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European experience valuable to U.S. offshore developers

As players in the US offshore wind industry work to complete the nation’s first commercial offshore wind project, a look at European development suggests one possible path for American offshore wind.
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Hub-height wind data leads to better financing terms

There is increasing pressure from wind project financiers to reduce the uncertainty in wind-resource data. One company says it hears more often that developers are gathering wind data at elevations closer to a turbine’s hub height, to get projects financed.
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Oil and gas companies blocking the wind

The Natural Resources Committee says the Federal government issued only a few dozen permits to develop wind and solar-energy projects on public land last year compared with more than 1,300 oil and gas permits for the same real estate.
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Improving Wind Turbine Design Through Advanced Simulation Techniques

The webcast proceeds with a discussion of case studies that demonstrate areas in which these technologies have been successfully applied to wind power engineering.
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How to network a wind farm

Chinese manufacturer Dongfang Steam Turbine Works (DSTW) was working on a wind farm project of 66, 1.5-MW turbines and had to establish a SCADA system to remotely monitor on-site equipment and operations while recording operation data for real-time analysis.
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