Sentences with phrase «manufactures more turbines»
There are two simple and compelling reasons why Iowa is arguably the centre of the United State's renewable energy development — it has more installed wind power (20 % of its supply) than any other state and it manufactures more turbines than anywhere else in the state.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/ Not exact matches
After it led the world in clean energy investment last year and manufactured about one - third of the global solar panels and wind turbines, China has been moving full - speed toward creating more clean energy professionals, from Ph.D. - level engineers to well - trained technical operators.
That's because it takes more energy to manufacture solar panels than wind turbines.
«The world desperately needs higher - efficiency gas turbines because the end result is millions of tons of carbon dioxide that's not going into the atmosphere,» said Citeno, noting that in the last 2 years, more than 50 percent of gas turbines manufactured at GE's Greenville plant were exported to other countries.
Will the renewable energy transition end up creating yet more greenhouse emissions, as we ramp up the manufacture of wind turbines and solar cells?
The new CFL florescent bulbs are being manufactured in China along with Wind Turbines, solar collectors, and much more.
Seems to me that it would be more reliable to manufacture wind turbines and start to burn less coal and oil...
«Mining, manufacturing and implementing of wind turbines and solar panels can't be done with renewables and needs a lot of fossil fuel and even more»
«As the industry grows, more people will be needed to manufacture the wind turbine and solar panel components, and more installers will be required.
This means that up to ten times more solar panels and wind turbines need to be manufactured.
My suspicion is that these first 500 will be built by one of three companies — GE (NYSE: GE), Vestas (OTCBB: VWDRY), or Siemens (OTCBB: SIEGY)-- as these are the three major players in the wind turbine space, and, more importantly for this administration, they all have manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
Jobs opportunities have blossomed as more and more wind turbines are manufactured domestically (67 % of all wind equipment in 2011).
Will the renewable energy transition end up creating yet more greenhouse emissions, as we ramp up the manufacture of wind turbines and solar cells?
The growing U.S. wind market spurred new investment in turbine and component manufacturing plants, with enough new and planned facilities to create more than 4,700 new U.S. jobs.
GE Renewable Energy manufactured the five 6 - MW Haliade 150 turbines that power the Block Island wind farm offshore Rhode Island, and according to company officials, it is looking to invest in more offshore wind, despite the production tax credit phase out in 2020.
Wind turbines and solar voltaic consume more energy in manufacture, installation, maintenance and administration than they produce in there service life.
Over the last six years, U.S. domestic production of wind turbine components has grown 12-fold to more than 400 facilities in 43 states, shifting manufacturing jobs from overseas back to the U.S.
This will begin the process of identifying the infrastructure needs for building out commercial - scale sites, including the optimal shipping needs for installing turbines, efficient methods of maintenance, and developing turbine manufacturing facilities, all of which will require testing and potentially more research.
An outstanding example of someone getting it totally wrong is the case of a prominent economist who wrote a submission to a parliamentary committee claiming that it would take more than 3000 years for a wind farm to «pay back» the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the manufacturing of the concrete used in the turbine's footings.
Based on more than 30 years» experience in wind business, our joint company will continue to design and manufacture wind turbines to provide wind power operators with the lowest cost of energy (COE) throughout the machines» working life.
Now Business Green reports that an installation of a Quiet Revolution near the Portland Marina Olympic sailing venue in Dorset has lead to a # 2m contract for 400 more turbines from the company who helped manufacture it:
The manufacture, assembly and transportation of wind turbines is already expensive and requires special machinery to handle the large loads, but if we want to produce more power from wind, making larger and more powerful turbines is necessary.