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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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: 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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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 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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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