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Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (Vawts)
Mar 17 2012 11:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
VAWT's, Turbines that have vertical rotors and . . . look like eggbeaters sticking out of the ground. Comparing the "power per square meter of land" . . . shows a tenfold increase in power: . . . . . . VAWTs 21 to 47 watts . . . . . . HA...
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Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines
Jun 15 2013 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Caltech professor John Dabiri and his 10-meter-tall vertical-axis wind turbines, . . . will set up another experimental wind farm, for a high school . . . in San Pedro, military bases in California. The Department of Defense is one of the largest ener...
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Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines
Apr 12 2014 01:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vertical-axis wind turbines, . . . have a number of advantages over tradition horizontal-axis ones. . . . . . . They are always oriented towards the wind, and . . . because their mechanical parts are at ground level, and . . . . . . not atop a high mas...
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Vermont: 1St #wind Farm
Dec 30 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vermont's, Deerfield Wind Farm, . . . 30-MW, includes . . . 15 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, which produce energy for . . . 14,000 average Vermont homes annually. 12-30-2017 Source: Vermont: 1st #Wind farm
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Value Of Atlantic Offshore #wind
Apr 19 2018 06:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
In its new study, titled . . . “Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States’ Eastern Coast,” . . . Berkeley Lab makes the case for offshore wind based on, . . . Value, NOT Cost! The study finds, . . . that the historical ‘market...
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Usa: Wind Power Grows
Dec 22 2015 09:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
USA Wind Turbines, . . . 50,000 of them in, . . . 40 states and Puerto Rico, generate, . . . 70 gigawatts (GW), that's enough to power about, . . . 19 million homes. 12-22-2015 Source: USA: Wind Power Grows
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Usa: National Offshore Wind
Sep 09 2016 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE’s) Wind Program, . . . leads the nation's efforts to: . . . . . . Improve the performance, . . . . . . Lower the costs, and . . . . . . Accelerate the deployment of, . . . wind power technologies. Once buil...
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Usa Wind Farms Invested $128 Billion
Feb 26 2016 03:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
USA, by simply building new wind farms, has contributed . . . $128 billion into it's economy, over the last 10 years. Wind energy is benefiting state economies, with . . . 9.4 GW under construction, and . . . 4.9 GW in advanced stages of deve...
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Usa Wind Energy
Dec 23 2016 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Texas has driven wind’s share of generation to . . . 48 million MWh in the first 11 months of 2016. Electricity, that would otherwise have been produced, . . . at fossil-fired plants. A similar shift is occuring across the vast region of middle Americ...
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Usa Offshore Wind
May 11 2012 05:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Northeast offshore wind market has stacks of reports detailing its vast potential,
. . . but zero installations.
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Usa 2017: $11 Billion #wind Investment
Jan 31 2018 02:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
American Wind Energy Association, reported that, . . . 7,017 MW of new wind capacity in 2017, bringing the country's total to . . . 89,077 MW, with a . . . 66% reduction in wind costs since 2009, and . . . further innovation and savings expected....
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Us Installs 835Mw New Wind Energy
Aug 09 2014 01:40 AM | eds in Wind Power
835 megawatts (MW) of new wind energy capacity, . . . was installed across the United States . . . during the first half (1H) of 2014, . . . according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Total installed U.S. wind capacity to 46,300 turbine...
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Us Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy
Dec 03 2012 04:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
BOEM Proposes Leasing Nearly 278,000 Acres Offshore . . . Rhode Island, . . . Massachusetts and . . . Virginia for Wind Energy Source: us-atlantic-offshore-wind Google
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Uruguay's Wind Power
Mar 15 2016 06:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
In 2007, the South American country of Uruguay, secured an initial grant of . . . $1 million from the Global Environment Facility, and put up . . . $6 million in co-financing from its national budget. This funded the Uruguay Wind Energy Prog...
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Updated: U.s. Installed Wind Capacity
Apr 24 2012 10:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Notice: A substantial amount of wind cannot be built, . . . in places such as the Southeast, . . . due to a lack of natural resources. There is a lot of Offshore wind in the Northeast . . . that is not being used because of Not-In-My-Back-Yard win...
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Uk: Wind Farms Vs Coal
Dec 28 2017 02:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
75% of days this year, . . . British wind farms generated more electricity, . . . than coal plants. ‘The Government has focused on reducing coal use, . . . which now supplies less than . . . 7% of our electricity. 12-28-2017 Source: UK: Wind farms V...
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Uk's Co2 Emissions Goal Achieved
Mar 17 2017 12:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
UK's 'Victorian era' CO2 emissions achieved, . . . without driving up energy costs. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has revealed, . . . that while the direct costs of subsidizing renewables, added . . . £9 per month to the average ho...
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Uk Wind
Nov 11 2013 12:45 AM | eds in Wind Power
UK’s, Onshore and offshore total wind capacity, grew from, . . . 6,856 MW in July 2012, to . . . 9,710 MW in June 2013. 2013-11-08 Source: UK Wind
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Uk Invests £1 Billion
Jun 26 2014 02:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has already invested in the UK's, . . . 5 large offshore wind farms since November of 2012, totalling . . . £668 million in 18 green energy projects, now wants to up that to . . . £1 Billion. 06-26-2014 Source: UK I...
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Uk Co2 Emissions Down 23% In 2 Years
Dec 27 2015 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Emissions cuts can happen fast, and . . . they can be deep. Official government figures show emissions from power stations fell, . . . 23% between 2012 and 2014 to . . . 121 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e), . . . from the Department of Ene...
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U.s.a. Wind Power
Dec 23 2015 03:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind energy is the: . . . . . . Biggest, . . . . . . Fastest, and . . . . . . Cheapest, . . . way we can cut carbon pollution, in the U.S.A. As of November, there were, . . . 50,000 operating wind turbines at more than, . . . 980 utility-scale wind fa...
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U.s.a. East Coast Wind Farm
Feb 12 2014 03:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Massive Wind Farm Takes Shape Off…Rhode Island? The Block Island Wind Farm is a . . . 30 megawatt pilot project, the first step in the . . . 1,000 MW, utility-sized Deepwater Wind Energy Center offshore development, . . . which will hook into a wind p...
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U.s. Senators Offshore Wind Bill
Jul 15 2015 06:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act, . . . would give the industry the certainty needed, . . . to plan investments and maximize deployment of this clean power technology. The legislation defines offshore facilities as: . . . any facility locate...
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Turkey Wants Wind Energy
May 12 2015 02:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
115 applications, representing 5.5 GW capacity were received, . . . for the province of Çanakkale, which is located at the Aegean Sea coast, . . . making it, understandably, the first choice of project developers, . . . to set up wind power plants. 05...
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Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Wind Power
Aug 19 2015 06:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. 9. Today’s wind turbine has as many as 8,000 different components. 8. Wind turbine blade can be up to 260 feet long. 7. Higher wind speeds mean more electricity. 6. U.S.A. wi...
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