High-speed turbine rotor balancing was once rare because of the costs and logistical challenges involved in doing it during an outage. That’s begun to change as economic options emerge, and experience ...

Over the past decade, since industry deregulation, the typical utility power plant has lengthened the maintenance intervals of its major systems to minimize downtime and costs. Many plants schedule ...

German manufacturer Nordex said a rotor detached and fell from one its turbines at the 400MW Øyfjellet wind farm in Norway. Øyfjellet Wind had reported that a technical problem developed at one of its ...

The accident that wrecked Xcel Energy's largest electric generator in 2011 has been traced to cracks on turbine blades that broke loose from a spinning rotor and caused catastrophic damage that is ...

Abstract Small wind turbines are often used in remote locations, making them difficult and expensive to repair. This suggests the need for remote condition monitoring and fault diagnosis which has not ...

The blade is the 9th out of 21 blades that need to be transported in the Scottish Borders A GIANT wind turbine blade made its way through Hawick in the Scottish Borders on Saturday afternoon. The ...

Texas Republicans were quick to blame the state’s wind turbines for the massive power outages that millions of Texans experienced this week during an unusual blast of cold weather. Texas leads the ...