Sentences with phrase «drive turbines scales»

Production and installation costs should also be lower once production of direct drive turbines scales up; the example above about the 3 MW turbine nacelle weighting 12 tons less than the 2.3 MW nacelle makes a big difference when you have to ship and install hundreds of turbines...

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While accounting for only a handful of total U.S. solar installations, the development of utility - scale solar thermal systems that concentrate the sun's energy to drive a traditional turbine using very high temperatures have also seen significant growth in recent years.

Given their potential to both drive down the cost of wind energy and increase the geographical range of feasible sites (floating turbines will be able to operate in much deeper waters than fixed - base turbines), wind energy advocates are beginning to look at larger scale deployment.

Two neighborhoods in Sweden's third - largest city, Malmö, will try out a number of small - scale rooftop wind turbines this fall to see which type of wind - driven device will get the most bang for the buck, while not bothering the neighbors with too much noise.

4 Issue 4) that «offshore vertical - axis wind turbines offer the potential for a break through in offshore wind energy availability and reduced life cycle costs due to their design characteristics of few moving parts and the sitting of the generator at the base level potentially allowing large - scale direct drive.