Archive for category Wind Power

Texas Wind Turbine Research Center to Open in October

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Wind Power on May 12, 2012

The Scales Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art wind turbine research facility in the Texas Panhandle, is expected to become fully operational starting October. Stephanie Holinka, a Sandia National Laboratories’ spokesperson, said that the first phase of this project is being constructed by collaboration with Sandia’s academic and private partners. The other collaborators involved [...]

UK and Denmark to Throw Cables at Each Other for Transferring Wind Power

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Wind Power on May 4, 2012

UK and Denmark are contemplating and studying options to construct a connector power cable between them to facilitate the import and export of the renewable wind energy that they both generate so as to increase market competition. This is according to a Monday report given by the countries’ grid operators. An initial interconnector study will [...]

French Wind Turbine Produces Water From Atmospheric Humidity

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Wind Power on May 2, 2012

French company Eole Water has developed and is in the process of marketing an amazing invention- a modified wind turbine that has the capacity to produce fresh water for human consumption. This, states Eole Water, is a boon to remote communities challenged by the lack of fresh drinking water. The new product, named WMS1000, has [...]

Wind Farms Warm Local Climate Slightly, Albany Study Says

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on April 30, 2012

Researchers at the University of Albany have studied the effect of wind farms on local climate over a region of Texas that’s home to over 2,350 wind turbines. Their results showed an increase in temperature of 0.72 degrees in that area compared to neighboring sites that didn’t have wind farms on them. The study took [...]

100 of GE’s Most Efficient Wind Turbines Shipped to Turkey

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on April 20, 2012

General Electric recently informed that it will land some of its most efficient wind turbines in Turkey – the 1.5-MW ones, about 100 of them, from a manufacturing facility in Salzbergen, Germany. You might be wondering why Turkey in particular and not some other European state, but it makes perfect sense to start a project [...]

Wind Farms’ Impact on Bird Population Not as High as Thought, Study Suggests

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on April 18, 2012

A wind farm is a very economical form of renewable energy in the long run. But wind power harvesting has a few drawbacks, as well. One of the major problems caused by wind farms was considered to be the decreasing of bird population, but studies show that this issue is not actually as big as [...]

South Africa Wind Power Industry Offering New Wind Atlas for Builders

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on March 14, 2012

Technology in renewable energy advances all the time. For South Africa it means that, as an investor, you don’t have to go by foot anymore to see if it’s worth putting money in a wind power project. Since yesterday, you now have the first verified wind atlas that tells you which spot is a winner [...]

The First Floating Wind Farm to Replace Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Nuclear Power, Wind Power on March 9, 2012

The Fukushima disaster in the spring of 2011 was first of all an environmental disaster for Japan. But like the Phoenix bird that is reborn from its own ashes, the site could become the home of world’s first offshore, floating wind farm. The government intends to install two 7-megawatt turbines and another 2-megawatt turbine off [...]

Wind Harvester – New Horizontal Wind Turbine That Produces Energy From Low Winds

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on February 28, 2012

If you’ve only seen wind turbines in a picture and never really been up there next to one, you probably don’t realize how much noise it makes and how picky it can be: it needs its own space around and high winds to go with it. Don’t worry, you haven’t been missing much – especially [...]

Researchers Warning about Hurricane Effects on Offshore Wind Farms to be Built by Government

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on February 14, 2012

Whoever saw a wind turbine in action and a storm in action can imagine how it would be like these two met – and they do, on a regular basis. Not few wind turbines have been destroyed by powerful storms, but hurricanes could be even more fatal to them, they the poor expensive sticks rising [...]

Illinois Tops 2011 List for Wind Farm Installations

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on February 3, 2012

Illinois is at the top of the 2011 wind farm installation list with 404 wind turbines installed, just after California for the total amount of power capacity. The trend benefitst he manufacturing activity: 28 manufacturing facilities out of the national 400 are only in this state alone. In this sense, Illinois continued to evolve from [...]

World's Largest Wind Farm in Wyoming to Be Equipped with 1000 Wind Turbines

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on January 19, 2012

Although the word “wind farm” makes you think about a bunch of wind turbines, it’s usually not more than a few of them cluttered together or at best, a few hundred. But when you say the Wyoming wind farm, then you know you’re talking big. How big? Like 1000-wind-turbines big! The 2500 GW to be [...]

Study Describes Wind Power Dependence on Atmospheric Stability

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on January 19, 2012

Scientists from LLNL, University of Colorado at Boulder and the NREL have recently assessed the performance figures of a wind turbine producing energy on the East Coast, and found how power depends on atmospheric stability. “The dependence of power on stability is clear, regardless of whether time periods are segregated by three-dimensional turbulence, turbulence intensity [...]

Windlens: Three Times More Efficient Wind Turbine Developed in Japan

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on January 18, 2012

After the Fukushima disaster wiped out the future of nuclear energy, wind energy has taken on a new swing: a wind turbine that could generate twice or even three times the energy that regular turbines put out so far. Ever since March last year, a team at the Kyushu University have been testing their “Windlens” [...]

700 MW Offshore Wind Farm Built by Swedish Government

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on January 12, 2012

Building wind farms off the coast is quite pricey, but it will totally be worth the cost: winds out there are very strong and the potential for energy really high. One of the places that can boast with having this potential is in the Baltic Sea, near Sweden’s southeastern shores. The country already has 6 [...]

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