Megger’s KC series of test leads are long enough to be used for testing the continuity of lightning protection conductors in wind turbine blades. Megger’s new test leads eliminate the need for ...

A £4.6 million ($5.64 million) facility that can test tidal turbine blades under strenuous conditions has been officially opened. The University of Edinburgh says the site is the "world's first rapid ...

WindTronics is one of many wind companies trying to crack into the clean energy industry. Can it make wind power affordable and revitalize manufacturing at the same time? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis (MD&A) was contracted after a forced outage to perform a major overhaul on a cogeneration unit’s MS5001PA gas turbine, and to remove, test and inspect the generator ...

A new system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of embedded-control software releases keeps turbines up on the farm For its wind turbine control systems, Siemens’ engineers faced the challenge ...

Wind farms are proliferating as the United States increasingly embraces renewable energy, and the nation's largest wind turbine testing facility — in North Charleston — is playing a supporting role.

8 January 2004 – The first Frame 6C gas turbine from GE Energy (formerly GE Power Systems) has successfully completed full-speed, no-load testing at the company’s Belfort facility. Key tests, ...

The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative has been awarded an eight-year pilot license by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to test marine renewable tidal turbines at the Bourne Tidal Test Site ...

When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After several ...

Siemens this month delivered the first HL-class gas turbine to a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina. Workers lifted the 500-ton SGT6-9000HL onto its foundation at the Lincoln Combustion Turbine ...

When the blades of individual Kaplan turbines are not continuously adjusted to achieve peak efficiency, the result is non-optimal performance and unnecessarily high mortality of downstream migrating ...

An abandoned World War II-era warehouse in an impoverished part of South Carolina is now a $110 million engineering facility -- and the proving grounds for the next generation of wind turbines, ...