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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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India's Offshore Wind Farm
Oct 02 2014 05:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Gujarat, India's, 100 MW offshore wind project, . . . will act as a demonstration, With India's 7,600 kilometer long coastline, . . . offers opportunities for much future expansion. India has 22 GW of onshore wind capacity, already installed...
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Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines
Apr 12 2014 01:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
Vertical-axis wind turbines, . . . have a number of advantages over tradition horizontal-axis ones. . . . . . . They are always oriented towards the wind, and . . . because their mechanical parts are at ground level, and . . . . . . not atop a high mas...
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Largest Commitment To Offshore #wind Power
May 25 2018 02:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation, . . . that will move the state’s electricity mix to . . . 50% renewable by 2030, and . . . codifies the largest commitment to . . . offshore wind power from any state. Momentum is growing with severa...
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Britain’S #wind Farms Vs 8 Nuclear Plants
May 16 2018 12:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Britain’s wind farms, provided more electricity than its . . . 8 nuclear power stations in the first 3 months of 2018, . . . marking the first time wind has overtaken nuclear across a quarter. At one point overnight on 17 March, . . . wind turbines br...
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London Array: World’S Largest Wind Farm
Jul 05 2013 08:40 PM | eds in Wind Power
All 175 windmills are up and fully functional, producing 630MW. . . . The 2nd phase will bring total production to 1,000MW. Source: greenprophet
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Texas $7 Billion Crez Wind Project
Oct 18 2013 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Competitive Renewable Energy Zone(CREZ), . . . 3,600 miles of new transmission lines that will bring . . . 18,500 megawatts of wind power from . . . sparsely populated West Texas to urban centers including . . . . . . Dallas, . . . . . . Fort Worth and...
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Rhode Island’S Offshore Wind Farm
Apr 28 2015 11:40 AM | eds in Wind Power
Block Island is a 5-turbine, 30-megawatt project, . . . of the company Deepwater Wind. With its relatively shallow waters, . . . the Atlantic coast of the USA has offshore wind energy ripe for the picking, . . . so what’s taking other States so long to...
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Warren Buffett’S Wind Farms
Oct 13 2014 02:55 AM | eds in Wind Power
Warren Buffet’s energy investment vehicle MidAmerican Energy. . . . is investing $280 million more, . . . into Iowa wind farms. Altogether, by the end of next year, . . . MidAmerican will have been responsible for the development of around . . ....
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400-Megawatt Offshore #wind Farm
May 24 2018 12:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Rhode Island, . . . selected Deepwater Wind, to develop a . . . 400-megawatt, proposal . . . in federal waters far off the coast. 5-24-2018 Source: 400-megawatt offshore #wind farm
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Largest Wind Turbine In World
Jan 28 2014 09:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
On Tuesday the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine, swung into gear at . . . the Danish National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Østerild. The prototype V164 wind turbine is . . . . . . 720 feet tall, . . . . . . 260-foot blades, an...
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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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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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Renewable Energy: 2.5¢ Per Kilowatt-Hour
Aug 23 2014 06:45 PM | eds in Wind Power
Department of Energy reports, US wind energy average cost for wind energy of . . . $25 per megawatt-hour, for a certain type of electricity purchase agreement. . . . That works out to 2.5¢ per kilowatt-hour 08-23-2014 Source: Renewable Energy: 2...
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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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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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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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Ge Wind: 90% Of Block Island’S Electricity?
Mar 23 2016 05:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Deepwater’s Block Island project, . . . the first offshore farm in the US, is a critical stepping stone, . . . to tapping the vast offshore resources in the USA. In the last 6 years, . . . the renewables industry has been able to lower the cost, . ....
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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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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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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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Follow The Money: Wind Energy = 2¢/kwh
Aug 18 2016 03:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Wind power represented the largest source of . . . U.S. electric-generating capacity additions in 2015. Wind power currently meets about . . . 5% of the nation's electricity demand, and represents more than . . . 10% of total electricity generatio...
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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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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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Ridgeblade Wind Turbine Silences Nimbys
Jan 14 2015 12:00 AM | eds in Wind Power
Noiseless, Invisible, 9 times the energy, Low cost, Modular RidgeBlade has been developed to be retrofitted into the existing built environment. .. . In addition, the unit has been designed to be low cost, in terms of: . . . . . . manufacture, . . . ....
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