Sentences with phrase «in the wind power sector»

Whether you are an owner, developer, or fellow contractor in the wind power sector, emergency preparedness and ensuring worker safety should be a significant part of your planning process at all stages of construction.

Applauding the clean energy employment gains made in the US in the second quarter of the year, E2 also notes that the looming expiration of the federal production tax credit (PTC) is already dampening further gains in the wind power sector.

She said Denmark was dependent upon importing fuel and oil, but has now created 30,000 jobs in the wind power sector.

Not exact matches

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

The aim of the event was to enhance the capability of the Ghanaian power sector to address the challenges of integrating renewable energy resources like wind, solar and hydropower in the national grid.

This was strategic development — a calculation that a strong solar sector would do more for the economy in the long term — whereas support for wind power made more immediate economic sense.

Joanna Lewis, an associate professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said China's wind power sector has also been aided by a steep decline in manufacturing and installation costs, as well as the establishment of a robust domestic supply chain, led by the nation's industry leader, Goldwind.

Our owners are deeply experienced in the energy sector and understand the nature of the industry and the crucial need for ramp - up time to create profitable, utility - scale, ocean - based wind power.

Furthermore, powerful actors with vested interests in fossil fuels are working to remove the incentives for wind power that has made it competitive with the dirty energy sector that enjoys billions of dollars in subsidies.

Their analysis focused on four well - researched, cost - effective emission reduction measures: energy efficiency, wind and solar generation in the electric sector, and conversion from gas - powered to electric light - duty vehicles in the transportation sector.

Enbridge has joined compatriot Northland Power in pressing into the European offshore wind sector.

The former head of the southern German state of Baden - Württemberg has cautioned that Germany is pushing energy sector reforms too fast, pointing out that investments in solar and wind power don't match the speed of grid extension and storage capacity.

Despite the broadening range of data analytics players competing in the renewables sector so far, no one company is dominant in the digital services space for wind energy, solar power or energy storage yet.

OPINION Wind power has already made huge breakthroughs and the nascent floating industry is well placed to feel the benefit, writes Henrik Stiesdal in the latest of a series of columns by key figures in the sector

In the solar and wind sectors, India has switched to an auction - based system which makes companies compete for renewable energy contracts to sell power, incentivizing decreased prices.

India Climate Dialogue India's wind energy sector is in the midst of preparing a roadmap to unlock the potential of offshore farms and to devise ways to integrate them with the onshore power grids.

Recharge news Worldwide wind capacity additions slowed slightly in 2017 to 52.57 GW as China, the US and Germany again powered ahead, and Europe, India and the offshore sector had record years, annual market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) swind capacity additions slowed slightly in 2017 to 52.57 GW as China, the US and Germany again powered ahead, and Europe, India and the offshore sector had record years, annual market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) sWind Energy Council (GWEC) show.

Cleantech Group The wind power sector has been somewhat overshadowed by the unprecedented drop in the cost of solar power in recent years.

Recharge news Despite current uncertainties affecting the Brazilian wind power sector, the industry's long - term outlook is solid and the country will remain a leading force in the global renewable energy market a decade from now, according to Morten Dyrholm, chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWwind power sector, the industry's long - term outlook is solid and the country will remain a leading force in the global renewable energy market a decade from now, according to Morten Dyrholm, chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWWind Energy Council (GWEC).

Also, he said, the state will work with them on other job opportunities and retraining in the power and utility sectors including renewable technologies like solar and wind.

The 11th - hour extension of the solar Investment Tax Credit and the wind Production Tax Credit at the end of 2015 also played a big role in those power sector trends, something Pruitt noted in a Monday announcement that he would repeal the CPP.

That's according to Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) secretary general Steve Sawyer, who said Monday that any chance of limiting the human - induced rise in global temperatures to below 2 degrees C depends upon achieving a carbon - free global power sector by 2050.

Industry leaders, regulators and government officials were unanimous in predicting a bright outlook for the wind power sector that has been growing at a breakneck speed in recent times.

A wind production tax credit, meanwhile, will give the wind power industry — the fastest growing energy sector in the world — about $ 5 million for each of the next two years.

