Small Wind: An Evolution or Revolution?
Inventors all around the world are developing new wind turbine technologies, hoping they can break into the market and “revolutionize” the industry. Some of them are creating entirely new designs or making interesting improvements on existing designs; many of them make claims about performance they can’t back up. But they all have an impact on this still-fragmented market.
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Small Wind: An Evolution or Revolution?
ECN Validates Sodar Technology
Second Wind’s Triton Sonic Wind Profiler, a ground-based remote sensing system used to measure the wind at the heights of commercial turbines, was confirmed as a valid stand-alone system for wind resource assessment by an Energy Research Center / Netherlands (ECN) study.
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Cape Wind One Step Further With Turbine Order
Cape Wind announced an agreement with Siemens to supply 130 of its 3.6-megawatt (MW) turbines for America’s first planned offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts and, at the same time, Siemens also announced plans to open a U.S. Offshore Wind office in Boston.
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