UK wind power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:32:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 UK Wind Farms Do Not Need Fossil Fuel Backup https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-wind-farms-backup-20130614/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-wind-farms-backup-20130614/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:32:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38401 Seemingly an innocent postscript added by mistake to a wildlife article in The Daily Telegraph  a week ago, reports that wind farms might not need as much backup as claimed. The figures listed in the piece indicate that only 22 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy from fossil fuel stations should be added to the total of 23,700 […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-wind-farms-backup-20130614/feed/ 0 38401 New Wind Turbine Blade Design Aims to Be the Longest So Far https://www.greenoptimistic.com/longest-wind-turbine-blade-20130111/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/longest-wind-turbine-blade-20130111/#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:06:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31184 The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) of the UK has chosen Blade Dynamics, a wind turbine developer also from the UK to design and develop the technology to build what would become the longest turbine blades in the world. Measuring in the range of 80 to 100 metres, these would be much longer than the usual […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/longest-wind-turbine-blade-20130111/feed/ 0 31184 High Winds Generate Record UK Wind Power Production https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-record-wind-power-output-20120109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/uk-record-wind-power-output-20120109/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:25:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21878 You know the saying: every cloud has a silver lining. This proved to be particularly true on December 28 as strong winds cut off the power for 100,000 British homes but wind turbines registered a record high power production. Wind turbines present onshore and offshore broke the last peak by 20%, meaning a 12.2% of […]

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