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voda 4 juni 2015 16:46

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Lake Erie wind project to use unique foundation design

The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation announced that its proposed offshore wind project in Lake Erie will use a unique foundation design.

Mr Lorry Wagner, President of LEEDCO, said that the design will significantly reduce costs for the pilot project.

Mr Wagner said that “The Mono Bucket had much less installation time, much less disturbance to the soil at the bottom of Lake Erie and it had the potential for much lower manufacturing costs.”

The Mono Bucket foundation, designed by Denmark-based Universal Foundation, is an all-in-one steel structure consisting of a shaft attached to a large-diameter bucket. It’s installed with a suction system that requires no pile driving or dredging.

Source : WKSU

voda 11 juni 2015 19:00

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Wind Energy leads in new capacity additions for Canada - CanWEA

According to data from the Canadian Wind Energy Association, since 2010, 38% of all new capacity in Canada came from wind energy - more than any other competing form of electricity.

With more than 5.6 GW installed during that period, wind leads natural gas, hydro, nuclear and solar. At the same time, Canada's coal-fired generating capacity has fallen.

A similar trend is evident in the US, where wind energy was the largest source of new electricity generation in 2014 and represented 28% of all new electricity generation capacity additions between 2010 and 2014, second only to natural gas.

These trends have been in place even longer in the European Union. According to the European Wind Energy Association, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 but it has been the largest source of new electricity-generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 years. Between 2000 and 2014, there were 117 GW of new wind energy capacity installed in Europe, 101 GW of new natural gas-fired capacity and 88 GW of new solar capacity. Over that same time period, nuclear generating capacity in Europe fell by 13 GW and coal-fired generation fell by 25 GW.

Mr Robert Hornung, president of CanWEA, said that "We are now at the leading edge of a fundamental transformation of global electricity systems that is creating systems that are more diverse, decentralized and low carbon. As the data shows, wind energy has been, and will continue to be, a leader in that transformation because of its cost-competitiveness, environmental attributes, scalability and local economic benefits."

Source : NA Windpower

voda 17 juni 2015 17:10

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Canada breezes past 10,000 MW wind power milestone

Energy Matters reported that Canada has celebrated Global Wind Day by announcing it has become the 7th nation in the world to surpass 10,000 MW of installed wind power; enough to provide energy for over three million homes.

According to the Canadian Wind Energy Association, the milestone was achieved after the June 10 commissioning of Ontario’s 270 MW K2 Wind Farm.

More wind energy has been installed in Canada over the past five years than any other source of generation, including coal and gas. Three record years of investment growth in the sector has seen capacity increase by an average of 1,300 MW or 24%, each year.

Mr Robert Hornung, president of CanWEA, believes 2015 is on track to break new records for new wind installations.

Mr Hornung said that “Meeting the 10,000 MW milestone confirms that Canada is a global leader in wind energy development. Wind energy’s cost competitiveness, coupled with the fact that it produces no greenhouse gas emissions, means it is well positioned to continue its rapid growth as a mainstream contributor to Canada’s electricity supply.”

With wind farms providing power in every Canadian province, from Ontario to the Yukon, wind energy now contributes nearly 5% of the country’s electricity needs, the equivalent of 3 million households.

CanWEA has calculated the benefit of wind power not just for the environment, but for Canada’s employment figures. It states that every 100 MW of new wind creates over 1,000 person-years of work during the construction phase of projects and 350 person-years of long-term work for operational and maintenance staff. Additionally, every megawatt of new wind added to capacity represents an investment of around $2 million.

Mr Hornung said that “Wind energy is meeting Canada’s demand for new electricity in a clean, reliable and cost-competitive way. As concerns about global climate change grow, wind energy will also need to play a critical role in Canada’s transition to a more flexible and decentralized low carbon electricity system.”

Global Wind Day falls on the 15th June every year. An internationally coordinated action between the European Wind Energy Association and the Global Wind Energy Council and national bodies, the day explores how wind power can reshape the world’s energy mix and help combat climate change.

Source : Energy Matters

voda 29 juni 2015 16:31

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GRI Renewable Industries to open wind tower plant at Amarillo in Texas

GRI Renewable Industries, the industrial wind division of Gonvarri Steel Industries, plans to open a new wind tower plant in Amarillo, Texas.

