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

• Goldwind completes production of first 22MW offshore wind turbine
• TotalEnergies acquires majority stake in Danish offshore wind projects
• NORD/LB supports financing of 99.2MW Green Breeze wind farm in Romania
• Dual-Doppler scanning lidar systems tested for offshore wind energy in the UK and Japan
• Study reveals economic benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act for the USA
• Hugh Elliott appointed Executive Chairman of Iberdrola Energía Internacional
• One year since the European Wind Charter: Achievements and Challenges
• Cape Holland secures contract for Shinan-Ui offshore wind farm in South Korea
• Huisman integrates system for controlled blade installation into cranes for Havfram
• European Energy wins wind auction in Romania

 

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