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Offshore Wind Power
Dec 05 2012 03:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
Electricity along the coasts, is so costly, . . . offshore wind is expected to become . . . competitive with fossil fuels relatively quickly. Atlantic offshore wind has the potential to deliver, . . . 18 times more power than Atlantic offshore...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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British Wind
Jun 26 2013 05:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
For the 23,700 gigawatt-hours of electrical energy generated by wind in the UK, . . . only 22 GWh of electrical energy from fossil fuels . . . "was needed to fill the gaps when the wind didn't blow." Source: National Grid Map-pdf
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London Array: World’S Largest Wind Farm
Jul 05 2013 08:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
All 175 windmills are up and fully functional, producing 630MW. . . . The 2nd phase will bring total production to 1,000MW. Source: greenprophet
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Montana: Hydro Power
Jul 15 2013 03:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
PPL Montana has officially launched a new 60 MW powerhouse, . . . at its Rainbow Dam hydroelectric facility near Great Falls, . . . after completing $209 million in renovations to the 1910 facility. Hydropower continues to offer promise and poten...
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Wind: The Cheapest Energy Source
Aug 13 2013 11:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Contrary to popular belief, . . . wind power is the cheapest energy option across the globe. . . . In fact, last year, the US installed more wind power capacity . . . than from any other energy source. The news comes from a recent report prepared by ....
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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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National Nuclear Security Administration Buy...
Aug 22 2013 01:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
267-MW Tucannon River Wind Power Plant project, . . . to be located in Columbia County, Washington. Siemens will provide . . . 116 units of their SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines, which each have a capacity of . . . 2.3 MW. Completion sometime in 2015, will g...
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Wind: More Energy, Less Cost, No Pollution
Aug 27 2013 01:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind prices are extremely competitive right now, . . . offering lower costs than other possible resources, . . . like natural gas plants. Proposed wind farms in: . . . North Dakota and Minnesota could generate . . . . . . 600 megawatts of wind energy,...
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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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Army Adds Wind Power To $7 Billion Buy
Sep 10 2013 03:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts to . . . 17 private companies to build wind turbines, . . . on Department of Defense facilities around the country. Not too long ago there were concerns about wind turbines, . . . interfering with r...
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Wind Replacing Fossil Fuel "baseload Power...
Sep 18 2013 05:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, . . . wind power in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) . . . . . . all of Kansas and Oklahoma, plus parts of . . . . . . New Mexico, . . . . . . Texas, . . . . . . Arkansas, . . . . . . Louisiana, ....
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Windl New World Record For Crowdfunding
Sep 25 2013 09:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Raising €1.3 million in just 13 hours, . . . 1700 Dutch households buy . . . 6,648shares in a V80 2-MW wind turbine, for . . . €200 a share, worth around, . . . 500 kWh/share per year. 2013-09-24 Source: Dutch Wind
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