ABB has won orders worth over $85 million from Canadian utility Hydro-Québec (HQ) to upgrade its 800-kilovolt air-insulated switchgear (AIS) substations and transmission grid with state-of-the-art circuit breakers, power transformers and shunt reactors. The upgrade is driven by the increasing demand for power and the need to integrate new sources of renewable energy. HQ operates one…
Gamesa to install its tallest wind turbines in Asia
Gamesa has achieved a new milestone, having secured a contract for the installation of Asia’s tallest wind turbines in Thailand. With towers reaching 153 meters high (roughly half the height of New York’s Chrysler Building), these turbines are the longest ever supplied by Gamesa. The blades will be 56-m, and they will reach a total height from ground…
Granada awarded davit crane contract for Beatrice Offshore Wind
Bladt Industries has awarded a major contract to Manchester company Granada Material Handling to design, manufacture, deliver, and commission 30 davit crane units for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project, one of the largest private investments ever made in Scottish infrastructure. The Granada Python crane units has been specifically designed for Beatrice and the…
ACCIONA’s Ventika wind farm inaugurated in Mexico
ACCIONA Energía recently held an inauguration ceremony for the Ventika wind-power complex in Nuevo León, Mexico. With a capacity of 252 MW, it is currently the largest ever built by ACCIONA for a client. The Ventika project consists of eighty-four AW116/3000 wind turbines of Nordex/ACCIONA Windpower technology. With a nominal capacity of 3 MW, each turbine…
Broadwind Energy announces $15 million in new wind tower orders
Broadwind Energy announced an additional $15 million in new tower orders. Broadwind will produce these towers in its Manitowoc, Wisconsin facility for 2017 delivery. “We are pleased to be awarded this order for 2017 production,” said Broadwind President and CEO Stephanie Kushner. “There is a lot of positive momentum occurring within our towers’ business as we…
Valorem chooses RNRG to support wind resource assessment activities in Africa
Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced that it has supplied complete resource assessment packages to French developer VALOREM to support their renewable developments in Africa. VALOREM is currently building a pipeline of five wind and solar farms at various development stages, totaling…
Towers for turbines, towers for training. Get your towers here!
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN WIND-FARM PLANS GO SOUTH, but the turbines and towers have been ordered? Ouch.
Workshop to present commercial viability of ‘Hexcrete’ idea for taller wind turbine towers
Concrete towers can reach beyond today’s standard of 80 meters, providing energy companies with access to the faster and steadier winds at 100 meters and higher.
Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic tower crane used to erect turbine with 149-m hub height
ENERCON’s Liebherr 1000 EC-B 125 Litronic tower crane erected a new wind turbine in the Prechtaler Schanze Wind Farm in April 2016. With a hub height of 149 meters and a blade diameter of 115 m, it is the largest turbine ever to be erected using this crane. With its 31.50 m jib and a…
Dialight launches industry’s most energy efficient A0/A1 24-48 Vdc red obstruction controller system
The A0/A1 obstruction light and system has the lowest dc-power consumption in the industry, making it ideal for operating its Vigilant Low (L-810) and Medium (L-864) Intensity Red Obstruction light typically for met towers for the wind industry or cellular communication towers where solar and battery or generators are typically used as the power source.
Mammoet invents new way to transport a tower – straight up
It was also unusual because the base tower section was moved in a vertical position. Octra and Coordinadora, the two companies in charge of the transport, needed a specialist transport company to carry out this delicate operation.
Broadwind signs $137 million wind-turbine tower supply agreement
Broadwind Energy announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Broadwind Towers, has signed a $137 million, three-year framework agreement to supply wind-turbine towers to a U.S. turbine manufacturer. The towers will be produced at the company’s two facilities located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and Abilene, Texas. Delivery is expected in 2019. “The market visibility has improved significantly given…
Siemens video showcases construction of innovative concrete-tower technology
The company has released a video depicting the construction of this concrete wind turbine tower technology that is designed to capture stronger winds at higher altitudes
Broadwind Energy announces $34 million in new wind tower orders
Broadwind Energy announced $34 million in new tower orders from two U.S. wind turbine manufacturers. Broadwind will produce these towers for delivery in 2016 and 2017. “The outlook for the wind industry in the U.S. has strengthened over the past few months with the extension of the PTC and the release of the latest IRS guidelines…
Building a better concrete wind turbine tower
The segments are then stacked on top of one another, retaining the hollow space between the two walls.
A whole darn tower factory available for immediate sale
Now there is a spare factory in the UK up for sale.
Siemens intros concrete tower to reduce energy costs
Siemens has announced the commercial launch of a concrete wind turbine tower technology that places turbines in stronger winds at higher altitudes – resulting in more potential energy production and increased project revenue.
UMass Amherst engineers developing multiline anchor system for floating offshore wind turbines
A team of researchers that includes two engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing a new mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines that uses an integrated network of anchors and lines to hold dozens or even hundreds of turbines in place in the ocean in industrial-scale, offshore wind farms.
Finns erect four sky-high 144-m hub height turbines with SgurrEnergy help
The first of four 144-m hub height wind turbines was erected at a Finnish onshore wind farm with owner’s engineer support from renewable-energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy.
Towers for turbines, towers for training. Get your towers here!
Get your towers here. The one damaged turbine tower, dropped while unloading, will probably be turned into scrap. The other nine however, are ready for service under a turbine or elsewhere.