- Category: Windtech Future
The era of auctions and tenders is well and truly upon the wind energy industry, and the supply chain is already starting to feel the pinch. Some companies have reported tighter and in some cases negative margins in their Q3 and Q4 quarterly financial disclosures as they reconcile their business with a largely subsidy-free era.
By Philip Totaro, Founder and CEO, IntelStor
- Category: Windtech Future
The largely anticipated release of the GE Haliade-X has set the offshore wind industry alight with the anticipated product responses from SGRE and MHI Vestas. However, with most Chinese OEMs still between 3 and 6.7MW in nameplate rating for their offshore wind turbines, what will they do next to compete on product evolution in the Chinese and other Asian offshore markets?
- Category: Windtech Future
The supply chain in wind energy is feeling a profit margin squeeze from the global shift towards auctions/tenders. As a consequence, it is constantly seeking ways to cut costs and remain competitive. However, one key way in which many OEMs and component suppliers are missing the opportunity to save on capex costs is to leverage royalty free technology.
By Philip Totaro, Founder & CEO, IntelStor
- Category: Windtech Future
As global markets fluctuate in terms of capacity additions on an annual basis, and auctions/tenders threaten wind turbine OEM profitability, a few manufacturers have taken steps to ensure their survival. These steps involve a diversity of product mix and a modular product architecture which will allow them to more evenly distribute their global manufacturing while maximising supply chain cost efficiencies and also providing a mechanism for global sales.
- Category: Windtech Future
Digitalisation in renewable energy (RE) is poised to become a major opportunity for revenue growth for OEMs, data analytics companies, and data rich asset owners. The emergence of the RE digital services ecosystem creates a definitive need and opportunity for data-as-a-service (DaaS), which is likely to be a significant revenue driver as part of the overall digital services sector. The market for digital services in RE is likely to grow to US$ 91.7 billion by 2027.
By Philip Totaro, CEO, IntelStor
- Category: Windtech Future
The wind market in the USA has seen tremendous growth in recent years, but the market has seen separation between OEMs GE, Vestas and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) from the rest of the pack. A key factor which has enabled the success of these three OEMs is the diversity of their product portfolio to serve almost any power density.
By Philip Totaro, CEO, IntelStor
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- Commercial Value of Data Has Increased Thanks to Digitalisation
- Onshore Wind Turbine Tech to Top Out in Ten Years
- Hybrid Materials and 3D Printing Enabling SciFi Wind Turbine Structures
- Can Wireless Mesh Networks Kill Slip-Rings?
- Offshore Wind Yet to See Meaningful Digital Services Deployment
- Focus on TLPs, Predictive Maintenance and AEP Optimisation to Further Reduce Offshore LCOE
- Renewable energy Internet of Things to hit US$ 5.3 billion annually by 2030
- Onerous Mandates on Performance Impact or Reliability are Stifling RE Innovation
- Emergence of Digital Services Highlights Need for Content Licensing Business Model
- Digitalisation Necessitates New Thinking and New Business Models
- How Common Platform Wind Turbine Architecture Unlocks Export Markets
- Closing the Product Competitiveness Gap
- Offshore Innovation Seeing Lift-off
- Consolidation Spurs Wind Innovation Revival
- The future of technology – Services
- Power plant control
- The Rise of Asian Innovation
- The future of technology – Manufacturing
- The future of technology – Materials
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