Vestas has signed a firm and unconditional order with Acwa Power to supply 40 units of the V90-3.0 MW wind turbine for the 120-MW Khalladi wind farm, which will be located in the windy Tangiers region of northern Morocco. The contract comprises the supply of the turbines and a 20-year Active Output Management 4000 service agreement…

The largest wind turbines have a capacity of 5 to 7 MW. After five years of research at the joint European project, UpWind, led by Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy and the Technical University of Denmark, presented a first design basis for developing turbines of 20 MW. The project started five years ago with…

RWE Renewables has completed the successful tax equity financing of its 220-MW Cranell Onshore Wind Farm in Refugio County, Texas. The company secured tax equity financing with JPM Capital Corporation upon the Cranell project achieving commercial operation in the third quarter of 2020. “We are proud of our record of working hand-in-hand with the communities…

GE Renewable Energy announced today that its Haliade-X prototype, the world’s most powerful wind turbine operating to date, has being optimized and is now operating at a 13-MW power output. During the following months, this prototype will undergo a series of tests to perform different types of measurements and obtain its type certificate in the…

Tetrahedron today launched a novel crane for the installation of the next generation of offshore wind turbines, designed to fit on both existing and new jackup wind turbine installation vessels. The increasing size of wind turbine generators sets a challenge for the offshore wind installation industry. Existing jackup vessels are rapidly becoming uncompetitive because they…

Cranell wind farm, a 220-MW project located in Refugio County, Texas, has achieved commercial operation. The project owned by RWE is powered by 100 Vestas 2.2-MW turbines. With the addition of Cranell, RWE operates 25 onshore wind farms in the U.S. with a total installed capacity of more than 4,200 MW. The project represents an…

Pattern Energy Group will acquire ownership interests in two operating wind power facilities, the Henvey Inlet Wind facility in Ontario and the Grady Wind facility in New Mexico. The company has also entered into an agreement for a $260 million private placement of perpetual preferred stock (Series A Preferred Stock) with certain institutional investors and…

A Hunt Companies affiliate announced it has partnered with Circle Power to finance and develop two 20-MW wind energy projects in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The projects will be comprised of four turbines each on two separate sites and will contribute low-cost renewable generation capacity to the local area. Hunt, a fourth-generation family-owned company, based in…

New Mexico’s newest wind power facility is now up and running. Pattern Energy Group 2 LP announced it has completed construction and begun operations at its 220-MW Grady Wind facility located in Curry County, New Mexico. This is the third and final phase of a 544-MW suite of wind projects, which now represent the largest…

Vestas has received a new U.S. order from an undisclosed customer. The contract is for 420 MW of Vestas’ V120-2.2 MW wind turbines. The order includes supply and commissioning of the turbines. According to the turbine manufacturer, the V120-2.2 MW turbines are built to generate more energy in stable, low or medium wind conditions, achieving…

Supersized. That’s an ideal description of what’s expected in the future of wind-turbine blades. They’re going to get big. What once extended the length of a basketball court will soon span the length of two (or more) American football fields. At least that’s what General Electric (GE) has been working on for wind. “It would…

Soon after a wind farm’s commissioning, it is critical to adopt a cost-effective operations and maintenance (O&M) strategy to maximizing the project’s long-term profitability and return on investment. Condition monitoring is a typical O&M tool that helps wind-farm owners and operators track the health of turbine components and related electrical systems. Its purpose is to assess…

Recent tests by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory revealed that when coupling the conformal vortex generator with an elastomeric tab on the blade’s trailing edge, the turbine’s performance improved 22%.

There are still many advantages to Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) over the conventional three-blade designs, especially when considering offshore duty.

Gamesa, a global technology OEM in wind energy, has signed an agreement for the supply of its first G114-2.5 MW turbines. Under the terms of the agreement reached with leading international infrastructure investor and asset manager John Laing, the company will install six of this new turbine model (aggregate capacity of 15 MW) at a…

The largest and most powerful dynamometer in the wind industry has started operation at Vestas’ global testing center in Aarhus, Denmark. The 20-MW dyno is capable of testing the full nacelle of the company’s V164-8.0 MW turbine, ideally validating its performance and reliability over a simulated 25 years of offshore work. The controlled environment testing is…

A wind project is planned for the Tehachapi in southern California. The Windstar wind project will be developed Western Wind Energy Corp (“Western Wind Energy”) and consist of 120 MW of Gamesa G8X Series wind turbines.

A new collaboration between Denmark Technical University (DTU) and international partners from the wind industry and research community will explore the idea of 20-MW floating turbines.