BladeBUG robot saves inspection time
A robot called BladeBUG can be deployed to inspect areas of concern on a turbine blade, about half the time it would take to...
Electro Industries releases software update
Electro Industries/GaugeTech (EIG) recently released V.5.00.0110 of its CommunicatorPQA® power monitoring software. This release primarily supports the Nexus® 1450 Cyber Secure power quality meter’s...
Wind turbine prototype reveals spiral airfoil
Golden Ratio Turbine Concepts (GRTC), a fluid flow spiral rotor inventor, recently revealed its advanced 3-D Spiral Wing Airfoil in its newest vertical axis...
Perceptual Robotics launches autonomous drone
Perceptual Robotics will launch the DOT autonomous drone, designed to undertake in-depth turbine inspections and analyze the data collected. The company has had DOT...
WindCube Lidar suite maker Leosphere is now Vaisala
Leosphere, maker of the WindCube Lidar suite, is now Vaisala, as it completes integration with Vaisala, who purchased the company in 2018.
From Lidars, sensors,...
UL, ONYX Insight team up on wind asset life program
UL, an adviser on the technical development, evaluation, and optimization of renewable energy projects, has deepened its collaboration with ONYX Insight, a provider of...
Norway’s Aker chooses Hitachi Energy as tech partner
Aker BP, the Norwegian oil and gas exploration and production company, has selected Hitachi Energy, a global technology and market leader in power grids,...
Megger enhances wind-turbine test leads
Megger has enhanced its KC series of test leads used with wind turbines. The new leads can be used either in a manufacturing plant...
NewHydrogen to provide green hydrogen generators
NewHydrogen will provide green hydrogen generators to intermittent renewable power sites, such as wind and solar farms. The Massachusetts-based Verde LLC will provide NewHydrogen...
WindCube Nacelle Lidar earns full classification
Leosphere, a company that specializes in developing, manufacturing, and servicing turnkey wind Lidar instruments for wind energy, recently announced that WindCube® Nacelle is the...
DNV provides Hexicon project with first step to certification
Assurance provider DNV has provided Hexicon with a Statement of Feasibility for its TwinWay demonstrator, which will be installed and operated at Metcentre, off...
Russelectric offers customized SCADA systems
Russelectric, a manufacturer of power-control systems and automatic transfer switches, recently announced the availability of customized Russelectric supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems,...
CrewSmart gains approval for maintenance system
The CrewSmart maritime operations management system has gained type approval for its Planned Maintenance System, part of its 2.0 software update.
CrewSmart PMS streamlines asset...
World’s largest nacelle test rig delivered
Danish engineering specialist R&D Test Systems has designed and delivered the world’s largest highly accelerated lifetime testing (HALT) test bench for wind-turbine nacelles at...
Siemens Gamesa, Strohm team up on hydrogen transfer
Strohm, manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to collaborate on development of hydrogen transfer...
WindESCo partners with Phoenix Contact
WindESCo has signed Phoenix Contact to provide the Swarm Edge component of WindESCo’s swarming solution. Swarm Edge will be installed on each turbine to...
NREL determines how to transport wind-turbine blades
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have determined how to transport massive wind-turbine blades to parts of...
Gastops ships first MetalSCAN turbine monitoring sensors
Gastops, a leader in critical component condition intelligence, announced the first volume shipments of the MetalSCAN MS3500 online condition monitoring sensors to a major...
Mammoet launches offshore wind innovation challenge
Mammoet and Offshore Wind Innovators are challenging innovators to find a solution for transferring and lifting components to floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines.
Conventional...
DNV seeks partners for joint offshore wind projects
DNV is seeking partners for a new joint industry project (JIP) for floating offshore wind substations.
The plan is to improve tech development and standards.
“In...
