Sentences with phrase «commercial wind farms»

Heritage completed construction on the first commercial wind farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in September 2012.

The turbines of commercial wind farms are commonly built on ridges and it is not unusual for them to be struck by lightning.

142.1 (3) and 145.2.1 (2) in respect of the impact on human health of contaminants, such as sound and vibration, discharged from commercial wind farms does not, on its face, depart from the jurisprudential test for establishing a state violation of a person's security of person under Charter s. 7.

Ohio's four - year - old setback law calls for wind turbines on commercial wind farms to be about 1,300 feet from the closest property line.

In comparison, over a quarter (28 %) think the Government should prioritise building commercial wind farms, even if this means some are placed on scenic wild land.

Interior plans a July auction of 164,750 acres off the southern coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts for commercial wind farms.

Turbines began turning at one of Canada's very first commercial wind farms, Cowley Ridge, about an hour west of Lethbridge, back in 1993.

The Checks and Balances Project is scrutinizing Ohio Rep. Bill Seitz (R - Cincinnati), one of the state's most outspoken opponents of commercial wind farms and enforceable clean energy standards.

They contend that unlike the certainty of scientific knowledge which surrounds the effects of the discharge of a contaminant such as mercury, when dealing with the effect of noise and vibrations from commercial wind farms we are dealing with «known unknowns».

South Africa's first commercial wind farm to provide power to Nelson Mandela Bay Football Stadium ahead of crucial England group game

An interesting new study in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy turns on its head conventional wisdom about both the optimum technical solution and spacing for wind power projects so that they generate the most electricity.Researchers from the California Institute of Technology found that large horizontal axis wind turbines, broadly spaced (as in what you likely think of in a commercial wind farm) are far bettered by using shorter, vertical axis turbines, tightly spaced.

Constellation Energy assembled several dozen guests next to one of the behemoths — about the size of a 40 - story building — on Tuesday for a ribbon - cutting for Maryland's first commercial wind farm, even though the turbines started generating electricity months ago.

«The 18 utility - scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green - lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes.

«The concept is simple: a local community co-operative has established to raise funds and purchase a wind turbine in a commercial wind farm development project.

The uncertainty of the state of scientific knowledge about the effects on human health of commercial wind farms, according to the Appellants, materially informs the analysis of the Charter adequacy of the review tests found in EPA ss.