Sentences with phrase «of turbine operation»

Ms Ward repeats the nonsense that the CO2 released from the cement used in the foundations of the turbines is significant — in fact it is abated in the first or second day of turbine operation.

Not exact matches

The final turbine for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm has been installed and commercial operations are set to commence by the end of this year.

In its first four months of operation, Tesla's mega-battery system in South Australia was faster, smarter, and cheaper than conventional gas turbines, according to...

My concern is that if the turbines are placed in the base's flight path, they could be seen as impediments to future operations and could tilt the scales towards closure in the next round of reviews.

The issue with the proposed turbines is that they pose a threat of interference with military radar and flight operations.

To establish their results, the team input actual, time - resolved wind speed data into a numerical simulation that determined the total amount of energy captured by a turbine over a year of operation.

«Wind turbine blade manufacturing consists of a labor - intensive set of highly distributed manual operations including layup of very high volumes of material, infusion, secondary bonding and demolding for many sub-assemblies over a vast manufacturing floor area.

A double turbine torsional damper with centrifugal pendulum which adapts to engine speed helps to minimise vibrations in four - cylinder operation and enhances the impression of comfort experienced by the vehicle occupants.

Lambda = 1 operation up to an engine speed approaching 5000 rpm is possible, with only moderate enrichment necessary above this with a turbine inlet temperature limit of 980 °C.

With EGS, the water is the «bucket» that carries the heat from depth to the surface, and will typically be a relatively costly portion of the operation, so it will be cycled as a closed system in wells that case - off potable aquifers, shuttling water from the surface to the fractures where it's heated, back up to the surface to extract the heat for running turbines, and then back down to the fractures.

Decent work and economic growth: During the construction of the wind park, 44 jobs were created; 12 of which are permanent positions in operation and maintenance of the wind turbines.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

The total installed capacity of the project is 80 MW; which involves operation of 40 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs), each with a capacity of 2 MW.

It also stated that «All energy used during manufacturing, shipping and installation of turbines will be recovered in the first seven months of operation.»

NativeEnergy's customers helped fund a significant operations and maintenance reserve for three Northwind 100 kW turbines built in the village of Toksook Bay, Alaska, which began operations in July 2006.

«Shooting the professional messengers» as the Energy and Policy Institute publication by Barnard [14] has tried to do, will not stop the litigation for noise nuisance, negligence against complicit acousticians, or applications for injunctions to cease the operation of turbines, and will only further reduce the diminishing social licence for the wind industry to operate.

As the turbines need to operate in extremely harsh conditions and are only accessible by air, weather permitting, our funding of the operations and maintenance reserve is helping avoid the significant periods of «down time» that the Coop's prior projects had experienced due to inadequate O&M funding.

This includes an evaluation of low - cost methods for undertaking floating - to - floating heavy lift operations, a study to identify cost - effective technologies and strategies for monitoring and inspection, and another to assess the impact of larger turbines (up to 15 MW) on floating foundations.

The project consists of the installation and operation of 33 domestically produced wind turbines with an individual capacity of 1,500 kW.

While there are no global warming emissions associated with operating wind turbines, there are emissions associated with other stages of a wind turbine's life - cycle, including materials production, materials transportation, on - site construction and assembly, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and dismantlement.

These recommended practices are the creation of dozens of expert wind project operators, engineers, technicians, and designers who have teamed up to provide state - of - the - art guidance on the operation and maintenance of modern wind turbines and projects.

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.

Offshore wind facilities, which are currently not in operation in the United States but may become more common, require larger amounts of space because the turbines and blades are bigger than their land - based counterparts.

Supporters point to 20 reviews, mainly of existing literature, held in various countries that have found no conclusive evidence linking turbine operations with poor health.

Chapman by his own statements displays no obvious comprehension of the acoustical properties of wind turbine operation, but pretends to understand the issue.

Siemens, one of the world's largest turbine manufacturers, said it plans to temporarily shut its Power & Gas (PG) division operations worldwide in an effort to cut costs.

Shell Wind Division recently spent $ 1.5 million dollars apiece for complete wind turbine assemblies that produce one MW during operation at a capacity factor of 27 % for the 8,766 hours each year over its 20 - year life, producing 47 million kWhrs, more or less.

In fact it is quite common for major gear box and bearing failures to occur in wind turbines within the first ten years of their operation.

Now, imagine that on the other side of your light switch, one of two scenarios exists: the first is a «clean» world where wind turbines spin to generate electrons to power your light bulb and the other is a «dirty» world where a coal - fired power plant lumbers into operation, spewing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants into the atmosphere, to create the same level of brightness in your living room.

The report's author, Prof Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and a former energy adviser to the World Bank, discovered that the «load factor» — the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years.

According to WindEurope, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has far and away the most offshore wind turbines in operation — 64 % of the total.

This inactivity occurs for 14 hrs of the day and the continual heating and cooling is not good for steam turbine operation.

«The 80m - high turbines will be installed at the company's plant at Whittlesey, in Cambridgeshire, as part of a drive to lower the company's carbon footprint and move its operations towards sustainability.

It is acknowledged that there has been little research into utilizing marine current energy for power generation and today no commercial turbines are in operation (thus making the assessment of production costs difficult).

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

Dr Schomer and Mr Hessler in their peer review of Cooper's study, not only endorsed it, but found that the data itself proves a causal relationship between the operation of the wind turbines and the adverse health effects recorded by all of those people who took part in the study (see our post here).

«In another incident in November 2011, 1,000 litres of oil leaked from a turbine at the Clyde wind farm in Abington, Lanarkshire, resulting in an emergency clean - up operation.»

GE's 2MW product platform is a best - selling technology that contributed to this major milestone with over 2,300 turbines in operation and a total installed capacity of about 6 GW across North America.

AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices: for design, deployment and operation of offshore wind turbines in the United States Recommended practices on the approval process for offshore wind turbines.

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.

These investments address a long - list of research challenges, including upgrading turbine technology for its operation at sea, developing and testing new turbine foundations that offer greater reliability and ease of installation, transmission issues, as well as technical shipping and maintenance challenges unique to offshore turbines.

By 2020, approximately 65 percent of the U.S. fleet, comprising 30,000 turbines, will have been in operation for more than 10 years.1 Similar situations exist in other countries that have large turbine populations, such as Germany, where nearly a third of the wind turbines have been in service for more than 15 years.2

TurbinePlus ™ represents a range of simple upgrades, all designed to improve the overall operation of the turbine.

«We have asked repeatedly for the facts about the effect of the noise from these huge turbines on residents, and what the impact on water wells will be from construction and vibration during operation.»

One primary factor affecting these decisions is, of course, the physical condition of the turbine being considered for continued operation.

Continued operation of a turbine is favorable from this analytical perspective when the historical conditions are more benign than the design conditions, resulting in additional operating margin beyond design.

Since mid-February, the company has restricted operation of the three turbines from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and under certain weather conditions.

In 2016, the wind energy industry directly employed over 100,000 full - time - equivalent employees in a variety of capacities, including manufacturing, project development, construction and turbine installation, operations and maintenance, transportation and logistics, and financial, legal, and consulting services [10].

Most of the turbines have already been commissioned, and the remainder are currently being wired for operation.

Simple to deploy and operate, WindHelm is at the same time capable of providing the comprehensive services of a large - scale wind farm operations, maintenance and optimization control center across the range of turbine brands.