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Audio Archive: Growing Wind Power

August 15, 2011 by Energy Collective
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Can the growth of the wind industry substantially reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, how soon? What evolutions in technology, policy, and economics are necessary to drive that growth? What are the obstacles to a large increase in wind power? [read more]

Big Ship, Big Blades

August 11, 2011 by Rich Maltzman
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One look at the huge ship (612 feet long) and you knew it was something special.  It was backed up to the middle bridge of the Piscataqua River and loomed over the roadway.  How to handle the ship and its cargo is a project.  The Port Director at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, considered the project as a new opportunity, and... [read more]

Trump to Tea Party: I'll Fight Wind Energy

August 10, 2011 by David Thorpe
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A climate-sceptic tycoon who has told a Tea Party rally he might stand for President has vowed to oppose a key part of UK plans to become a world leader in offshore wind power. Last week, utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), together submitted a planning application to Marine... [read more]

Greenburg Destroyed by Tornado, But Rebuilds With Wind

July 8, 2011 by Rocky Kistner
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Out on the Kansas prairie, where the wind is steady and strong, clouds of dust and grain chaff swirl near colossal combines that comb fields of corn and wheat. A constant breeze cuts through the stifling summer heat. But the refreshing winds can be deadly when forces of nature... [read more]

The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

December 7, 2009 by Mike Smith
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The (Vestas) Answer is Blowing in the Wind  by Mike Smith (Mike is reporting on-site from Copenhagen, Denmark, at the COP15 climate change conference arriving Monday morning *at dawn). Vestas has invested a billion dollars in the United States building wind turbines in Colorado to capture wind off the Rockies. The company has... [read more]

Is “First in Time, First in Right” the best way to allocate rights to wind energy?

March 31, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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At EnergyPulse, Ron Rebenitsch discusses the unsettled foundation of the wind power industry: uncertain rights to use the energy present in the wind. Currently the industry seems to work on a “capture what you can” model, but the approach has its problems and the problems are likely to become more pronounced as the industry grows.... [read more]

Texas regulators choose companies to build transmission to reach wind power

January 30, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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Michael Giberson On Thursday, Texas utility regulators selected nine companies to build portions of the nearly $5 billion-worth of transmission to better connect existing and anticipated generating resources in the western part of the state to the large consumer load centers in the east, central and southeast parts of the state.  (... [read more]

US now largest wind power producer

December 30, 2008 by ToddWallace
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The United States surpassed Germany as the world’s largest producer of wind power this year. 2007 saw the third straight year of record growth for wind power in America, and even if we can’t keep that up for 2008, the future of wind energy looks strong. At maximum capacity, we’d produce roughly 21 gigawatts of power with wind, though it... [read more]

The financial markets might be in trouble but renewables are seeing boom times!

November 6, 2008 by Tom Raftery
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Photo Credit pseudorlayaA couple of interesting announcements were made in Ireland recently.On the 8th of Oct., Eirgrid, the Irish grid operator launched their Grid25 strategy (pdf warning). In the strategy document they announced they are spending €4 billion reinforcing the Irish distribution grid in the expectation of a 60% rise... [read more]

Wind turbines - the cost is forecast to still go up

July 3, 2008 by DanLewis
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I was quite disturbed the other day to learn from the FT Energy Survey the other day, that the price per megawatt of wind turbines is continuing to climb. As the article says;Shai Hill, division director of climate change at Macquarie Capital Securities, predicts that the price of turbines - which has risen by more than a third in the... [read more]

Suzlon in trouble - worse than anyone else in the wind industry?

June 30, 2008 by DanLewis
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The growing pains of the wind industry have been covered here in detail on this blog a few times, most recently here. But some firms appear to be less able to deal with it than others and Suzlon, following a report in today's Wall Street Journal, appears to be exhibit A. Specifically, there seem to be two problems with their export... [read more]

T. Boone Pickens - Wind vs. Water

June 26, 2008 by JenniferDillon
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Fast Company and BusinessWeek are currently running opposing articles on T. Boone Pickens and his wind/water plans for North Texas. The Fast Company article addresses his plans for a $10B wind farm in the panhandle and mentions the water project as almost an afterthought, while the BusinessWeek article talks about the $100M Pickens’... [read more]

“White Nose Syndrome” in Bats Delays Wind Farm Development

June 20, 2008 by Tim Hurst
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Feds suggest a delay in 3 projects so they can study dying bats [Originally published at Red, Green, and Blue on 6.62008] The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has sent a letter to to the developers of three wind farms in upstate New York strongly urging they consider other locations for their proposed projects. Biologists for the agency... [read more]

US’ first offshore wind farm to be built off Massachusetts

June 20, 2008 by ToddWallace
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The country’s first offshore wind farm will be built 1 1/2 miles off the coast of Hull, Massachusetts. The town’s 11,000 citizens have already erected two on-shore turbines that provide some 13 percent of their electricity and that have significantly lowered residents’ electricity bills. The proposed offshore four-turbine farm could... [read more]

What is the alternative to alternative energy?

June 13, 2008 by JenniferDillon
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I’m a little surprised at some of comments I’ve received on my recent wind energy posts.  The engineer in me cringes at the description of the technology as “useless.”  In the past decade or two I’ve seen some pretty lame applications of technology, and wind energy just doesn’t fall into that category in my mind. Anything... [read more]