Dan Lewis is Research Director of the Economic Research Council and contributes regularly to the Media as a Journalist and Broadcaster. He is Founder of AEI www.altenergyinvestor.org - the global resource bank for the Alternative Energy Investor, sponsored by Guinness Atkinson Asset Management.
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Suzlon in trouble - worse than anyone else in the wind industry?
Posted on June 30, 2008
The growing pains of the wind industry have been covered here in detail on this blog a few times, most recently here. But some firms appear to be less able to deal with it than others and Suzlon, following a report in today's Wall Street Journal, appears to be exhibit A. Specifically, there seem to be two problems with their export models to America;The turbine blades - some - are cracking The turbines are having trouble running at the US power frequency of 60 hertz - different to India's of 50 hertzThe first point is a big deal because only one turbine blade has to go for the whole turbine t...
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