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SGRE completes Senvion purchase
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has finalised the acquisition of Senvion's European onshore service assets and intellectual property (IP). The sale of the blade factory will follow in Q1.
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Plans submitted to use 6MW turbines at Scottish site
Vattenfall is seeking approval for a Scottish wind farm that could use 6MW turbines -- the most powerful onshore turbines the company will have used in the UK.
Trying to follow the money to grow energy storage
The need for more energy storage is a given as the UK aims for net-zero emissions by 2050, but more clarity is needed on future applications and revenue streams to attract investors, delegates at a recent conference in London were told.
Financing offshore projects in a post-subsidy world
Developers should exploit multiple revenue streams as offshore wind increasingly participates in a merchant environment, panellists and industry experts agreed at WindEurope Offshore 2019 in Copenhagen.
Nordex develops low electromagnetic radiation turbine
Nordex has configured its turbines to emit minimal electromagnetic radiation allowing them to be installed near a radio observatory without interfering with the signals the antennae receive from space.
GWEC's call for action: 'We need to be installing 100GW a year. Now'
GWEC's Ben Backwell is calling on the world to declare a climate emergency, take fossil fuels off the grid and push renewables installations as he talks to Windpower Monthly.
Turbine of the Year 2019 - 3.5MW+: Vestas EnVentus
Vestas' V150-5.6MW turbine, part of its new EnVentus platform, has won Windpower Monthly's turbine of the year award in the 3.5MW+ category. Editor Shaun Campbell and David Weston discuss why.
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Turbines of the year 2019: Onshore turbines up to 3.4MW
Still a high-volume sector, but one that western OEMs are eschewing in favour of higher-rated machines and the offshore sector, leaving China's turbine makers to dominate.
Turbines of the year 2019: Innovations
Installation solutions for onshore and offshore applications lead the way.
What is missing for floating wind to flourish?
Floating offshore wind enjoyed much more visibility and a larger slice of the action than it usually does at WindEurope's Offshore 2019 exhibition and conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Turbines of the year 2019: Rotor blades
Ever longer and generally lighter units mark the top contenders in a hotly contested class.
Turbines of the year 2019: Drivetrains
Focus shifts to medium-speed geared and direct-drive solutions.
Opinion
Wind OEMs are having to fight on many fronts
The prominence of Chinese machinery in our selection of the year's best new wind-energy hardware cannot be ignored. It is partly a result of the country's leading OEMs finally being prepared to share more details of their product developments.
Viewpoint: How blockage effects skew energy-yield forecasts
After correcting some key methods behind the original estimates, major offshore wind developer Ørsted recently made news with a downward revision of the expected internal rate of return for seven of its offshore wind projects.
OEMs face the abyss in Germany
The slowdown decimating Germany's onshore sector has come as little surprise. Following the 2017 tenders -- which were dominated by citizen-owned projects that have longer development times because they did not need permits to enter -- it was clear to most in the industry that there would be a dip in installations.
The real world needs action now
Fatih Birol, executive head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), is not alone in recognising a "growing disconnect" between what is being discussed in climate summits and reports, what policymakers are actually doing about it, and what is happening in real life.
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