The U.S. added just 4,850 megawatts
in new turbine capacity last year, down from a record 13,000 megawatts in 2012, the industry reported.
Not exact matches
Ameren Missouri said that the
new wind production was expected to be based
in Missouri and neighboring states, using «American - made»
turbines.
With Obama's historic victory
in November, I began to dream of a
new order — of acres of
new wind
turbines silently generating clean energy, of sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.
The provocative
new STP - Lotuses displayed notable speed as the 500 practice pace quickened at the Speedway, but then
in days of agony a
turbine driver died, one
turbine team quit and the Lotuses were threatened
BUFFALO, NY - The
New York State Thruway Authority, as part of the push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for agencies to move toward so called «green energy» sources, installed several wind
turbines a few years ago, projecting it would save $ 300,000 a year
in utility costs.
More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the
New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired
turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.
Chris Huhne yesterday stoked the row over the Coalition's cap on immigration - claiming it could jeopardise plans to open a
new # 100million wind -
turbine factory
in Britain.
A
new wind
turbine is up and running
in Irving - about 30 miles south of Buffalo.
New York is ahead of most other states
in wind - energy production and planning, ranking third
in small land - based wind arrays and planning for potentially hundreds of offshore wind
turbines over the next decade, the federal government said.
In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planner
In the months before design and construction takes place for the
new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas
turbine generators — to be located
in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planner
in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out
in search of concrete answers from project planner
in search of concrete answers from project planners.
New York is one of several states that has an agreement with a consortium of federal agencies that aims to expedite the review process for putting wind
turbines in the Great Lakes.
ALBANY —
New York is moving aggressively to a future powered by renewable energy, with an army of clean energy workers trained to install tens of thousands of solar panels and hundreds of wind
turbines in the next few years.
The Governor also promised that the arrays will not be visible from the coast as
new turbine foundation technology enables construction
in deeper water.
They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two
new gas
turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.
One piece of the
new system to take their place will be 5,000 wind
turbines installed nearly 100 miles out at sea,
in water as deep as 130 feet.
Last week, DOE announced it will hold an auction for the rights to build wind
turbines in 344,000 acres of federal waters off
New Jersey
in November, the latest of several lease auctions it has announced (E&EN ews PM, Sept. 23).
The company expects to have a prototype of the
new crane within a year,
in time for the launch of its V112 three - megawatt
turbine, which will have heavier components and require a crane with a stronger arm than the current Tower Crane has.
Today, the eight
turbines at the Steel Wind project crank out enough clean, green electricity to power more than 6,000 homes
in western
New York, and the 400 - foot - tall windmills have become a visual landmark.
After the powerful current of the East River — which is actually a tidal channel — damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades, the company earlier this month whittled its test bed down to two
turbines with
new aluminum — magnesium blades 16 feet (five meters)
in diameter.
Another $ 3.3 million has come
in from the Canadian government — Verdant is testing a
new type of
turbine in the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ontario, that sits on the riverbed rather than being moored to the bottom.
Recently, the UK government set out its own Clean Growth Strategy, committing # 2.5 billion between 2015 and 2021, with hundreds of million to be invested
in new generations of small nuclear power stations and offshore wind
turbines.
Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year
in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient
new natural gas
turbines.
New Scientist reported that wind
turbines are one of «Japan's energy options
in a non-nuclear future» (21 May, p 10).
Massachusetts has invested $ 113 million
in the
New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, a 26 - acre parcel designed to withstand the heavy loads needed to accommodate large wind
turbines.
One area that requires scientific expertise is environmental assessment,
in which the site that will house the
turbines is studied to determine whether drinking water, plants, or animals will be affected by a
new wind - power facility.
It's less costly to get electricity from wind
turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored
in, according to a
new study published
in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Another approach operates at the bottom of
New York City's East River, where
in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like
turbines — each 16 feet (five meters)
in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.
Verdant plans to next year test a
new type of
turbine in Canada on the Saint Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario, that is heavily weighted and sits on the riverbed rather than being moored to the bottom.
But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of
new wind
turbines for each
turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of
new solar cell arrays for every array
in use today.
Currently, three projects are pending license, including one by Verdant Power that will install up to 30
turbines in New York City's East River.
By 2010, Verdant's hope is to increase its
turbine farm
in New York City to 30 devices producing more than a megawatt of energy (800 households use about one megawatt).
Advances
in high - temperature components and improved system modeling, combined with the potential for conversion costs an order of magnitude lower than those of
turbines, suggest that TPV could offer a pathway for efficiently storing and producing electrical power from solar thermal sources, a
new study suggests.
Such enhanced modeling and simulation capabilities held the potential to dramatically accelerate future product development cycles and could provide GE with
new insights into
turbine engine performance earlier
in the design process instead of after testing physical prototypes.
Applying its
new methods to the 2015 gas
turbine, the team predicted a low instability level
in the latest design that was acceptable for operation and would not affect performance.
Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem
in KU's Department of Geography are co-authors of a
new study just published
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the effects of large wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the
turbines can generate.
(
New turbine designs can help keep frequency
in line.)
The
new alloy — a potential replacement for high - performance permanent magnets found
in automobile engines and wind
turbines — eliminates the use of one of the scarcest and costliest rare earth elements, dysprosium, and instead uses cerium, the most abundant rare earth.
At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand
in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by
newer natural gas — fired
turbines.
The
new plan calls for no more than 0.5 percent of any state's land to be covered
in solar panels or wind
turbines.
Collisions with wind
turbines kill about 100 golden eagles a year
in some locations, but a
new study that maps both potential wind - power sites and nesting patterns of the birds reveals sweet spots, where potential for wind power is greatest with a lower threat to nesting eagles.
The idea is that the
new layer will be used
in both aircraft engines and gas
turbines within two years.
But those incidental take permits usually span only about 5 - 10 years, and a condition of those permits is that for every eagle killed by a wind
turbine, the energy company has to offset the loss by ensuring birth of a
new eagle somewhere else or prevent an eagle
in another location from dying from other causes.
Verdant Power, Inc. completed the next phase of a series of component tests
in support of its major tidal energy
turbine project
in New York City's East River.
Along with Park's previously - untold story, players will also get some
new custom weapons that are usable
in both the DLC and
in the main campaign, including a neat
turbine - based laser.
Deep Silver has made a brand
new trailer showing off all of naildâ $ ™ s exciting environments and the crazy stuff you do
in them â $ «like jumping over trains and flying through
turbine blades and riding on the side of a dam.
Both the 2.0 - liter
in the Boxster and the 2.5
in the S share parts and engineering / technology with the
new turbo flat - six engines found
in the 911 range, with the S employing 911 Turbo - derived variable
turbine geometry for better throttle response at low and high revs.
Think percolating power instead of
turbine - like smoothness, and a
new kind of liveliness
in the all - wheel - drive chassis.
In addition, the V6 engine features a
new turbine speed sensor, which allows for the twin - turbo system to perform at up to 220,000 rpm — at steady condition and 240,000 rpm at transient condition — higher than ever before for a V6 power unit.
The increase
in engine power by 50 bhp over the» regular «power unit is provided
in the
new 911 GT2 by two turbochargers with a larger compressor wheel and a flow - optimised
turbine housing raising turbocharger pressure to an even higher level.
In order to perfect the entire visual appearance, MANSORY devised
new, striking fully - forged
turbine - design wheels for the...