The Amarillo Economic Development Corp is partnering with the Office of the Governor to provide state and local support for the facility. Amarillo proponents note that GRI selected the location over potential sites in Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. A grant offer from the Texas Enterprise Fund for $1.85 million has been extended to GRI.

The investment is secured by the Amarillo EDC, and the plan is expected to be submitted to the city council on June 30.

The plant is expected to employ approximately 300 and will be able to supply the US market with approximately 400 wind towers per year. The facility is expected to be fully operational in late 2016.

Source : nawindpower.com

voda 8 juli 2015 22:08

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Wind energy to power Facebook's new data center in Texas

Facebook announced that it will use 100% wind energy to run its new data center in Texas. The social networking giant has committed to powering all its operations with 50% renewable energy in the next 3 years.

Source : Strategic Research Institute

voda 14 juli 2015 19:31

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Amazon to power cloud with big wind farm in North Carolina

After lagging behind its web competitors, Amazon is now making more aggressive commitments to clean power.

Amazon plans to buy energy from a big wind farm in North Carolina to power its current and future data centers that handle its cloud computing service. The news comes a little over a month after some of Amazon’s largest cloud customers publicly asked the company to make a bigger commitment to clean energy.

On Monday, Amazon said that it is working with clean power company Iberdrola Renewables to buy energy from a large 208 megawatt wind farm that will be built in two North Carolina counties. Solar and wind farms that are hundreds of megawatts in size are relatively big, and the so-called “Amazon Wind Farm US East” will be able to provide enough energy to power 61,000 average American homes in a year.

The wind farm is supposed to be operational starting in December 2016. Amazon said that it will be the first large-scale wind farm in North Carolina.

Amazon’s new wind power plans follow its announcement last month that it will buy solar energy from a small solar farm in Virginia to power cloud data centers. In addition, Amazon plans to buy wind power from a wind farm in Indiana also to power its cloud infrastructure.

Amazon has received a lot of attention for failing to adopt clean power for its data centers more swiftly, or in a more transparent way. Google, Apple, and Facebook embraced clean energy years earlier and more aggressively. Instead, Amazon largely pointed to the energy efficiency of its cloud infrastructure.

Because Amazon Web Services is so large, its adoption of clean energy would have a much larger effect on all the Web companies that rely on it. Netflix, Pinterest, Tumblr and Upworthy are among its large clients.

Amazon’s customers have recently started to become more vocal that some of them want clean energy to power their services. First Netflix wrote a blog post about it, and then 19 AWS customers wrote a letter to Amazon asking the company to be more transparent about its energy consumption.

Amazon first committed to delivering 100% of its cloud infrastructure energy needs with clean power in November 2014. Today Amazon says 25% of the power for its data center infrastructure comes from clean energy. That is supposed to rise to 40% by the end of 2016.

Mr Jerry Hunter, Amazon Web Services’ Vice President of Infrastructure, said that Amazon is far from being done when it comes to its clean power commitments.

Source : Fortune

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voda 21 juli 2015 21:20

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HP to power Texas data centers with wind energy

NY Times reported that for years, clean energy developers could look to only a small handful of corporations as project partners or customers for their power. Mostly, there was Google, and a few other high-tech companies that worked directly with wind and solar developers to help green their energy use.

Now, that appears to be changing. On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard announced a 12-year contract to buy 112 MW from a wind farm that SunEdison is expanding in Texas. That is enough, HP said, to operate its data centers there, the equivalent of powering 42,600 homes each year.

The deal follows a flurry of other recent agreements. In February, Kaiser Permanente announced a 20-year contract to buy 153 MW of wind and solar power from two California farms. A month later, Dow Chemical said that it would buy 200 MW of wind power in Texas.

And last week, Amazon Web Services said that it was contracting with Iberdrola Renewables to build and operate a 208-megawatt wind farm in North Carolina, the state’s first at utility scale.

Ms Gabi Zedlmayer, chief progress officer of the company, said that HP’s agreement will allow it to reach its 2020 operational greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal of 20 percent from 2010 levels by the end of this year, but it was not easy to pull off.

She said that “Environmental considerations figure into all of our I.T. and real estate decisions that we’re making. It’s still rather a complex process over all, you know, we can’t just go and purchase the energy that we want. To get to this type of an agreement, this has taken us the better part of a year.”

Driving the corporate push to purchase renewable energy, a good deal of it wind, is a combination of falling prices and greater pressure for companies to show action to fight climate change, as opposed to just setting targets. Nearly a quarter of the power purchase agreements for wind signed in 2014, according to the American Wind Energy Association, a trade group, were with nonutility customers.

