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Bearings
- Turbine bearing supplier Malloy completes warehouse expansion
- Timken to provide bearings for GE’s Haliade-X wind turbine
- New hardware from ONYX Insight predicts pitch bearing failures before they happen
- The ELF not welcome in the wind industry
- Sentient Science and Croda partner for wind turbine life extension
- Winding down maintenance costs in wind turbine generator repairs
- System Seals releases new grease-pumping seal for wind turbine main bearings
- Extending wind turbine life with pitch bearing upgrades
- What to know when setting two-row tapered roller bearings in wind turbine gearboxes
- New grease from Klüber Lubrication reduces wind turbine bearing heat
Blades
- South Fork Wind’s first installed turbine delivers power to Long Island
- Rope Robotics finds its wind turbine blade repairs pay off in six months
- Siemens Gamesa launches recyclable wind turbine blade for onshore projects
- BladeBUG reveals new blade-inspecting robot
- Rope Partner now installing custom-form turbine blade shields from Edge Solutions
- Portuguese startup is developing safer wind turbine blade maintenance measures
- Siemens Gamesa establishes blade facility in Virginia for 2.6-GW offshore project
- Siemens Gamesa ready to deploy world’s first 100% recyclable wind turbine blades
- EDP Renewables begins repowering project on Oklahoma wind farm
- NREL uses VABS software for complex wind turbine blade simulation
Bolts and bolting
- Wind Spotlight: RAD Torque debuts its latest battery-powered torque wrench
- R&D releases new bolt tension measuring device
- Maintaining a successful wind industry with efficient maintenance tools
- Why do bolts loosen?
- How galled fasteners may affect wind-turbine O&M
- HYTORC’s TORCsafe portal lets users track bolting equipment
- New Equalizer flange tools offer easier wind-turbine tower assembly
- Enerpac expands its series of bolt tensioners
- Enerpac to offer Equalizer’s pumps & flange maintenance tools
- Nord-Lock steel washers offer high salt-spray resistance and reliability
Cables & connectors
- Cabling completed on Vineyard Wind 1 offshore project
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities selects country’s 1st offshore wind transmission project
- HVDC transmission comes to U.S. offshore wind
- Nexans to lay export cable for Revolution offshore wind farm
- Nexans contracted for 110-km high-voltage subsea cables for New York’s South Fork offshore project
- Submarine cable contractors selected for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project
- Nexans subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility setting up in South Carolina for offshore wind market
- Aluminum vs. copper: Which is best for cables used in the wind industry?
- Mayflower Wind offshore project finds grid connection in decommissioned coal-powered plant
- New report suggests demand for submarine cable on U.S. offshore wind farms could reach $8 billion
Community wind
- 4-turbine Maine wind project will power 4,500 homes annually
- Greenbacker Renewable Energy adds 5-MW community wind project to portfolio
- Hunt and Circle Power developing 20-MW wind projects in Michigan
- A trio of reports highlight growth of wind energy in 2018
- Kiwi Energy customers can now choose to offset electricity use with wind
- Greenbacker gains stake in Minnesota’s Community Wind South
- Onsite wind energy can drastically cut a manufacturing facility’s CO2 emissions
- How kites and flags may harvest wind power
- A Minnesota farmers’ guide to wind & solar energy
- A new idea in micro wind turbines
Components
Construction
- Mammoet’s in-development onshore crane pushes closer to emissions-free turbine erection
- Construction begins on offshore wind monopile manufacturing facility in New Jersey
- Why sea fastening is critical to safe and efficient offshore wind installation
- South Dakota approves 250.5-MW Triple H Wind project
- Vineyard Wind selects Sif for offshore monopiles
- Construction begins on first U.S. offshore wind project in federal waters
- Innergex closes financing for Texas’ Foard City wind project
- Connecticut to establish offshore wind hub
- Wood awarded technical advisor role on Vineyard Wind project
- AdBm noise-mitigation system successfully tested for offshore wind
Couplings
- Zero-Max ServoClass Couplings now available with hubs for k6 and j6 shafts
- Posi-Lock keyless shaft-hub locking devices from Miki Pulley locks gears, sprockets, pulleys and more in a mechanical system
- Off grid with zero emissions: Better than a grid extension and gensets
- Lovejoy provides drop-in replacement couplings for GE and Vestas turbines
- What is the job of a coupling in a wind-turbine drivetrain?
