Sentences with phrase «large turbines up»

Deep - water wind supporters in Maine believe that by 2030 they can grab 5 gigawatts of power with arrays of large turbines up to 50 miles off the coast, away from conflicts and where the winds blow strong and consistent.

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Everyone knows that wind turbine which are built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see more then four turning.

They braved the harsh conditions in the middle of the night to set up a large searchlight with specially designed reflecting optics to generate a gigantic light sheet next to the 130 - meter - tall wind turbine for illuminating the snow particles in a 36 - meter - wide - by -36-meter-high area.

Geared turbines are extremely effective today, but they will incur higher costs as they are scaled up to larger wind platforms because of additional weight and maintenance needs, Longtin said.

«If I'm in a conversation with a potential employee and the name Vestas comes up — which is the world's largest supplier of turbines — and they say, «Who is that?»

It's based on the 3.8 - liter unit used in the 911 Turbo S but gets larger turbochargers (with Porsche's variable turbine geometry) capable of providing up to 22.5 psi of boost.

The new turbocharger, with larger impeller and turbine wheels, can build up a boost pressure as high as 1.2 bar.

The country's largest wind farm to date is expected to start producing power this summer; the total of 54 wind turbines due to be installed by 2010 will be able to generate up to 135MW.

This includes an evaluation of low - cost methods for undertaking floating - to - floating heavy lift operations, a study to identify cost - effective technologies and strategies for monitoring and inspection, and another to assess the impact of larger turbines (up to 15 MW) on floating foundations.

Until the Haliade - X enters operation, however, and assuming no competitors have an ace up their sleeves, MHI Vestas will hold on to the title of world's largest wind turbine in operation and will top it themselves when it begins installing its V164 - 9.5 MW wind turbines at Belgium's Northwester 2 offshore wind farm.

That opened a downstream channel large enough to flow 13,000 cfs through Oroville's Hyatt Power Plant's hydro turbines, barely keeping up with low inflows (DWR 2017e).

The United Kingdom has approved plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm: up to 300 turbines with a capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts in the North Sea.

As wind turbine technology catches up with the latest solar cell inventions, other research on bird collision risk and marine mammal injury mitigation will complete preparations for larger scale wind - energy projects, just as recent research is also providing evidence of varying bird risks occurring at different heights (and for different species.)

Four states — Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — are all looking at putting large wind turbine farms up to 12 miles offshore where they're far enough away from the coast to minimize tourism impacts but still close enough to provide large amounts of electricity to the states.

Larger wind turbines are put on taller pillars, and the wind speed up there is usually somewhat higher.

But the offshore - wind resource is very large, perhaps up to 200 GW in the North Sea, or much more if deep - sea floating wind turbines can be successfully deployed — up to 406 GW in all according to the Public Interest Research Centres Offshore Evaluation.

Kenneth Artz — Heartland.org — December 2012 Environmentalists are joining forces to oppose a planned wind farm in southern Wyoming that is planned include up to 1,000 large wind turbines.

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.

Electric power systems with a large share of intermittent resources may rely more on flexible resources such as gas turbines or hydropower to «firm up» the output of intermittent generators.

Most of the energy captured by large wind farms originates higher up in the atmosphere and is transported down to the surface where the turbines may extract this energy.

Building a wind turbine in your yard or installing solar panels on your roof requires a larger investment to begin with, but can end up saving more money in the long run, since you'll no longer have to purchase as much energy from utilities.

Renewables already make up 20 percent of China's energy mix, and the country's the world's largest producer of wind turbines and solar panels.

If there were to be a large wind drop across Europe — leading to a resulting drop in wind energy production — the water stored in the reservoirs could be unleashed to power the hydroelectric turbines and provide a large source of current that could be transmitted over the grids to sustain the continent's needs for up to 4 weeks.

Renewal of the wind tax credit, which can provide up to $ 1 million to developers of a large turbine, is a politically contentious issue.

They believe the material can be scaled - up to large surface areas like airplane wings and wind turbine blades and also heat coils and car windshields.

Up to 15 GWe of industrial Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants would supply industrial clusters, while 15 GWe or more of urban Combined Heat Pump and Power (CHP&P) schemes (typically 0.5 — 100 MW) would distribute reject heat from fast - response «aero - derivative» gas turbines, and large heat pumps.

The authors have also set up a web site to collect information about noise from people living near large wind turbines: www.windturbinenoisehealthhumanrights.com.

Wind energy also was up 11 percent, which reflects continued strong growth due to the same factors that have been driving use for a decade: increasingly large and economical turbines and favorable renewable energy policies.

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