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Wind Power
600% Energy From Sheerwind's Invelox
May 13 2013 05:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
The costs of producing wind energy with Invelox are lower, delivering electricity with prices that can compete with natural gas and hydropower. it captures wind at any speed, even a breeze, from a portal located above ground. The wind captured is then...
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Worldwide Wind
Apr 07 2013 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
2012 New 44,000 MW, Total 280,000 MW, World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013 and Citigroup Bank now is the World's Greenest Bank on Wind Power. Source: wind_power_2013 Greenest Bank
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D.c. Government’S Go 100% Wind Energy
Mar 21 2013 04:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Washington Gas Energy Services owned wind farm in Northern Virginia, . . . will provide all of the electricity needs, . . . for the district’s government agencies. This equates to: . . . “avoiding the consumption of 32,825,000 gallons of gasoline, or...
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Top 10 States For Wind
Mar 14 2013 04:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
In 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to . . . 1/4 of their electricity from wind farms. Wind power accounted for at least . . . 10% of electricity generation in 7 other states. Only 4 countries (outside the United States) . . . have more...
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Wind Beats Nuclear In China
Jan 29 2013 02:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind power generation in China totalled . . . 100.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2012, . . . a 0.5% year-on-year increase and . . . surpassing nuclear power generation, . . . according to data presented over the weekend by the . . . China Wind Energ...
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Texas Has Largest Wind Storage In North America
Jan 24 2013 04:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Duke Energy has fired up the new, . . . 36 megawatt energy storage and management facility, linked to the . . . Notrees Windpower wind farm in the western part of the state. The system stores energy like a conventional battery . . . but it also has th...
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150 Mw Bobcat Bluff Wind Project
Jan 08 2013 09:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Bobcat Bluff Wind Project, . . . spanning approximately 14,000 contiguous acres, . . . is located in Archer County, Texas, 20 miles south of Wichita Falls, . . . deploys (100) GE 1.5 MW turbines, . . . completed in December 2012. Source: EDF Bobc...
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Tax Credit For Wind Power
Jan 02 2013 02:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
“Fiscal Cliff” legislation, includes a provision that . . . extends the production tax credit for wind power for one year. U.S. wind power capacity increased by 40% since 2011, . . . now providing enough energy to power . . . 13 million American hom...
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300-Megawatt Pinyon Pines Wind Projects Completed
Dec 29 2012 05:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
MidAmerican Renewables’ portfolio includes . . . more than 1,250 megawatts of owned renewable energy assets . . . in operation or under construction. Source: businesswire
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Floating Wind Turbine
Dec 17 2012 07:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
We have the equivalent of 150 nuclear power plants worth of wind . . . blowing off the coast of Maine. Their goal is to have the technology ready so a commercial scale wind park, . . . made up of more than 80 turbines, can be floating by 2030.
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