The Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 offshore wind project has reached another key milestone with planning permission granted for the development of an operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in Arklow Harbour. Approval was secured by SSE Renewables from Wicklow … Read More
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Babcock Acquires Renewable Concepts’ Assets to Augment Wind Support Services
Michael LeClair A subsidiary of Babcock Power Renewables LLC, a Babcock Power Inc. (BPI) company, has entered into a conclusive agreement to purchase substantially all of the assets of Renewable Concepts Inc. (RCI), a provider of maintenance and service solutions … Read More
NREL Updates OpenOA Software for Wind Plant Performance, Layout
Image: Dennis Schroeder, NREL The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released version 2.3 of its Open Operational Assessment (OpenOA) software. This latest release includes an improved operational data quality-control toolkit, hourly energy production calculation and automated date selection for … Read More
GE’s Renewable Energy Digital Solutions Optimize Wind Asset Management
Credit: GE Renewable Energy GE has launched Lifespan, a new digital product portfolio enabling customers to improve renewable asset performance and operations across their fleet. The Lifespan suite of products are fully integrated, technology agnostic, and were designed side-by-side with … Read More
Edison Chouest Signs Service Operations Vessel Deal for Empire Wind Farms
Rendering of the Empire Wind service operations vessel. Credit: Edison Chouest Offshore Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, has awarded a long-term service operations vessel charter agreement to U.S. marine transportation provider, Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO). … Read More
BladeBUG Tests Show It Halves Turbine Blade Inspection Time
In just 35 minutes, the BladeBUG advanced robot can be deployed to inspect areas of concern on a turbine blade – up to half the time it would take a human rope access technician, according to BladeBUG’s latest findings. It … Read More
Perceptual Robotics Set to Inspect, Analyze Blades for Enel Turbine Fleet
Perceptual Robotics has signed a major contract with Enel Green Power to process future inspections’ blade data from across its entire fleet of wind turbines. Enel will use its Dhalion system, which analyzes wind turbine inspections data and uniquely identifies … Read More
PEAK Wind Takes Over O&M Services for Blue Cloud Wind Farm
PEAK Wind recently secured a five-year asset management agreement, with extension options, providing operations and asset management (O&M) services for the Blue Cloud wind farm, located in northwest Texas. “This agreement reflects PEAK Wind as a trusted and reliable operator … Read More
Port of Thorsminde Selected as O&M Base for Thor Wind Farm
Port of Thorsminde (Photographer: Ole Mortensen) RWE has selected the Port of Thorsminde from which to carry out the operations and maintenance of its Thor Offshore Wind Farm. Both companies have now signed a corresponding letter of intent (LoI) to … Read More
HeliService Provides Helicopter Support for Offshore Wind Operations
Credit: HeliService HeliService International Inc. has been awarded the contract for helicopter crew change operations for Ørsted and Eversource’s joint venture wind projects in the Northeast. The Leonardo AW169 helicopters are powered by two Pratt and Whitney PW210 series engines … Read More