Energy Management

A yaw brake model, FHGE, comes in three models, -77, -90 and -120. Each features a small air gap and few moving parts for a short response times and fast braking. Additional features include a large brake-pad area and low brake-disc temperatures. For the wind-energy market, the company manufactures rotor brakes that generate braking forces [...]

An Ohio utility says it will purchase up to 100 MW of output from its 304 MW Blue Creek Wind Farm in western Ohio. One of the first large-scale wind farms in Ohio, Blue Creek will sprout 152 wind turbines each rated at 2 MW, and is expected to finish by the end of 2011. [...]

Ohio’s Wynford School District recently celebrated the start of its wind power era with two Northwind 100 kW turbines mounted at 37-m hub heights. These will produce about 30% of the electricity needs for the high school and elementary building. Each is expected to produce about 175,000 kWh. “We have to do a better job [...]

Hughey & Phillips LLC, a manufacturer of obstruction lighting with headquarters in Urbana, Ohio, says it has purchased the entire aviation obstruction-lighting product line from Honeywell Airport Systems Group,a division of Germany-based Honeywell International. Terms of the purchase were not released. “These new LED-based, obstruction lights diversify and complement our existing products and open additional [...]

Construction workers, about 200 by one count, are working on the 99 MW wind farm Timber Road II. And just south of that in Ohio’s southwestern Paulding County sits Van Wert county where more wind turbines are beginning to pop up. Horizon Wind Energy is at work there on an initial stage. The original plan [...]

Currently, China’s wind power installed capacity has reached 30,000 MW and it is expected to increase to 135,000 MW in 5 years and 513,000 MW in 20 years. In the next 20 years, China will add an average of roughly 25,000 MW of wind power installed capacity and invest more than 25 billion Euros in [...]

Wind Energy Update speaks to Michael Vickerman, Executive Director, RENEW Wisconsin, to learn more about the proposed legislature that threatens to “kill the wind industry” in Wisconsin.

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This week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Ofgem; Alston & EDF; AWEA; RWE nPower, Bladt Industries and EEW Special Pipe Construction; Van Oord and Typhoon Offshore; and Vestas.

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Two non-polluting trucks powered by zero-emission plug-in electric/hydrogen fuel cells will soon hit the road in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The agreement with El Segundo-based Vision Motor Corp. puts one big-rig truck and one terminal tractor to work for 18 months. They will be tested under conditions typical for these short-haul [...]