Mr Herve Touati, MD at the Rocky Mountain Institute, where he focuses on the Business Renewables Center to help accelerate corporate renewable energy purchases, said that part of the incentive was a need to show shareholders and customers direct action on climate change goals.

Source : NY Times

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voda 29 juli 2015 19:13

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Rhode Island's offshore wind farm starts construction

The Hill reported that the developer of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm installed the first steel foundation for the project off Rhode Island’s coast.

The Sunday installation of Deepwater Wind Block Island Wind Farm came just in time for a Monday tour of the site that will include Obama administration officials, lawmakers and Rhode Island’s governor, among others.

Mr Jeffrey Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind, said the Providence Journal shortly after watching the first foundation’s installation from a boat that “It was a very big moment.”

The company had hoped to install the foundation on Thursday, but the weather did not cooperate.

The Block Island project will have five turbines, each with a capacity of 6 MW, when it is completed next year.

After repeated delays and setbacks at Cape Wind off nearby Massachusetts, the Block Island farm is set to become the first United States demonstration of offshore wind, which is far more prevalent in Europe and other places.

The tour by dignitaries included Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D).

Ms Jewell said in a statement following the tour that “Deepwater Wind and Rhode Island officials have demonstrated what can be accomplished through a forward-looking vision and good working partnerships.”

She said that “Block Island Wind Farm will not only tap into the enormous power of the Atlantic’s coastal winds to provide reliable, affordable and clean energy to Rhode Islanders, but will also serve as a beacon for America’s sustainable energy future.”

Source : The Hill

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voda 31 juli 2015 16:53

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Iberdrola announces wind power agreement with SCE

Iberdrola Renewables today announced a 15-year contract to supply Southern California Edison, an Edison International company, with renewable energy from the planned Tule Wind Power Project in the McCain Valley of eastern San Diego County.

SCE will purchase the entire output of the 132 MW wind farm, when the project is expected to be completed in late 2017.

Mr Jerry Sanders, San Diego Chamber of Commerce president & CEO, said that "San Diego has been a sustainable leader in California and helped set the national standard for energy efficiency & use of renewable power. Wind energy offers another way we can work to meet our renewable energy goals, however, there's only so much land available for wind development in San Diego. This project is in the right location and ready for construction at the right moment to continue San Diego's clean power leadership."

The Tule project will consist of up to 67 wind turbines located on nearly 14,000 acres residing in the county of San Diego and Bureau of Land Management land north of the town of Boulevard. The new project will produce enough energy to power the approximate equivalent of 40,000 average SCE households with enough clean energy to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of more than 50,000 cars each year.

A recent report by IDC Energy Insights states that, in the energy industry, successful execution of projects in the design, construction, and operation of facilities is dependent on more than ensuring that schedules are met.

Mr Jason Anderson, President and CEO of Cleantech San Diego, said that "We are excited to finally tap into the wind resources of San Diego County. Once completed, Iberdrola Renewables' Tule Wind Power project will advance our state's clean energy offerings while contributing to local economic development across the greater San Diego region."

Mr Barrett Stambler, vice president of Iberdrola Renewables, said that "We are pleased to support SCE's renewable energy goals with affordable wind energy from our new project. This project has been fully permitted for quite some time, so we're very pleased our proven track record of experience developing, constructing, and managing wind projects in California pushed this across the goal line. We look forward to reliably providing clean power to SCE for its customers and expanding our long term relationship with them."

Source : Penn Energy

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voda 3 augustus 2015 19:48

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GE to supply turbines to a 180 MW wind farm in British Columbia

General Electric will be supplying 61 wind turbines to a 180 MW project in British Columbia. The project, Meikle wind farm, is being developed by Pattern Development about 33 kilometers north of Tumbler Ridge, Peace Region, British Columbia.

Of the 61 turbines, 35 will be of the 3.2-103 model and 26 will be of 2.75-120 model. The mixture of the two models is expected to improve output of the project.

Under the contract with Pattern Energy, GE will be providing full service maintenance for the project once it goes into commercial operation in late 2016.

GE has been experimenting with technologies that can improve wind generation from existing turbines even at sites with less than optimal wind conditions.

Since April, GE has been studying an experimental design at Tehachapi on the edge of the Mojave desert in California.

