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Our focus is providing business intelligence to our three core areas of the wind energy industry, Operations & Maintenance, the Supply Chain and Offshore wind development. Our customers are at the heart of what we do. As such all our news, analysis, business intelligence reports and conferences strive to produce quality content to these areas.

Executive Viewpoint

What’s new about gravity base foundations for offshore wind?
Petter Karal, CEO, Seatower

WindEnergyUpdate speaks to Petter Karal, CEO of offshore wind turbine foundation technology provider, Seatower, to learn how the latest gravity base foundations resolve installation issues that have plagued the offshore wind industry to date.

03 Sep 2010

Is wind energy storage about to ramp up?
Frank Novachek, diretor of corporate planning, Xcel Energy

WindEnergyUpdate speaks to Frank Novachek, Xcel Energy’s director of corporate planning, about progress on its wind-to-battery project to date.

27 Aug 2010

Offshore wind: Supplier rides northeast wind energy wave
Corus is developing a new monopile plant at its Teeside Redcar works

WindEnergyUpdate interviews Richard Broughton, Corus, about plans for a new monopile manufacturing facility at Corus' Teeside plant.

19 Aug 2010

Next-generation far-shore turbine technology: 2-B Energy
2-B Energyhave developed a 2-blade downwind full jacket structure for offshore wind

WindEnergyUpdate speaks to 2-B Energy’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Mikael Jakobsson, about a next generation turbine likely to feature in the UK’s Round 3, and why turbine reliability is crucial to project risk management.

16 Aug 2010

'North Sea grid pilot' hangs in the balance
Proposed offshore grid in the Kriegers Flak. Source: Energinet.dk

Wind Energy Update speaks to Peter Jørgensen, Kriegers Flak project manager at Energinet.dk, Denmark’s grid owner-operator, about the potential of the world’s first offshore grid in Kriegers Flak in the Baltic sea.

05 Aug 2010

BZE’s ‘Easy Way’: Renewable Energy for the price of lunch
Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright, executive director of Australian non-profit organisation Beyond Zero Emissions, walks WindEnergyUpdate through the world’s first step-by-step plan to an affordable, 100% renewable energy-powered nation.

29 Jul 2010

REpower’s secret for success
olivier perot repower france.jpg

Wind Energy Update speaks to Olivier Perot, CEO of REpower S.A.S., and Dr. Axel Birk, REpower’s Senior Vice President Global Service, about REpower’s lead market position in France and how it has achieved a successful offshore O&M strategy.

23 Jul 2010

Market strategy: Siemens buys into installation vessels
 A2SEA is building a new vessel with greater capacity than existing vessels on the market

WindEnergyUpdate speaks to Frank Zimmermann, chief financial officer of Siemens Offshore Wind about Siemens’ vertical integration tactics and 2nd generation vessel builds on the radar.

16 Jul 2010

Risk mitigation strategy for offshore Great Lakes projects

WindEnergyUpdate's Tom Evans speaks to Lita Cuen, CEO of LC Risq and Associates, on how best to identify and mitigate project risk.

13 Jul 2010

PEER pressure: Cape Wind in the line of fire
Where did Cape Wind's developers go wrong?

WindEnergyUpdate speaks to PEER’s New England Director, Kyla Bennett, about the lawsuit recently filed against the US federal agencies responsible for green lighting the Cape Wind project, and how other US wind energy developers can avoid having their projects similarly delayed.

09 Jul 2010

Offshore Wind Energy in North America's Great Lakes 2010

September 9-10, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario

Deliver low cost, on time offshore projects by identifying and mitigating execution risk and securing a robust supply chain.



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