Author: Carlos Bravo
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Site visits and information management tools
This post complete the information of the previous article on how to plan a site visit for a renewable energy project. I will try to answer this question: what is the better tool to manage the information obtained on site? There are several very useful mobile apps that can help us finding the target locations…
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How to plan a site visit for a renewable energy project
Today many resources can make the engineer life´s easier helping create a renewable energy project in any spot of the world. Powerful GIS and CAD software and an incredible amount of data available from either public or private entities make possible designs with a sufficient level of accuracy to have good cost estimations, even at…
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Tower cranes: a real alternative to lattice boom cranes?
The constant search for higher rated power, taller towers and longer blades has pushed wind turbine manufacturers in an arms race to secure a position in an extremely competitive market. Today in the onshore market there are machines with rated power close to 6MW, hub heights in a range of 150-165m and blades longer than…
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Infraworks for due diligence and preliminary designs
If you either work for a WTG manufacturer or any electric utility the situation in which you are asked to do a complete analyse of a project very quickly (like in 2 or 3 days) is very common. You are usually asked to do this task for several reasons: Preparation of a first rough layout…