWEA Ohio Wind Energy Summit, a speaker presented an overview of the years since the RPS took effect in Ohio. After passage, supporters noticed a problem in the state’s tax code: It never contemplated wind farms or alternative-energy projects. Wind farms were covered under the tax code as a public utility. When assessing…
2014 Influencer Lucille Olszewski
Lucille Olszewski began her career in wind energy as a meteorologist at U.S. Windpower in 1985, fresh out of Penn State University. She worked alongside industry pioneers Earl Davis, John Wade, Bob Baker, Ron Nierenberg, Jack Kline, and Ed McCarthy, who set the standards for measuring wind and micrositing turbines. One of Lucille’s contributions to wind-resource…
2014 Innovator: Rob Siegel, ENSA
Watching two men fall to their death from a suspended platform can leave an indelible impression. So it was with Rob Siegel after witnessing such an accident. Siegel, executive director at ENSA, an organization striving to improve safety at height, has since demonstrated an unstoppable curiosity and a commitment to innovate work-at-height safety in an…
2014 Innovator: Dr. Lorry Wagner, president of LEEDCo
The East and West coasts are not the only places for offshore turbines in the U.S. The Great Lakes, Lake Erie in particular, is the site for North America’s first inland offshore turbines, in part thanks to the research and persistence of Dr. Lorry Wagner, President of the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation. Dr. Wagner…