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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ge Fabric Wind Turbine Blades
Dec 05 2012 02:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
General Electric is developing a new turbine blade design . . . using architectural fabric that it says could . . . significantly reduce construction and assembly costs . . . compared with fiberglass, and . . . put wind energy on an equal economic...
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Renewable Power Costs
Dec 03 2012 04:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Onshore wind power, sites can deliver electricity costs at as little as USD 0.04/kWh. Fossil fuel typically costs between USD 0.06 and 0.12/kWh in OECD countries Source: irena
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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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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 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 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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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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Cape Cod: Air Force Radar Stations, Wind Turbines?
Oct 13 2012 12:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Cape Cod Air Force Station, the 6th Space Warning Squadron receives . . . 2 new wind turbines. Aveillant has come up with a new radar system for air traffic control at airports . . . that it calls a Holographic Radar, which uses . . . 3-D imagery to...
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Chokecherry And Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
Oct 11 2012 10:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Ken Salazar today announced that the Department of the Interior . . . has reached the President’s goal of authorizing . . . 10,000 megawatts of renewable power on public lands with the . . . approval of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Ener...
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Farming Wind Fully Charged
Oct 03 2012 09:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
$60,000.- Windmill, pays back in 5-6 years on a Farm, is a great cash crop.
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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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One Of The Largest Land-Based Wind Farms In The...
Sep 26 2012 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, an 845 megawatt (MW) in the state of Oregon, U.S.A. . . . is up and running using 338 General Electric (GE) 2.5 MW wind turbines, . . . generating up to 2 billion kWh each year to electricity to . . . Southern California Ed...
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New England Wind Projects
Sep 12 2012 09:40 AM | eds in Wind Power
The United States has more than 40,000 MW of installed wind power capacity. Map of installed and planned New England wind projects. Source: windpoweringamerica
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Offshore Wind
Aug 17 2012 03:10 AM | eds in Wind Power
"Wind power is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower. Offshore wind capacity is growing quickly, however, expanding nearly 6-fold since 2006. United Kingdom had 2,500 megawatts of offshore wind, 1/2 half of the w...
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