Sentences with phrase «large turbines located»
Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmission cables.
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Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.
Maybe at some point the manufacturing plants for large offshore turbines will need to be located right on the shore so that the turbine parts don't have to be transported by road or rail..
Wind Energy's primary application of relevance to climate change mitigation is to produce electricity from large wind turbines located on land or offshore.
Scotland's Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, announced on Wednesday the formal consent for two adjacent offshore wind farm applications to be located in the outer Moray Firth, which will combine to be the world's third largest offshore wind farm with up to 326 wind turbines.
The Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farms are set to be located 22.2 kilometers off the west coast of the Netherlands and will have a maximum capacity of between 700 and 750 MW — likely hovering in that middle area due to the potential availability of larger offshore wind turbines.