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Technology failures promt huge doubts
The 6 MW Kenetech wind farm operated by the Sacramento Utility District (SMUD) is facing so many breakdowns that the utility is likely to consider taking some of the turbines off-line. The faltering 1...
Technology works fine but building costs rise
. But few of the technology failures, if any, can be traced to peculiarly "offshore" problems. ... of the technology failures, if any, can be traced to peculiarly "offshore" problems. None of them represent a ... -- the 165.6 MW Nysted facility and the 23 MW Sams plant -- demonstrate that the technology is living up ... % between 1996 and 2003. xAs with all technology, particularly when it is new, offshore wind has had its ...
Failure fallout
turbine failures were worryingly close to 50%. By the end of the 1980s they were down to under 1 ... only dream about. One of the reasons behind the rapid development of the technology and its reliability ... failure occurred. Valuable lessons were learned. Since then, competitive pressures have led to an ostrich ...
The role of bearings in gearbox failure
time will tell whether a definitive solution to the chronic problem of bearing failure is home and dry A new industry willingness to work together on finding solutions to the chronic failure of wind turbine gearboxes appears to be yielding results. After more than a decade of failures blamed ...
Juggling with failure as an option
for predictive maintenance with the aim of averting catastrophic failure may start to outweigh the up front cost ... and they are trying to predict failure." The prevalence of CMS in other industries makes it all the more odd ... and are not always available for all models. Proponents of the technology stress two major selling points. First ...
Blade failure and load monitoring
Series blade failures have once again hit the wind power industry in America, with specialist ... operators. The series blade failures that have hit more than one major turbine supplier during the past year ... to the "bathtub curve" of product life where failures occur at two junctures in a lifecycle. A certain number ...
Still believing in the vision -- Failure no hindrance to Vortec
.5 MW is next. If nothing else, Vortec Energy does have grand ideas. "The Vortec technology has been ... technologies, Illion Technology. This company, says Wight, has just opened a Manhattan office and is aiming ...
NO REVENUE FOR HARD STRAPPED OPERATOR, SCOTTISH OFFICE FAILURE
Scottish Office failure: no revenue for hard strapped operator Government bungling has put ... and the different renewables technologies will each be treated on their own merits. As yet Mandil's plan has ... of market stimulation for wind and other clean energy technologies in Germany. Ruffled nuclear feathers ... technology to France. Details to come The job of turning a concept into solid legislation ...
PROTECTION SOUGHT IN LIQUIDATION AFTER BLADE FAILURES IN GREECE
Belgian wind turbine manufacturer HMZ WindMaster of Saint Truiden has gone into liquidation. The company suspended payments and stopped all activities on September 22. Accounts prior to that date will be settled, assures the company. HMZ WindMaster's activities, technology and key personnel will be taken over ...
Evidence emerges from gear box failures
Stories of gear box failures after only 21 months of operation were among those circulating ... gear box manufacturers and all turbine builders have been affected by component failures," says Martin Hoppe-Kilpper of the Institute for Solar Energy Technology (ISET) in Kassel. He draws his evidence from ...
Offshore monopile failure - a solution may be in sight
University of Technology in the Netherlands. Commenting on the monopile foundation slippage issue, he ...
Technology
acceptance of the technology, such as noise and whether wind plant are pleasing to look at. The most obvious ...
Technology
The average size of new wind turbines increases year by year. In Denmark it grew from 677 kW in 1998 to 752 kW in 1999. In Germany it was nearly 1.2 MW last year. The trend towards larger sizes is par...
Greed and honesty lost the day -- Stock exchange listing failure for LM Glasfiber
that new shareholders should have pumped into the company was earmarked not for technology development ... development department, the wind industry's largest, employs 120, 80 of whom are engineers. The technological ...
Isolated failure and a new prototype -- Vestas 2 MW and 3 MW
prototype, installed at Tj rborg Meadow in western Denmark, suffered a major failure on November 4. Human ... the company. "The failure in the prototype's safety system was caused by human error in connection with a ... the cause of the failure was established. Vestas stresses the failure was an "isolated incident." The 2 MW ...
Owners must pay for gearbox failures -- Competing retrofits on offer
overview of the failure of Jahnel-Kestermann gear units in the current issue of WindStats, a sister ... that the turbines were developed based on the technology at the time. With regard to the 20 year life span, he said ... failure in the gearbox. This is not the case with the Jahnel-Kestermann gearbox. Changing hands Meantime ...
Lagerwey failures
in the Netherlands, the manufacturer has announced measures it hopes will prevent further failures. Analysis reveals ... of this type were inspected after the failure in Stiens with the result that a further two turbines have had ... no financial losses from the failures. ...
PROTOTYPE FAILURE
A tip separated from the remainder of a prototype blade on one of Zond Systems' Z-40 wind turbines in late November. The failure occurred because of erroneous fabrication, says the company. The manufacture of the prototype blades, on one of the new Z-40 turbines, was inconsistent with design drawings, states Zond ...
Wind technology exports double in value
The value of German wind technology exports has more than doubled in the last year, rising to $3 billion in 2005 compared with $1.8 billion in 2004, according to the national wind energy association ... ,000 in 2005 to 100,000 by 2015, failure to maintain the wind market at home would have "an undesirably ...
CANADIAN FAILURE
Federal and provincial environment and energy ministers in Canada have so far failed to develop mechanisms for stabilising the country's greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by 2000. Federal enviro...
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