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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 [...]
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Gov’s Pawlenty and Richardson form national wind-power coalition
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Gov Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn) and Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico) have formed a Governors’ Windpower Coalition that “they hope will put wind power on the cutting edge.”
“This is being modeled after the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition, which now has 30 states,” Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung said. Pawlenty was chair of that coalition when he [...]
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Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable and cheaper power source
Saturday, December 1st, 2007From Science Daily comes word of a study done at Stanford University that showed how connecting wind power farms throughout a geographic area with transmission lines will combine the outputs of all the farms into one very powerful energy source that is cheaper and more reliable than present wind power sources. The [...]
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Google expands into alternate energy
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Google, which already gets some of its power from one of the largest solar power installations in the US, is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a quest to lower the cost of producing electricity, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle. Their goal, according to Larry Page, Google [...]
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U.S. wind power installations to rise 63 pct in 2007
Sunday, November 11th, 2007The American Wind Energy Association says that the U.S. wind industry is on track to finish a total of 4,000 megawatts worth of installations in 2007. That’s enought to power about 1 million houses. The AWEA had previously said that they expected wind power growth to be about 33 percent.
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Green Energy News: Reinventing the Wind Turbine
Saturday, October 27th, 2007GreenEnergyNews has a nice article on some new innovations in the wind power area. Since there’s a practical limit to the size of the wind turbines, the only way to get more power from turbines is to look at other parts of the design. GreenEnergyNews lists a bunch of the latest [...]
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Best of both worlds: The Bluenergy vertical SolarWind Turbine
Saturday, October 20th, 2007GroovyGreen.com reports that Bluenergy AG, a German company, has created what appears to be the first “integrated solar vertical axis wind turbine.”
Bluenergy vertical axis SolarWind turbine
So when the wind isn’t blowing but the sun’s out, you still get electricity from the Bluenergy SolarWind. Bluenergy’s different vertical wind turbine models range from 2KW for [...]
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Dispatchable Wind: Enabling wind to play a mainstream role in power production
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007EnergyPulse.net describes some wind power problems and potential solutions to the issue of shaping wind power production to meet grid demands and secure a good price for its electricity.
“For wind to take its place as a mainstream generator, wind farms will have to be able to shape the power they deliver according [...]
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