DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, recently unveiled new software for turbines and wind farms. The Turbine.Architect tool helps to reduce the product development time and costs of wind turbines by using integrated algorithms based on decades of design experience. The Turbine.Architect software enables engineers and component developers to quickly assess…

Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) is a multi-year, U.S. Department of Energy research initiative with the goal of reducing wind-power project costs through an improved, physics-based understanding of the wind plant operating environment through advanced modeling and simulation capability. According to the research initiative, better insight into flow physics has the potential to reduce energy losses…

Moventas has announce new patent-pending up-tower repair capabilities that promise to save wind-farm owners significant downtime and expense. Effective immediately, all failed ‘low-speed’ planetary stage gears and bearings in most GE 1.5-MW wind turbines can be repaired up-tower at a price that is a fraction of changing out the gearbox. The new repair process has been…