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World’S Largest Office Furniture Manufacturer
Feb 03 2016 05:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Steelcase has a goal to reduce its energy consumption, and . . . greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 2010 levels by 2020. The world’s largest manufacturer of office furniture will soon offset, . . . 70% of its total U.S. electricity usage, with wind...
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What's The Largest Wind Generator Blade?
Jan 31 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
1 to 2-MW range, is the current U.S. wind turbine size, with blades . . . 165 feet (50 meters) long, 8 MW, is the largest commercially available turbine, with blades . . . 262 feet (80 meters) long. 50-MW, is the challenge: to design a low-cost, off...
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What Is The Most Wind Powered State?
Jan 31 2016 01:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Politicians take note: . . . Iowa is the US's most wind-powered state - and everyone loves it! All eyes are on Iowa, . . . the midwestern state set to kick-off the US presidential election next week, . . . with its folksy first-in-the-nation c...
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Wind & Hydro For New England
Jan 29 2016 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Vermont Green Line transmission project, . . . dubbed “The Wind and Hydro Response,” . . . is designed to fit the request by: . . . . . . Rhode Island, . . . . . . Connecticut, and . . . . . . Massachusetts, . . . It will deliver enough clean...
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China's: Ultracapacitor Wind Farm
Jan 27 2016 06:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Maxwell Technologies, claims to be installing, the Worlds First, . . . MW-scale ultracapacitor-based wind farm energy storage system, . . . in a secret location in China. “Ultracapacitors allow large-scale wind farms, . . . to connect to the grid as a...
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2015 Scotland: Wind Energy Hit 'record'...
Jan 11 2016 04:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
In Scotland, for 6 out of 12 months last year, . . . wind generated enough power to supply more than, . . . 100% of Scottish household needs. 1-11-2016 Source: 2015 Scotland: Wind energy hit 'record' levels
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2015 Germany: 50% More Wind Energy
Jan 08 2016 02:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
Germany power generation: 2015 2014 Source 12% 8.9% Onshore wind 7.7% 7.9% Biomass 5.9% 5.8% Photovoltaics (PV) 3% 3.1% Hydro 1.3% 0.2% Offshore wind 1-8-2016 Source: 2015 Germany: 50% more wind energy
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Uk Co2 Emissions Down 23% In 2 Years
Dec 27 2015 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Emissions cuts can happen fast, and . . . they can be deep. Official government figures show emissions from power stations fell, . . . 23% between 2012 and 2014 to . . . 121 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e), . . . from the Department of Ene...
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Scotland: Renewables = 50% Of Electricity Consumed
Dec 23 2015 04:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Scotland, revealed that just under 1/2 of the electricity it consumed in 2014, . . . came from renewable sources. Scotland's 2020 goal is, . . . 100% of its gross electricity consumption coming from renewable sources. Currently, it is a net export...
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U.s.a. Wind Power
Dec 23 2015 03:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind energy is the: . . . . . . Biggest, . . . . . . Fastest, and . . . . . . Cheapest, . . . way we can cut carbon pollution, in the U.S.A. As of November, there were, . . . 50,000 operating wind turbines at more than, . . . 980 utility-scale wind fa...
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Usa: Wind Power Grows
Dec 22 2015 09:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
USA Wind Turbines, . . . 50,000 of them in, . . . 40 states and Puerto Rico, generate, . . . 70 gigawatts (GW), that's enough to power about, . . . 19 million homes. 12-22-2015 Source: USA: Wind Power Grows
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Wind Rescues Ny Nuclear Plant
Dec 16 2015 08:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
New York's, Indian Point 3 plant, . . . automatically shut down at 7 p.m., . . . because of an electrical disturbance, but, wind turbines, compensated for the loss of the reactor. 12-16-2015 Source: Wind Rescues NY Nuclear Plant
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Farming Wind | Fully Charged
Dec 16 2015 04:20 AM | eds in Wind Power
Farming Wind | Fully Charged
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Tallest Wind Turbine Tower In The Us
Nov 19 2015 07:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Warren Buffett Gives A Gigantic Concrete Wind Turbine Tower To Iowa. At 377 feet from ground to hub, . . . the tower will top, most conventional, steel-tube towers by more than 100 feet, . . . easily making it the tallest in the US. Winds are strong...
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Nrel: Wind Vision State Reports
Nov 18 2015 06:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and . . . AWS Truepower have combined forces to create, . . . a high-resolution map of the United States, . . . showing the potential for wind power as a country. New research shows how expanding wind energy,...
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Boston, Mass: Proposed Wind Farm
Nov 11 2015 01:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
The proposal, (called Bay State Wind) would build, . . . 100 giant wind turbines, and produce up to, . . . 1,000 megawatts of electricity. DONG executives called it the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind,’ . . . (a reference to the Middle Eastern country’s plentif...
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Texas Continue's Breaking Wind Energy Records
Nov 07 2015 02:45 AM | eds in Wind Power
According to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), . . . the amount of wind energy flowing into the Texas electric system recently, . . . hit a few all-time highs, with seeing a record instantaneous peak of . . . 11,467 MW, on S...
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2015: Us Wind Installed 3,600 Mw
Oct 24 2015 01:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) says so far in 2015, . . . 3,600 MW of new wind energy capacity has been installed 10-23-2015 Source: 2015: US Wind Installed 3,600 MW
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Whisper–Quiet Wind Power?
Oct 01 2015 01:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
There have been concerns in the past about wind turbines, . . . causing negative health effects, and . . . having adverse environmental impacts, but, the "Eco Whisper" Wind Turbine, is virtually silent, and . . . it’s had no detrimental impac...
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Texas Electric Price Goes Negative
Sep 20 2015 12:50 AM | eds in Wind Power
Texas has way more wind power than any other state. Texas runs an electricity grid, . . . that does not connect with those that serve other states. Typically, wind is bid at the lowest prices—because you don’t need fuel, . . . it doesn’t really cost t...
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Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Wind Power
Aug 19 2015 06:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. 9. Today’s wind turbine has as many as 8,000 different components. 8. Wind turbine blade can be up to 260 feet long. 7. Higher wind speeds mean more electricity. 6. U.S.A. wi...
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Electricity: 2.5 Cents Per Kwh
Aug 19 2015 01:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind power prices have dropped down to an all-time low of just 2.5 cents per kWh, . . . far below the average national average of around 11 cents per kWh, . . . according to the DOE's 2014 ¨Wind Technologies Market Report.¨ 08-19-2015 Source: Ele...
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Microsoft: 285 Mw Of Wind Energy
Aug 07 2015 11:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
Microsoft has contracted for, . . . 285 MW of renewable power from, . . . 2 off-site wind energy projects, over the past . . . 2 years, generating enough electricity, to power . . . 125,000 U.S. homes. Because, building a data center can cost hundred...
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Hewlett Packard’S Data Centers Go Renewable
Jul 24 2015 09:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Purchasing wind power from Texas are: . . . . . . HP, . . . . . . Facebook, . . . . . . Walmart, . . . . . . Dow Chemical, and . . . . . . Microsoft. HP has approximately 1.5 million square feet of data center operations in the state. . . . Its purchas...
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U.s. Senators Offshore Wind Bill
Jul 15 2015 06:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
The Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act, . . . would give the industry the certainty needed, . . . to plan investments and maximize deployment of this clean power technology. The legislation defines offshore facilities as: . . . any facility locate...
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