Sentences with phrase «of wind turbine sites»

In general Heritage pays a fixed price per acre for various rights associated with determining the feasibility of wind turbine sites, and the subsequent building of turbines if deemed appropriate.

If you see something suspicious such as a suspicious vehicle or person (s) on or in the vicinity of a wind turbine site please call police immediately with as much information as possible.

Not exact matches

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

Wind turbines began springing up on a 30 - acres section of the former Superfund site in this Buffalo suburb.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

After wind turbine construction, they found an increased rate of lek abandonment at sites within eight kilometers of the turbines as well as a slight decrease in male body mass.

Collisions with wind turbines kill about 100 golden eagles a year in some locations, but a new study that maps both potential wind - power sites and nesting patterns of the birds reveals sweet spots, where potential for wind power is greatest with a lower threat to nesting eagles.

Committed to environmental sustainability, Mountain View Grand is an official EPA Green Power Partner, receiving all of its electrical power from the wind, including production from its own on - site wind turbine.

With a 53 foot long, decommissioned wind turbine blade, paint, glitter, and his own vision for the desert valley, Gibson has created ALIVE, a site - specific installation that he could not make in New York and one that manages to avoid the hackneyed and cliché notions of the desert.

It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.

That didn't happen here, although one proposed farm was abandoned because the vibration from the wind turbines would have increased the «seismic noise» at the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory», half of which is located on the Hanford Site, looking for gravitational waves.

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

Causing heartburn for project applicants developing on tribal land, the Tenth Circuit reversed the District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma's grant of summary judgment and determined that the defendants» large - scale excavation project, involving site modification and the use of excavated rock and soil in the installation of wind turbines, constituted «mining» under federal regulations addressing mineral development on Native... Complete story»

If you click on my name you can go to a site that has detailed analysis of the capacity factor claims for wind turbines.

«Throughout the wind - energy industry, drones are becoming more prevalent for site and blade inspection because they offer clear views of every angle of the turbines,» McIver said.

Research into aero - acoustic properties will result in both the improved efficiency of wind turbines and increased siting opportunities, as the associated noise is decreased.

Wind developers are siting turbines in areas of vital importance to birds and other wildlife, and this new data shows that the current voluntary system needs to be replaced with a mandatory permitting system.»

AUGUSTA — After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state's rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities.

The bill requires agreement from the military for any planned turbine construction, or an approved mitigation plan from the Department of Defense Siting Clearinghouse «before a wind energy facility may be constructed or expanded.»

That is why wind systems are preferable for owners who consume large amounts of electricity, and who can properly site a turbine.

Industrial wind turbines are an inharmonious use of the land when sited near people's homes; large - scale wind turbines used for power generation are NOT an agricultural use of the land.

The land use impact of wind power facilities varies substantially depending on the site: wind turbines placed in flat areas typically use more land than those located in hilly areas.

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.

In a press release (July 25, 2011) TWA, EPAW and NA - PAW lament the loss of an Ontario court ruling but are spinning with joy at the news of an important scientific breakthrough that may help their quest to bring a halt to further growth in wind turbine siting and development.

In a recent Deloitte analysis, more than 55 percent of companies report generating some of their electricity on - site, 13 percent of which comes from solar panels or wind turbines.

Other wildlife impacts can be mitigated through better siting of wind turbines.

An estimated 75 Republic area residents opposed to building wind turbines near their properties showed up at a quarterly off - site meeting of the Seneca County commissioners Wednesday night.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

Dublin - based solar power expert Warik Energy has advised anyone with a solar PV array or wind turbine that they can make significant cash savings through the installation of a smart energy storage system, ensuring 100 % of the electricity they produce is used on - site rather than exported to the grid.

«If we can reduce the cost enough over the next five or 10 years, we think we can get distributed wind technology, small wind turbines, to the point where, in an unsubsidized market, they're viable across a significant portion of sites across the country,» Gillman said.

[page 253] Thus, over the life - span of a working wind turbine, the «equivalent» shale natural gas production might actually encompass 10 or more sites which throws another factor into the calculation of power density that would tip the scales toward wind farms.

For the most part, wind energy applications consist of covering vital wind turbine components with shrink wrap to protect against harmful elements those components could face either in transit, in warehouse storage, or at the turbine lay - down site prior to erection and installation.

My question is, How close is the nearest proposed wind turbine site to the homes of each of these public officials?

GE recently announced the opening of its Global Wind Turbine Drivetrain Repair Innovation Lab at the site of GE's Power Generation Repair Technology Center in Albany, N.Y..

«Our findings show that China's underperformance is also driven by suboptimal turbine model selection (31 % of the gap), wind farm siting (23 % of the gap), and turbine hub heights (6 % of the gap)-- factors that have received less attention in the literature and, crucially, are locked - in for the lifetime of wind farms,» explain the authors, who were supported by Harvard University, US, and are now at the University of Minnesota, US, Florida State University, US, and Cambridge University, UK.

Satisfying the state mandates would require the production and siting of hundreds of thousands of wind turbines.

The capacity factor (the percent of maximum generation potential actually generated) of the best sites for wind turbines is about 40 %, and the average capacity of all the wind turbines used to generate utility power in the United States was 25 % in 2007.

The proposed site is carefully evaluated by a variety of experts to make certain that it is a good place to harvest wind before the turbines are placed.

Having criticised the proposed Guidelines, STEI wishes to propose some positive measures that would help reduce the ill - siting of wind turbines in areas where they will kill eagles and other threatened species.

I wonder if Pickles will block fracking rigs like he has solar farms and wind turbines, or if he'll treat them like the housing estates being built on green field sites (eg at the back of Anne Hathaways cottage in Stratford - upon - Avon — you don't get much more «heritage» than that!).

Proposed wind farm would place 194 turbines off the Jurassic Coast Letter warns turbines will obscure view of the Isle of Wight UNESCO review found project would have a «significant impact» on the site UNESCO has warned that plans for a wind farm of Dorset's Jurassic Coast could compromise its status as a World Heritage -LSB-...]

An in - depth discussion on the McGuinty Liberals» irresponsible handling of important bird areas, migration routes and sensitive wildlife areas in siting Industrial Wind Turbines.

Siting is the need to locate things like wind turbines and solar farms on pieces of land.

The city of Barcelona happens to be the site of the world's first electric vehicle charging station attached to a wind turbine, courtesy of a partnership between wind industry leader GE and a company called Urban Green Energy.

The documentary, Pandora's Pinwheels, provides more detailed stories of these and other Australian victims of the health impacts of inappropriately sited industrial wind turbines (2 hours).

The following people have generously shared their stories of living, or running away from, wind turbines that have been sited too close to their homes, in the hope that it will prevent their ordeal happening to anyone else.

In the United States only, GE Renewable Energy has commissioned 38 GW of wind capacity over 15 years of presence in the sector and provided turbines for some of the largest sites in the country, including the 845 MW Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othwind capacity over 15 years of presence in the sector and provided turbines for some of the largest sites in the country, including the 845 MW Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Farm in Oregon and the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Energy Center and Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm in Texas, among othWind Farm in Texas, among others.

If you are not happy using electrical energy to operate such a system, then you can use some means of generating your own power on - site such as with a wind turbine or using photo - voltaic panels.

Figure 3 All of these measurements will help scientists and developers better understand air - sea interactions and their impact on how much wind energy a turbine could capture at particular offshore sites.

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