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• 7 Ways Super Bowl XLVI is Going Green! Inhabitat (Today) - Read the rest of 7 Ways Super Bowl XLVI is Going Green! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", 7 ways the superbowl is going green, composting, eco superbowl, football, green super bowl, green superbowl, indianapolis, news, nfl, recycling, Sports,...
• PM equipment manufacturer to speak at MAGNETICS 2012 Wind Power Engineering (Today) - Manufacturer of permanent magnet rotating equipment Danotek Motion Technologies will be speaking at MAGNETICS 2012, a forum on magnetic applications, technologies, and materials. This 8th annual event will take place March 13-14, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. This two-day conference is focused on the economic developments...
• 7 Ways the Superbowl XLVI is Going Green! Inhabitat (Today) - Read the rest of 7 Ways the Superbowl XLVI is Going Green! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", 7 ways the superbowl is going green, composting, eco superbowl, football, green superbowl, indianapolis, news, nfl, recycling, Sports, superbowl, superbowl 2012,...
• Where aesthetics meet engineering Wind Power Engineering (Today) - What do you get when you combine an architect, engineer, biologist, ecologist, and a poet? A winning entry. The Windstalk, conceived by New York collaborative design studio Atelier DNA, placed second in an international competition. Dario Nunez-Ameni of the studio explains that communities often resist...
• Iceni acquires custom built boat for Grimsby harbour Windpower Monthly (Today) - UK: A new catamaran from South Boats to be deployed at SSE’s Greater Gabbard wind farm in the North Sea has been custom-built to fit the locks at the port of Grimsby in eastern England....
• Lift assists improve tech moral, productivity, and safety Wind Power Engineering (Today) - The 1000P’s portable control box, weighing only 8.5 lbs, is easy to set up – just click, plug, and climb. Power Climber Wind has completed installation of 66 IBEX 1000P climb assist systems at Erie Shore Wind Farm near Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada. The wind...
• A product catalog for those who work waaay up Wind Power Engineering (Today) - Learn more about platforms such as this one in a recent catalog from SafeWorks LLC. Spider, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, announced the release of the 4th edition of its Spider Solutions Catalog, a comprehensive product catalog for the suspended-access industry. Celebrating the company’s 65th...
• Superconducting cables closer to commercialization Wind Power Engineering (Today) - A developer of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies says General Cable Superconductors Ltd. (GCS) has completed testing of STI’s second generation (2G) HTS wire. General Cable Superconductors, a HTS continuously transposed cable provider in New Zealand, developes HTS cable using advanced designs...
• US advances offshore plans for Atlantic OCS Windpower Monthly (Today) - UNITED STATES: The US Department of the Interior is set to fast track leasing of areas for wind energy development off the coasts of Delaware, Virginia, New Jersey and Maryland....
• Iberdrola gets $1.15 million subsidy to stay in Portland Windpower Monthly (Today) - UNITED STATES: Iberdrola Renewables, has been handed a $1.15 million tax subsidy as part of a 10-year agreement to keep its North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon....
• UK energy minister Huhne charged over speeding claim Windpower Monthly (Today) - UK: UK energy minister and wind energy supporter Chris Huhne is expected to resign following the decision to charge him with 'perverting the course of justice'....
• Virginia's Dominion looks to build 2GW off Virginia Windpower Monthly (Today) - UNITED STATES: Virginia's largest utility Dominion Virginia Power has revealed it is interested in building 2GW of offshore wind off the state's coast....
• Department of Interior Crosses Offshore Wind Milestone EnergyBoom (Today) - U.S. Department of Interior announced its "Smart from the Start" offshore wind energy initiative has cleared an environmental review and is moving forward. read more...
• Atlantic Power Corp. Adds More Wind Energy EnergyBoom (Yesterday) - Boston-based Atlantic Power Corporation (NYSE: AT) has acquired a 51% stake in a wind power project in Oklahoma. read more...
• Site Assessment 101 Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - A first step in the development of a wind farm is to identify land with sufficient wind to support a commercial project. This calls for a series of studies, one of which is the wind-study assessment that looks at historical wind data. There may be...
