A Visit to Two Wind Farms
Last bank holiday weekend in the UK was also my 59th birthday and while holidaying in the superb unspoilt Edwardian seaside town of Southwold, famous […]
Tag: Offshore Wind Farms
Is Bigger Better Offshore or is it Mega-turbine Madness?
It’s a fact that the offshore wind turbines being installed now, and being planned for the future are getting bigger and bigger. The North Sea […]
New Turbines at EWEA Biannual Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition
For three days at the end of last month in Frankfurt, international exhibitors displayed their new offshore turbines and wind-related products, such as a huge […]
Three Blades or Two Blades?
Just when we all thought that the three-bladed wind turbine was the industry standard, several major wind-power companies are testing a departure by dropping one […]
Trump Trumpets “Victory” over Vattenfall at Aberdeen Bay
The row between Donald Trump and his millionaire’s gold course versus EOWDC (the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Anerdeen Bay, Scotland rumbles on with […]
UK Offshore Wind Capacity now 10 Gigawatts
The UK Coalition Government’s Ministers have said that they will be providing £66m of funding to improve the supply chain for offshore wind developments, boost […]
Wind vs Fracking: The Debate Continues
In a carefully calculated move to switch opposition to fracking to opposition to wind turbines the UK energy department’s recently-gone chief scientific advisor has claimed […]
The Transformation of Samso Island
Where is Samso? It’s a small island of just over 4000 people off the coast of Denmark (9 miles off the Jutland peninsula) which used […]
The World’s Most Powerful Turbine
Veterans of the wind power industry, Vestas, have been showing off their new super-turbine which is reckoned to be the most powerful yet seen. It’s […]
Britain Playing Grid Catch-Up
A failure to invest in Britain’s 70 year old grid has meant that the boom in its wind power electricty generation is not being taken […]
Danes Produce Half of their Electricity from Wind
For the month of December, last year, wind power provided the country of Denmark with just over half-about 55%- of its electricity. That’s a record. […]
ABB to Connect UK’s Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm to Grid
The power and automation technology Group, ABB has won a lucrative order worth around $55 million to supply and lay a submarine AC power cable […]