O&M Blog

BLOG Oct 17, 2018

Best Practices in Wind Power Facility Electrical Safety... New wind industry resource on electrical safety best practices a Canadian first Today marks a milestone publication for the Canadian wind industry with the rel (more...)

BLOG Oct 9, 2018

Canada’s wind O&M innovation meeting ground... Canada’s wind energy operations and maintenance movers and shakers to gather in Toronto in January 2019. This year the world passed 1-terrawatt of installed (more...)

BLOG Sep 14, 2018

How to save on blade repairs... Collecting data on the frequency and type of blade wear-and-tear can save wind farm owners time and money. Wind turbine blades are impressive engineering feats (more...)

BLOG Aug 29, 2018

Improving health and safety on site: hydraulic injection awareness... CanWEA’s Operations and Maintenance Caucus continues to work on raising awareness of hazards associated with managing industrial equipment on a wind farm, suc (more...)

BLOG Mar 8, 2018

Take-aways from the 2018 AWEA O&M and Safety Conference... Many thanks to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) for putting on another excellent Wind Project O&M and Safety Conference. With almost 1,000 wind i (more...)

BLOG Feb 27, 2018

Three Wind Energy Themes Emerge from 2018 O&M Summit... For the fourth year in a row the Canadian wind energy industry gathered in Toronto at the CanWEA Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Summit. The event took pla (more...)

BLOG Jan 22, 2018

Award finalists reflect the best in wind farm operations... With over 12,000 MW of installed wind energy already in Canada and more on the way, the operation and maintenance (O&M) of wind generating facilities is bec (more...)

BLOG Dec 7, 2017

Icing and Cold Climate Safety Best Practices Now Available!... The world has seen unprecedented growth in wind energy over the past few years. More than 80 countries can now boast about having their own wind energy industry (more...)

BLOG Oct 25, 2017

Wind turbines work hard in winter winds... Winter is high season for Canadian wind energy production. As many farmers and fishermen take a much-needed rest and begin to repair equipment and prepare for t (more...)

BLOG Sep 29, 2017

Recognize outstanding achievements in the wind energy operations and maintenan... I am very happy to announce that the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) will be adding two new awards to its existing line-up of sought after achievement (more...)