• Wind Measurement Systems 101 Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - Wind measurement systems: Measuring wind speed and direction is now done at least three ways: mechanically (cup anemometer with a vane), with ultrasonics, or with laser-based devices. There are variations to each. Mechanical sensors, for instance, use moving parts and can connect to data recording...
• Towers 101 Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - Turbines erected in the 1970s and 1980s may have been perched on lattice towers, a design that can scale to 200 ft and more. However, for the protection of the techs who must climb the towers, it make more sense to build them from rolled...
• Wind energy performance map for Europe Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - A recent map illustrates that for 2011, wind speeds were 5-10% above normal in northern Europe and up to 10% below normal in southern Europe. The data, collected by renewable energy assessment and forecasting company 3TIER,  shows departures from long-term mean wind speed with above normal...
• Turbine Manufacturers 101 Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - Original equipment manufacturers are the brand-name turbine producers. They do most of the turbine research although often with the assistance of government labs such as Risø in Denmark and the NREL in the U.S. These companies are responsible for most of what goes into the...
• Report: O&M costs headed up Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - O&M costs for wind power are far higher than originally projected, particularly in the U.S., now the world’s largest wind power market, says Wind Energy Update. . A trend line suggests O&M costs actually go up over the time period of consideration, especially when considering...
• Weather operations now include Alberta Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - The wind forecast for Alberta at 80m up will include charts like this one. MDA EarthSat Weather says its current wind-generation forecast product has now been expanded to include AESO (Alberta). Already providing accurate and reliable hourly forecasts for ERCOT, MISO, and BPA, PJM, CAISO...
• Sinovel to roll out 6MW offshore turbine at Shanghai Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - CHINA: Sinovel will hand Huaneng Renewables 17 units of 6MW offshore wind turbines to construct the first stage of a pilot offshore wind farm in Lingang waters, east China's Shanghai city....
• A better way to let a turbine “talk” Wind Power Engineering (Yesterday) - The schematic is for the Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) client, part of the software of the Bachmann M1 Automation System. Ethernet interfaces to wind turbines were previously operated mostly by Scada and control stations. A connection to a controller is implemented mainly using discrete data...
• US Chamber of Commerce backs PTC extension Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - UNITED STATES: The US Chamber of Commerce has joined the list of groups backing an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC)....
• ERG acquires Bulgarian wind project Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - BULGARIA: A recently created joint venture between the renewable units of Italian energy group ERG and Russia’s Lukoil has resulted in an to acquire a 40MW operational wind farm in Bulgaria from Raiffeisen Energy & Environment....
• Close up - Envision's 3.6MW offshore machine Windpower Monthly (Yesterday) - DENMARK: Chinese-owned Envision Energy has launched the E128, a 3.6MW two-bladed direct drive offshore wind turbine machine. Windpower Monthly technical writer Eize de Vries spoke with director Anders Rebsdorf -- who heads a 30-strong team of senior engineers at the companies Danish Global Innovation Center...
• Operations & Maintenance 101 Wind Power Engineering (2 days ago) - Maintenance crews acknowledge that frequent lubrications with small amounts of grease extend the working life of bearings and seals. But long hours of hub crawling is physically and mentally demanding work. To minimize that work, centralized and automated lubrication systems are useful. One version for...
• Should we worry about energy imports? You bet Wind Power Engineering (2 days ago) - The energy information site Platts Power posted an article titled  The U.S. obsession with energy imports and why Europe doesn’t sweat it.  The article says Europe has no difficulty with the fact that it imports 80% of its energy from countries such as Russia and wonders...
• Tools 101 Wind Power Engineering (2 days ago) - One of the great efforts of wind-turbine OEMs is to take cost out their products without lowering quality. One way to do so is in manufacturing with special tools. For instance, a particular profile on a turbine hub often required several tools and machining techniques...
• Owners & Developers 101 Wind Power Engineering (2 days ago) - Owners and developers of wind projects play a crucial role in the industry, but it’s often unclear who does what. Developers are contracted by the project owner to plan and develop a project, often from the beginning stages of site assessment through the final stage...

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