Wind

Vineyard Wind Announces US Based Southwire as Key Supplier

Monday, 26 April 2021 REM Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc., and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners , has selected Southwire, a US based company, to be the key supplier for ...

Birmingham University researchers propose the use of wind turbines to defend grid from power cuts

Friday, 19 June 2020 Robin Whitlock A ‘smart’ system that controls the storage and release of energy from wind turbines will reduce the risk of power cuts and support the increase of wind energy use world-wide, say researchers at the ...

Technology Essential for Carbon-Neutral Economy

Wednesday, 11 March 2020 Offshore wind is rapidly emerging as a key potential power source for the production of green hydrogen. What will soon be the world’s largest offshore farm, Hornsea Project Two (HP2) in the North Sea,was ...

China

DNV GL to support the development of offshore wind technical standards in China

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 Robin Whitlock The independent energy experts and certification body DNV GL has announced it is part of a consortium selected by the World Bank to support the development of new technical standards for offshore wind ...

Siemens installs two offshore platforms for TenneT in the North Sea in July

Tuesday, 22 July 2014 REM

Siemens has installed a fourth offshore platform in the North Sea, completing an important stage for grid connections of sea-based wind farms.

Germany

Siemens installs third HVDC platform in the North Sea for TenneT

Monday, 14 July 2014 Robin Whitlock

Siemens has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2 in a contract for the German-Dutch grip operator TenneT.

Siemens enters wind market in Belgium

Thursday, 03 July 2014 REM

Siemens Energy has secured its first wind power contract in Belgium with an order for the first phase of the Wind aan de Stroom project on the left bank of the Schelde River in Antwerp harbor.

Big output from innovative small turbines

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 Toby Price Bayer MaterialScience, a member of the German Bayer Group, has installed a revolutionary new small wind turbine at its offices in Tarragona (Spain), which it uses "for test and presentation purposes". ...

“Skills shortages are causing the industry a number of headaches”

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 In the second in our series of reports examining the offshore wind market in the UK, Norbert Giese, Vice President Offshore Development of REpower Systems AG, looks at where skills gaps are already being ...

Offshore wind roles provide long-term employment opportunities and a burgeoning knowledge economy

Monday, 11 April 2011 At the end of March, we reported on how the rapidly growing offshore wind market in the UK is generating jobs, but that skills provision must keep up with the pace if skills gaps are to be avoided. In ...