The turbine, which GE has named ecoROTR, sports an aluminium dome bolted to the rotor. The ecoROTR is aimed to address two problems with wind turbines: wind wastage and the size of blades.

The purpose of the dome is to improve efficiency of the wind turbines by redirecting winds hitting the centre of the assembly to the tips of the blade where they generate thrust.

Wind tunnel experiments with the model at GE’s wind tunnel lab in upstate New York have shown that the 20,000-pound, 60-foot dome can greatly improve efficiency of turbines in windy locations currently inaccessible to the industry.

Turbine performance improved by 3 percent, which is significant in terms of projects of the scale of wind farms, the company stated.

The experimental design is being tested on a 1.7 MW wind turbine, which ranks among the most powerful designs of company. GE is also testing a 300-foot tower on which the system is mounted as part of the experiment.

The tower has a space-frame design wrapped in a polyester weave coat, which replaces the traditional steel tubes.

Source : Greentech Lead

voda 24 augustus 2015 20:41

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California pushes forward on renewable power

Daily News reported that at a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant east of San Francisco, greenhouse gases flow from a stack as the air shimmers from heat, with no dirty cloud of pollution in sight. In the distance, wind turbines spin slowly under a cloudy sky. And nearby in the city of Antioch, local schools are celebrating the addition of solar panels to their roofs and parking structures.

Mr Ben Stanley, PG&E’s plant manager, as he showed how the gas facility makes electricity for northern California, said that “If you look around, it’s really clean.”

The state’s electric power sources are poised to get cleaner still. In 15 years, electric utilities that power California’s lights and cellphones would need to get fully half their electricity from renewable sources, if Senate Bill 350, which is working its way through the Legislature, passes. The goal, often called a renewable portfolio standard, can almost certainly be met, though it will require utilities to make behind-the-scenes adjustments as they juggle different types of energy.

Mr Severin Borenstein, an energy economist at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, said that “Increasing the renewable portfolio standard to 50% is completely doable by 2030. Exactly how we do it and how much cost we’re willing to bear is an open question, but I don’t think it would be a huge cost.”

California’s plan, a piece of a broader strategy for battling climate change, is considerably more ambitious than most other states’ efforts, as well as a major power-plant rule released by the Obama Administration last week.

The federal rule, which aims to cut the nation’s dependence on coal-fired power plants, calls for renewables to account for 28% of electric capacity by 2030.

California’s electricity providers have already made strong efforts to add solar and wind power, and have never used much coal, a big reason why the state will feel little impact from the new federal rule.

Between 2000 and 2013, greenhouse gas emissions from the state’s electric sector fell considerably faster than emissions overall. That is largely because of renewable energy mandates, first enacted in 2002 and strengthened in 2008 in by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s executive order. The order, which subsequently became law, requires utilities to get 33% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

Source : Daily News

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voda 26 augustus 2015 17:16

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Wind power wins big under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Greentech Media reported that many prognostications have been made about the impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the rules to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants, issued on August 3rd.

Despite what you may have heard, EPA doesn’t dictate any particular outcomes, instead deferring to states to develop implementation plans, and those plans aren’t due until 2018.

Still, modeling and recent trends point to one big winner: wind power.

Mr Rob Gramlich, senior vice president for government and public affairs for the American Wind Energy Association, speaking at the National Clean Energy Summit 8.0 in Las Vegas said that “We think wind will be a major compliance solution for many states and utilities. It is well suited as a carbon solution, because of its geography. There is cost-competitive wind in places that emit a lot of carbon, like central states in the MISO and SPP regions.”

The Midwestern wind belt has seen an explosion of wind power in recent years, with three states getting more than 20% of their power from wind.

Credit trading between states and regions, if it is taken up by states in their implementation plans, would provide an additional boost to wind, expanding virtual access to the wind belt.

Modeling from EIA and EPA show huge growth in wind power as a least-cost bulk compliance option.

EIA’s analysis of the draft rule, released in May, found wind doubling or tripling by 2030, adding between 65 GW and 130 GW of new capacity, with a central scenario of just over 100 GW. Wind supplied over half of the compliance response to the Plan, while energy efficiency, solar, and natural gas made up the other half in the central scenario. At this level, wind would make up 12% of total US power demand by 2030, double what it would do without the Plan.

Mr Ernest Moniz, Energy Secretary, speaking at the AWEA conference in May, said that “We believe very much in the central role of wind in meeting our climate challenges, and we’re very committed in this direction.”