- Geislinger Compowind coupling reduces non-torque drivetrain loads
- What are the functions of couplings and torque limiters in wind turbines?
Cybersecurity
- Ardexa updates remote renewable operations toolkit with upped security
- The winds of change: The future of predictive analytics in wind farm reliability
- ISA announces Global Cybersecurity Alliance members
- NARUC releases two new manual resources on cybersecurity risks to utilities
- Mark your calendars: Power Grid Digitalization Forum is in Montreal this October
- How big data & machine learning may help companies prevent cyber breaches
- A look beyond offshore wind: What to pay attention to this year
- DOE to fund cybersecurity for new Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute
- The top five wind stories of 2018
- How an immune-system model mitigates risks from cyber attacks on the power grid
Digital issues
- September 2024 Issue: Caring for offshore wind vessels
- April 2024 Issue: Knowledge Is Power: Blade condition monitoring’s powerful insight for wind project owners
- December 2023 Issue: Renewable Energy: A Year in Review
- September 2023 Issue: Sitting offshore turbines in risky U.S. waters
- May 2023 Issue: Reducing the cost of cranes in O&M
- February 2023 Issue: We Can Better Maximize the Potential of Wind Portfolios
- December 2022 Issue: 2023 Renewable Energy Handbook
- September 2022 Issue: Engineering Simulation Software Can Increase Offshore Wind Adoption
- May 2022 Issue: Maximize Turbine Performance With Automatic Lubrication
- February 2022 Issue: How Floating Wind Will Come To Dominate The Wind Industry
Drones
- New portable drone from Sulzer & Schmid ideal for turbine inspections in complex geographies
- 3DX HP drone from Sulzer & Schmid specifically designed for wind turbine blade inspection
- Skyward announces preorder availability of off-the-shelf drone Parrot ANAFI Ai
- Common pitfalls to avoid when setting up drone programs
- Drone checklists play a critical role in disaster response, and wind techs should adopt these practices
- Crawling robots and drones may lower cost of wind O&M
- Using thermal drones for detailed blade inspections
- GEV & Clobotics offering quicker, less costly blade inspections
Encoders
- POSITAL upgrades magnetic IXARC encoders for cranes & factory automation
- Joral’s new, non-contact rotary encoder line captures motion in tight tolerances & harsh environments
- POSITAL rolls out heavy-duty encoders for tough environmental conditions
- What criteria should be considered when selecting & maintaining encoders for wind turbines?
- Baumer offers new magnetic absolute encoder series
- Ingeteam to exhibit at WINDPOWER 2017 after steady growth in U.S. market
Energy storage
- New deal opens opportunities for wind + storage development in Southwest Power Pool
- Southern Company launches new Energy Storage Research Center
- BNEF: Energy storage investments boom as battery costs halve in next decade
- Report: U.S. utility-scale batteries give renewables a big lift
- Mobile batteries may offer utilities benefits of energy storage without big upfront costs
- New joint venture, Compass Energy Platform, streamlines distributed energy projects
- Microgrid company, CleanSpark, wins orders for its Intelligent ATS Switchgear
- What’s new in energy storage
- EVgo goes 100% renewables to power nation’s largest EV fast-charging network
- DOE grants funds for domestic manufacturing R&D — including energy storage
Events
- US Offshore Wind ConfEx 2023 returns to Boston for 8th edition
- Industry leaders to discuss floating offshore wind at RE:WIND 2022
- Reuters Events to host North American energy transition leaders at Houston event
- RE: WIND 2022: Where the Wind Goes
- North America Energy Transition Summit from Reuters Events coming to Houston
- Reuters Events releases agenda for Global Energy Transition 2022
- Reuters event Global Energy Transition 2022 will be in NYC in June
- U.S. Offshore Wind 2022 conference coming to Boston in March
- Offshore wind conference to launch national job fair
- Wind Operations Dallas 2020 conference from Reuters will be held April 16-17
Featured
- Smart software: Unlocking the true potential of wind power
- Repowering wind farms to repower America: A case for upgrading existing projects to meet climate goals
- Strategic uses of AI in wind resource assessment for wind farms
- Fireproofing offshore wind for a sustainable future
- How should carbon be valued in offshore wind?
