Sentences with phrase «wind resource area»

Altamont Winds LLC, applied (March 2014) for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow the Summit Wind Repower Project, to replace 569 wind turbines in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA), with up to 33 new turbines with a production capacity of 54 megawatts (MW).

The common misconception that all wind farms result in high avian mortality derives from high mortality occurrences at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area.

For purposes of statistical clarity, the authors omitted mortalities from the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area in Northern California, where conservative estimates have it that between 60 and 75 eagles perish each year.

The economic argument for larger turbines can be made across all wind resource areas in the US, says Bruce Hamilton, a director in Navigant Consulting's energy practice.

The only promising sign (as of November 2010) seems to be the Eyre Peninsula Wind Project, a proposal to build major power lines on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula to connect to major wind resource areas.

Not exact matches

As the wildfires raged and winds blew unpredictably, oil producers in the area — including Suncor, Syncrude, Shell, Canadian Natural Resources and Husky — were forced to cease operations and evacuate employees.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

Crafting is not just about making a weapon to use in self - defence though as Lara can gather herbs and cloth to heal her wounds, while certain tools such as rope arrows can eventually be crafted with enough resources which is an excellent design choice as it results in Lara not being able to enter some caves until she has crafted a rope arrow and returned to explore the area once more.

It strongly improves the case for wind and solar if it can ship power from the areas of strong resource to markets far away.

Statoil believes its Hywind floating wind turbine technology will enable greater exploitation of offshore wind resources by allowing expansion into new deep - water areas around the world.

One of the greatest impediments to the development of sustainable energy in Australia, especially wind power, is the lack of high - capacity transmission lines from the areas where the renewable resources are, to the markets.

Part of that strategy is identifying areas with a large wind resource — a prospecting process that requires high - quality wind measurements at the height of the wind turbines.

A new NOAA dataset of wind forecasts could help the energy industry identify which offshore areas in the United States have the best potential for wind resource development.

Rather, area grid electricity tends to come from Clean Hydro - Electric resources, and regional Wind resources may have even more potential.

The Wind Facts pages contain facts and resources that address a number of areas of key interest to Canadians: how wind works, health, reliability, affordability and environment and wildlWind Facts pages contain facts and resources that address a number of areas of key interest to Canadians: how wind works, health, reliability, affordability and environment and wildlwind works, health, reliability, affordability and environment and wildlife.

Many countries, including the U.S., have coastal areas with high wind resource potential.

We've been doing that, while at the same time assessing environmental concerns in this very unique area and also getting a very deep understanding of what the wind resource looks like.»

«Superimposition of wind and solar resource maps shows that there are large areas where both wind and solar have high to moderate potential,» said the ministry.

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A map of US wind resources shows those are the only areas onshore in California with sufficient average wind.

My comments on reaching the limit of California's wind resources are based on the fact that California has but three onshore areas where wind turbines are economic at this time.

On the information available to me when I first wrote this section, Silverton seemed an odd choice of site; the Wind Resource Map of Australia and the NSW wind resource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern VictoWind Resource Map of Australia and the NSW wind resource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern VResource Map of Australia and the NSW wind resource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern Victowind resource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern Vresource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern Victoria.

MNRE said: «Superimposition of wind and solar resource maps shows that there are large areas where both wind and solar have high to moderate potential,» adding that a twin - track approach could smooth output to the grid and make maximum use of existing network capacity.

Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi, «Providing All Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials,» Energy Policy, vol.

Offshore wind is still one of the more expensive electricity generating technologies, but onshore wind is often highly competitive with coal, natural gas, and nuclear power in areas with strong wind resources.

The hope is that you have enough wind resources spread out over areas, that the swings will cancel out somewhat.

Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.

Charles Feinstein EAP Sector Manager, Energy and Water PSLO Seminar November 6, 2013 Agenda Focal areas Institutional capacity building and policy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supporting T&D /

Expansion of wind power into high - quality resource areas is important for realizing the Study Scenario at cost levels described in Wind Viswind power into high - quality resource areas is important for realizing the Study Scenario at cost levels described in Wind VisWind Vision.

