Sentences with phrase «large wind turbine farms»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

He canceled plans for a 40 - turbine wind farm off the coast of Jones Beach as too expensive and controversial, only to initiate plans for a new, larger, more expensive project off the coast of the Rockaways and western Nassau.

The turbine blades at the state's largest wind farm are whirling.

This research is essential to improving wind energy efficiency, especially in wind farms where airflows from many large wind turbines interact with each other.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

Commercial wave energy converters can be large and are generally part of a group of devices, like a wind farm with multiple turbines.

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.

At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind - power states, Iowa, California and Washington.

Arenas and Virginia Tech colleagues who are known for their wind tunnel research will study the vibrations of wind turbines at a large Chilean wind farm along with health impacts on nearby residents.

More than 2,300 wind turbines twirl off the coasts of 11 European countries today, and the United Kingdom has just approved the world's largest offshore wind farm.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

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.

As such, the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiWind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiwind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovations.

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.

In the meantime, the Chinese continue to pump out solar modules cheaper than anyone else; their largest wind turbine manufacturer, Sinovel, will likely become one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers; and — as we're finding now — if you need billions in financing for a wind farm, China may be more than willing to provide that, too.

There are also concerns that wind turbine farms — particularly large ones — may disturb migratory birds, and serve as a source of noise pollution for those living and working nearby.

Take the large 128 - turbine Waubra wind farm for example.

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.

It is one of the world's largest offshore wind farms to date, with 72 turbines, and stands 6.2 miles from shore.

Building that four megawatts at a time — the capacity of the largest wind turbines currently made — would mean building 125,000 of these giant windmills across the country, along with hundreds of gigawatts of additional conventional plants to serve as a backup reserve for the wind farms.

«Researchers have carried out an environmental lifecycle assessment of 2 - megawatt wind turbines mooted for a large wind farm in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

For starters, the wind farm proposed is by no means large - the development would consist of 11 turbines.

In the United States only, GE Renewable Energy has commissioned 38 GW of wind capacity over 15 years of presence in the sector and provided turbines for some of the largest sites in the country, including the 845 MW Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othwind capacity over 15 years of presence in the sector and provided turbines for some of the largest sites in the country, including the 845 MW Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Farm in Texas, among others.

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

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.

Simple to deploy and operate, WindHelm is at the same time capable of providing the comprehensive services of a large - scale wind farm operations, maintenance and optimization control center across the range of turbine brands.

In July 2013 Prime Minister Cameron launched the world's largest offshore wind farm, 175 turbines with a total installed capacity of 630MW.

The wind farm's 30 - MW capacity will be met using five of GE's 6 - MW «Haliade» turbines, which the company says are some of the largest in the world.

Wind economics have improved somewhat, mainly by making turbines larger and building ever larger wind farms, but wind power is still expensWind economics have improved somewhat, mainly by making turbines larger and building ever larger wind farms, but wind power is still expenswind farms, but wind power is still expenswind power is still expensive.

The problem first came to light when residents living near Europe's largest wind farm, the 215 turbine Whitelee farm in Ayrshire, began to suffer from diarrhoea and severe vomiting.

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.

These would not, however, be used in groups to provide the equivalent amount of power of the arrays of large wind turbines you find in a wind farm tied to major transmission systems.

The development of wind projects — whether a single turbine or larger wind farms — are huge undertakings.

When we talk about small wind turbines we're also talking about microgeneration — the small - scale generation of electric power by individuals — as opposed to the larger, grid - tied power production of commercial wind turbines, such as those found on wind farms.

Interestingly, I can write in mid 2017 that a large part of the concern with a proposed nearby wind farm has related to «wind turbine syndrome»: the (false) belief that wind turbines can make people sick.

The thing is when you have a wind farm with say 100 2 MW turbines, the failure of one turbine will not interrupt service, but large coal, nuclear and gas units tripping off line can cause more troubles.

Large turbines, often grouped in wind farms, are widely used by utilities across Canada to provide electrical energy to electricity grids.

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Via WSJ More on Energy Acoustics Experts are Working on Making Wind Turbines Quieter Google Invests $ 100m in What Will be the World's Largest Wind Farm (845 MW) China's Largest Solar Panel Maker Expect Sales to Climb 20 % in 2011 We Could Have 10 MW Wind Turbines by 2011 and 15 MW Turbines by 2020

«Weather response to a large wind turbine array» D. B. Barrie, D. B. Kirk - Davidoff http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/10/769/2010/acp-10-769-2010.pdf section 2.4: they calculate that their wind farm would produce 2.48 TW power (I only read a little bit, it sounded like this is for the specific time period modelled but I could be wrong.

When people hear «floating wind turbines,» they often think of the large - scale offshore wind farms that are already commonplace in some parts of the world.

In my backyard of North Carolina, many credit larger turbines as the reason why the state's first wind farms finally under development.

By that point, assuming the project's engineers overcome the numerous technological challenges of building such large turbines, we may be able to have both our unspoiled views and green power from offshore wind farms.

GE Renewable Energy signs five year R&D agreement with ORE Catapult, as Ørsted confirms final turbine installed at world's largest offshore wind farm

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«Dallas oilman and investor Boone Pickens wants to build the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, a project that would put as many as 2,000 turbines on nearly 200,000 acres in four counties.

To make a wind farm viable the turbines have to be reasonably close together, if there must be large exclusion zones around any houses then the small and isolated bits of land remaining available for turbine construction may well not be enough to make a wind farm a workable proposition.

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.