The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced two new online tools to assist state and local policymakers, consumers, and stakeholders in evaluating siting and policy issues to help accelerate the use of distributed wind energy systems – such as wind turbines installed at a homes and businesses. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [...]

Wine Power Industry will be pushing for PTC extension, expanding reach and holding costs steady A big year is in store for the wind power industry in 2012, both in the policy arena and out in the field. With the Production Tax Credit (PTC), wind power’s key policy incentive, set to expire at the end [...]

Wind energy has begun to lead the way in renewable energy solutions.  Manufacturers of wind turbines face challenges such as reducing downtimes and maintenance work.  Some of the demands placed on turbine components include extreme temperature conditions, vibration, oscillation and aggressive offshore air composition. Keeping wind turbines safely operating is becoming increasingly important as more [...]

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced the release of a DOE-funded report to help better integrate wind energy into the electrical grid. The report, entitled Strategies and Decision Support Systems for Integrating Variable Energy Resources in Control Centers for Reliable Grid Operations: Global Best Practices, Examples of Excellence and Lessons Learned, [...]

SeaTwirl is a new technique that absorbs and stores energy from renewable sources in an efficient manner. By combining parts from older methods with a new way to generate and simultaneously preserve energy, the inventor Daniel Ehrnberg developed a new type of offshore wind turbine for the future sustainable society. The technology consists of a [...]

openWind® Enterprise is a wind farm design and optimization software created to provide professional wind developers with a highly configurable toolbox of capabilities that extend beyond energy capture. openWind® Enterprise 1.3 offers new features including time series energy capture, effective turbulence intensity and time scheduling of turbines. NEW! openWind Enterprise 1.3 features: Time Series Energy [...]

To tow the new gigantic off-shore wind turbines now being developed in Europe far out to sea, a Norwegian company has devised a clever and simple mechanism. Their WindFlip tows the turbine out almost horizontal – and then when it gets to the site, tilts it up into position – using only the weight of [...]