Energy Management

Wind Energy Update speaks to Philippe Cochet, Senior Vice-President of Alstom Hydro & Wind about Alstom’s pact with EDF Energies Nouvelles to jointly bid for the France’s proposed 6GW of offshore wind, and to learn more about Alstom’s latest 6MW direct drive turbine.

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2010 sees up tick in offshore wind energy finance

This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: European Wind Energy Association; North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative, Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan & the European Commission; Gamesa, Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Forth Ports PLC; Spanish Wind Energy Association, Gamesa & Iberdrola Renovables; Scottish and Southern Energy, Siemens Transmission and Distribution Limited, Subsea 7, Burntisland Fabrications & Atkins, Centre of Engineering Excellence for Renewable Energy, and the University of Strathclyde; Associated British Ports; Vattenfall; Alstom & EDF Energies Nouvelles.

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In a nascent industry like wind vertical integration has its share of risks. But as a way to bypass supply chain bottlenecks, vertical integration has a clear upside at this stage of the sector’s development.

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Britain boosts Europe’s most efficient and developed processes for offshore wind turbines, according to The European Offshore Wind Standards, Permitting and Markets report.

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Understanding  interplay between domestic vs. foreign manufacturing looking at pressure points such as ease of access, quality and transportation the question that rings out again and again is “Can North American manufacturers really compete on price and quality with China and Asia?”. Well MAKE consulting have been doing critical work in this area for a number of months and have the statistics ready to view.

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People are building large wind farms around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most cost-effective and efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power. To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised a new formula through which the optimal spacing for a large array of turbines can be obtained.

Emerging economies such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil are expected to dominate world energy growth over the next twenty years, while improvements in energy efficiency measures are set to accelerate, according to BP’s latest projection of energy trends the BP Energy Outlook 2030.

A manufacturer of precast components offers a new concrete tower base. Tindall Corp's Atlas CTB is certified from Germanischer Lloyd, an important step in the company's development of wind tower technology that will allow the industry to extend hub heights above 100 m to generate more power