Sentences with phrase «more turbines in»

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

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Launched in 1973 as a plastic injection molder with six employees, Cascade Engineering has blossomed into a diversified manufacturer with 15 business units and a product line that includes waste containers, auto parts, and furniture components — and, more recently, wind turbines, solar panels, and affordable water filters for the developing world.

Onshore wind turbines in Scotland sent more than 5 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid in the first quarter of 2018, analysis has shown.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 12 - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said the impending expiry of a U.S. tax credit had exacerbated a fall in orders for next year, forcing it to make more than 800 job cuts in the United States and Canada so far this year.

According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), there are more than 48,800 turbines operating in the United States, allowing for a total installed wind capacity of 73,992 MW in 2015.

RW: With the current interest in buying electric cars, plus more wind turbines being built and growing Chinese infrastructure, does this mean the fundamentals are falling into place for rising copper prices and copper company share values?

In America thousands of eagles have been slaughtered by wind turbines and more are being slaughtered every year.

The company has installed four banks of solar panels with plans to expand to 12, and already has built the superstructure for two wind turbines in anticipation of more efficient technology coming later this year.

This year, the company plans to reduce its carbon footprint and become more energy - efficient by adding wind turbines to its operations in Mexico, for example.

More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

There are more offshore wind turbines around our coasts than everywhere else in the rest of the world put together.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

NYPA officials says replacing the turbines will help the provider continue to deliver low - cost power to its customers, including business which, in turn, provide more than 400,000 jobs throughout the state.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

As wind turbines have grown to more than 100 meters tall, field research in real - world settings has become more difficult.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Today, the eight turbines at the Steel Wind project crank out enough clean, green electricity to power more than 6,000 homes in western New York, and the 400 - foot - tall windmills have become a visual landmark.

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.

«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.

He expects it will be a decade or more before ESRU's turbines are ready to be used in earnest in the sea — much more testing must be done, in addition to the environmental impact studies and garnering of support from utility companies.

The turbines have also improved and are bigger, and more cost effective, than in the past.

Thousands more will be erected in the next 15 years, and bigger will be better as far as turbine makers are concerned.

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.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

In the end, both vertical and horizontal turbines have their trade - offs, though horizontals are a more mature technology.

A team of scientists estimates that wind turbines in the continental U.S. could produce 16 times more electricity than we currently use.

By 2010, Verdant's hope is to increase its turbine farm in New York City to 30 devices producing more than a megawatt of energy (800 households use about one megawatt).

Verdant's turbines require tides that move at least six feet (1.8 meters) per second in order to generate enough energy for them to be cost - effective, and the East River is more than obliging.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the worIn addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the worin California, who was not involved with the work.

«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.

Renewable wind energy is experiencing a boom, with more wind turbines popping up across landscapes in the U.S. and abroad.

Drawing inspiration from the wings of insects, flexible wind turbine blades could generate more power in a wider range of wind conditions.

In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentiveIn fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentivein the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

These obstacles have delayed, and in some cases nixed, many projects — and so far, not a single offshore wind turbine is operating in the U.S. Organizers of Cape Wind, an offshore wind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven years.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

In 2012 turbines killed more bats than birds, and the numbers of the dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000 birds.

Stronger, stiffer and more durable than most metals and at a fraction of the weight, carbon fiber enables a suite of energy - efficient and clean technologies from wind turbines to cars in an era of turbulent energy prices and a changing climate.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

Richardo Burdisso, a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, works with colleagues in Chile to make wind turbines more acceptable.

The new plan calls for no more than 0.5 percent of any state's land to be covered in solar panels or wind turbines.

«Advances in Turbine Components & Subsystems R&D» on May 19 and «Supply Chain Evaluations to Support Technology Trends» on May 20 will educate attendees about the technology advancements that will go into the next fleet of wind turbines installed in the U.S. and how wind is more affordable than it was just five years ago.

«We have utility - scale turbines operating in 39 states today, and if these trends continue and stable policy is in place, we can see wind deployment in even more states.»

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Wind turbine blades represent one of the most valued parts of the wind energy supply chain at the moment, with more research & development (R&D) and investments being dedicated to wind blades than any other component in wind turbines.

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

The devices wouldn't rely on anything spinning or turning like wind turbines, but would instead harness the energy in the vibration of wind, seismic activity and more.