WINDDAILY

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Sopcawind, a multidisciplinary tool for designing wind farms
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
The SOPCAWIND tool is a piece of software that facilitates the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the po...
A new concept to improve power production performance of wind turbines in a wind farm
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources in the world today. Dr. Hui Hu and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of...
LDD completes relief drilling campaign for UK offshore wind farm
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
LDD has successfully completed drilling monopile foundations for RWE Innogy's Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm, North Wales, UK. LDD has been working on the proje...
New Software Service Promises to Convert More Wind Into Power
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
The Breeze Production system takes wind farm management software beyond mere analytics by letting wind farm owners benchmark their production assets. Wind farm ...
Spanish island to be fully powered by wind, water
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
The smallest and least known of Spain's Canary Islands, El Hierro, is making a splash by becoming the first island in the world fully energy self-sufficient thr...
UGE launches the all-new VisionAIR3
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
UGE has announced the launch of the VisionAIR3, its cutting-edge wind turbine that offers greater durability and increased efficiency over its prior model of th...
Morocco wind farm, Africa's biggest, starts generating power
Apr 24, 2014 (AFP)
Africa's largest wind farm, at Tarfaya in southwestern Morocco, has started generating electricity and will be capable of meeting the electricity needs of sever...
DNV GL Recognizes Wind Turbine Design by Goldwind
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
DNV GL has recently completed the Design Evaluation for a 2.5-MW wind turbine designed by Goldwind. At the 8th China International Wind Energy Exhibition, DNV G...
Global renewable energy investments slumped 14% in 2013: UN
Apr 07, 2014 (AFP)
Global investments in renewable energy slumped 14 percent last year, with China pouring more money into the sector than Europe for the first time on record, the...
Wind energy: On the grid, off the checkerboard
Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)
As wind farms grow in importance across the globe as sources of clean, renewable energy, one key consideration in their construction is their physical design --...
U.K. invests $1.1 billion in offshore wind
Mar 30, 2014 (UPI)
The U.K. Green Investment Bank said Monday it was investing in two wind energy programs to help position the country as a world leader in the sector. "These inv...
Wind farms can provide society a surplus of reliable clean energy, Stanford study finds
Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)
The worldwide demand for solar and wind power continues to skyrocket. Since 2009, global solar photovoltaic installations have increased about 40 percent a year...
Wind farms can provide society a surplus of reliable clean energy
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
The worldwide demand for solar and wind power continues to skyrocket. Since 2009, global solar photovoltaic installations have increased about 40 percent a year...
Australian wind energy industry growing up
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
The Clean Energy Council's inaugural Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne was a sell-out yesterday, with 200 industry professionals fronting up to get the latest in...
Spain island eyes world first with wind, water power
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
A Spanish island hopes to become the first in the world fully powered by renewable energy later this year when it launches a new wind and water energy plant, a ...
A new algorithm improves the efficiency of small wind turbines
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
In recent years, mini wind energy has been developing in a spectacular way. According to estimates by the WWEA-World Wind Energy Association, the level of devel...
Taming hurricanes
Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)
Wind turbines placed in the ocean to generate electricity may have another major benefit: weakening hurricanes before the storms make landfall. New research by ...
Draft report finds no reliable link between wind farms and health effects
Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)
The release of the draft position statement on wind farms and health from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) was an important step in reas...
Wind farms can tame hurricanes: scientists
Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)
Huge offshore wind farms can protect vulnerable coastal cities against devastating cyclones like Katrina and Sandy by tempering winds and ocean surges before th...
New research blows away claims that aging wind farms are a bad investment
Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)
The UK has a target of generating 15 per cent of the nation's energy from renewable resources such as wind farms by 2020. There are currently 4,246 individual w...
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