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Saturday, March 8th, 2008Southern California Edison announced Friday that it had started construction on the largest wind power transmission project in the use. The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project includes a series of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines capable of delivering 4,500 megawatts of electricity from wind power farms in Northern Los Angeles and Eastern Kern […]
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Xcel Energy to store wind power with new battery
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Utility company Xcel Energy will begin testing a new one-megawatt (MW) battery that will be charged by wind power. The battery, which is being made by Japan’s NGK Insulators Ltd., could power 500 homes for over 7 hours. It’s designed to be used to store wind power so that it can be distributed […]
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Utah to help property owners evaluate wind power
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Here’s what sounds like a good and useful thing that states can do to encourage alternative energy use. The Utah Geological Survey will lend wind-measuring anemometer towers to residents to help determine if their property can become a reliable source of wind power. Utah says that they will install either a […]
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UK trees spark wind turbine wrangle
Thursday, February 14th, 2008We all know we’re going to see many more of these stories - I told you about Neighbors in conflict over solar panels about a month ago. Now we have a couple of neighbors over in the UK fighting it out over a wind turbine and, as the wind turbine owner puts it, […]
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New vertical axis wind turbine design - Windpower’s “Aerogenerator”
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008The picture doesn’t give a good sense of the size of this thing, but the new Aerogenerator vertical axis turbine being designed by Windpower is 144 meters high, and would generate up to 9 megawatts of electricity. According to an article in the Guardian, the Aerogenerator would generate nearly 3 times the amount of electricity as […]
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Ducted Wind Turbine from Marquiss Wind Power aimed at rooftops
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Marquiss Wind Power announced that they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding to help commercialize their Aeropoint ducted wind turbine. As you can tell from the pictures, the Aeropoint Ducted Wind Turbine looks a little different than other wind turbines - its small (19 ft tall), and pivots to take advantage of wind direction. The Aeropoint […]
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Wind power growth gusts strongly in USA in 2007
Friday, January 18th, 2008USA Today is reporting that US wind power grew 45% in 2007, which was the largest rise since the 1980’s. The study, released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), cites federal tax credit, new state renewable energy mandates and global warming concerns as the reasons.
An additional 5,244 megawatts were installed in 2007. […]
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Cape Wind project takes another step forward
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Cleantech reports that a draft environmental impact statement from the US Departement of Interior stating that the Cape Wind project is environmentally and economically superior to alternate sites. The project, which has been tied up in knots for years, plans to place 130 turbines over 24 square miles in Nantucket Sound. The report says that […]
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Chile opens its first wind power park
Saturday, January 5th, 2008LatinAmericapress.org reports that Chile, which currently imports 98% of its oil and 75 percent of its natural gas, has opened up its first wind power park in the northern region of Coquimbo. The park, which is the first of four similar projects slated for this region, will provide 18.15 MW of electricity to the Inter- Connected Central System, which supplies almost all […]
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Cities Enticing Residents to Go Green
Sunday, December 30th, 2007The Associated Press has a partial list of some of the benefits, perks, rebates, etc that cities and towns are giving to its citizens who ‘go green’. From Baltimore’s giving of $2,000 towards closing costs for people who buy new homes close to where they work to Parkland, Florida’s $150 rebate to people […]
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