Europe's Largest Onshore Wind Farm Grows With Another 75 Turbines
Europe's biggest onshore wind farm is located in East Renfrewshire and now it is about to have a massive expansion. The company called ScottishPower Renewables plans to add another 75 turbines to Whitelee wind farm on Eaglesham Moor until 2012.
Wind Tunnel Concept Converts Wind Energy Generated by Subway Trains into Electricity
Metropolitan cities around the world build more and more underground subway systems in order to minimize the number of vehicles on the roads. The industrial designers also though to help city authorities by redesigning the current systems, making them more efficient.
Hybrid Wind Turbines Also Working Without Wind, Helped by Biogas
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.
Denmark's New Testing Center for Larger Wind Turbines
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.
$200 Million Wind Project Under Construction in New York
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.
Concrete Bases to Increase Wind Turbine Efficiency for Better Power Production
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.
Wind Turbine Featuring Bamboo Wings, Conceived by Dutch Designer
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).
Solar and Wind Farms Sharing Equipment to Become More Cost-Efficient
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.
Meridian and AGL to Build a 420 Megawatt Wind Farm in Victoria
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...
Wind Lens: A Futuristic Approach For Wind Power Coming from Japan
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.
