The DOE and NREL have launched the Midsize Wind Turbine Development Project to help close a technology gap and facilitate development and commercialization of midsize wind turbines. The Laboratory is sponsoring workshops in Ohio and Oklahoma, facilitated by Cleveland-based Great Lakes Wind Network, to build awareness of the DOE-NREL Midsize Wind Turbine Deve […]
This week’s WindEnergyUpdate News round-up includes: Parsons Brinckerhoff report on energy costs; Clipper Windpower CEO resigns; Nordex launches 3G turbines and posts contracted consolidated profits; Finavera signs PPAs with BC Hydro; Nordnes Vessel to begin prelinary work at Sheringham Shoal; First Wind awarded DoE loan guarantee; A-Power; and Daewoo Shipbu […]
There's been a little bit of interest in laser based anemometry, or LIDAR, wind turbine control systems. It's been the precept of Risoe's Windscanner program below, and several Risoe-DTU papers at EWEC 2009. It even made this month's Economist technology quarterly. As rotors get bigger, I believe this concept will become more and more i […]