John Ugland / Technical Account Manager / Renewable NRG Systems What makes a good condition-monitoring system for the wind industry? One that lets users derive operational value. We could argue that hardware, sensor placement, and storage servers all play a critical role in the value chain of CMS, but what is really important in a…
How is condition monitoring changing in the wind industry?
Unscheduled maintenance and turbine downtime are costly issues in the wind industry. Condition monitoring systems, or CMS, have provided one answer to help detect damage or component failures in turbine machinery often before they become serious problems. While wind-farm owners once considered CMS as a nice advantage, these systems are now becoming a necessity…
Where is the estimate of foregone tax revenue which should have come from wind farms that have NOT been built due to expiration of the PTC?
This article is authored by Wally Lafferty. Critics of the PTC cite a report from the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation that asserts there is a direct cost to the taxpayer of $13.8 billion over five years due to the wind tax credit. What most people don’t know is that this estimate was calculated — according…