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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Aerogenerator X
British company Windpower has always thought big. A couple of years ago, they came up with the design for their Aerogenerator, a 144 meter Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) that would generate up to 5 MW of electricity. Their brand new design (the Aerogenerator X) looks a lot different (it combines elements [...]
New Oahu 30 megawatt wind farm breaks ground
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Ground was broken today for a new 30 megawatt wind farm to be built on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. This wind project, which is being built by Kahuka Wind Power LLC, a division of First Wind, Inc, will consist of a dozen 2.5 megawatt turbines and should be completed early next year. It [...]
NJ Legislature approves offshore wind bill
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010The New Jersey Legislature has just passed a new bill that would set up a system to review offshore wind developer’s projects and their financing proposals. The bill, which is endorsed by and is expected to be quickly signed by NJ Governor Christie, is expected to jump start offshore wind power development, by requiring that [...]
Two new wind farms in Missouri and Texas go live
Monday, June 21st, 2010Two new U.S. based wind farms have just gone live and have begun producing electricity.
The first one – the Farmers City Wind Power Project, near Tarkio in Atchinson County, Missouri, is Missouri’s largest wind farm. It consists of 73 Gamesa wind turbines which can produce 146 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 33,000 homes. [...]
Combo wind / solar plant planned for Palm Springs, Calif
Saturday, June 12th, 2010AES Solar Energy is planning on developing a large scale combination wind and solar plant in Palm Springs, California. The new plant would place a 13 megawatt photovoltaic solar plant underneath the wind turbines being planned for a 77 acre site just south of Interstate 10 in California. By combining both types [...]
FloDesign’s wind turbine is more efficient, company gets funds to expand in Massachusetts
Sunday, April 18th, 2010FloDesign’s unique wind turbine design borrows from jet engine technology to produce more energy from less wind speed. Their turbine uses shorter blades that are contained in a shroud that funnels fast and slow air into the turbine, and the mix of different air speeds creates a vortex that’s used to turn the blades. [...]
Wind power shows large increase in US – now 39% of all new electrical generation
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Total US wind power increased sharply in 2009 – 10,010 megawatts (10 gigawatts) of new wind capacity was installed in the US in 2009, according to a new report issued by the American Wind Energy Association. Total US wind power capacity is now more than 35,000 megawatts (35 gigawatts), so that means that almost 1/3 [...]
Long chain of offshore wind turbines could power the entire Atlantic Seaboard
Monday, April 5th, 2010By joining a 1,550 mile long network of offshore wind turbines together, scientists at the University of Delaware say that we could provide consistent electrical power from Massachusetts to North Carolina. By connecting all these turbines together over a long distance, you can smooth out any impacts that local conditions would have on the entire [...]
North Dakota Electric Co-op completes a 115.5 MW wind farm
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Basin Electric, an electricity cooperative in North Dakota, has completed the construction of its new 77 turbine, 115.5 MW wind farm. The Prairie Winds 1 farm is spread out across 30,000 acres of North Dakota – most of the turbines (which require about 1 acre apiece) are on farmland, and doesn’t impact farming that goes [...]
Caithness Energy and General Electric to build largest U.S. wind farm in Oregon
Sunday, December 13th, 2009General Electric announced this week that it had landed a contract to help build an 845 megawatt wind farm in Gilliam and Morrow counties in north-central Oregon. The new Shepherds Flat wind farm, which is being built by Caithness Energy, is planned for completion in 2012, and will consist of 338 GE wind turbines [...]
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