- A conversation on offshore wind opinions in New England
- Advancements in carbon fiber composites recycling
- Fortifying Gulf of Mexico wind farms against hurricanes
Filters
- DES-Case unwraps IsoLogic, the first IIoT connected desiccant breather
- No time to look for a special filter or need a turbine manual? Online market may have you covered
- Pall Corp launches the Crixus Fluid Monitoring Platform
- What wind techs should know about oil filter efficiency
- The American Council On Renewable Energy adds to its Board of Directors
- Improving the analysis of gear-oil debris with a compact filter
- Handy particle counters for versatile on-site analysis
- How magnetic oil filtration helps gearboxes work longer
- Why cellulose fibers make better filters than synthetics
Financing
- Scout Clean Energy secures financing on 130-MW Indiana wind farm
- Maryland offering two new offshore wind grants
- Vattenfall proves offshore wind can be profitable without subsidies
- Lawmakers propose Clean Energy Victory Bonds in fight against climate change
- Orsted launches new $800M green loan facility
- LevelTen Energy’s Rob Collier talks PPAs and the PTC
- The energy sector gets its own public, enterprise-grade blockchain
- More than 1 GW of wind & solar projects auctioned off at unique New York event
- Investor confidence in U.S. renewables remains high, finds ACORE
Floating turbines
- DNV GL leads consortium to update Carbon Trust Floating LiDAR Roadmap
- New U.S. patent granted for floating marine wind turbine
- World’s first floating wind farm delivers promising results
- LOC Renewables charts course for port infrastructure to support floating offshore wind
- DNV GL launches revised design & certification standards for floating wind turbines
Gearboxes
Generators
- PM generator manufacturer The Switch becomes Yaskawa Environmental energy Division
- Large offshore turbines have reached remarkable outputs & will likely get larger
- Generator circuit breakers have special requirements for generator protection
- VertAx Wind (vertical axis turbine) signs C-Gen (generator) agreement with University of Edinburgh
- Axial flux generator ready to take weight and problems out of nacelles
- Indar delivers wind generator #1,000 from its Milwaukee, Wisc factory
Hydraulics
- Freudenberg designs new radial shaft seal ring for main bearings in wind turbines
- Parker Hannifin to showcase KleenVent Coolant Evaporation Inhibitor solution at WINDPOWER 2017
- Granada awarded davit crane contract for Beatrice Offshore Wind
- Parker development in plating hydraulic tube fittings and adapters for longer corrosion resistance
Innovators & influencers
- Joseph Savino, NASA engineer, scientist, and wind industry innovator
- Devoted to Wind: Meet DNV GL’s Karen Conover
- Readers recognize and hail wind industry leaders of 2017
- DNV GL to assist Hawaii with clean-energy transition
- Digital Reality to source renewables for Chicago data centers
- AWA launches statewide campaign showing benefits of wind
- Owens Corning first to produce products using only wind power
Insurance
- U.S. renewables market should reset risk benchmark, says GCube
- GCube advises project owners to safeguard assets from extreme weather risks
- Canadian wind developer chooses LiDARs for site assessment
- DNV GL supports acquisition of UK’s largest feed-in-tariff wind portfolio
- Risky Business: Mitigating threats to onshore wind projects & portfolios
Lightning protection
- Hourly updated lightning forecasts enable users to prepare for lightning threats & maintenance
- A discussion about lighting effects at wind farms with Vaisala’s Brooke Pearson
- Vasaila offers new way to identify lightning that’s high risk to wind turbines
- DeTect’s HARRIER Aircraft Detection Lighting System meets FAA requirements
- The importance of testing wind-turbine lightning protection
- Multiphysics simulations help NTS engineers understand what happens when lightning strikes a wind turbine.
Lubricants
Nacelle
News
- ACP releases statement after Trump’s executive order stopping offshore wind development
- PivotGen launches repowering service for wind projects
- Bowell Springs wind farm in Wyoming now online
- US approves 11th offshore wind project
- Vaisala releases ultrasonic wind sensor
- Vaisala announces service enhancements to WindCube
- Beam unveils AI-driven robot to inspect underwater portions of offshore wind farms
- Hontek, Socomore collaborate on erosion protection solutions for wind market
- Atlantic Shores offshore wind projects for New Jersey get construction approval
- Weidmuller USA unveils new bolt monitoring system for wind blades
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- Webinar: Fight back against icing impacts this winter – November 4
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