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Wind Power, In The Republican States
Nov 21 2012 05:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Affordable Power, 90% drop in the price, of wind power since 1980. American Made, 60% of a wind turbine’s value is now produced here in America, . . . compared to 25% prior to 2005. Nationwide Jobs, 500 facilities across 44 states . . . manufacture f...
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Wind Power's New Google Data Center
Nov 19 2014 12:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
The new €600 million data center Google is building in Eemshaven in the Netherlands, . . . will be completely powered by renewable energy from its first day of operation. It will be Google’s 4th hyper efficient facility in Europe." “Power purchas...
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Wind Power Makes Hydrogen For Grid
Sep 10 2013 12:05 AM | eds in Wind Power
For the first time on an industrial scale, . . . hydrogen produced using wind power, . . . is being injected into the natural gas grid in Germany. It’s a development that could enhance the value of wind power, . . . by making it useful no matter when i...
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Wind Power Leading The Way
Jul 06 2015 01:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
The global wind energy market in 2014, . . . reached 52.8 GW of newly installed capacity, according to the JRC report, with . . . 13 GW installed in the European Union. This brought global cumulative capacity up to 370 GW, and . . . Europe’s cumulative...
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Wind Power
Nov 05 2013 09:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
For 8 consecutive years, the American Wind Energy Association, . . . has ranked Xcel Energy the nation’s No. 1 wind power provider. Xcel Energy recently told its ratepayers that: . . . wind prices today are lower than other energy resources, like natu...
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Wind Output, Just Surpassed 10,000 Megawatts
Nov 28 2012 03:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
MISO, the regional grid operator for 11 states and . . . the Canadian province of Manitoba, . . . actual wind output, just surpassed 10,000 megawatts, . . . representing more than 25% of the generation output being used, . . . overnight Friday, Nov. 23...
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Wind Infographic's
Dec 14 2012 02:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
America's Clean Energy efforts are paying off. Source: Chart Chart2 Map Clean-Energy-Jobs
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Wind Farms Facts
Jun 09 2014 06:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
In more than, . . . 85 countries, wind farms generate . . . 318,000 megawatts, and . . . 24 countries have at least . . . 1,000 megawatts. The wind power capacity installed worldwide, . . . would be enough to meet the residential electricity needs of...
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Wind Farm Makes Lowest Cost Electricity
Mar 26 2012 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Kenya will build 365 wind turbines, . . . with a capacity to produce 850 kW of electricity at . . . 9.9 cents(US) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and . . . without subsidies. To pilot and demonstrate the . . . . . . economic, . . . . . . social and . . . . ....
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Wind Energy In India
Nov 14 2012 02:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
Over 520 wind energy projects from 7 states in . . . Andhra Pradesh, . . . Gujarat, . . . Karnataka, . . . Madhya Pradesh, . . . Maharashtra, . . . Rajasthan and . . . Tamil Nadu hit another milestone crossing 2,000 MW of wind energy. Source: climat...
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Wind Creates Too Much Power For The Grid
Aug 18 2013 05:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind turbines are being reduced to a 1/3 of their capacity, . . . by some grid system operators in: . . . . . . Vermont, . . . . . . Maine, . . . . . . New Hampshire, . . . . . . Texas, and . . . . . . parts of the Midwest. These grid operators are con...
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Wind Can Supply 1/3 U.s. Electricity
Jan 09 2017 05:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
"Reducing Wind Curtailment, through Transmission Expansion, a Wind Vision Future" . . . an Energy Department report, . . . confirms that adding even limited electricity transmission, . . . can significantly reduce the costs of expanding wind en...
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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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Wind & Hydro For New England
Jan 29 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Vermont Green Line transmission project, . . . dubbed “The Wind and Hydro Response,” . . . is designed to fit the request by: . . . . . . Rhode Island, . . . . . . Connecticut, and . . . . . . Massachusetts, . . . It will deliver enough clean...
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Why Wind?
Nov 13 2012 07:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
World wind electric generating capacity, grew at nearly . . . 30% per year, over the past decade. Although a wind farm can cover many square miles, . . . turbines occupy only 1% of that area. Ranchers and farmers can, in effect, double-crop their land,...
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Whisper–Quiet Wind Power?
Oct 01 2015 01:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
There have been concerns in the past about wind turbines, . . . causing negative health effects, and . . . having adverse environmental impacts, but, the "Eco Whisper" Wind Turbine, is virtually silent, and . . . it’s had no detrimental impac...
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Whirlpool Invests In Wind Energy
Sep 17 2016 01:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Whirlpool is building wind turbines to help power its plants, . . . in the Ohio towns of Marion and Ottawa, . . . that will make Whirlpool one of the largest Fortune 500 users, . . . of on-site wind power in the U.S.A. 9-17-2016 Source: Whirlpool inv...
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What's The Largest Wind Generator Blade?
Jan 31 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
1 to 2-MW range, is the current U.S. wind turbine size, with blades . . . 165 feet (50 meters) long, 8 MW, is the largest commercially available turbine, with blades . . . 262 feet (80 meters) long. 50-MW, is the challenge: to design a low-cost, off...
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What Is The Most Wind Powered State?
Jan 31 2016 01:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Politicians take note: . . . Iowa is the US's most wind-powered state - and everyone loves it! All eyes are on Iowa, . . . the midwestern state set to kick-off the US presidential election next week, . . . with its folksy first-in-the-nation c...
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Water Dam Type . . . Wind Turbine
Dec 10 2012 08:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
If you look at a hydro dam, . . . the basic principle is to collect water and then, . . . . . down below there are small openings where the water is allowed to escape. . . . By simple physics, when you do that, the water speeds up. . . . . . It is...
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Warren Buffett’S Wind Farms
Oct 13 2014 02:55 AM | eds in Wind Power
Warren Buffet’s energy investment vehicle MidAmerican Energy. . . . is investing $280 million more, . . . into Iowa wind farms. Altogether, by the end of next year, . . . MidAmerican will have been responsible for the development of around . . ....
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Warren Buffett/google 407 Mw Wind
Apr 22 2014 06:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Google has signed its largest clean power contract to date, . . . for 407 MW of wind power, with Iowa power company MidAmerican Energy, . . . to supply clean energy for Google’s data center in Iowa. Google made the announcement on its blog on Tuesday,...
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Warren Buffett Buys 2 Wind Farms
Oct 03 2012 01:10 AM | eds in Wind Power
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company is the No. 1 rate-regulated utility owner of wind-powered generation capacity in the U.S. Through MidAmerican Wind, MidAmerican is growing its unregulated wind portfolio. MidAmerican began building wind energy projec...
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Viking: German Offshore #wind Farm
Jan 04 2018 01:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Viking, a new offshore wind farm in Germany: . . . . . . 70 Adewen turbines, . . . . . . 350MW capacity. . . . . . . 70 Adewen turbines, . . . . . . 350,000 homes power supply, and . . . . . . US$1.68bn cost, . . . has fed electricity to the grid...
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Vietnam Scraps Nuclar Plans
Nov 10 2016 09:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vietnam’s government is scrapping plans to construct, . . . the country’s first 2 nuclear power plants, . . . citing slowing demand for electricity, and the . . . declining price of other sources of energy. Another reason for the government’s decision...
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