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New investors seek better safety nets
WORLDWIDE: Pension funds and other institutional investors have long been heralded as the saviours of all kinds of infrastructure investment, including renewables. When PensionDanmark and Dong last ye...
Towers - the next area for innovation?
WORLDWIDE: Taller wind-turbine towers are becoming increasingly important as the best wind sites are taken up in a growing number of markets. A move to locations with lower wind speeds is pushing some...
The ongoing effort to globalise standards
WORLDWIDE: While the majority of US citizens were unwrapping presents and enjoying roast turkey on Christmas day, the country's wind association was busy publishing guidance on turbine support structu...
How to speed up the learning curve
WORLDWIDE: The continued growth of the global wind industry means a demand for appropriately skilled and trained professionals at each stage of the production value chain.
LM unveils 73.5m cutting-edge blade
WORLDWIDE: LM Wind Power's 73.5-metre blade has been developed for Alstom's 6MW Haliade direct-drive offshore turbine.
Nordex installs first N117/2400 model
WORLDWIDE: Nine months after unveiling a new 2.4MW N117/2400 wind turbine with a record 117-metre rotor diameter at the EWEA 2011 event in Brussels, Nordex has installed the first unit in northern Ger...
How to improve safety for wind farm workers
WORLDWIDE: Working on a wind farm is not without its hazards, yet the wind-energy industry does not have its own set of regulations to protect those in its employ.
Two-pronged approach to on-site safety policy
WORLDWIDE: Yes, I can think of an incident we faced. We had an employee at the top of a turbine, positioned between the upper climbing platform and the nacelle.
Can best practice keep raising safety standards?
WORLDWIDE: Headline-grabbing wind-energy accidents are uncommon, but they do occur and remind us that this is a hazardous sector. As the industry scales up and goes offshore; and its supply chains bec...
Building the future
WORLDWIDE: The extensive resources of our Windpower Intelligence database have enabled us to build a profile of the wind-power installations that developers are planning and producing for the near fut...
A year of planning reveals diverging trends
WORLDWIDE: At the end of 2011, with Europe on the brink of a serious period of recession, the region remained the world's leading wind market.
Global Developer Guide 2012 - Special Report
Windpower Monthly examines over 400GW of future wind energy projects across the globe in its latest special report.
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...
Windicator - Capacity Analysis
WORLDWIDE: Although global wind capacity now comfortably exceeds 200GW, growth may be slowing down. The current world total shown includes a provisional estimate of 50GW for China, but there is some u...
Wind lean and ready for generation game
WORLDWIDE: Prices for wind turbines have fallen in recent months, mainly as a result of competitive pressure from Chinese manufacturers. Productivity, meanwhile, has risen steadily as the technology i...
US firm launches novel CVT device
UNITED STATES: The overall operational benefits of continuously variable transmission (CVT) devices are gradually attracting the attention of wind-turbine manufacturers. Currently there are a few opti...
Scaling up is essential to attract investment
WORLDWIDE: The offshore wind sector stands at a crossroads. In several regions, most notably Europe's North Sea, developers have proven that generating renewable electricity at sea is technically viab...
Energy needs a reality check
Just as Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, launched a scathing attack on "useless and ugly" wind farms last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued an urgent warning on t...
On land or sea: the business case for wind
WORLDWIDE: Increasingly, investors in wind energy face a key question: whether it would be more profitable in the long run to fund offshore developments, which offer higher wind yield rates, or stay o...
Uncovering the true cost of a project
WORLDWIDE: In my early days as a design engineer at a rural technology development centre in South Africa, I was faced with the challenge of addressing frequent bearing failures on the fan units of a ...
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