Sentences with phrase «more turbines»

Many of them offered pros and cons on establishing more turbines in the county.

Instead of planting more turbines in planet earth, switch to solar.

We would also like to get a few more turbines out into the environment so that we can get rock solid data back from the end user.

Mr Davey also announced windfarm developers will be given a cash incentive to build more turbines on Scottish islands.

First Minister Alex Salmond and the Scottish government have said they want to get 80 per cent of Scotland's electricity from renewables by 2020, which means more turbines spread across the country's hills and moors.

The study found wind farm inefficiencies were likely to grow as more turbines were added to the grid under the renewable energy target.

California wants wind but conservationists oppose more turbine farms as an environmental blight.

For more on Buffett's effort to put more turbines in the skies, read Fortune's feature here.

Rushing water from the American River passing through four large water turbines powered the four AC generators and two more turbines powered smaller DC generators.

Using unmanned aerial vehicles and advanced proprietary software, the company inspects up to eight turbines per day, which is significantly more turbines compared to the two - per - day of conventional manual inspection methods.

Natural gas the real replacement, but new Michigan wind mandate means more turbine towers coming, too

More turbine mayhem, this time it's Siemens turbines — less than 4 years old — collapsing on Maui — an island in the Hawaiian archipelago.

I suspect they are just another AstroTurf organization shilling for Big Wind; as the federal [Production Tax Credit] continues to decline, Big Wind is ever more insistent on changing turbine setback laws so as to clog more turbines in less space, nonparticipating landowners be damned.

While many next - generation offshore turbine designs — such as the floating turbine prototype demonstration off the coast of Maine — are still in the early stages of testing, additional demonstration and research on offshore wind requires building and testing more turbines connected to the grid, which is where the DOI auction comes in.

However, vastly more turbines are in operation now, and more than 1.4 million bird deaths are projected by 2030 or earlier if the U.S. meets its goal of producing 20 percent of electrical energy with wind.

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.

This impressive height was only achievable due to the incorporation of a pumped hydro storage into the wind farm, because its foundations stand inside a natural reservoir used to store water before it is dropped down a hill through more turbines into another pool, generating electricity in the process.

They used FAR more turbines per MWh produced.

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:

And forget about this bird issue buisness, statistics show only one bird is killed per 10 years of each wind turbine, so possibly 3 birds for a wind turbine's life span x the minimal amount of wind turbines we have (using reverse phycology so someone might build more turbines) more birds are killed by domestic cats then wind turbines.

The list of companies getting into the O&M business is growing, competition is fervent, the potential reward for better O&M is growing — and the wind industry, Miner said at AWEA's January workshop on project performance, expects to add 100,000 more turbines in the next two decades.

The second phase, which has just been signed, will see the business work on 12 more turbines, due to be commissioned by October.

Nonetheless, in 2002, Samsø erected 10 more turbines, each more than twice as powerful as the originals, arrayed in a gentle arc two and a half miles off the island's southern coast.

On average, the projects include clusters of 20 or more turbines.

Of course as more and more turbines are erected in diverse locations, and as the turbines themselves become larger and more sophisticated, we should also see variability leveling out even further.

When the report was released, 82 more turbines — equivalent to 1,927 MW — were awaiting grid connection.

The profound costs to wildlife of future - planning to expand wind energy to the levels demanded by «green» advocates — just to meet the world population's additional energy demands with 350,000 more turbines each year — has been increasingly documented by scientists.

The number of turbines used in the calculation is to allow for the fact that as one gets further away from an individual turbine there are more turbines at a similar distance to the nearest one.