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Wind plant operators face many challenges: low energy prices, hefty maintenance costs, investor pressure, and tight-- if existent-- margins. And despite common knowledge throughout the industry that wind turbines commonly underperform, the original...
Canada has just released a wind energy database that will improve access to centralized, credible and publicly available energy data in Canada. The Canadian...
Lidar devices are being used more and more to conduct wind resource assessment, as an alternative to meteorological masts. This is because they have several advantages over the traditional measuring technology. Once a meteorological mast is...
During the final presidential debate in October, former Vice President Joe Biden ignited a storm of controversy when he called for the U.S. to transition away from oil and gas to clean energy sources. Given the large role oil and gas plays in...
The US wind sector has seen remarkable growth in the last five years, increasing from almost 75GW of installed capacity in 2015, to over 105GW at the end of 2019. But with growth comes growing pains. While the Production Tax Credit...
What do you think of when you hear the wind blow? Or see clouds flying across the sky? If you ask most people about capturing the power of wind, they picture a towering wind turbine. In fact, the clean energy industry may be missing out on an...
Wind turbine blades are a major cargo at the Port of Lake Charles, which handles the components after they enter Louisiana’s coast from the Gulf of Mexico and head up the Calcasieu Ship Channel. After a long tradition of serving as a national...
Offshore wind farms are recognized globally as an increasingly popular source of cost-effective and dependable renewable energy. In the United States, while turbines have already started to generate 30 MW from the strong winds off the east coast,...
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) recently estimated that - using currently available technology - as many as 22 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity can be installed along the East Coast of the United States in the...
One aspect of my job that gives me great satisfaction is providing on-site support for my wind customers. I don’t know too many other STLE-Certified Lubrication Specialists out there that are climbing wind turbines to provide up-tower...
Island nations typically have a high dependence on imported fuels to supply their electric generation...
On May 10th, 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will process only a select few of the last pending...More about Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Revolutionary for its time, agriculturists in the 1900s implemented age-old windmill technology for pumping...
To maximize operating efficiency, decrease downtime, and understand the overall health of wind turbines, it’s...
Over the last five years, the US onshore wind sector has been a relatively stable environment for investors, and is...
