Sentences with phrase «large wind turbines»

Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year after flying into large wind turbine blades, an issue that became an ongoing saga for the administration this year.

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

The company that made the world's largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world's largest makers of wind turbines.

Earlier this month MHI Vestas installed an 8.8 MW wind turbine at Vattenfall's European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre off the coast of North East Scotland, which is currently the world's largest wind turbine in operation.

With manufacturing facilities in India, the United States (Minnesota) and now China, Suzlon has rapidly climbed its way to fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, by installed capacity, despite the fact that the Indian company wasn't even in the top 10 as recently as 2002.

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 «Living Tower» design seen here is complete with solar panels, a rainwater purification system, and two large wind turbines on top for energy production.

Wind Energy's primary application of relevance to climate change mitigation is to produce electricity from large wind turbines located on land or offshore.

As a general statement our overall comment is that we had hoped the Ontario government would present regulations for large wind turbines and their sound emissions that are more stringent, not less, and we are disappointed in these proposed amendments.

WIND: Northeast Iowa residents win a fight to remove three large wind turbines over zoning violations after the Iowa Supreme Court declines to hear the company's appeal.

A first - of - its - kind study by researchers at the University of Minnesota (UMN) using snow during a Minnesota blizzard is giving researchers new insight into the airflow around large wind turbines.

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

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.

Trends have been towards larger wind turbines, and modern ones are mounted on tubular columns rather than derrick - like towers, and these both turn out to apparently reduce lethality, as well.

The former dean of medicine at the University of Western Ontario, Robert McMurtry, has surveyed people who live nearby large wind turbines.

Xinjiang Goldwind is also the world's third largest wind turbine manufacturer, with plans to expand overseas from its largely domestic market.

Lyme, N.Y., Wind Energy Conversion Systems Law [7.5 - MB PDF]-- 1 / 2 - mile setback from property lines, 1 - mile setback from schools, churches, public gathering places; 30 / 35 - dBA +18 - dBC noise limit at property line Union, Wisc., Large Wind Turbine Citizens Committee Setback Recommendations Report [24 - MB PDF]

Parliament rushed to approve the establishment of Østerild, because the industry told them it was vital that they could have seven large wind turbines standing in a row.

Since his symptoms were so typical and similar to those described by thousands of other individuals living too close to large wind turbines all over the globe, I have attached my testimony for the Senate Health Care Committee and encourage you to review it for its very characteristic description of what it is that this board, I trust, hopes to mitigate by recommending more protective sound standards for these industrial wind installations.

(1) Large wind turbines generate infrasound, which is not normally experienced as sound by most human listeners.

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.

The very large wind turbines that have been used in Australia will have a high scrap value and therefore I would expect that it will be worth dismantling them for their steel, copper and other valuable components, rather than leaving them once they become unusable.

Comparison of moderately large wind turbines to a cellular tower (disguised as a tree by public demand) and the Metaphor: Tree of Utah sculpture, often called a desert eyesore.

November 28, 2009 Wind Turbine Syndrome: Clinical study of health effects of large wind turbines published

Although the weather wasn't ideal for spectators, it did keep the blades of the city's largest wind turbine turning at a rate of about 48 revolutions per minute.

MIT's Technology Report notes that such battles may quickly become irrelevant as GE and the US Department of Energy have announced a partnership to develop larger wind turbines that will be able to not only generate more power, but may be able to do it offshore at distances that wouldn't bother even the most diehard NIMBYist.

A German company called RePower Systems is in the process of installing the world's largest wind turbines offshore in the Scottish North Sea.

By contrast, near - market options like large wind turbines are much cheaper / kW and per kWh, and so FiT support for wind cost consumers less in total.

Guide to the evaluation of human exposure to noise from large wind turbines Stephens, David; Shepherd, Kevin; Hubbard, Harvey; Grosveld, Ferdinand

Vestas, a wind mill manufacturing company, has announced plans to build the world's largest wind turbine plant in the city due to studies listing Pueblo as Colorado's best place for solar energy.

The UK's offshore wind industry has been given a huge vote of confidence this week, after Gamesa, Spain's largest wind turbine manufacturer, announced plans of turning Scotland's Port of Keith into a hub for offshore wind energy.

A team in Portugal investigating heart, lung, and nerve damage from industrial low - frequency noise has found that the conditions for causing «vibroacoustic disease» exist inside houses near large wind turbines.

«Since the 1980s, though, the direct cost of energy from large wind turbines has dropped to three to four cents per kilowatt - hour, comparable with that from new pulverized coal power plants.

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.

So, a large wind turbine has no place in a crowded city.

WEICan performs testing that leads to certification for small and large wind turbines both at our location and offsite.

Small and large wind turbines should be certified to ensure that consumers have a third party - verified product.

So go ahead, make a cup of tea and settle down to some trademark Robert Llewellyn excitement for batteries, large wind turbines and all things clean tech.

Large wind turbines can be scattered across rural farmland in the Midwest, causing no one any grief.

Also in 1979, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy began testing what, at the time, was one of the world's largest wind turbines, which they erected in the Block Island Power Company's back lot.