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SgurrEnergy Introduces Wind-Monitoring Product

on 09 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

International renewable energy consultancy SgurrEnergy has launched its own wind-monitoring meteorological mast, SgurrMetMast, for use in wind resource assessments. SgurrMetMast is available in heights of [read more]

Vestas Releases New Variants Of 3 MW Wind Turbine Platform

on 08 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

Vestas has released to the market three new product variants of its 3 MW platform: the V112-3.3 MW, the V117-3.3 MW and the V126-3.3 MW. [read more]

GE Business Unit Refines Superconductor Technology

on 05 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

GE Power Conversion has successfully completed trials of Hydrogenie, a power generator incorporating technologies using superconductors that the company says enable highly efficient production of [read more]

Moventas Puts Wind Turbine Drivetrain To The Test

on 04 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

Moventas says the FusionDrive wind turbine drivetrain has proven to work well during testing at the company's research and development center in Finland. Already in [read more]

ematec Introduces Rotor Blade Lifter For Wind Farms

on 04 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

ematec AG, a German manufacturer of special-purpose machines, has announced its RBT Rotor Blade Lifter. According to ematec, Nordex AG is already utilizing the new [read more]

E.ON Selects geoAMPS Software To Help Manage Wind Farms

on 03 Apr 2013 by NAW Staff

geoAMPS has announced that it is providing software to E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R) North America to help manage the developer's many wind energy projects [read more]

PPG Earns GL Certification For Fiberglass Roving Products

on 26 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries says that its fiberglass business has earned Germanischer Lloyd (GL) certification for the HYBON 2002 XM and HYBON 2026 XM fiberglass roving [read more]

SgurrEnergy's Galion LIDAR Wind Scanning Device Receives New Certification

on 22 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

SgurrEnergy says it has received an independent validation of its Galion LIDAR wind scanning device from Deutsche WindGuard. Deutsche WindGuard's LIDAR performance verification project included [read more]

GL Garrad Hassan's Wind Turbine Design Software Gets An Update, New Features

on 19 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

GL Garrad Hassan has released Version 4.4 of Bladed, an integrated software package for the design and certification of onshore and offshore wind turbines. Version [read more]

3B's Direct Roving Product Gains GL Approval

on 14 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has approved 3B-the fibreglass company's HiPer-tex W2020 direct roving product, which is used for wind turbine blade applications. This new certification complements [read more]

SAKOR Rolls Out New Dynamometer System For Wind Power Testing

on 08 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

SAKOR Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of automated test instrumentation systems, has released its AccuDyne AC dynamometer system for wind power testing applications. The system can [read more]

Siemens' 6 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Receives Certification

on 05 Mar 2013 by NAW Staff

GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has awarded Siemens Wind Power offshore prototype certification for the testing of its new 6 MW offshore wind turbine at [read more]

Goldwind Turbines Certified For North American Wind Energy Market

on 25 Feb 2013 by NAW Staff

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. Ltd. says several of its permanent magnet direct-drive (PMDD) wind turbines have received ETL certification by Intertek. The ETL [read more]

Romax Releases Wind Turbine Predictive-Maintenance Platform

on 19 Feb 2013 by NAW Staff

Romax Technology, a provider of engineering services and technology for the wind energy industry, has released its InSight wind turbine health management platform. The company [read more]

Normandeau Rolls Out Wind-Wildlife Collision-Risk Model

on 06 Feb 2013 by NAW Staff

Normandeau Associates Inc. says it has developed a spatial avian- and bat-collision-risk model for wind resource areas in the central U.S. Wildlife managers, government agencies [read more]