Operations & Maintenance

  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 31 - February 07

    Feb 7, 2011

    Belfast Harbour, Dong Energy sign letter of intent for marine parkThis week’s Wind Energy Update newsbrief includes the following companies and organizations: Belfast Harbour, Dong Energy; European Wind Energy Association (EWEA); Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority; Gamesa; Atlantic Offshore Wind Consortium; Technip & Subocean Group; French Environment and Energy Management...
  • Post-Warranty Wind Energy O&M: In-house, third-party, or OEM?

    Feb 4, 2011

    This growth is imminent. As we approach 2012, operating wind projects with a cumulative value of around $40 billion dollars will come out of their warranty periods. They will then require both a rigorous end-of-warranty inspection and then an on-going O&M aftercare strategy going forward. 
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 24 - 31

    Jan 31, 2011

    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.
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 17 - January 24

    Jan 24, 2011

    2010 sees up tick in offshore wind energy financeThis 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...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 10 – January 17

    Jan 18, 2011

    This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: Dong Energy, Scottish & Southern Energy, PGGM, Dutch Ampère Equity Fund & Triodos Investment Management; Maryland Offshore Wind Task Force; Gamesa, Western Wind Energy Corporation & UniSource Electric; RWE Innogy; Vestavind Offshore, Reinertsen, Vattenfall, Technip, ViciVentus, AF Gruppen...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 10 - January 17

    Jan 17, 2011
  • Post warranty crisis: A changing direction for wind

    Jan 10, 2011

    The US wind industry has reached a utility scale wind capacity of 36,698 MW, with many of the turbines fast approaching the end of their warranty periods.
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 03 -January 10

    Jan 10, 2011

    Cape Wind seeks project financeThis week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Cape Wind, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Grid; Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation and Freshwater Wind; Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and American Superconductor; RWE Innogy, Linnhoff Offshore AG and...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 27 - January 03

    Jan 4, 2011

    US: Offshore leasing process begins off Massachusetts This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organizations: American Wind Energy Association; The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement & the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Moray Offshore Renewables, EDP Renewables, SeaEnergy Renewables & The Crown Estate; Siemens &  ...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 13 - December 17

    Dec 17, 2010

    National Grid-Cape Wind PPA deal challenged This week's Wind Energy Update news bief includes the following comoanies and organisations: Associated Industries of Massachusetts, National Grid and Cape Wind; SET Venture Partners, Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-investment Fund (SCF), and NGenTec; European Offshore Wind Deployment Centr and Crown Estate, Vattenfall, Technip and Aberdeen...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: December 06 - December 13

    Dec 13, 2010

    EU countries to build common offshore electricity gridThis week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Belwind, Vestas and Van Oord; International Finance Corporation & China WindPower; UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Renewables Obligation; Consumers Energy, Heritage Sustainable Energy, Northern Power Systems & Michigan...
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: November 29 - December 06

    Dec 6, 2010

    Atlantic states lag behind Europe and China in offshore wind This week's Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organsiations: National Wildlife Federation; Siemens; ABB; Narec & Natural Power; Skykon; Nordex & EverPower; REpower & Energiekontor U.K.; and Gamesa & Eolia Renovables. 
  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: November 22 - November 29

    Nov 29, 2010

    This week's Wind Energy Update weekly news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement; C-Power consortium, REpower Systems, RWE Innogy, European Investment Bank & the German and Danish Export Credit Agencies, and Essent; Gamesa, Alstom Wind, Acciona Windpower, Iberdrola Renovables and Acciona Energía,Técnicas...
  • Weekly Intelligence: November 15 - November 22

    Nov 22, 2010

    This week’s Wind Energy Update news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Ofgem; European Wind Energy Agency; The Mersey Partnership (TMP); Douglas-Westwood & the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Broadwind Energy; Pipeline Engineering; Iberdrola Renewables and Bat Conservation International; and Vestas.
  • Sea Energy takes offshore wind O&M to another level

    Nov 15, 2010

    Wind Energy Update speaks to Robert Trahan, CEO Marine Division of  Sea Energy PLC, and Michael Comerford, technical director Marine Division, about the latest technology in turbine access systems and a new fleet of vessels that promise to deliver best-in-class O&M for solutions for offshore wind.

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