Scott Killian/Sixnet, LLC/Ballston Lake, NY/sixnet.com A high-speed, industrial-grade network infrastructure offers wind farm operators many benefits, including improved operational management, visibility and access to key data. Networking a wind farm provides real-time data capture to monitor wind turbine uptime, performance and power output – even from remote locations. This data can be used to track…
Vestas adds $100 million in wind turbines to Canadian wind plant
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Americas has announced that it received an order for 18 V90-3.0 megawatt wind turbines to be installed on a Canadian wind plant. The buyer — TransAlta Corp., of Calgary, Alberta — plans to expand its’ existing wind farm in New Brunswick, Canada, where 32 wind turbines were installed in 2008. TransAlta…