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Wyoming’S #wind
May 20 2018 12:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
North Dakota now obtains about . . . 30% of its power from wind. “Utilities want wind these days, . . . Not because of environmental policy. . . . They want it because it’s cheap.” In 2 years, a federal subsidy for wind production will end. . . . Dev...
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Wyoming Owns The Wind?
Aug 15 2016 01:40 AM | eds in Wind Power
Te Wyoming Legislature, . . . concluded, that Wyoming did, and . . . that gave them the right to tax it. In the 4 years since Wyoming began, . . . taxing power generated by wind turbines, . . . it has collected a little less than . . . $15 millio...
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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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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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World’S Top #wind Turbine
Apr 22 2018 01:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vattenfall, built the world’s most powerful wind turbine, . . .off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. A single propellor rotation, can power, . . . an average home for a whole day. Being taller is handy, . . . as wind generally moves faster, . . . at h...
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World’S Most Powerful #wind Turbine
Apr 11 2018 12:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, . . . successfully installed, the first of two, . . . 8.8 megawatt (MW) turbines, . . . off the coast of North East Scotland. The project was initially caught up in a protracted legal battle, ....
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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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World's Largest: Wind Farms
Aug 26 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
DONG Energy, . . . building wind farms, off the east coast of Yorkshire, England. Hornsea Project 1: 1.2-GW project. Hornsea Project 2: 1.8-GW project. Hornsea Project 3: 2.4-GW project. 8-26-2016 Source: World's Largest: Wind Farms
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World's First 1+Gw Offshore Wind Farm
Feb 04 2016 05:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
DONG Energy's Hornsea, . . . Project One, that's slated to be, the largest offshore windfarm in the world. . . . 1+GW of capacity online. DONG also has rights to develop, at Hornsea, . . . Project Two, and . . . Project Three, which togeth...
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World's Biggest Offshore Windfarm
Aug 16 2016 11:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Hornsea Project Two, located about . . . 55 mi off the UK coast, will cover an area of more than . . . 185 sq mi in the North Sea, will have . . . 300 turbines, producing about . . . 1.8 GW, able to power around . . . 1.6 million homes. 8-16-2016 Sou...
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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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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: Washington State’S Energy Storage
Jan 19 2015 06:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
3 Wind Farms, in Washington state, will have, . . . Modular Energy Storage Architecture (MESA) 1 project, . . . two 1-MW, 500-MWhr lithium-ion battery based systems at one substation. This is the first of 4 energy projects, . . . that Washington state...
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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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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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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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Wind: Bladeless Turbines?
Mar 27 2014 04:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Saphon Energy has created a new bladeless wind turbine, . . . with 1/2 the cost and double the efficiency. 2014-03-27 Source: Wind: Bladeless turbines
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Wind: 10,900 Megawatts In 2013
Feb 07 2014 12:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
The American Wind Energy Association in its quarterly market reports, . . . a whopping 10,900 megawatts in the 4th quarter. Together with projects set in motion earlier in the year, some . . . 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity, . . . was under co...
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Wind: 1/2 Price Of Coal And Gas
Jul 28 2014 10:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Denmark wants to be fossil-fuel free by 2050. It's governments new analysis, is that onshore wind power, . . . when new turbines become operational in 2016, . . . will be 1/2 the cost of both coal and natural gas. The study didn’t factor in the e...
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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 Tree
Mar 01 2015 03:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
This wind tree power generator, . . . is designed for a urban environment and wind pattern. Since the urban wind is not very strong, but is turbulent, this is the reason, . . . why the turbines, only need a small amount of wind to get started. A typica...
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Wind Saves Water
Apr 22 2015 01:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Everyone knows that Wind Turbines save Carbon, . . . but, did you know that Wind Turbines also save Water? 04-22-2015 Source: Wind Saves Water
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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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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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Wind Project In Mexico
May 11 2015 02:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vestas Wind Systems, . . . will provide 45 turbines, amounting to 148.5 MW, . . . to projects, set to be developed in Tamaulipas, Mexico. 05-11-2015 Source: Wind Project In Mexico
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