Renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, and the Danish national laboratory for sustainable energy, Risø DTU, have installed ZephIR in the rotating spi
29 September 2009Kari Larsen
A £5 million project to develop and demonstrate a monitoring system that could reduce the cost of generating electricity from offshore wind farms in the UK
29 September 2009Kari Larsen
With the rapid decline of available credit and investor confidence, 2009 has not been the best year for the global wind power industry. However, the sector
25 September 2009Madhumita Venkataramanan
GE has acquired ScanWind, a developer of both advanced drive train and control wind turbine technologies aimed at offshore deployment.
24 September 2009Madhumita Venkataramanan
Siemens has released a 3.6 MW wind turbine featuring a 120 m rotor diameter. The SWT-3.6-120 wind turbine is based on the SWT-3.6-107 offshore wind turbine
24 September 2009Madhumita Venkataramanan
Advanced materials company Hexcel has purchased two robotic testing systems from Zwick Roell, in response to the growing demand for more extreme environmen
21 September 2009Jane Cotter
Wind energy applications are being targeted by honeycomb materials manufacturer nidaplast.
21 September 2009Jane Cotter
Gamesa is supplying 26 of its G87, 2 MW wind turbines to ENEL Unión Fenosa Renovables (EUFER) for two windfarms in Spain.
18 September 2009Kari Larsen
BP is selling off its wind power interests in India for 4.622 billion Rupees (~US$95 million), but says it will continue to focus on wind in the USA.
17 September 2009Kari Larsen
UK Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband, has said the world’s biggest wind turbine blades will be made in the UK as he announced grants for three offsh
17 September 2009Kari Larsen
A five-axis multi-processing system for the machining and finishing of large parts such as wind blades and boat hulls is being introduced by MAG.
15 September 2009Jane Cotter
Vestas’ V112, 3 MW offshore wind turbine model is said to be optimised for the conditions at sea and “can generate more power than any other turbine in the
15 September 2009Kari Larsen
US-based carbon fibre supplier Zoltek and wind turbine blade designer Global Blade Technology (GBT) of the Netherlands are joining forces to promote the de
10 September 2009Amanda Jacob
E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R) North America has confirmed the completion of its Panther Creek wind farm, one of the 10 largest in the USA.
8 September 2009David Hopwood
Risk management company Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is launching class notation for offshore wind turbine installation units based on DNV’s Offshore Service S
8 September 2009Kari Larsen
Lectra and AB-Inventech have signed a cooperation agreement to promote automated production solutions for the wind energy and aerospace markets.
5 September 2009Amanda Jacob
Vestas has received an order for a total of 24m V90 2.0 MW wind turbines and 16 units of the V90 1.8 MW wind turbine for three projects in Spain.
4 September 2009Kari Larsen
Oxford City Council – and former Renewable Energy Focus editor Paul Spencer - have revealed plans for a £3m wind turbine development on council land in the
4 September 2009David Hopwood
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has approved AGY's S-1 Glass™ glass rovings for use in wind turbine blade applications.
4 September 2009Amanda Jacob
PPG Industries is introducing HYBON 2026 glass fibre roving for use in composite wind turbine blades and other applications.
2 September 2009Amanda Jacob
The following five stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of August.
1 September 2009Amanda Jacob