Duke Energy Renewable Services Designated A Top Quality O&M Provider
Duke Energy Renewable Services is a top quality operations and maintenance (O&M) provider highly capable of performing all O&M service activities for wind and...
Shermco Announces Promotions Of Three Staff Members
Shermco recently announced three executive promotions.
Former vice president of Production for the Engineering Services Division Pat Beisert was promoted to president of Shermco U.S. Beisert...
Remote Site Monitoring Expands Reach to Global Proportions
Gamesa and the Iberdrola Group, through its engineering and construction subsidiary, have launched a wind sector-pioneering system which enables the remote management, using a...
Scottish Developer Taps Power Climber Wind for Tower Climb Assists
The system allows the wind turbine technician to have complete control of the climbing experience, delivering personalized performance, increased safety, and better productivity. The...
Gamesa Seeks Certification of Turbine Extension Program
DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts, has been chosen by Gamesa, to certify its wind turbine lifetime extension program for...
Gearbox Express Builds 75,000 Square-Foot Facility in Wisconsin
Gearbox Express , an independent company focused on providing down-tower, wind gearbox remanufacturing services, is building a 75,000-square-foot manufacturing facility south of Mukwonago, Wisconsin.
Founding...
PSI Repair Services Among Business Group’s ‘Best and Brightest’ Employers
PSI Repair Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries and leading industrial component repair service, recently announced that it has been selected to...
Moventas Completes First-Ever Clipper Up-Tower Service
Moventas USA recently carried out the first Clipper Liberty intermediate assembly roller bearing replacements that has ever been made up-tower. Mastering this type of...
Hydratech Opens Wind Service And Repair Center In Alabama
Hydratech Industries Wind Power has opened a state-of-the-art service and repair facility in the United States with world-class hydraulic cylinder design and manufacturing experts...
Availon Subsidiary Branches Into Energy Management
Availon recently established Availon Energy Management GmbH (AEM), a subsidiary seeking to complement the company’s existing technical service solutions by offering customer-specific energy management,...
Dual-Stage Magnetic Filtration Shown As Effective In Reducing Fluid Contamination
In the fast-growing industry of wind power, new technologies for gearboxes, blades, rotors, and other major components are emerging every day but something that...
Maintenance Cost Reduction Achieved Through Comprehensive Fleet Monitoring
Major component repair costs are a real issue for wind farms over five years old. Taking as an example data set of six wind...
Advances In Technology Will Continue To Lower Wind O&M Costs, According To Market Report
Direct drive technology and tension control measurement technology for turbine bolts are among the innovations that considerably reduce wind O&M costs.
The O&M market’s growth...
Comparing The Alternatives In Wind Turbine Oil Changes: Interval-Based Versus Condition-Based
In recent years, the world is seeing expansive development of wind power. Sage Oil Vac recently exhibited its products at AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2014 Conference...
Comparing Maintenance Options: OEMs and ISPs
The clock starts ticking the moment a wind turbine stops working. Wind turbine efficiency is evaluated in terms of minutes (of production up/downtime) and...
EDF Renewable Services signs O&M deal with DTE Energy
EDF Renewable Services has signed a multiyear operations and maintenance agreement with DTE Energy for the 75 MW Brookfield Wind Park. Located in Huron...
Moventas offers lubrication upgrade for WinWind 3 models
Moventas has developed a special gearbox lubrication upgrade for customers operating WinWind made WWD3 turbines, to extend their lifetime considerably. The first one of...
Siemens, Pattern Energy Agree to Long-Term Service Contract
Underscoring growing customer confidence in the valuable benefits Siemens Energy can provide with its flexible, longer term wind service agreements, the company has been...
Spider Provides Turnkey Blade Access with Largest Platform to Date
Spider, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, recently designed, manufactured and rigged its largest 360° Blade Access Platform (BAP) to date.
The customer, Alstom, required access...
GDF SUEZ to Upgrade 19 Gamesa Turbines in France
Gamesa has landed a contract from La Compagnie du Vent, a wind energy subsidiary of GDF SUEZ, to upgrade 19 wind turbines in the...
