Sentences with phrase «farm turbine towers»

Yesterday, a South Australian Department of Environment and Heritage officer collected the remains of a juvenile wedge - tailed eagle from the base of one of the Waterloo wind farm turbine towers.

Not exact matches

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

With wind farm operators and turbine technicians active at 295 wind farms across Canada, workforce development and a range of health and safety best practices in areas like electrical safety, fall arrest equipment, up - tower rescues, confined spaces and ergonomics were on the summit agenda.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

The main tower, which will rise 1,776 feet, will include solar panels and a wind farm, the turbines of which are expected to deliver around one megawatt of power, enough to provide up to 20 % of the building's expected demand.

The wind farm, composed of ten 1.5 megawatt turbines atop 210 foot high towers, will take advantage of high winds at the top of Laurel Mountain.

Iowa Code § 427B.26 allows counties, by ordinance, to provide for the special valuation of wind energy conversion property, which includes all wind farm facilities, including the wind charger, windmill, wind turbine, tower and electrical equipment, pad mount transformers, power lines and substation.

Driving down the Interstate, I've seen lots of wind farms where a big percentage of the turbines are no longer even working, leaving junked towers in their wake.

Sending trained personnel to inspect wind turbines, solar farms, bridges or cell - phone towers is always an expensive, often risky, affair.

The Wind Catcher Connection project involves a wind farm being developed by Invenergy that, if built, would consist of 800 wind towers powered by 2.5 - megawatt wind turbines built by GE Renewable Energy.

Recently these farms have become enormous, using large wind turbines, blades, and towers.

Energy companiesí proposals to build «wind farms» - i.e., wind turbines mounted on tall towers - to produce electricity involve complex community and public policy issues.

If something goes wrong with a wind turbine, it's often shut down until technicians can arrive, climb the tower to assess the problem, and then make repairs — a process that can be especially difficult and time - consuming because wind farms are often located in remote areas.

In Germany locals are blocking the power lines that are being built to accommodate new wind farms; in Britain angry country - folk are trying to block the towering turbines themselves and the solar plants overspreading nearby fields; in Massachusetts, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was fought by Native American activists as well as a local tribal elder named Robert F. Kennedy, Jr..

A word about Wind A 1 Gigawatt wind farm would have 200 x 5 Megawatt wind turbine towers.

Earlier this year, the 400 ft service tower of the Co-operative Insurance CIS building in the centre of Manchester was covered with 7,000 solar panels, and an inner city wind farm was established by erecting 19 micro-wind turbines on the roof of another CIS building in the city.

Financial Times In João Camara, a remote area in Brazil's north - east, the car in which I am a passenger drives beneath a great row of wind turbines in João Camara, halting at one of the looming towers that make up this wind farm.

• Edom Hill Wind Farm, Cathedral City, CA Client: BP Alternative Energy, 3/2008 — 8/2008 Scope: $ 11.6 M BOP contract included decommissioning of (139) aging WindMatic Turbines for resale, removal of 8 met towers and overhead collector system.