As if this wasn’t rosy enough, Michael Goggin of AWEA thinks that EIA overestimates wind-power capital costs.

He said that “Because it uses a wind-cost estimate that is about 20% too high, last month’s EIA analysis may have actually been a conservative estimate of the role wind energy will play in Clean Power Plan compliance.”

Source : Greentech Media

voda 26 oktober 2015 17:20

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Mexico planning USD 46 billion coast-to-coast wind energy push

It is reported that Mexico is planning to quadruple its wind power capacity as part of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s effort to transform the country’s energy industry.

According to Mexico’s Wind Energy Association, the country expects to have about 10 GW of turbines in operation within three years spread across almost every region, up from 2.5 GW in 2014, part of a government plan to add 20 GW of clean energy by 2030.

A total of 22 GW of wind power will be added over the next 25 years, requiring USD 46 billion in investment. The wind push is due to two converging trends: Mexico’s historic shift from a state-controlled energy monopoly, and its efforts to transform a grid that relies on fossil fuels for three-fourths of the nation’s electricity.

Mr Alejandro Peraza, general director of the energy regulator CRE, said in an interview in Mexico City that "We’re already a new country. Mexico is getting cleaner."

Mexico is Latin America’s largest crude producer and the world’s No. 10 producer of greenhouse-gas emissions. It was the first developing country to submit its plan to reduce carbon emissions before a United Nations conference in Paris in December, where almost 200 countries are expected to sign a deal to fight global warming.

Mexico pledged to reduce 22 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Wider use of renewable energy will reduce fossil-fuel based power generation to 45 percent.

Mr Peraza said that "There is a clear national policy on climate change taking place. We are going in the direction of a low carbon economy."

According to a Bloomberg News survey, Mexico’s economy will expand 2.4 percent this year. The government expects energy demand to increase 4 percent annually over the next decade.

Meanwhile, that growth will be fueled by the shift toward renewables, which will jump to 51 percent of total installed capacity by 2040, from 14 percent now, according to New Energy Finance. Most of that will come from wind, in part because import taxes drive up costs for solar power.

Source : Bloomberg

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voda 27 november 2015 17:18

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Taqa files for sale of US wind power asset

A spokesperson for the company said that Abu Dhabi National Energy Company has filed with US energy regulators to sell its stake in the Lakefield wind power plant in the US state of Minnesota.

The filing asks for authorisation of the sale by the end of this year, so that the deal could be completed in the first quarter of next year. Taqa declined to give details of the planned sale or say who the buyer would be.

Taqa, majority-owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, bought a 50 percent stake in the 205.5 MW project from a subsidiary of France's EDF in early 2013.

It is the only wind power asset in Taqa's portfolio; the company said earlier this year that it had decided to sell the asset. It assigned a "carrying value" of AED 147 million to the asset but said the sale was expected to fetch more than that amount.

Source : Reuters

voda 4 december 2015 16:58

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First Reserve partners with Mexico Power Group on wind farm

Published Energy-focused private equity firm First Reserve Corp. said that it was partnering with Mexico Power Group on the construction of a wind farm in Zacatecas, Mexico, that will supply power to a Volkswagen plant once complete.

The La Bufa wind farm is expected to generate 130 megawatts of energy and will be constructed by MPG with help from Cannon Power Group and Gamesa, according to a statement announcing the partnership with First Reserve. Work has already commenced on the project, and the companies said.

Source : Law 360

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voda 4 december 2015 17:10

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North Dakota approve Tioga wind farm

The North Dakota Public Service Commission recently approved a wind farm north of Tioga, the first wind farm for oil-rich northwest North Dakota that had area residents divided at a recent hearing.

Commissioners voted 2-0 to approve the siting for the Lindahl Wind Farm Project, which will involve up to 75 wind turbines about 4 miles north of Tioga.

Tradewind Energy of Lenexa, Kan., said at a hearing in October the 150-megawatt project would help meet the high demand for electricity in the area driven by oil and gas development.

The project was initiated by landowners who first began studying the idea to develop a wind farm in the area in 2008.

But other area residents who spoke at the public hearing said they oppose adding wind turbines to the landscape that's already been transformed by oil and gas development.

Source : inforum.com

voda 4 december 2015 17:21

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Vestas wins 201MW turbine delivery order for EDF RE

Power Technology reported that EDF Renewable Energy has awarded a wind turbine supply order totalling 201MW to Danish power equipment manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems.

