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- Category: Publishers Note
Solid growth in 2012 for wind energy
The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its 2012 market statistics, showing continued expansion of the market, with annual market growth of almost 10%, and cumulative capacity growth of about 19%.
- Category: Publishers Note
Shifting Focus to Retrofitting and Aftermarkets
Now that the global market is not flourishing as it was a couple of years ago, there is a new trend noticeable. Companies are focusing more on existing turbines than on new turbines. The desire to bring down the cost of energy also fits very well in this trend. By extending the lifetime and increasing the capacity of a turbine, its overall lifetime cost of energy will go down.- Category: Publishers Note
Long-term policies for a stable base market
The last couple of years have been turbulent years for the industry. The global economy faced several crises like the credit crunch, the Euro crisis and the fiscal cliff in the USA. None of these are completely solved but it looks as if we may have found the way up again.- Category: Publishers Note
Looking at the wider picture
Although Windtech International mainly focuses on the technology of the wind industry, we are aware that it is important sometimes to step back from the development of new equipment to look at the picture more generally. For example, where should we concentrate research and innovation efforts and how does this tie in with considerations about use of different types of energy and whether or not they are subsidised? In his article on page 36, Gene Kelley, of W2 Energy Development Corp, argues that maybe we need to re-examine how we look at the availability and costs of different energy resources.- Category: Publishers Note
Lowering the cost of energy by innovation
Lowering the cost of energy produced by the wind is one of the main industry concerns at the moment and more and more companies are focusing on this. Some of the best hopes for lowering the cost lie in new innovations and product designs.- Category: Publishers Note
HUSUM Daily/The PTC in the USA – Calls for Action
From 18 to 22 September the HUSUM WindEnergy event is once again happening in the German capital of wind energy. During the five days Windtech International will publish the HUSUM Daily. The HUSUM Daily will be prepared and edited by a team from Windtech International in cooperation with staff from HUSUM WindEnergy. Each day we will work on the issue to be published the following morning. If you have editorial material you want considered for publication please make sure that we have it before 1 pm each day.- Category: Publishers Note
Manufacturing the Future Today
This year’s WINDPOWER 2012 Conference & Exhibition was organised in Atlanta, GA, USA. Although there are not any wind farms in that part of the USA there are now over 90 manufacturing plants serving the industry in the Southeast, and so the location was well-suited to this year's theme: Manufacturing the Future Today.Stay informed with Windtech International! Sign up here for our free newsletters
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