Wednesday, 25 August 2010 16:03
 Image: www.freefoto.com Rømø Harbour on the North Sea coast of Jutland, is one of the quieter spots on the Danish map - or at least it has been up until now. With the North Sea offshore wind industry now billowing out into a major business, Rømø is preparing to seize its share of a very lucrative future market. Harbour master Mikkel Gleerup has a clear vision of Rømø's role as a well placed spot for shipping offshore wind turbines out to the North Sea destinations, and for ferrying the armies of installation crews , technicians, and maintenance personnel needed to keep the blades of this new green energy sector turning. He told financial daily newspaper Børsen: "We will soon begin building a 410 metre (1,345 ft) quay with 125,000 square metres of wharf space, which will be complete in the first half of next year," adding that from Rømø it will be a shorter distance out to the wind farms than the port of Esbjerg, which lies further south on the Jutland coast.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:09
 Image: www.freefoto.com China is the now the world's leading production centre for wind turbines, and if you want to profit from this hugely expanding market as a sub-supplier you have to have a local presence. Danish sub-suppliers to the wind industry are well aware of this fact, and professional journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer) reports, five such companies have banded together to establish a 5,000 m2 factory in Tianjin, near Beijing. "In China it makes good sense to have a local presence in the country and create local jobs. So we expect that the factory will help expand and improve our contacts with the Chinese wind turbine manufacturers," says Ulrik Ritsing of CC Jensen, a manufacturer of oil filter systems for ships and wind turbines, and one of five companies. The other four companies are Hydra-Grene, which manufactures hydraulic components; Dafa, which makes styrofoam and rubber protective components for wind turbines; Lund & Sørensen, which manufactures electrical heating systems for wind turbines; and Resolux which makes lighting systems for wind turbines and nacelles. All five companies have ambitions to make it big in China in the next two years, and perhaps open their own separate factories at some point.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:06
 Image: www.freefoto.com Wind energy is set to be the big technological winner in Europe over the next 10 years, as EU countries get down to the serious work of meeting renewable energy targets, reports the Danish Energy Association in its daily newsletter. The EU has set the goal that 20% of its energy needs will be met by renewable energy by 2020, and according to a report from environmental news and information service ENDSEurope, wind energy is set to be a bigger contributor to the green energy mix than solar power and hydro power combined. Given that 70% more energy is obtained from hydro power than from wind power at the present time, the forecast of wind's future dominance is highly noteworthy. Denmark has long enjoyed a leading position in the wind energy sector, but although the decision has been taken to build the country's biggest offshore wind farm yet - the 400 MW Anholt wind farm - the government has no other big initiatives planned in this area over the next 10 years, unlike the UK, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands, which are putting major investments into wind energy.
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 16:39
 Image: EWEA / Dervaux The Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Risø DTU, has been granted DKK 20 million from the EU to develop an offshore Darrieus type wind turbine, reports professional journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer). The Darrieus Wind Turbine is named after its inventor, the French aeronautical engineer Georges Jean Marie Darrieus, and dates back to 1927. It is a vertical axis turbine, which means that the main rotor shaft runs vertically, while many wind turbines in use today have horizontal axes. Risø DTU will explore the potential of a new and simple offshore wind turbine where the key principle will be simplicity and reliability. The wind turbine is currently on the drawing board, but the plan is to make a low power model, which can be scaled up at a later stage. The scientists will look at whether the advantages of the vertical axis wind turbine outweigh the disadvantages.
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:02
 10MW Aerogenerator X ©2010 Wind Power Limited and Grimshaw British company Wind Power Limited has unveiled the new embodiment of its innovative Aerogenerator project visualised by leading international architects Grimshaw. The Aerogenerator X is twice the power and half the weight of Wind Power’s original Aerogenerator design. The Aerogenerator X is considered one of the only real alternative solutions available to help deliver the UK’s offshore wind strategy in a reliable and cost effective manner. It does not have the same weight constraints as a normal wind turbine and the blades do not suffer weightinduced fatigue. This new design is half the height of an equivalent horizontal-axis turbine and its weight is concentrated at the base of the structure.
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