Financial details and the name of the project have not been disclosed yet.

Under the deal, Vestas will supply a total of 81 turbines for the US project, of which 51 will be from its V100-2.0 MW models with the rest being V117-3.3 MW turbines.

Besides, supply and commissioning of the power equipment, the Danish giant has also signed a three-year Active Output Management 5,000 service agreement for the wind farm The firm has recently modified and upgraded its 3MW equipment platform for optimised power production at reduced costs.

Source : Power Technology

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voda 3 februari 2016 20:41

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Universiteit VS wil energie uit ‘mechanische bomen’ opwekken

februari 03

UTRECHT – Een groep onderzoekers van de universiteit van Ohio doet onderzoek naar het opwekken van windstroom uit windturbines die eigenlijk meer lijken op mechanische bomen.

Ze schrijven erover in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Journal of Sound and Vibration.

Het principe werkt als volgt: De wind doet de ‘bomen’ heen en weer zwaaien en deze vibraties worden omgezet in elektriciteit met elektromechanische materialen zoals polyvinylideenfluoride. De bomen zouden eigenlijk alleen bestaan uit een stam met een reeks aftakkingen.

Lees ook: Zonder wieken stroom opwekken

Het project hoeft niet beperkt te blijven tot speciale turbines. De onderzoekers kijken ook naar het opwekken van kinetische energie bij gebouwen en bruggen.

Enorme hoeveelheid kinetische energie

Ryan Harne, directeur van het laboratorium voor geluid en vibraties bij de universiteit, legt uit dat gebouwen door de wind rustig bewegen en dat bruggen schommelen als een auto er overheen rijdt.

“Er gaat een enorme hoeveelheid kinetische energie gepaard met deze bewegingen die anders verloren gaan”, aldus Harne. “We willen deze energie opvangen en recyclen.”

Bij eerdere pogingen om dergelijke energie daadwerkelijk te gebruiken haakten wetenschappers uiteindelijk af omdat de energie-opwekking te wispelturig zou zijn. Harne denkt met een nieuw wiskundig model de oplossing te hebben gevonden om toch een consistente productie te kunnen leveren van structuren die lijken op een boom.

Lees hier meer over het onderzoek

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voda 23 februari 2016 20:10

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Wind power surges in Colorado, nationwide - AWEA

According to the American Wind Energy Association, the wind industry nationwide notched its third-best year in 2015 in terms of new wind farms built.

AWEA's new report said that nationwide, the industry installed 8,598 megawatts worth of wind turbines in 2015, with 5,001 megawatts installed during the fourth quarter.

According to AWEA, the 2015 total is a 77 percent increase over 2014.

It said that in Colorado, wind turbines capable of generating 399 megawatts worth of renewable power started spinning in 2015, according to AWEA.

It added that Colorado now has a total of 2,992 megawatts worth of wind turbines in the state.

Two major wind farms came online in Colorado during the fourth quarter:

1. The Carousel wind farm near Burlington in eastern Colorado, developed and owned by NextEra Energy Resources, is capable of generating up to 150 megawatts of power, which is sold to the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.

2. The Golden West Wind Farm in El Paso County, also is owned by NextEra, is capable of generating up to 249 megawatts worth of power, which is sold to Xcel Energy Inc.

And industry experts said that the wind sector is expected to grow following the five-year extension of the federal Production Tax Credit for wind power which passed as part of the $1.1 trillion budget signed by President Barack Obama in December . The budget also included language ending the ban on exporting oil produced in the United States.

In Colorado, Xcel has expressed an interest in adding wind and solar power to its portfolio.

AWEA said that at the start of 2016, about 9,400 megawatts worth of wind farms were under construction.

Source : Biz Journals

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voda 16 maart 2016 13:58

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Wisconsin wind power projects moving forward

AP reported that wind power may be about to pick up in Wisconsin. No major wind farms have been built in the state in the past five years. But that may be about to change.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports nearly 50 wind turbines could be built in southwestern Wisconsin over the next year. A global renewable energy company based in Spain hopes to build the Lafayette County wind farm in 2017. The project is valued at about $200 million.

And state regulators are taking another look at a proposed $250 million wind farm in western Wisconsin.

Emerging Energies of Wisconsin wants to build 44 large wind turbines in St. Croix County. Residents have opposed the project, but the state Public Service commission decided Friday to reopen the case.

Source : AP

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