CANBY, MN – April 1, 2010 – Outland Renewable Energy (Outland), a recognized leader in the wind energy services sector, announced today that it has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification, becoming the first U.S.-based wind energy operations and maintenance (O&M) company to do so. Founded in 2005, today Outland has more than 100 wind turbine technicians.
Outland’s new Mobile Oil Exchange System is specifically designed to improve turbine gearbox maintenance by using a patented system to evacuate and refill gearboxes. The fully-enclosed process cleans to ISO standards, eliminates the lifting of heavy buckets, reduces mess and spills and is environmentally friendly.
Outland Renewable Energy (Outland) announced it has been awarded a major contract as a prime vendor of maintenance services for Gamesa, one of the leading wind turbine manufacturers in the world. Outland’s field service division provides oversight and management of wind power facilities through a complete lifecycle.
The contract provides for the operations and maintenance at the 300 Megawatt Cayuga Ridge wind farm located in rural Livingston County, Illinois.
Outland Renewable Energy has been named the recipient of three grants totaling $104,000 from the Renewable Energy Marketplace – Alliance for Talent Development (MNREM).
Outland Renewable Energy and Hansen Transmissions International announced this week in a meeting at Hansen manufacturing headquarters in Lommel, Belgium that Outland has been selected to be an authorized on-site service provider in North America for Hansen Service Wind.
Outland will form a dedicated team of wind technicians to provide on-site service support for the nearly 6,000 Hansen wind turbine gearboxes located on wind energy farms throughout North America.
Outland announced today that field service technician Alex Rice has been recognized as the company’s 2008 Safety Champion. Rice joined Outland in August of 2008, and provides maintenance support the 20 MW ‘Winnebago’ wind power facility located north of Mason City, Iowa.
CANBY, Minn. (December 18, 2008) Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today that it has named current COO Steve Scott as its president.
CANBY, Minn. – Minnesota based, Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today the completion of contract negotiations with Gamesa Wind US (GWUS) to provide certain wind turbine maintenance services to GWUS. The multi-year agreement covers four wind facilities located in the Midwest with total installed capacity of 332 megawatts.
CANBY, Minn. – Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today that it has established a national training center where all wind turbine technician safety and technical training will be administered. A five year facilities use agreement with Minneapolis based Wind Energy America gives Outland exclusive access to two Gamesa G52 850kW turbines and shop space located at the Midwest Center for Wind Energy (MCWE) which is 25 miles from Outland’s Canby operations office.
Minneapolis—(Business Wire)—Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB: WNEA – News) announced today that Outland Renewable Energy LLC (Outland) has signed a services agreement for four newly acquired Gamesa wind turbines in Minnesota and Iowa. These wind turbines represent 5.7 megawatts of new wind capacity for WNEA.