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Alaska’s largest wind farm has incorporated Emerson‘s automated management software. Eva Creek Wind, a nearly 25-MW wind facility came online in Nenana in 2013. Golden Valley Electric Association contracted Emerson’s services to simplify the management of Eva Creek, providing equipment diagnostics and analytics for forecasting and dispatch. It incorporates Emerson’s Ovation automation platform and OSI…

By Matthieu Boquet, Head of Products & Offering, Leosphere, a Vaisala company Harnessing the wind is not exactly a perfect science. From taller and more efficient wind turbines to the development of wind farms in increasingly complex onshore and offshore environments, the wind energy sector is constantly evolving, and new techniques and technologies are becoming…

By Gareth Brown, CEO, Clir Renewables New research released in 2019 showed wind speeds had increased across North America, Europe and Asia since 2010 — and the trend is expected to continue. This study featured in the journal Nature Climate Change offered a stark contrast to the majority of previous research, which has demonstrated a…

United States-based independent renewable energy company Skyline Renewables has selected Greenbyte’s Energy Cloud to monitor and maximize the performance of its growing portfolio. With its ability to pull data from technologically and geographically diverse sources, the cloud-based asset management and monitoring platform will effectively support Skyline’s growth ambitions as the business targets 3 GW of…

Artificial intelligence (AI) as a concept has existed since the early 1900s, but it was often portrayed as a threat to humanity in fictional stories like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — the creation turning on its creator. However, a better understanding of artificial intelligence has evolved over the decades. In recent years many use the term…

Renewable energy investors and developers are increasingly turning to digital technology to build effective investment strategies, with almost half (47%) of the finance industry saying they have digitalization as a core part of their publicly stated strategy. This is according to new research by DNV GL. The survey of nearly 2000 senior stakeholders across the…

Software as a service company, Clir Renewables, has added a new feature to the company’s Data Exploration Environment. Clir Explore, is a unique tool in the renewables space, comprised of 12 different features to identify asset under-performance. The latest addition, P2P, enables peer-to-peer trending analysis for wind turbines. Clir Explore lets users view and manipulate…

Kaiserwetter Energy Asset Management has launched IRIS, an energy IntelliTech innovation, to significantly reduce the time and cost of wind energy M&A transactions. The company will be demoing the data intelligence service along with its ARISTOTELES platform at REFF-Wall Street 2019 in New York City this week. IRIS uses proprietary algorithms and smart data analytics to quickly…

Industrial artificial intelligence (AI) leader, Uptake, announced it is providing comprehensive data integrity O&M capabilities, allowing work order cost analysis that overcomes the challenges with incorrect or “dirty work order” data. According to Uptake, dirty data means it is out of order, highly volatile, and has a lot of room for error. Companies worldwide are using…

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are using advanced national supercomputing resources to develop an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code that simulates wind plants with greater accuracy than previously possible. This Nalu-Wind code is emerging as the foundation for next-generation wind power plant flow modeling, enabling operators and developers to…

Canadian renewable energy company, Clir Renewables, has successfully closed an investment round, securing C$1.9 million. The service-as-a-software (SaaS) company has developed a renewable energy AI platform that helps wind-farm owners and operators to maximize production and provides clarity on performance risk for all interested stakeholders. “It’s exciting times here at Clir,” said Gareth Brown, Clir…

The estimated market potential for wind farms in cold climates is more than 200 GW, according to Clir Renewables, a renewable energy AI software company. However, cold-weather climates present unique challenges to wind operators and O&M technicians. For example, icing events on wind-turbine blades may lead to increased loads and reduced aerodynamics, increasing the risk…

Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have radically changed the return on investment model for turbine condition monitoring in the United States, helping wind farm owners make significant OPEX savings. By cutting the cost of condition-monitoring systems (CMS), low-cost MEMS sensors have helped wind farm owners to improve operational planning, cut unscheduled maintenance, and make OPEX savings…

In recent years, significant reductions in renewable energy generation costs has seen many governments remove the financial subsidies typically available for renewable projects and instead turn to competitive auctions to extract the lowest cost possible for electricity procurement. This has fundamentally changed the level of risk facing developers, investors and lenders on renewable projects as…

Canadian optimization software company, Clir Renewables, has released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) feature. The Clir AI platform has evolved to learn how to identify anomalies in component temperatures to detect failure at an earlier stage. Maintenance budgets for wind farms account for the majority of associated OPEX. These planned budgets can be shattered if…

Manufacturer and engineering company Emerson has formed an alliance with Vayu (a Ystrategies Corp. company) to provide automation technology solutions for wind-farm optimization in the Americas, Caribbean, and Europe. The three-year collaboration combines the advanced power applications and networking capabilities of Emerson’s Ovation automation platform with Vayu’s cloud-computing wind optimization technology. Using this approach, Vayu has…

The basis of advancing machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) is feeding the cognitive program data. Through the information it consumes, an AI parses inputs and provides more accurate data and guidance to the end user. In a 2018 digital trends survey, approximately 15% of enterprises used AI, and a third of respondents planned to…

In this WindTalk podcast, we discuss artificial intelligence with Gareth Brown. Gareth is the Managing Director and CEO of with Clir Renewables, a renewable energy AI software company that offers cloud-based tools help asset managers and owners maximize. In our conversation, Gareth explains the benefits of using AI at wind farms, as well as what…

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to wind-turbine data is becoming more prevalent and there is a growing number of use cases for the technology. Many of these cases involve wind-turbine O&M practices and can result in increased efficiency, better spare-parts forecasting, reduced downtime, and lower unplanned maintenance costs. “The best definition of artificial intelligence is that…

Leading crew-transfer vessel (CTV) operators are driving for more transparency in vessel performance as the market seeks to “level the playing field” in offshore wind support. This is according to UK-based Reygar, provider of remote-monitoring and reporting platforms to the marine industry. Its BareFLEET system is used by many offshore wind CTV operators. Although project…