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Moventas has been developing a new product to the Exceed technology. The Exceed 4MW+ gearbox has successfully completed long-time overload test in January at Moventas Research and Technology center in Finland.
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Nordex has received the unit certificate according to VDE-AR-N 4120 for the N117/3000 turbine from FGH Zertifizierungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany). Presentation of the unit certificate is a prerequisite for connection to the German high-voltage grid (TCC High Voltage110 kV grid) and the operation of wind turbine generators as of 01 July 2017.
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A collaboration between colleagues from Heriot-Watt's Ocean Systems Laboratory and the Smart Systems Group has received funding to deliver a human-robotics hybrid solution for the maintenance and operation of offshore wind farms. The consortium (the Holistic Operation and Maintenance for Energy from Offshore Wind Farms or HOME-Offshore) received a GBP 4 million grant to create remote inspection and repair technologies using robotics and autonomous systems.
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Enercon has commissioned its first E-141 EP4. The prototype of the new low wind speed WEC (wind class III) was installed according to plan on a hybrid tower with a hub height of 129 metres in Coppanz, Thuringia, Germany. The E-141 EP4 is based on Enercon’s new 4MW platform that also forms the basis of the new E-126 EP4 for medium wind speed sites (wind class IIa).
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SeaRoc Group has provided their new communications and logistic data solution, SeaHub, for DONG Energy Wind Power, with its first deployment on the UK based Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm. The solution utilises SeaRoc Group’s marine management software system, SeaPlanner and consists of containerised equipment for communications and logistical data sharing for far offshore projects.
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Axys Technologies (Axys) has announced that design work with Boulder Environmental Sciences & Technology (BEST) is underway to deploy the world’s first buoy based microwave profiling radiometer on a floating platform, the FLiDAR WindSentinel.
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