July August 2021

The Front Cover

Inspecting wind turbines is not just about flying around the rotor blades and gathering high resolution pictures of everything. It is about image quality and supplementary metadata that improve the overall value of, and information about, an inspection flight, and processing and presenting the results in a manner that allows rotor blade experts to make precise decisions. You can read more about this topic in the article written by Christian Raml from Aero Enterprise on page 7.

Publisher's Note

How to speed up recycling of wind turbine blades

Features

A Critical Element for Wind Farm Profitability
By Gregory R. Wolfe, CEO / Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Fischer Block, Inc., USA

Consequences of Large Wind Farm Clustering
By Naveed Akhtar, Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany

Airfoils for Wind Turbines
By Joseph Youssif Saab Jr and Alexandre Martuscelli Faria, Brazil

Windtech Future

Are We Going in the Right Direction?
By Ahmad Hemami, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

View from Inside

Wind O&M – the Need for a Collaborative Approach in the Supply Chain
By Gordon Mina, Head of Sales, Renewable Parts, UK

Latest News

• Massimo Battaini is the new CEO and General Manager of Prysmian
• Eocycle Technologies secures financing to expand distributed wind turbine operations in the USA and Europe
• Deme wins cable installation contracts from Prysmian for Dutch offshore grid systems
• Vattenfall initiates bird collision monitoring test at Hollandse Kust Zuid
• UK-Denmark energy connection for wind power sharing formally launched
• Planning Inspectorate greenlights 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind farm proposal
• New UK-US collaboration targets UK support for floating wind technology in the USA
• DPO to partner with Schneider Electric to develop wind-powered modular AI data centres
• Gurit reports net sales of CHF 97.2 million in the first quarter of 2024
• Clearway begins construction on Dan’s Mountain wind project in Maryland
• DOE unveils roadmap to expedite clean energy grid interconnection
• Royal IHC and Kalypso Offshore Energy sign LOI for a cable lay vessel
• New study reveals lightning risks and damage potential for over 1,500 US wind farms
• Exus North America announces new hires
• Mads Kirkegaard steps down as CEO of Polytech
• UK offshore wind industry unveils Industrial Growth Plan to triple supply chain manufacturing
• Scottish agencies partner with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries to explore floating offshore wind manufacturing facility
• Second HVDC offshore substation platform installed at Dogger Bank Wind Farm
• Chartwell Marine initiates construction of new Brevity Class CTV at UK shipyard
• Amprion receives planning approval decisions at sea and on land

 

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