Sentences with phrase «sea wind farms»

So far 86 applications have been submitted for North Sea wind farms, though just 24 have been approved — and only four are in operation.»

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

Researchers from Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research were led by Professor Han Lindeboom as they studied the short term impact of a North Sea wind farm, publishing their findings on the Environmental Research Letters website.

NDR German public television reported on the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore North Sea wind farm off the northern coast of Germany.

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Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

Following a long, winding drive past literally millions of coffee bushes to the top of the farm, 1,400 meters above sea level, I looked out over the one thousand plus - hectare estate, the largest contiguous coffee farm in the country.

With the United Kingdom, for one, aiming to get some 30 GW of electricity from wind farms in the North Sea within the next decade as part of its E.U. target to get 15 percent of its power — equivalent to about 40 percent of its electricity — from renewables by 2020, there are also proposals to build a giant subsea grid to bring that power ashore.

That means a feed - in tariff for offshore wind in the United Kingdom, improvements on the grid that would take the wind energy produced in the North Sea to the rest of Europe, and operators» making progress on securing permits for the offshore wind farms.

Do offshore wind farms affect sea surface temperatures and evaporation rates?

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The rear part of a nacelle casing on an Adwen M5000 turbine broke off and fell in the sea at the 60MW Alpha Ventus wind farm (pictured) in the German North Ssea at the 60MW Alpha Ventus wind farm (pictured) in the German North SeaSea.

German television has broadcast images of the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

This would link offshore wind farms in the Atlantic ocean and the Irish, North and Baltic seas with customers throughout northern Europe.

I was wondering, if the subsonic sounds injure people, what do the wind farms at see do to whales and other sea creatures?

And the country hosts the world's largest operational offshore wind farm, the Greater Gabbard project in the North Sea.

The United Kingdom has approved plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm: up to 300 turbines with a capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts in the North Sea.

The 15 wind farms in the North Sea in which the company had planned to invest will not be built, at least for now.

Perhaps more interesting, however, is the idea of the «supergrid,» where HVDC lines are used to interconnect entire continents with electricity so that electricity created in one place (such as solar power in the U.S. desert southwest or the Sahara Desert or wind power from offshore wind farms in the windy North Sea) is available wherever it's needed, no matter how far away that electricity is used.

Half a dozen wind farms are still being built in the North Sea, but there are no follow - up contracts.

The Germans invested in offshore wind farms because the wind blows constantly at sea and no land area is needed.

But the dedication of the first commercial German wind farm in the North Sea on August 10 is set to be a low - key affair.

Dutch outfit C - Ventus Offshore Wind Services has won a four - year contract from Innogy to carry out subsea works at the 295MW Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in the German North Wind Services has won a four - year contract from Innogy to carry out subsea works at the 295MW Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in the German North wind farm in the German North Sea.

In July it officially inaugurated London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm, and has begun building Amrumbank West wind farm in the German North Sea.

The wind farm will use Siemens turbines in North Sea waters at depths of around 95 meters (m) to 120 m — much deeper than the 20 m to 50 m at which conventional offshore wind turbines are installed in Europe today.

As is the usual case with offshore wind farms, the strong winds, difficult seas, and relatively deep water make the economics of offshore wind at Cape Mendocino and surrounding areas unattractive.

The cost of offshore wind farms, until recently the most expensive mainstream renewable technology, will slide 71 percent, making turbines based at sea another competitive form of generation.

There is also a wide, shallow continental shelf that makes construction of wind farms far out to sea, beyond the sight of significant opposition, relatively less difficult and costly.

PGE vice president Arkadiusz Sekscinski told Recharge in March that it hopes to secure an environmental permit for its first offshore wind project — the 1GW Baltica wind farm in the Baltic Sea — in 2019, with first power flowing as soon as 2024.

To demonstrate the model we assess the impact of wind farm construction noise on the North Sea harbor porpoise population.

To begin, the companies propose a 10,000 - megawatt wind farm project in the North Sea between Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands that would supply 6 million homes with electricity.

I see nothing about the country's location and landscape that would be impediments to developing these renewable sources, other than being land locked preventing it from having wind farms at sea.

South Korea is also building up wind expertise, primarily through building wind farms in and around its southern island of Jeju in the East China Sea off South Korea's South Coast.

The failure of retaining bolts led to a nacelle casing falling off an Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, according to the project's co-operator EWE.

For example, a wind farm by the ocean is more likely to experience airborne salts stirred up by the sea, whereas the quantity of salt in the atmosphere in inland locations will generally be decreased.

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... when work is completed on the Nordsee Ost wind farm, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the island of Helgoland in the North Sea, the sea air will be filled with a strong smell of fumes: diesel fumSea, the sea air will be filled with a strong smell of fumes: diesel fumsea air will be filled with a strong smell of fumes: diesel fumes.

In terms of renewables, there would be no need to cover Germany with wind farms» We achieve the biggest capacities by replacing smaller wind turbines on land with more powerful ones and by generating wind energy in the North and Baltic Seas».

At the North Sea coast the specialists of E.ON Climate and Renewables (EC&R) and Schleswig - Holstein Netz AG are working hand in hand to maintain the wind farm.

E.ON, one of the world's largest investor - owned power and gas companies, has today agreed to sell an 80 percent stake in its 207 megawatt Rödsand II offshore wind farm to the Danish energy company SEAS - NVE.

GeoSea has kicked off turbine installation at the Otary's 309MW Rentel wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

Fluor entered into a contract with Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd. (GGOWL) to supply the foundations and infrastructure necessary to support 140 wind turbines for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, Englwind turbines for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, EnglWind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, England.

Sea Breeze Power Corp. is a publicly traded Canadian corporation developing wind farms and high - efficiency transmission lines in Canada and the western United States.

This is especially important for offshore wind farms because doing maintenance at sea is a lot more complex and expensive than on the ground.

Several companies in Norway have already begun building high voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany while Airtricity, an Irish wind power company, has plans to build what it calls a «Supergrid» — which would connect offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and Irish, North and Baltic seas with consumers in northern Europe.

Then a new round of testing will be carried out in the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan using a 60m platform with a pair of 200 kW wind lens units, and thereafter the aim is to build an offshore wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 1wind lens units, and thereafter the aim is to build an offshore wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 1wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 1Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 100m.

But ahead there could be even more dramatic developments, like the huge circular supergrid ring main around the edge of the North Sea, with nodal links to wind farm arrays, as proposed by the Dutch Society for Nature and Environment: www.we-at-sea.org/index.php?keuze=n&nummer=5 5

Use surplus electricity from wind farms to desalinate sea water.

As yet no UK landfall site has been indicated, but it could include connection nodes along the route with spurs taking power from offshore wind farms and become the backbone of a new North Sea «supergrid»: the UK and eight other North West EU countries have now agreed to explore interconnector links across the North sea and Irish sSea «supergrid»: the UK and eight other North West EU countries have now agreed to explore interconnector links across the North sea and Irish ssea and Irish seasea.

Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in Germany's first competitive auction for the technology.