Strong wind resources exist in offshore areas of Queensland, but these areas abut the World Heritage - listed Great Barrier Reef.

Domestically, this will prove most crucial in areas like Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, where exploitation of wind resources has been stymied by the electricity grid's inability to deliver the power to urban markets.

«This area has some of the last good remaining wind resources in all of California.

Am I located in an area with ample wind resources?

As with any renewable resource, some areas are better than others for home wind energy.

Our ocean research should focus on things we need to know to wisely manage our resources, industries, and coastal areas, no matter which way the wind blows in the years to come.

Compared with western Europe, the current leader in offshore wind energy, the United States is estimated to have more abundant and favorable onshore wind resources, which are largely located in areas with low population density.

Much of the high - potential onshore wind resources are located in low - population - density areas (i.e., the Great Plains).

A new study by the Wind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tiWind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tiwind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tiwind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tides.

Creating jobs: Wind turbine manufacturing companies have recently opened facilities in Iowa (Clipper Windpower), Minnesota (Suzlon), and Pennsylvania (Gamesa), and wind turbine orders are creating jobs all the way down the supply chain, sometimes in areas that do not have a large wind resource, such as LouisiWind turbine manufacturing companies have recently opened facilities in Iowa (Clipper Windpower), Minnesota (Suzlon), and Pennsylvania (Gamesa), and wind turbine orders are creating jobs all the way down the supply chain, sometimes in areas that do not have a large wind resource, such as Louisiwind turbine orders are creating jobs all the way down the supply chain, sometimes in areas that do not have a large wind resource, such as Louisiwind resource, such as Louisiana.

The land area of Australia is 5 % that of the whole world, 5 % of 167PWhr is 8350TWhr; presumably this would be a fair estimate of the full potential of Australia's wind power, if all, rather than just the best, resources were harnesed.

I have neglected these for the purpose of estimating Australia's wind resource, because the map indicates a second rate resource in these places and this page deals only with the areas having first rate wind resources.

Halifax — Bullfrog Power, Canada's leading green energy provider, is pleased to announce an agreement with Alternative Resource Energy Authority (AREA), a partnership between the Towns of Berwick and Mahone Bay, to source clean, pollution - free electricity from a proposed wind farm in Nova Scotia developed by Minas Energy.

The «Wind Resource Atlas of the United States» will give you a rough idea if your area has wind potentWind Resource Atlas of the United States» will give you a rough idea if your area has wind potentwind potential.

Class 1 areas are generally not suitable, although a few locations (e.g., exposed hilltops not shown on the maps) with adequate wind resource for wind turbine applications may exist in some class I areas.»

Due to the rapid increase in wind development projects in the Northeast, Wildlife Biologists and Natural Resource Managers are expressing their growing concerns regarding large scale development and its impacts to sensitive habitat and the wildlife that inhabit these areas.

Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), working together with Deepwater Wind, Energy Management, Inc. (owner of Cape Wind in Massachusetts) and NRG Bluewater Wind, have drafted a set of protective measures that these developers will voluntarily implement over the next four years in areas designated by the administration as Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Areas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia (map available here: http://on.doi.gov/UWoareas designated by the administration as Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Areas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia (map available here: http://on.doi.gov/UWoAreas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia (map available here: http://on.doi.gov/UWoNPF).

Moreover, wind and solar resource maps have discovered significant areas in India where both solar and wind have a high to moderate potential.

High capacity power transmission lines cost in the order of a million dollars per kilometre and wind farms need to be built in areas with a good wind resource, so financially viable wind farm sites are limited.

A similar wind farm, with undersea transmission cable, could be built on Kangaroo Island, where the wind resource is probably even better than in this area.

40 % is exceptionally high for any wind farm and it is at least partly due to the very high quality of the wind resource in the area.