Japanese technology group Yaskawa announced that it will intensify its presence in Europe, with the aim of becoming one of the two leading manufacturers of industrial robots in strategic target markets in the medium term. This investment plan follows a successful first wave of expansion initiated in 2014, which included the acquisition of The Switch, […]
WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solutions provider in the marine industry, and The Switch, a technology specialist of permanent magnet machines for advanced marine drive trains, have been chosen to deliver their permanent magnet shaft generator solution to Australian Toll Shipping for a series of two 12,000 dwt RORO vessels. The […]
High-fidelity, hub-height wind measurement has arrived off the south coast of Massachusetts, thanks to a newly installed WINDCUBE Vertical Profiling Lidar. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), working with AWS Truepower, has installed the WINDCUBE at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO), located two miles south of Martha’s Vineyard in the Outer Continental Shelf. Funding for the […]
Hinesburg, VT, USA – NRG Systems, a global leader in the distribution and service of atmospheric remote sensing solutions, has announced today the U.S. launch of advanced Lidar solutions, introducing powerful new ways to resolve the critical air quality management challenges facing North America’s industrial and commercial sectors. Thanks to their ability to assess the […]
Hinesburg USA, October 11th, 2016: Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the supply of a solar resource assessment (SRA) system to Ventus Ingeniería to reduce solar irradiance uncertainty at a project in Panama. The assessment campaign is conducted by Ventus on […]
Finland, September 23, 2016 – The Switch, a technology specialist of advanced drive trains, announced its acquisition of Wärtsilä’s marine drives business that encompasses specialized megawatt-class power drives targeting marine applications. The Yaskawa-backed investment gives The Switch a stronger foothold in its growing marine business area. Together, The Switch and the Norway-based marine drives business […]
Ingeteam, the global supplier of electrical conversion equipment, announced today the launch of its new solution dubbed INGECON WIND FIX2VAR SPEED, a ground-breaking autonomous power conversion system that increases the Annual Energy Production (AEP), lifetime and grid-performance of fixed-speed wind turbines by enabling them to transform to variable-speed machines to best match wind conditions. With […]
WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solutions provider in the marine industry, and The Switch, a technology specialist of permanent magnet machines for advanced marine drive trains, announce the operational success at sea of their first direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generator solution. Ternsund, the first in a line of four Terntank Rederi […]
Finland, September 2, 2016: WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solution provider, has received an order to deliver its direct-drive permanent magnet (PM) shaft generator solution to a series of two 17500 DWT IMO class II chemical tankers. The order also includes the option for two more. The Switch, a technology specialist […]
Hinesburg USA, July 5th 2016: Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today that it has supplied complete resource assessment packages to French developer VALOREM to support their renewable energy project development activities in Africa. VALOREM is currently building a pipeline of five […]
Finland, June 13, 2016 – Finland-based Runtech Systems has placed its largest multi-million-euro order for high-speed turbo motors from The Switch for use in its turbo vacuum blower systems for paper machines. Using direct-drive technology developed jointly by both companies since the early 2000s, these turbos have now become widely accepted in the paper industry […]
Hinesburg, VT, U.S.—Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG) announced today the sale of twenty of its 80m XHD TallTowers™ to high profile developers and consultants to support their power performance testing (PPT) activities. This departure from the traditional use of lattice towers for PPT purposes represents a notable strategy change by key players in the wind sector. […]
Hinesburg, VT, USA, May 11, 2016: Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has announced the hire of Mario López as Senior Territory Manager for the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) regions to increase the company’s presence in key overseas markets. Based in […]
Finland, May 10, 2016 – WE Tech Solutions (WE Tech), a leading energy efficiency solutions provider in the marine industry, has received an order to deliver its direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generator solution to two new 25,600 dwt dual-fueled handysize bulk carriers, with an option for two more. The Switch, a technology specialist of megawatt-class […]
Hinesburg, VT, USA, April 20th 2016 – RNRG and Ventus Ingenieria have announced the acquisition and installation of a Wind Iris nacelle-mounted Lidar at the 20MW Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay. The Wind Iris will monitor turbine performance and offer optimization solutions for the project. Located in the Sierra de Caracoles in the Maldonado region, […]
Hinesburg, VT, EE. UU., 22 de abril de 2016 – RNRG ha anunciado la adquisición por parte de Ventus Ingeniería de un Wind Iris, sistema LiDAR para montar en góndola. Ambas empresas trabajarán en conjunto para montarlo en el parque eólica Sierra de los Caracoles, de 20MW, en Uruguay, con el objetivo de supervisar el […]
Hinesburg, VT, USA, April 13th 2016 – RNRG has announced today that the site-wide installation of its “TurbinePhD” condition monitoring systems has been completed at the 21 MW Grant County Wind Farm in Minnesota, USA. Originally constructed in 2010 and owned by Aspenall Energies, the project is composed of ten 2.1MW Suzlon S88 wind turbines. […]
Helsinki, Finland, April 7, 2016 – The Switch, a specialist of megawatt-class permanent magnet (PM) machines for advanced marine drive trains, has been selected to deliver its PM shaft generator for an LNG carrier with a 45,000 cubic meter cargo capacity, allowing the vessel to gain greater efficiency over its entire speed range. This order […]
Rheine, 16.02.2016. Availon Iberia in Madrid und Availon SRL in Rom starten voll umfänglich zertifiziert nach international gültigen Qualitäts-, Umwelt- und Arbeitssicherheitsstandards ins Jahr 2016. Das berichtet die Muttergesellschaft Availon GmbH, Deutschlands führender markenübergreifender Serviceanbieter für Windenergieanlagen mit Sitz in Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Mit der Übereinstimmung des unternehmensweiten Managementsystems mit den Normen ISO 9001 (Qualität), ISO […]
Des Moines, IA, December 14, 2015 — Availon, the leading multi-brand independent service provider for wind turbines, announced today that the company managed to keep the US wind farms it has under O&M contracts at historical levels of availability. The most challenging site, whose name remains undisclosed, is now continuously running at above 98.4% availability […]