Tag Archives: wind turbine

Scottish Renewables has joined the steering board of SusWind, the wind turbine blade recycling programme started in 2021 by the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. On the steering board, “Scottish Renewables joins The Crown Estate, Crown Estate Scotland, BVG Associates, RenewableUK, ZeroWaste Scotland, Net Zero Technology Centre and Vestas”, said NCC. “Collectively, they ...

Intepro Systems is stocking a 50kW regenerative ac-dc electronic load and grid simulator from Cinergia. Called ‘GE&EL+ vAC/DC SiC’, Intepro describes it as: “The whole Cinergia catalogue in a single unit. [It] is both an ac and dc grid emulator, and can also works as a load [and] is ideal for testing solar panels, wind turbines, hardware-in-the-loop power, smart grids, ...

Norwegian Wind Energy developer Kitemill has secured more than €2m of funding from Dutch investment entity Expanding Dreams. “Together with smaller investors and a tax relief grant, the combined package will cover the majority of planned activity for 2024,” according to the company. The company’s technology generates power using a tethered glider, which initially launches itself using a small motor-driven ...

Glamox of Norway is to provide LED lighting for 176 wind turbines in the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which will be the largest offshore wind farm in the US. 2,850 of its MIR G2 WOF water-tight stainless-steel linear LED luminaires will be fitted to the exterior and interior of the wind turbine transition pieces – the part that ...

Danish company Vind-Vind is developing a turbulence model for the effect of wind on structures in complex environments. It will eventually include the atmosphere high above the volume of interest with wind gusts from different directions. As such, said Vind-Vind CEO Per Jørgensen, wind-tunnel measurements are not good enough and he needed real-world measurements throughout a large volume of atmosphere ...

Wind turbine blades can be recycled, at least partially, accoriding to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The chemical process disassembles epoxy composite, releasing intact glass fibres and extracting one of the chemical component of the resin. Both are as good as new materials, according to the university, which added that the process could also be used with some materials ...

Thanks to the glorious BBC World Service in the middle of last night, I learned that the first multi-MW wind turbine was (and is) Tvindkraf, designed, built and financed in the 1970s, not by a company, but by a bunch of teachers from a school in Denmark. The concrete tower is 53m tall and the glass fibre rotor is 54m ...

X1 Wind’s X30 prototype floating wind turbine has delivered power though its 1.4km sub-sea cable to the Canary Islands’ Plocan off-shore laboratory. “Local teams will now enter the last phase of a test and verification programme which started with the platform installation in November 2022, in preparation of the technology industrialisation and certification for commercial scale projects currently under development,” ...

Following calm weather after the summer trade-winds, X1 Wind’s floating wind turbine has been installed at the ‘Plocan’ test site off the Canary Islands. This is a third-scale model, fitted with a Vestas V29 turbine (225kW), intended to demonstrate the floating platform, dubbed X30. X30 has been developed to be towed into place by what X1 calls ‘local vessels’ and ...

 Bombora Wave Power has completed indoor water tank testing of a floating energy platform that combines support for a wind turbine with wave energy harvesting. Evaluated at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility, “the integrated platform was tested under a wide range of conditions, including extreme waves”, said Bombora head of loads and modelling Peter Arnold. “Analysis is currently underway, where ...