When most of today’s wind projects were developed, first costs were the focus; operations and maintenance (O&M) costs were largely unknown. Now, with hundreds of turbine models in operation—sometimes ...
Conservative estimates suggest that there are at least one-quarter of a million wind turbines currently installed worldwide. In the next four years, the global wind turbine market is expected to add ...
Jari Toikkanen, manager of the research and test group at Moventas, a tier-one wind turbine gearbox supplier, has seen the number of noise and vibration tests ordered by wind turbine original ...
SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwired - September 23, 2014) - Planning maintenance activities on wind turbine generators, rather than dealing with emergencies, can result in significant reductions in operating ...
With the vibration tests, deformations can be recorded with millimetre accuracy and material stresses analysed Five hundred sensors measure the structural dynamics directly on the rotor blade Funded ...
Wind Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 5 (October 2021), pp. 1082-1100 (19 pages) The lack of aerodynamic damping of wind turbine blades in the edgewise direction causes larger dynamic responses and lowers ...
Renewable energy is something we hear quite a lot about these days. We hear how much we need it and how much it should be implemented and it has given rise to companies and individuals who started ...
Wind currently accounts for 10,3% of America’s electricity a number that continues to grow year on year thanks to the support that our country offers to this type of technology. However, each wind ...
Wind currently accounts for 10,3% of America’s electricity a number that continues to grow year on year thanks to the support that our country offers to this type of technology. However, each wind ...