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Texas $7 Billion Crez Wind Project
Oct 18 2013 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Competitive Renewable Energy Zone(CREZ), . . . 3,600 miles of new transmission lines that will bring . . . 18,500 megawatts of wind power from . . . sparsely populated West Texas to urban centers including . . . . . . Dallas, . . . . . . Fort Worth and...
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Follow The Money: Uk Small Wind
Oct 23 2013 07:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
“The small and medium wind sector, . . . is the only micro generation technology, . . . in which the UK has a world-leading manufacturing industry. As a result, it provides a valuable asset to the UK in terms of: . . . . . . employment, . . . . . . off...
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Danish Island Hits 100% Renewables
Oct 24 2013 03:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
On a small island off the coast of Denmark, . . . a group of potato farmers have turned into power brokers, . . . owning the wind turbines that have made their island a net energy producer. In less than 10 years, Samsø went from producing . . . 11 tonn...
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India Aims For More Renewable Energy
Oct 29 2013 09:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Madhya Pradesh, a state in India, has . . . 202 MW of solar PV power capacity installed, and . . . 1,300 MW wind by the 2014. India has even bigger solar plans than that, such as a . . . 4,000 MW plant, which would be the world’s largest. Some may ar...
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33% Efficiency Increase In Offshore Turbines
Nov 02 2013 05:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
New research from the University of Delaware, . . . staggering offshore turbine in rows: . . . 14% decrease of output losses from eddies, and . . . 33% increase of overall performance. 2013-11-02 Source: Offshore Wind
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Microsoft To Invest In Texas Wind Farm
Nov 05 2013 03:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Microsoft, committed to a 20-year power purchase agreement with, . . . RES Americas — the energy developer behind the . . . 110 MW, Texas Keechi Wind Farm set to be operating in 2015, to buy . . . 100% of the electricity generated. When influential co...
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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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World Offshore Wind
Nov 06 2013 01:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Offshore wind power installations, . . . 1,080 megawatts of generating capacity was added in the 1st half of the year. . . . The world total should exceed 7,100 megawatts, by years end. Although still small compared with the roughly . . . 300,000 mega...
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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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Wind: Totally Powers Facebooks New Data Center
Nov 13 2013 08:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Facebook has a goal to have 1/4 of its global data center energy consumption, . . . come from clean power by 2015. Google, Apple, Microsoft, eBay and . . . many others are experimenting with various ways, . . . to add in clean power, too. Using clean...
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Building China's Giant Wind Farms
Jan 14 2014 03:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
BBC News Building China's giant wind farms How effective are high rise wind turbines
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Almost Invisible, Low-Cost Rooftop Wind Turbine
Jan 14 2014 09:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
The ridgeblade is a cross flow turbine fitted on the ridge line at the top of a building, . . . and uses advanced aerodynamics to collect and focus the wind. And whilst the unit is fixed to the roof and doesn't turn to face the wind, . . . the adva...
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Google $75 Million Wind Farm Investment
Jan 15 2014 03:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Google plan to put $75 million into a wind farm in North Texas, . . . just outside of the city of Amarillo, near the border with New Mexico. The wind farm, called the Panhandle 2, is 182 MW, . . . or enough wind capacity to power 56,000 U.S. home...
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Largest Wind Turbine In World
Jan 28 2014 09:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
On Tuesday the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine, swung into gear at . . . the Danish National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Østerild. The prototype V164 wind turbine is . . . . . . 720 feet tall, . . . . . . 260-foot blades, an...
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Caltech Professor Speaks In India
Feb 01 2014 10:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
Prof John O Dabiri of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, . . . at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA . . . will talk about his research on vertical wind turbines, . . . as a part 'Roddam Narasimha Distinguished Lecture' at IITGN. H...
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Wind: 10,900 Megawatts In 2013
Feb 07 2014 12:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
The American Wind Energy Association in its quarterly market reports, . . . a whopping 10,900 megawatts in the 4th quarter. Together with projects set in motion earlier in the year, some . . . 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity, . . . was under co...
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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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New Usa Wind Web Site
Mar 13 2014 03:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind Program Website Redesign In February 2014, the Wind Program website was moved, . . . to become a part of Energy.gov, . . . the U.S. Department of Energy's website. 2014-03 Source: Energy.Gov
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Offshore Wind Vs Fracking?
Mar 17 2014 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Young Adults Prefer Offshore Wind To Fracking In offshore wind’s overall influence having a positive effect on the UK’s economy, . . . those in the 16-24 bracket were more likely to approve. They view old-school fossil fuels less favourably than renew...
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Carnegie: 1Mw Wave Machine
Mar 22 2014 02:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
CETO-6, the latest in a series based around Carnegie’s unique design, . . . was unveiled as Carnegie confirmed that a . . . 3-machine, 3MW demonstration plant costing around . . . $25 million would now likely be built in Australia. That commitmen...
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Wind: Bladeless Turbines?
Mar 27 2014 04:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Saphon Energy has created a new bladeless wind turbine, . . . with 1/2 the cost and double the efficiency. 2014-03-27 Source: Wind: Bladeless turbines
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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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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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Energy 101: Wind Turbines
May 07 2014 12:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
With almost 80% of the U.S. electricity demand coming from, . . . cities and towns located in coastal states, . . . offshore wind energy has vast potential to meet this demand and . . . provide the nation with clean, renewable, and reliable electricity...
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Rural Energy For America Program (Reap)
May 19 2014 10:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
In February, Congress passed a new Farm Bill that includes an Energy Title. . . . The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), . . . provides grants and loan guarantees to . . . . . . farmers, . . . . . . ranchers, . . . . . . rural small businesses an...
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