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Kalamazoo Valley Community College Worldwide Machinery Pipeline SECTIONS December 2018 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 12 THE FUTURE OF WIND TAILWINDS GET CONNECTED THE BUSINESS OF WIND WIndSystemsmag.com is your INNOVATION iSpin tech to monitor Vattenfall online authority for information wind center 32 about the wind energy industry. DIRECTION 8 You’ll find topical articles, company Agreement reached on Horse Creek and Electra wind farm profiles and interviews with transaction Walmart, EDP Renewables announce three PPAs industry insiders, and China keeps grip on global top 25 timely wind energy news. MAINTENANCE AMSOIL to be main supplier for ZF Wind Power 36 Giving Wind Direction CROSSWINDS 44 FROST WARNINGS SYSTEMS MANUFACTURING Wind-farm operators often face three issues when it comes to ice BladeFactory project: Quicker buildup on turbine blades: equipment damage, production issues, blade production, higher quality and potential safety hazards. result 39 Wind Systems (ISSN 2327-2422) is published monthly by Media Solutions, Inc., 266D Yeager Parkway Pelham, AL 35124. Phone (205) 380-1573 Fax (205) 380-1580 International subscription rates: $72.00 per year. Periodicals Postage Paid at Pelham, AL and at additional mailing offices. Printed in the USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wind Systems magazine, P.O. Box 1210 Pelham AL 35124. Publications mail agreement No. 41395015 return undeliverable Canadian addresses to P.O. Box 503 RPO West Beaver Creek Richmond Hill, ON L4B4R6. Copyright 2006 by Media Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Get your FREE subscription, plus our online content, at www.windsystemsmag.com 4 DECEMBER 2018 GET CONNECTED WIndSystemsmag.com is your online authority for information about the wind energy industry. You’ll find topical articles, company profiles and interviews with industry insiders, and timely wind energy news. Giving Wind Direction SYSTEMS Get your FREE subscription, plus our online content, at www.windsystemsmag.com FROM THE EDITOR David C. Cooper Happy holidays from Wind Systems! Publisher n just a few short weeks, 2018 will be in the books. All in all, it’s been a great EDITORIAL year for the wind industry. Kenneth Carter During the year’s third quarter, there were 612 MW of new wind capac- Editor Iity installed. That brings the U.S. total up to 90,550 MW, according to the Jennifer Jacobson American Wind Energy Association. Associate Editor What does that mean? It means more than 27 million homes are getting their electricity from wind energy. Considering there are a little more than SALES 127 million homes in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census, that’s an astound- David Gomez ing number. That means more than 21 percent of the National Sales Manager country is powered by the wind! Tom McNulty And there’s more on the way. Regional Sales Manager More than 20 GW of new wind capacity is being Jim Faulkner built right now, with another 17 GW in advanced de- Regional Sales Manager velopment, according to AWEA. CIRCULATION Wind-energy construction reached record levels at the end of the third quarter, and those numbers are Teresa Cooper Manager expected to keep growing as we go into 2019. With that in mind, this final issue ofWind Systems Jamie Willett Assistant for 2018 includes some useful information about two essential areas of the industry: construction and transportation. DESIGN Wind farms are an impressive sight, but when you realize all the planning Rick Frennea and development and logistics that go into each and every project, the awe- Creative Director some factor grows exponentially. Michele Hall In this month’s inFocus section, Judah Moseson, director of business de- Graphic Designer velopment at Harvest Energy Services, shares his insights on construction management services and how checks and balances need to be in place at each step of construction to make sure a project stays on schedule. Offshore wind seems to be on everyone’s minds these days, and the rest No part of this publication may be reproduced or of our inFocus articles address what many consider the next big event in transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic U.S. wind. or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage-and-retrieval system An article from contributor Ralitsa Peycheva talks about the need for more without permission in writing from the publisher. advances in foundation and mooring systems for floating wind turbines. The views expressed by those not on the staff of Wind Systems magazine, or who are not And on the topic of transportation, an expert from Chartwell Marine specifically employed by Media Solutions, Inc., are discusses the U.S. offshore wind vessel market and current approaches to purely their own. All “News” material has either been submitted by the subject company or pulled designing vessels to support offshore wind transport. directly from their corporate web site, which is assumed to be cleared for release. Comments and As you can see, it’s still an exciting time for wind, and Wind Systems is submissions are welcome, and can be submitted to excited to share this incredible journey with the industry. Vertical Logo [email protected] Logo So enjoy this information-packed issue as we enter the holiday season and 2019. Happy holidays, and as always, thanks for reading! Coop wants to use this one for the website Published by Media Solutions, Inc. P.O. Box 1987 • Pelham, AL 35124 (800) 366-2185 • (205) 380-1580 fax [email protected] Kenneth Carter, editor David C. Cooper Wind Systems magazine President [email protected] Chad Morrison (800) 366-2185, ext. 204 Vice President Teresa Cooper Operations Director 6 DECEMBER 2018 FYI Seven states to double wind-power production From AWEA Seven states, from Nebraska to Massachusetts, will soon build enough wind turbines to more than double their capacity to generate clean and reliable wind energy, according to the recently released American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) U.S. Wind Industry Third Quarter 2018 Market Report. The report also reveals the first firm orders for 4-MW land-based wind turbines, nearly twice as powerful as the average wind turbine installed in 2017. Nationally, the low cost and reliability of wind power continued to drive strong industry growth in the third quarter. Significantly, seven states now have enough wind projects under construction or in advanced stages of development to more than FULL SERVICE double their capacity to generate electricity from WIND TURBINE the wind when they are completed. Those include ELEVATOR COMPANY heartland states with land-based wind under devel- opment — Arkansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South ASSURING SAFETY Dakota, and Wyoming — as well as coastal states Maryland and Massachusetts, where offshore wind USING THE HIGHEST is poised to scale up. 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