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December 21, 2010
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Outsmarting The Wind
Richland WA (SPX) Dec 21, 2010
Meteorological equipment typically used to monitor storms could help power grid operators know when to expect winds that will send turbine blades spinning, as well as help them avoid the sudden stress that spinning turbines could put on the electrical grid. "We know that the wind will blow, but the real challenge is to know when and how much," said atmospheric scientist Larry Berg. "This project takes an interesting approach - adapting an established technology for a new use - to find a reliable w ... read more

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A proposed 1,000-megawatt offshore wind farm near Rhode Island would be the largest in the United States, developers said. ... more
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Vestas Selects Broadwind Towers For Glacier Hills Wind Project
Broadwind Energy has announced that its Tower Tech Systems subsidiary was selected as the supplier of wind towers for the Glacier Hills Wind Park project. The Glacier Hills Wind Park is locate ... more
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Optimizing Large Wind Farms
Wind farms around the world are large and getting larger. Arranging thousands of wind turbines across many miles of land requires new tools that can balance cost and efficiency to provide the most e ... more
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Enhancing The Efficiency Of Wind Turbines
A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new coal-fired power generation. The costs of ... more
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Argentina adds wind to energy portfolio
Argentina is adding new turbines to its wind farms in Patagonia as part of a government strategy to prepare for increased energy consumption in line with economic recovery in the coming years. ... more
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GL Garrad Hassan Chosen For SMart Wind's 'Hornsea' Zone
SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ... more
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Poland's Solidarity shipyard turns to wind turbines
Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard, the 1980 birthplace of the Solidarity trade union led by freedom icon Lech Walesa that toppled communism in 1989, started work on making wind turbines on Thursday. ... more
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German utilities lobby for offshore wind
The operators of Germany's first offshore wind farm on Tuesday urged the German government to increase incentives to expand the generation of renewable power at sea. ... more
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Chinese wind power producers plan Hong Kong IPOs: report
Two of China's top power producers plan to raise 2.5 billion US dollars by listing their wind-power units in Hong Kong, reports said Tuesday, the latest among several green firms to list in the city. ... more
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Global Warming Reduces Available Wind Energy
A switch to wind energy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions - and reduce the global warming they cause. But there's a catch, says climate researcher Diandong Ren, a research scientist at the U ... more
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South Korea plans offshore wind project
South Korea plans to build an $8.2 billion offshore wind farm in the Yellow Sea, a government official said. ... more
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Buoyant Times Ahead For Offshore Resource Assessments
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Suzlon eyes China's wind power market
Indian wind turbine giant Suzlon Energy said it plans to increase its presence in China, anticipating that China will become the wind energy hot spot of the future, a company official said. ... more
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Offshore Wind A Mixed Bag
Offshore wind power offers a feasible way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but presents some economic and political hurdles, concludes a new study by the University of Maryland ... more
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Google blows into offshore wind project
Google has agreed to invest, along with other partners, in a massive offshore wind power project along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. The Atlantic Wind Connection "backbone" deep-water cable trans ... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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