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 […]
Redflow, the Australian provider of energy storage flow batteries,has announced that it has decreased its zinc-bromide battery (ZBM) cost by 50% through technology improvements and a stronger manufacturing relationship with Flextronics. The company is now able to offer its naked ZBM product at a cost of US$20c per kWh throughput, down from US$48c just 6 […]
Rheine, 09.11.2015. Availon, the leading multi-brand independent service provider for wind turbines, announced today a record year for the company, with the addition to its global portfolio of 620MW of wind turbine generators under operation & maintenance (O&M) contracts. Mature European markets such as Germany, Spain and Italy, which have a great number of wind […]
Oldbaum Services, one of the world’s leading wind consultancies, announced today that it has deployed two 3D WINDCUBE 400S Scanning LiDARs as part of the wind resource assessment campaigns the company is currently conducting at two French offshore wind sites. It is the first time that such long range scanning systems are deployed for operational campaigns, […]
Spain, 20 October 2015. Ingeteam, an independent supplier of electrical conversion equipment, has announced today that it reached the milestone of 30 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity worldwide. The company hit this important mark after the commissioning of power converters accounting for 2 GW of installed capacity during the first semester of 2015, […]
Rheine, 01/10/2015. Availon, the leading cross-brand provider of wind turbine generator services, announced today that it signed new contracts for the servicing of 48 wind turbine generators at the Husum Wind trade fair. The contracts represent an additional 78MW of capacity placed under the care of Availon. The turbines involved include Vestas V80 and V90, […]
Yaskawa Electric Corporation, a world leader in industrial robotics, electrical drives and frequency converters, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The company is arranging special events worldwide to mark this special milestone. In Finland, Yaskawa will be participating in the Technologia 2015 exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, together with its Finnish subsidiary, The Switch, which […]
Helsinki, Finland, September 9, 2015 – The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class electrical drives for wind energy, marine and industrial applications, announced today the official opening of its new global headquarters in Helsinki. The new location will maintain the company’s ability to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of its international stakeholders. “The main […]
HINESBURG, Vt., U.S. — July 28, 2015 — Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has completely redesigned its software interface for the TurbinePhD wind turbine condition monitoring system (CMS). TurbinePhD is the only CMS in the wind industry that is engineered for use […]
Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has announced today the sale of its WINDCUBE® v2 LiDAR to VENTUS, a leading Uruguayan wind energy engineering consultancy firm. VENTUS will use the LiDAR for its wind resource assessment campaigns, power curve verification, and wind farm […]
Rheine, Germany: Availon announced today the opening of their new global headquarters in Rheine. This move is a direct result of the tremendous growth that the wind turbine service provider has recently experienced. Over the last three years, Availon’s workforce almost doubled to reach 380 employees. “Eight years after establishing Availon, we are opening a […]
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Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has launched today a new data logger that is specifically engineered to improve the performance of wind and solar measurement campaigns. Building on RNRG’s well-known Symphonie series of user-friendly loggers, the SymphoniePRO logger brings significant upgrades in […]
Sturmtief Niklas ist keine Gefahr für Windenergieanlagen, auch wenn die orkanartigen Windgeschwindigkeiten vielerorts Bäume entwurzeln und Dächer beschädigen. „Wir hatten bislang kaum mehr als eine Handvoll Anlagen für eine gewisse Zeit in der automatischen Sturmabschaltung“, sagt am Dienstagnachmittag Ulrich Schomakers, Geschäftsführer des über 1450 Windenergieanlagen betreuenden Service-Unternehmens Availon aus Rheine. Ab Windgeschwindigkeiten, die über zehn […]
Vantaa, Finland, April 9, 2015 – The Switch, a supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet (PM) generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications, received an order to deliver a medium-speed generator for use in the Atlantis Resources Ltd AR1500 turbine drive train. During March 2015, Atlantis confirmed an order with […]
Renewable NRG Systems, a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the recent sale of two WINDCUBE 200S 3D Scanning Doppler Lidars to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). WINDCUBE 200S Lidars incorporate advanced techniques to measure the wind components on a large scale for short term […]
Unabhängige Dienstleister behaupten starke Position gegenüber Anlagenherstellern. Availon Geschäftsführung meldet hohen Kundenzuwachs. Rheine, 18.05.2015. Immer mehr Windanlagenbetreiber vertrauen ihre Windmühlen unabhängigen Serviceanbietern an und kehren dem Herstellerservice den Rücken. Das berichtet der unabhängige Komplettanbieter für Serviceleistungen rund um Windenergieanlagen Availon. „Das starke Wachstum des Vorjahres setzt sich 2015 bei uns und in der Branche fort“, […]