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Buoyant Times Ahead For Offshore Resource AssessmentsDalry, Scotland (SPX) Nov 03, 2010 Natural Power have announced the successful long-term trial of a product development activity within the company named SeaZephIR - a patented autonomous floating platform with integrated lidar system and renewable power supply capable of providing highly accurate wind data offshore. The system, likely to be a significant saving compared to the cost of fixed installations offshore, allows wind project developers to begin onsite measurement campaigns before traditional fixed structures could be cons ... read more |
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 Color of turbines a factor in bird deaths The color of a wind turbine affects how many insects it attracts, revealing why birds and bats are sometimes killed by the turbines, a British study says. Scientists say insects are attracted to ... more | .. |
China's wind power capacity to increase five-fold by 2020 China's wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, a report forecast Wednesday, as the country steps up its drive to develop clean energy. Total insta ... more | .. |
Wind power to grow massively until 2030 Wind power could satisfy more than one-fifth of the global power demand by 2030, an industry group and environmental organization Greenpeace said Tuesday. Total wind power capacity would rise to ... more | .. |
 Findings About Wind Farms Could Expand Their Use Wind power is likely to play a large role in the future of sustainable, clean energy, but wide-scale adoption has remained elusive. Now, researchers have found wind farms' effects on local temperatu ... more |
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Google in major bid for Eastern US wind power Investors led by technology giant Google on Tuesday announced a five billion-dollar project to power the US East Coast with wind from the Atlantic Ocean, in an ambitious bid to spur alternative ener ... more | .. |
Wind could provide 20 pct of world power by 2030: study Wind power could meet about a fifth of the world's electricity demand within 20 years, an industry group and environmental watchdog Greenpeace predicted in a new report released Tuesday. The glo ... more | .. |
 Morocco draws on the elements for its green energy project Water, sun and wind: Morocco has launched an ambitious programme to harness the elements to produce "green" electricity to reduce its dependence on energy imports. And eventually it even hopes t ... more | .. |
Spanish windmill makers tilt overseas Spain's economic crisis is sucking the air out of the windmill business. Once a booming sector of the Spanish energy industry, manufacturers now face an uncertain outlook for demand and state su ... more |
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 Britain opens world's largest offshore wind farm Britain on Thursday inaugurated the world's largest offshore wind farm, part of the government's bid to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change. The project got a qualified welcome ... more | .. |
 US Wind Energy Project Nets Billions The Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) is located in the heart of one of the most proven wind resources in the United States - the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area, in Kern County, California. To pro ... more | .. |
 Spanish wind turbine firm Gamesa to triple China investments Spain's Gamesa, one of the world's top wind turbine manufacturers, said Tuesday it would triple its total investment in China by 2012 to meet rising demand for clean energy there. The company ha ... more | .. |
Britain urged to speed up wind-power plans Britain must allow more wind farms if it is to meet its climate-change target of generating 15 percent of its energy needs from green sources, experts say. The United Kingdom has committed to rea ... more |
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 China sailing ahead in offshore wind power Offshore wind power is gaining ground in China. Chinese energy companies are expected to submit bids Friday for four offshore wind power projects with a total installed capacity of 1,000 megawatt ... more | .. |
 Duke Energy Changes Focus Of Coastal Wind Demonstration Project With UNC Duke Energy Carolinas will no longer pursue a plan to place up to three demonstration wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound. Instead, the company and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi ... more | .. |
U.K. wind farms deny causing seal deaths British wind farm developers have strongly denied allegations their construction ships are responsible for a recent rash of seal deaths, authorities said. Scientists investigating the killing of ... more | .. |
 Mortenson Construction Building 100 Turbine Wind Farm In Illinois Mortenson Construction has started construction of White Oak Energy Center (White Oak) near Bloomington, Ill., adding 150 megawatts to Illinois' approximate 2,000 megawatt wind generating capacity. ... more |
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Canada looks to utilize wind energy Energy companies in Canada's Maritime Provinces say they are studying ways for their customers to help them utilize wind energy more efficiently. Wind power is environmentally friendly but unpred ... more | .. |
 LADWP Approves New Wind Project The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a long-term agreement to receive over 100 megawatts of new wind energy from Milford Wind Farm Ph ... more | .. |
 German wind growth down, exports strong The German wind energy industry dominates global export numbers, but at home, turbine installations are slowing down. An unusually long and harsh winter has slowed down wind power growth in Germ ... more | .. |
 Leading French Wind Farm Developer Says Yes To Triton Leading French wind project developer and renewable energy producer VALOREM recently added a Triton Sonic Wind Profiler to its wind resource assessment program. The purchase, which followed an initi ... more |
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 Study Shows Stability And Utility Of Floating Wind Turbines Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore, and require increasingly larger expanses of land. One so ... more | .. |
 Floating ocean wind turbines proposed Wind turbines as a renewable energy source have problems of noise, visual clutter and land use, and one U.S. researcher says moving them offshore is a solution. Offshore wind farms have been bui ... more | .. |
China to dominate wind power China is quickly developing into the world's biggest wind power market. The Asian giant in 2009 installed more wind turbines than all of Europe and by 2017 could have the world's largest total ca ... more | .. |
Professor To Present Vision For A Zero-Carbon Future A University of Nottingham professor is to outline his vision for a UK powered completely by renewable energy by 2030 in an open lecture taking place later this month. Professor Seamus Garvey, ... more |
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