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

In February 2018, the GWEC released its annual market statistics and stated that «wind is the most competitively priced technology in many if not most markets; and the emergence of wind / solar hybrids, more sophisticated grid management and increasingly affordable storage begin to paint a picture of what a fully commercial fossil - free power sector will look like.&raquIn February 2018, the GWEC released its annual market statistics and stated that «wind is the most competitively priced technology in many if not most markets; and the emergence of wind / solar hybrids, more sophisticated grid management and increasingly affordable storage begin to paint a picture of what a fully commercial fossil - free power sector will look like.&raquin many if not most markets; and the emergence of wind / solar hybrids, more sophisticated grid management and increasingly affordable storage begin to paint a picture of what a fully commercial fossil - free power sector will look like.»

EREC is the umbrella organisation of the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations active in the sectors of photovoltaics, small hydropower, solar thermal, bioenergy, geothermal, ocean, concentrated solar power and wind energy, The European renewable energy sector has an annual turnover of EUR 70 billion and employs 550.000 people.

FACE TO FACE Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro's signing of the biggest corporate power purchase agreement in the wind sector to - date is a further filip to the fast - evolving market in Europe.

The one, teensy, weensy problem with the wind industry's «save the planet» pitch is that 100 % of the capacity from intermittent and unreliable wind power has to be backed - up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generators running in the background and burning fuel ALL the time — and, therefore, increases CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

In this note we provide the first long - term outlook for utility scale wind and solar with the tax extenders in place and discuss the implications for compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPPIn this note we provide the first long - term outlook for utility scale wind and solar with the tax extenders in place and discuss the implications for compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPPin place and discuss the implications for compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (Power Plan (CPP).

In other words, the significance of the DOI auction is really more about public sector support for offshore wind innovation rather than how many homes the leases will potentially power.

It plans to boost the share of renewables such as wind and solar power, with the goal of cutting emissions of major pollutants in the power sector 60 percent by 2020.

Apex, an independent energy solutions provider, was awarded a 2016 Green Power Leadership Award by the Center for Resource Solutions in October for its leadership in bringing wind capacity to market and its expansion of direct purchasing of clean energy by the public and private sectors.

In 2016, total power sector investment surpassed that of oil and gas for the first time, propelled by renewables, mostly solar and wind.

When I try to envision these three — Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford — in the private sector I get the tobacco industry of the 60's and substandard oil and coal and wind power companies with serious liquidity problems.

There is already so much intermittent wind [power] generation in the Great Lakes Region that demand is over-supplied, prices are collapsing and generation must be curtailed, said the report released in June by the council, a non-profit organization formed by volunteers from universities, public sector business leaders, and labour.

This American study details just why increasing wind power capacity — and trying to incorporate its wildly fluctuating output into a coal and gas fired grid — results in increased CO2 emissions across the electricity sector.

The ONLY justification for the massive stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and directed to wind power outfits is the claim that wind power reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity sector and, therefore, provides a solution to climate change (or what used to be called «global warming»).

For wind power to reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector it has be a true «substitute» for conventional generation sources.

As we have pointed out just once or twice — the need for 100 % of wind power capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources means that wind power can not and will never reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector (see our posts here and here and here and here and here and here and here).

Perhaps the reason that the wind industry has never produced a shred of evidence to show that wind power has reduced CO2 emissions in Australia's electricity sector is simply because it can't.

That was due entirely to changes in the power sector, the result of falling electricity demand and growth in wind, solar and hydropower generation.

Minnesota's massive investment in wind power has reduced CO2 emissions from the electricity generation sector slightly, but that reduction has been below average compared with the nation as a whole.

The company announced plans to close the plants in October, saying they were having trouble competing against low power prices, cheap natural gas and Texas» growing wind and solar sector.

The central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to «justify» the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours» health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

Although wind turbines have become familiar in much of the U.S., wind power still (2013) only accounts for about 4 % of the power sector.

The ONLY justification for wind power — the massive subsidies upon which it entirely depends (see our post here); spiralling power prices (see our post here); and the suffering caused to neighbours by incessant low - frequency noise and infrasound (see our post here)-- is the claim that it reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

Interest in the ambitious EU research programme Horizon 2020, which begins in January and is open to different aspects of the wind power sector, continued to build last week in Brussels during a seminar organised by EWEA.

*** Things got serious in Australia's energy sector as soon as the wind power debacle in South Australia started making the front pages of Australia's metropolitan dailies.