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Wind Turbine Without Blades?
Aug 04 2012 06:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
“the sailboat is one of the oldest wind conversion systems and to date, it is the only system capable of capturing and converting the totality of the wind kinetic energy into mechanical power.” “Innovation isn’t just a question of cleverness. It is...
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#wind: Norway
Oct 27 2017 01:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Norway! . . . Siemens Gamesa, is to supply turbines totalling . . . 281MW to the Nordlicht wind farm: . . . . . . 47 on the Kvitfjell mountain, and . . . . . . 21 on the Raudfjell mountain. 10-27-2017 Source: #Wind: Norway
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#renewables Save Money
Mar 15 2018 01:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), . . . APREN says that Portuguese renewable energy plants : . . . . . . Hydro, . . . . . . Wind, . . . . . . Solar, . . . . . . Geothermal, and . . . . . . Biomass, coverages . . . 54% of power demand, . . . allowing...
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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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Florida: #wind Energy
Mar 17 2018 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Gulf Power, . . . became the leading purchaser of wind energy in Florida. As the utility marks its second anniversary of wind in its mix, . . . it has provided more than . . . 1.7 million megawatts hours of wind-generated energy, enough to power . . ....
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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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Value Of Atlantic Offshore #wind
Apr 19 2018 06:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
In its new study, titled . . . “Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States’ Eastern Coast,” . . . Berkeley Lab makes the case for offshore wind based on, . . . Value, NOT Cost! The study finds, . . . that the historical ‘market...
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Follow The #money: Wind
May 03 2018 12:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
A new analysis from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) . . . shows that the market value of electricity generated by offshore wind, . . . will soon exceed its cost in New York, and . . . several New England states. Northeast Wind Center...
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Follow The #money: Farmers
Mar 07 2018 01:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Michigan farmers, praise wind power. Huron and Gratiot County farmers, . . . with wind energy on their land, . . . help provide diversified funding streams, and . . . are twice as likely to continue investing in their homes, and property, . . . as far...
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Offshore Wind
Jan 25 2015 03:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
The US is racing with China for wind domination, . . . but, the US hasn’t even touched its vast offshore wind energy potential yet. The Atlantic Coast has an estimated, . . . 1,000 gigawatts in potential offshore wind energy. . . . That’s just about e...
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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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Viking: German Offshore #wind Farm
Jan 04 2018 01:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Viking, a new offshore wind farm in Germany: . . . . . . 70 Adewen turbines, . . . . . . 350MW capacity. . . . . . . 70 Adewen turbines, . . . . . . 350,000 homes power supply, and . . . . . . US$1.68bn cost, . . . has fed electricity to the grid...
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Wyoming #wind Energy
Dec 31 2017 03:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wyoming, . . . is one of the epicenters of coal production in the US, . . . but it is also blessed with rich wind resources. Wyoming’s high-capacity wind energy resources, . . . complement California’s renewables, . . . that helps Californians not onl...
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Texas Swift!
May 13 2012 02:15 AM | eds in Wind Power
Scales Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art wind turbine research facility in the Texas Panhandle, is expected to become fully operational starting October.
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Uk: Wind Farms Vs Coal
Dec 28 2017 02:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
75% of days this year, . . . British wind farms generated more electricity, . . . than coal plants. ‘The Government has focused on reducing coal use, . . . which now supplies less than . . . 7% of our electricity. 12-28-2017 Source: UK: Wind farms V...
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#offshore Wind: Usa & Denmark
Nov 09 2017 04:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Denmark, and U.S.A., to Collaborate on . . . Expansion of Offshore Wind Power While Denmark is a small country, . . . it is a superpower when it comes to wind energy. In the early phases of the collaboration, the . . . 2 countries will share knowledge...
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#wind & Storage
Sep 03 2017 12:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vestas teams up with Tesla, . . . to explore potential of, . . . wind & battery storage. They said the partnership, . . . is part of a wider program, . . . consisting of around 10 projects. 9-3-2017 Source: #Wind & Storage
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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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Eu: Offshore #wind Energy Grows 25%
Feb 06 2018 08:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Installed offshore wind capacity in Europe grew . . . 25% last year to . . . 15.8GW. There are now more than . . . 4000 offshore wind turbines operating across . . . 11 countries in Europe. offshore wind in Europe remains “heavily concentrated,“ . ....
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Usa 2017: $11 Billion #wind Investment
Jan 31 2018 02:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
American Wind Energy Association, reported that, . . . 7,017 MW of new wind capacity in 2017, bringing the country's total to . . . 89,077 MW, with a . . . 66% reduction in wind costs since 2009, and . . . further innovation and savings expected....
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Turkey Wants Wind Energy
May 12 2015 02:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
115 applications, representing 5.5 GW capacity were received, . . . for the province of Çanakkale, which is located at the Aegean Sea coast, . . . making it, understandably, the first choice of project developers, . . . to set up wind power plants. 05...
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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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Vermont: 1St #wind Farm
Dec 30 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vermont's, Deerfield Wind Farm, . . . 30-MW, includes . . . 15 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, which produce energy for . . . 14,000 average Vermont homes annually. 12-30-2017 Source: Vermont: 1st #Wind farm
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#wind: Texas
Sep 15 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Kimberly-Clark Corp., the maker of: . . . . . . Kleenex, . . . . . . Huggies, and . . . . . . Depend, says it will purchase, . . . 245 MW of output from . . . new wind power projects located in: . . . . . . Texas, and . . . . . . Oklahoma. “These agre...
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Indonesia: Watermill #electricity
Feb 04 2018 02:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Farmer builds watermill, to give . . . 600 homes cheap electricity, . . . that the power company couldn't. (Video) 2-4-2018 Source: Indonesia: watermill #electricity
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