Archive for category Wind Power

Hybrid Wind Turbines Also Working Without Wind, Helped by Biogas

Posted by Mike in Wind Power on September 2, 2010

A new hybrid gas-wind turbine called SmartGen has been designed to work on low winds based on a system that turns the turbine with compressed air from a compressor running on biogas.

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Denmark’s New Testing Center for Larger Wind Turbines

Posted by Mike in Wind Power on August 31, 2010

As a world leader in wind energy technology, Denmark is working on developing larger turbines. In this respect, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark plans to create an improved testing center.

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$200 Million Wind Project Under Construction in New York

Posted by Mike in Wind Power on August 31, 2010

The American company Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. is now working on a new wind farm project in Herkimer County, New York. The project is one of the seven new wind farms Iberdrola Renewables currently has under construction around the U.S.

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Concrete Bases to Increase Wind Turbine Efficiency for Better Power Production

Posted by Mike in Green Designs, Wind Power on August 30, 2010

The use of concrete bases can prove significantly profitable, considering wind turbine towers, as this has to do with diminishing, by more than two-thirds, the quantity of concrete used for the footings of a single tower.

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Wind Turbine Featuring Bamboo Wings, Conceived by Dutch Designer

Posted by Ovidiu in Green Designs, Wind Power on August 23, 2010

Dutch engineers are all body and soul for windmills and wind turbines, because that’s how their country can exist in its actual shape (windmills used to extract water from swampy places and pump it into the sea).

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Solar and Wind Farms Sharing Equipment to Become More Cost-Efficient

Posted by Mike in Solar Power, Wind Power on August 18, 2010

A team of researchers at the University of Western Ontario has developed a new way to use solar and wind power installations to reduce costs and improve their cost efficiency. Two Ontario power companies have already signed on to use the new technology.

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Meridian and AGL to Build a 420 Megawatt Wind Farm in Victoria

Posted by Mike in Wind Power on August 13, 2010

AGL Energy Limited (AGL) in partnership with Meridian Energy plan to build one of the world’s largest wind farms that will be able to generate 420 MW of power, at Macarthur in Victoria, Australia. According to officials, this wind farm is expected to go online by 2013 for a cost of nearly $1 billion.

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Wind Lens: A Futuristic Approach For Wind Power Coming from Japan

Posted by Ovidiu in Wind Power on August 7, 2010

An innovation in the field of wind power comes from Yokohama’s Renewable Energy International Exhibition 2010, through the form of a so-called “Wind Lens”. Developed by professor Yuji Ohya, the 112-meter in diameter turbine acts just like a magnifying glass, focusing the wind’s power to the center of the hoop.

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Mobile Wind Turbine Generates Both Solar and Wind Energy

Posted by Mike in Solar Power, Wind Power on July 29, 2010

Honolulu-based Natural Power Concepts has recently designed a mobile, retractable-blade wind turbine that is capable to generate both solar and wind energy. Being equipped with solar panels, this turbine becomes one of the newest inventions in the alternative energy field.

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3,000 MW of Wind Power to Be Built Near Los Angeles by Next Year

Posted by Ovidiu in Wind Power on July 23, 2010

Wind power is the best there is right now in terms of reliability and ease of deployment, at least in some areas of the world. The Californian government, for example, has set an objective to have 33% of their energy coming from renewable resources by 2020.

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