Sentences with phrase «larger turbines mean»

Not exact matches

That means giving small turbine manufacturers access to the same levels of innovation available to the larger wind industry, according to Gillman.

Turbines are most efficient in fast winds, note Jacobson and Masters, and could provide needed revenue to farmers and ranchers in areas where mean annual wind speeds are highest - including the Dakotas, Texas, coastal regions and large portions of the West and Northeast.

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.

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

By comparison, removing the aerodynamic interference between propeller - style wind turbines would require spacing them about 20 diameters apart, which means a distance of more than one mile between the largest wind turbines now in use.

With the weather conditions at sea, where strong winds constantly blow on the water's surface on most of the days of the year, and the technology rapidly becoming cheaper, hopes are springing that offshore wind turbines alone could cover well over 12 percent of the power consumption of the world's fourth largest economy by 2030 — meaning that the number of turbines would have to rise considerably from the roughly 1,200 in operation at the end of 2017.