Chinese wind giant Goldwind announced on social media today that it installed its 14.3 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine in “just 30 working hours.” Goldwind says it was able to rapidly install its GWH252-14.3MW offshore wind turbine as the result of refining its assembly and installation process. The…
Read MoreGlobal wind turbine order intake reached new highs in the first half of 2023 with 69.5 gigawatts (GW) of activity, a 12% increase year-over-year, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. Orders from outside of China, which saw more than 25 GW of order demand for a 47%…
Read MoreWind turbine blades and nacelles have arrived for South Fork Wind, the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in US federal waters. South Fork’s wind turbine components have landed at the port of New London, Connecticut, and installation is expected to start this summer. Danish wind giant Ørsted, which…
Read MoreVestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbine (Source: Vestas) The world’s most powerful wind turbine has broken a world record for the most power produced by a single turbine over a 24-hour period. Danish wind giant Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype produced 363 megawatt-hours of power in a 24-hour period. Vestas…
Read MoreA Saudi Arabian company has installed the largest wind turbine in Central Asia, in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan. The 6.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbine was made by Chinese wind turbine maker Envision for Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power, and China Energy Engineering Corporation installed it. Envision says on…
Read MoreMingyang Smart Energy‘s MySE 16-260, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, is now operating at full capacity – and it just withstood Typhoon Talim. The Chinese wind turbine maker announced yesterday that its MySE 16-260 was commissioned on a LinkedIn post. The 16 MW offshore wind turbine, which…
Read MoreSwedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl announced today that it’s gotten its first commercial order for its vertical-axis floating wind turbine. The purchase is for a new vertical-axis floating wind turbine in the North Sea. Earlier this year SeaTwirl announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Norwegian…
Read MoreA Swiss startup is using reclaimed wind turbine blades instead of metal beams as horizontal supports for solar panels. Solar panels, meet wind turbine blades Founded in 2022, Turn2Sun is based in Neuchâtel and calls its use of second-life wind turbine blades to support solar panels “Blade2Sun.” The…
Read MoreA 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China. June 29: These folks really didn’t mess around. Developer China Three Gorges (CTG) and wind turbine maker Goldwind have announced that the world’s largest turbine is now up…
Read MoreSiemens Gamesa reviewed its wind turbine fleet’s failure rates and discovered that it has much bigger problems than it thought – and that they could take years to fix. Big wind turbine problems at Siemens Gamesa Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA – one of the largest wind turbine makers…
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