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by Greg Cruey on December 12, 2008
Grays Harbor Energy announced plans this past week to take wind farms off shore, according to Michael Lee over at Red Herring. Seattle-based Grays Harbor is looking at seven off shore US sites where...
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This is a great example of legislation going down to the last guy. This article discusses how officials from Tustin learned about wind energy guidelines and how these could be brought to their...
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According to the American Wind Power Association more than 3000 Megawatts of wind power will be put up in the US, easily a 25 percent increase in capacity this year. In 2006, the US increased its wind...
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India has emerged as the fifth largest producer of wind energy in the world. It soon may become the biggest wind producer in Asia, as the Asian Development Bank has extended financing support to...
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This article says that according to a study, wind farms may not affect air pollution negatively (i.e. decrease greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere). I at first found the idea incredible because...
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by Reden Rodriguez on April 28, 2007
The land where windmills became famous now takes windmills seriously, but for a different purpose. A $ 272 million offshore project was recently inaugurated in Egmond a an Zee, northwest of Amsterdam....
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by Reden Rodriguez on February 27, 2007
I recently reported the UK breaching the 2 GW wind power mark. It looks like they are not stopping at all. This month, UK Secretary of State Alistair Darling approved the first offshore wind farm...
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by Reden Rodriguez on February 27, 2007
The Japanese prefecture of Hyogo has just signed a contract with Repower Systems AG for the supply of ten turbines to add to the 43 turbines that have been installed and is supplying almost 70 MW of...
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by Reden Rodriguez on February 27, 2007
Just this month, Scottish Power announced its plan of putting up a 3 MW wave farm that will come on stream by 2008. The wave farm will be located in Orkney, one of the sites that have great potential...
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by Reden Rodriguez on February 27, 2007
wind, like solar energy, has risen from the stigma that it once created, that of too high a capital cost to be viable enough to operate. Over the past 10 years, the cost of wind-generated electricity...
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by Reden Rodriguez on February 25, 2007
Drum Roll Please...! 2007's wind powers of the Earth are: 1. Germany - 20,622MW 2. Spain - 11,615MW 3. USA - 11,273MW 4. India - 6,053MW 5. Denmark - 3,136MW 6. Italy - 2,123MW 7. UK - 2,016MW 8....
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by Reden Rodriguez on January 30, 2007
Where is the best place to set up a wind turbine for energy generation? Where else but the place you are trying to save from GHG led destruction! Eight wind turbines will be erected in the South Pole...
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by Reden Rodriguez on December 30, 2006
Talk about massive. Southern California Edison (SCE) recently signed a wind energy contract that will give it a 1500 MW capacity of Renewable energy sourced power. This came off with an agreement with...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 30, 2006
A new map has been developed to identify and determine the strength of wind currents, according to this article from LiveScience.Com. researchers have gathered wind speed data from 8,000 locations...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 30, 2006
Wind power can now be generated at home using small-scale wind mills. Personal windmills are often used in rural settings for small mechanical uses (such as those in barns) but producing energy for...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 30, 2006
Electric utilities require the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification for the accreditation of key electrical devices such as inverters. Southwest Windpower of Arizona has received its UL...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 27, 2006
The largest wind farm has recently been completed by Brookfield Power in Canada. Called the Prince Wind Energy Project located in Sault Ste. Marie, the wind farm boasts of 126 wind turbines producing...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 27, 2006
Montreal-based wind turbine manufacturer AAER Inc. has entered into an agreement with British-Columbian wind farm developer Katabatic Power Corporation, in an effort to establish and sell...
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by Reden Rodriguez on November 13, 2006
No, they are not trading cards. But they offer the cardholder vast power, in a very real sense. Wind Power Cards are being sold by Whole Foods Market, the US' top natural and organic foods...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 24, 2006
The title of this post I got from the old glam-rock quarter Poison song "Ride the Wind". But the spirit of the song, this news from Reuters is pretty much the same. Wind power could generate...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 24, 2006
This is certainly new, ground breaking technology. Ever heard of floating windmills? LiveScience reports that windmills that could float hundreds of miles out at sea could one day produce energy needs...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 10, 2006
Wind is in the truest sense of the word, renewable. It is available all over, its intensity is neither affected by oil prices nor political affairs, it does not emit any harmful Green House Gas, and...
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by Reden Rodriguez on August 06, 2006
Talisman Energy of UK and Scottish and Southern Energy are testing the feasibility of installing wind farms at water depths of 45 meters, very deep compared to current industry standards. These deep...
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by Reden Rodriguez on August 05, 2006
The Japanese Environment Ministry has recently announced its move to relax restrictions on wind power generation within national parks. This move was initiated to promote clean energy development and...
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