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Skyward, A Verizon company, has announced preorder availability for Parrot ANAFI Ai, an off-the-shelf drone powered by Verizon’s 4G LTE network, as part of the Skyward Connected Drone Solution. Skyward enables mid-flight data transfer to begin processing of imagery into 2D orthomosaic maps while Parrot ANAFI Ai is still in the air, anywhere within Verizon’s…

Cordelio Power‘s 185-MW Glacier Sands wind project has reached commercial operations. The project, located in Mason County, Illinois, is composed of 43 Vestas V150-4.3 wind turbines and will sell 100% of its renewable energy under a 15-year contract with Microsoft. “We’re excited to commence operations at Glacier Sands, the inaugural project in Cordelio’s new U.S.…

Bureau Veritas, a testing, inspection, and certification service, has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for its design and development of “Hi-Float,” a floating offshore wind turbine foundation. Based on HHI’s experience with offshore projects, the offshore floating wind substructure Hi-Float is designed to support a 10-MW wind turbine with…

Dominion Energy Virginia awarded the largest submarine cable contract in U.S. history to Prysmian Group and DEME Group. The balance of plant (BoP) contract includes the complete package for the transportation and installation of the foundations and the substations and EPC services for the inter-array and export cables for the future largest commercial offshore wind…

By Jordan Freed, Director of Corporate Marketing & Product Strategy, Gastops There is an abundance of literature dating back over the past 20+ years about the challenge of premature gearbox failures, and the cost impact they have on wind turbine operation. While the principals of prognostics and health management (PHM) are well established, and the…

Ørsted and Eversource are jointly investing in a Nexans subsea transmission cable manufacturing facility in South Carolina to provide subsea cables for the companies’ offshore projects in the Northeast. In 2019, Ørsted and Eversource entered into a framework agreement with Nexans, committing to purchase subsea cables for their Northeast offshore wind farms. Nexans will manufacture…

Offshore wind supports manufacturer Gazelle Wind Power opened its first U.S. office in Austin, Texas. This is the company’s first office in the United States as it moves to capitalize on the country’s emerging offshore wind market. Gazelle Wind Power’s floating wind platform was designed to be lighter and more flexible than other offshore platforms.…

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy will establish an offshore wind turbine blade facility in Virginia for the emerging U.S. offshore market. Siemens Gamesa will develop more than 80 acres/32 hectares at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia, upon execution of a firm order for the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project with Dominion Energy.…

Moog Focal is further expanding into the renewable energy sector with a move of its specialized slip ring manufacturing from the United States to a facility in Nova Scotia, Canada. The company is hiring to fill different roles now. Moog Focal is currently ramping up operations and has started the hiring process to grow production…

By James Moorman, VP of sales, Helukabel USA The wind industry wrapped up another banner year in 2020 by commissioning 16,913 MW overall as an industry. With over 60,000 wind turbines in operation across 41 states, OEMs, asset owners and independent service providers follow industry technology advancements to maximize the efficiencies of new turbines and…

Parker Accumulator and Cooler, a motion and control technologies manufacturer, has developed a line of replacement kits for bladder-style accumulators used in wind turbines. The kits let wind turbine technicians replace bladders in the field, avoiding potential downtime and power capacity disruption. The bladder replacement kits are engineered with rubber compounds that Parker formulated specifically…

Siemens Gamesa has upgraded its next-generation onshore wind platform increasing power output to 6.6 MW. The new SG 6.6-155 and SG 6.6-170 turbines will now offer higher individual power, with hopes to deliver a lower Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) for customers. Both turbines can now offer greater annual energy production made possible in part…

ONYX Insight has launched a new hardware solution that predicts where and when costly pitch bearing failures occur in wind turbines. This type of failure is a significant problem in the wind industry. Pitch bearings connect the rotor hub to the blades and experience high loading during the life of a turbine. There are many…

Siemens Gamesa has released the RecyclableBlade, the world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades ready for commercial use offshore. With this technology, separation of the materials in the blade is possible at the end of its lifetime, enabling recycling into new applications. The first six 81-m long RecyclableBlades have been produced at the Siemens Gamesa blade…

Offshore wind tower manufacturing venture Marmen Welcon arranged a partnership with Smulders, a European steel construction company, to manufacture transition pieces for the U.S. offshore wind market. The facility will be located at the Port of Albany in New York and will manufacture the support structures for offshore wind towers. It is expected to be…

Danish wind turbine tool company R&D has developed a new product, Bolt-Check, that can measure bolt tension two-times faster than traditional methods, claims the company. Bolted joints on wind turbines need to withstand higher centrifugal and bending forces, as well as stresses and vibrations. Incorrect bolt tension in wind turbines is a common complication that…

Alaska’s largest wind farm has incorporated Emerson‘s automated management software. Eva Creek Wind, a nearly 25-MW wind facility came online in Nenana in 2013. Golden Valley Electric Association contracted Emerson’s services to simplify the management of Eva Creek, providing equipment diagnostics and analytics for forecasting and dispatch. It incorporates Emerson’s Ovation automation platform and OSI…

Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions commenced commercial operation of its 182-MW Maryneal Windpower project in Nolan County, Texas. In 2019, cellular service Sprint signed a 12-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for 173.3 MW of the wind generated by the project, which will reduce parent company T-Mobile’s carbon production by 9%. “Projects like Maryneal Windpower play…

RWE Renewables has started commercial operation on its 250-MW onshore Scioto Ridge Wind Farm located in Hardin and Logan counties in Ohio. Scioto is powered by 75 Siemens Gamesa turbines and represents RWE’s first onshore wind project in Ohio and 28th in the United States. “Scioto Ridge marks our successful entry in the Ohio market,”…

Mayflower Wind and Anbaric Development Partners have signed an agreement for Mayflower Wind to use transmission assets developed by Anbaric to bring offshore wind to the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts. “Mayflower Wind is committed to helping Massachusetts and New England achieve their ambitious clean energy goals,” said Michael Brown, Mayflower Wind CEO.…