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#wind: Kansas
Aug 11 2017 01:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Target, . . . agreed to buy 100MW of electricity, . . . from Infinity Renewables' 474MW Solomon Forks wind farm in Kansas. . . . to power about 150 stores in the region. Construction of the project will start in early 2018, . . . with commercial...
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#wind: Orlando, Fla.,
Aug 10 2017 01:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
Orlando, Fla., city commission, . . . unanimously approved a resolution establishing a goal of, . . . 100% clean, and renewable energy by 2050. 8-10-2017 Source: #Wind: Orlando, Fla.,
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#wind Orders In Usa
Aug 08 2017 07:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind turbine orders from the United States, . . . up to 1,776 MW, . . . in 2017, 8-8-2017 Source: #wind orders in USA
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#wind Farm In Uk
Aug 08 2017 07:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
UK Government, . . . to build an offshore wind farm, . . . to meet the power needs of, . . . 890,000 homes. The “next generation” turbines, could be as much as 810 ft, . . . 2 1/2 times the size of Big Ben. New bigger turbines will help ensure offsho...
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#wind: 6.1Gw In 2017
Jul 27 2017 11:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
A total of 6.1GW of new wind power capacity, . . . was installed in Europe, . . . in the first half of 2017, . . . according to WindEurope. 7-27-2017 Source: #Wind: 6.1GW in 2017
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#wind Farm In Massachusetts
Jul 22 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, . . . has issued its first approval of an offshore wind Site Assessment Plan, . . . to the Bay State Wind offshore wind farm, . . . an area off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, . . . that has the pote...
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#germany: 8.5Twh Offshore Wind
Jul 21 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Deutsche Windguard says, . . . Germany’s offshore wind farms delivered some . . . 8.48 terrawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity to the grid in the first . . . 6 months of 2017, That's more than was produced, in the . . . 12 months of 2015. 7-21-2017 S...
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#renewables: 700-Mw For Saudi Arabia
Jul 17 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Saudi Arabia, The world’s top oil exporter, . . . looks past oil, and pushes ahead with . . . 700MW of solar and wind power. They plans to spend up to . . . $50 billion to produce enough renewable electricity to power, . . . 3 million homes, with...
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#wind: Usa's Largest Farm
Jul 15 2017 06:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wyoming, churns out more coal than all of Appalachia, and . . . the Rocky Mountains funnel air across flat, open prairies, . . . producing winds, that rival the most powerful ocean gales. It's 1,000 turbine wind farm, will generate electricity, ....
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#wind: Germany
Jul 03 2017 02:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Germany has produced, . . . 35% of its power from renewables this year, . . . 85% renewables this year, on certain sunny, windy days, and has set a target of . . . 80% renewables by 2050. An entire region of China just ran on . . . 100% renewable ener...
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#wind: To Power 1/2 Million Uk Homes
Jun 24 2017 03:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
DONG Energy, is building the UK's, . . . world’s biggest offshore wind farm, that will generate, . . . 659 megawatt's, to be completed in 2019. 6-24-2017 Source: #wind: to power 1/2 million UK Homes
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#offshore Wind Scientific Research
Jun 21 2017 09:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
The northeast of Scotland, . . . is poised to become the global center, . . . for offshore wind scientific research. Swedish power company Vattenfall, . . . European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) . . . in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland,set up a . ....
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#missouri Wind Farm
Jun 01 2017 12:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Rock Creek, Missouri, . . . $500 million investment, in a . . . 300-MW wind farm, that will be able to generate around . . . 1,250 GWh per year, to meet annual consumption needs of more than . . . 100,000 average U.S. households. 6-1-2017 Source:...
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#wind: Follow The Money2
May 22 2017 02:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
USA, 2 Wind farms will be built offshore the East coast, and . . . are expected to start generating power by: . . . . . . 2022 in Massachusetts, and . . . . . . 2025 in North Carolina. "The cost differential between onshore, and offshore was so la...
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#wind Power Capacity, Globally
Apr 26 2017 03:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) says that . . . 487GW at the end of 2016, and is on track to reach . . . 800GW by the end of 2021. Denmark leads the way with almost . . . 40% of its electricity coming from wind, followed by: . . . . . . Uruguay, ....
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#wind Farm In India
Apr 22 2017 04:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
NEW DELHI government, . . . plans to auction wind power projects of about . . . 4 gigawatt (GW) capacity in tranches this year. There should be auction of . . . 5-6 GW wind power capacity every year after this, . . . to meet the target of . . . 60 GW...
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#wind Farm In France
Apr 22 2017 03:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
French authorities, and Ailes Marines, . . . will build a wind farm, off the coast of Brittany, . . . . . . 493 megawatts, for . . . . . 850,000 people. 4-22-2017 Source: #Wind farm in France
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Germany: E.on’S Virtual Power Plant
Mar 24 2017 01:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
E.ON, adds a wind farm, to it’s Virtual Power Plant. 3-24-2017 Source: Germany: E.ON’s Virtual Power Plant
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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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Offshore Wind
Mar 01 2017 03:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind speeds increase the higher you get off the ground. . . . For that reason, larger turbines, . . . with blades that reach hundreds of feet into the air, . . . capture more energy than smaller turbines. Winds at sea, . . . blow more consistently, an...
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Europe: Wind Energy
Feb 24 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
12.5 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity was installed, . . . across the European Union in 2016, accounting for . . . 51% of all new power installations, and bringing the region’s . . . total wind energy capacity up to 153.7 GW. “Wind energy is now...
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Europe: Adding 5,000Mw Of Wind
Jan 28 2017 01:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
The offshore wind industry in . . . Europe, confirmed a record . . . €18.2 billion (£15.5bn) of investment in . . . 2016, bringing the continent’s total capacity to . . . 12,631MW across . . . 10 countries. 1-28-2017 Source: Europe: adding 5,000MW of...
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Wind Can Supply 1/3 U.s. Electricity
Jan 09 2017 05:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
"Reducing Wind Curtailment, through Transmission Expansion, a Wind Vision Future" . . . an Energy Department report, . . . confirms that adding even limited electricity transmission, . . . can significantly reduce the costs of expanding wind en...
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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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Dong Energy: “First Power"
Nov 21 2016 02:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
Dong Energy has generated electricity for the first time from its . . . 258MW Burbo Bank 2 offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay. “First Power" is a key milestone, . . . because it proves that every part of the transmission, and . . . generation equ...
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