A Simple Solution To The Complex Problem Of Offshore Wind Costs?
Offshore wind power prices remain stubbornly high, but a custom approach to maintenance vessels could help lower costs and boost turbine output.
Vestas
Vestas First Quarter Earnings Up On Year Previous
Vestas, one of the biggest names in wind energy manufacturing, released their own first-quarterly earnings on Wednesday, showing revenue, earnings, and free cash flow increased over the same quarter in 2013. According to the press release put out by the Danish manufacturer, Vestas generated €1.283 million in revenue, an increase of … [continued]
Collegiate Wind Competition Winners Announced (WINDPOWER 2014)
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peebles Squire The turbines have been tested, the judges have weighed in on their engineering, and now, all that remains is what some would consider the hardest part of the process: selling your product. The 10 teams in the Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind … [continued]
IKEA Wind Farm To Cover 165% Of IKEA’s US Electricity Consumption
IKEA plugged in its mammoth stores in Belfast and Dublin last fall. Not content with photovoltaic solar on 90% of its American rooftops, IKEA has just invested in a 380-gigawatt-hour wind farm big enough to power every one of its stores in the United States—and then some. The Swedish home … [continued]
Vestas Confirmed As 2013 Wind Market Leader
A new report from independent consulting group MAKE has placed Vestas at the top of the pile of wind installations for 2013, well above the nearest competitor. The report is (as far as I can determine) hidden behind an effective pay wall, however Vestas themselves put out a press release … [continued]
Vestas Unveils Taller Wind Turbine For Low Wind Locations
Wind energy company Vestas has launched their new Large Diameter Steel Tower, which increases the tower height of 2 MW turbines to over 140 metres, which should boost annual energy production on low wind sites by up to 8%. The Large Diameter Steel Tower (LDST) works from the simple principle … [continued]
UK Offshore Wind Farm Will Field Vestas’ 8 MW Behemoths
An innocuous trio of sentences released Tuesday on Vestas’ press office heralded big news for the company and their new 8 MW wind turbines, which are set to be installed for the Burbo Bank Extension Offshore Wind Farm, being constructed by Danish company DONG Energy. According to DONG Energy, the … [continued]
Largest Wind Turbine In World Ready For Production
Originally published on ClimateProgress. By Ari Phillips On Tuesday the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine swung into gear at the Danish National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Østerild. The prototype V164-8.0 MW wind turbine is 720 feet tall, has 260-foot blades, and can generate 8 megawatts of power … [continued]
Wind For Prosperity Is No Charity Or PR Campaign — This Is About Business (Exclusive…
http://youtu.be/t2n2BkZo9-A One of the most exciting presentations I attended at the World Future Energy Summit and Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week* as a whole was a panel discussion about Wind for Prosperity, an initiative launched in November by Vestas, Masdar, the Carbon War Room, Sundog Pictures, DI Frontier Market Energy & Carbon Fund, and Econet Wireless. A … [continued]
260 MW Of Wind Turbines Ordered From Vestas For US Wind Farms
Vestas recently received an order of 150 MW of wind turbines for multiple First Wind projects in the United States. In total, these projects can power up to 50,000 homes. Around the same time, it received an order for 110 MW worth of wind turbines for another wind farm in the … [continued]
