windfarm Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:26:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Walney Extension: World’s largest offshore wind farm opens in UK waters https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:26:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67132 On Thursday, the world’s largest offshore windfarm will open off the coast of northwest England. The wind farm, named Walney Extension, has a capacity of 659 megawatts (MW), enough to power almost 600,000 homes. The previously largest offshore windfarm was the London Array on England’s east coast which has a capacity of 630 MW. Walney […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-opens-20180918/feed/ 0 67132 Google’s New Dutch Data Center to be Powered by a New Wind Farm https://www.greenoptimistic.com/googles-new-dutch-data-center-powered-new-wind-farm-20141120/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/googles-new-dutch-data-center-powered-new-wind-farm-20141120/#respond Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:43:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50268 Google announced their latest investment in a giant wind farm to power their new data center in the Netherlands. The wind farm is currently under construction by one of Netherland’s lead energy companies, Eneco, and it is set to begin operation in 2016. Google has been investing enormously in green power projects over the past few […]

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