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Windpower Monthly's round-up of 2011
As Windpower Monthly winds down for the end-of-year holidays, we leave you with a round-up of some of 2011's best read — if not most important — wind-energy stories from both the magazine and the webs...
Planning can reduce high-cost cabling risks
WORLDWIDE: Considering the overall cost of an offshore wind farm, subsea cabling may represent a relatively small part, but the risk associated with cabling far exceeds its share of the costs. Logisti...
Finding ways to limit wind curtailment
WORLDWIDE: Over recent years, Windpower Monthly has widely reported instances of wind-power curtailments in several US states, Spain, Scotland, Germany and Italy. Curtailments arise from the fact that...
Terna feels heat in grid row
ITALY: Power curtailments and slow grid growth are impacting on the viability of wind projects in Italy.
Why storage may never beat wasting wind
Energy storage is often lauded as the solution to wind power's variability, but it is costly and unnecessary until wind accounts for at least half of all generation.
Is it possible to prepare for unexpected costs?
Operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for onshore wind farms account for 10% to 15% of total generation cost.
Last-chance inspection
Complex rotating equipment like wind turbines demand care and attention to detail throughout their lifetime.
The rise of data capture
Wind farm Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems, better known as SCADA, have come a long way in the past decade.
Conference Report: AWEA - US industry faces up to market uncertainty
UNITED STATES: Disneyland claims to be the happiest place on earth, but just across the street at the Anaheim Convention Center, where delegates gathered for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA...
What the supergrid can - and can't - do for wind
EUROPE: Promoted to assist the EU's single energy market ideals and boost security of electricity supply, the supergrid concept has gathered momentum in Brussels' corridors of power and in national go...
Networks - The right rules pay off
EUROPE: Co-operation across Europe to boost offshore grid connections may make some planned wind projects more cost-effective. Germana Canzi looks at the regulatory reforms being discussed. The Europe...
What the supergrid can, and cannot, do for wind
EUROPE: Promoted to assist the EU's single energy market ideals and boost security of electricity supply, the supergrid concept has gathered momentum in Brussels' corridors of power and in national go...
Cost-sharing plan can resolve electricity grid stand-off
UNITED STATES: Broad consensus paints a grim picture of the existing US electricity transmission infrastructure: aging, inadequate and bursting at the seams in too many places yet woefully far removed...
Transmission network hampers climate change fight
INDIA: India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, announced in June 2008 by the government, calls for 15% of the energy mix to come from renewable sources by 2020.
Offshore comes of age at EWEA 2011
EUROPE: If the atmosphere at EWEA 2011 is anything to go by, the offshore sector feels that it is rapidly emerging from the incubator and will soon be standing confidently alongside its more establish...
Market Status: South-Eastern Europe - Croatia pulls in front while Serbia reaches start line
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE: Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia offer the best possibilities for the exploitation of wind resources in the western Balkans.
Market Status: Baltic States - Instability sees projects fail to pick up speed
BALTIC: The Baltic States have been hard hit by the recent economic crisis, which has slowed development in the wind power industry. Estonia still leads the way with a few promising projects in the pi...
Market Status: Ukraine - Donesk project will help to shift the doldrums
UKRAINE: Two projects in the works could boost installed capacity in Ukraine by as much as 125MW this year, making up for the fact that no new wind capacity was installed in 2010 and installed capacit...
Market Status: Northern Africa and Middle East - Political turmoil and long-term goals dominate
MIDDLE EAST: North Africa and the Middle East look set to continue their steady progress in 2011, with many of the region's governments supporting ever higher renewable energy targets and introducing ...
Market Status: Sub-Saharan Africa - Hope and uncertainty as countries take first steps
AFRICA: Sub-Saharan Africa is showing promise, with a number of projects across the region looking set to come off the drawing board and big players starting to move in.
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