Sentences with phrase «over wind farms»

The results of the study «show a significant warming trend of up to 0.72 °C per decade, particularly at night time, over wind farms relative to non-wind farms».

Clashes over wind farms have spread across the country — from Minnesota to Missouri, Alabama, Maryland and Massachusetts, writes Bonner R. Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research.

There were more Tory - Lib Dem fights over wind farms and Trident - neither of them particularly appetising, both suggesting rather strenuously that the government is in a state of perpetual disarray from which it may never recover.

Splits over wind farms and the EU budget would be less damaging if the coalition had issues which united it.

Not exact matches

The business said that Amazon Wind Farm Texas would add over 1 million megawatt hours of clean energy to the grid annually.

Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

A Swiss maker of giant storage batteries for wind and solar farms is taking over a giant Philip Morris plant.

Over the past four decades, Osborne has built energy - friendly homes; developed the first wind farm in Texas; helped form the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, and marketed solar and wind equipment around the state.

Northland Power (NPI: TSX)-- completes construction on over $ 900 million of projects and a majority equity stake in what will be the world's second - largest offshore wind farm.

Following a long, winding drive past literally millions of coffee bushes to the top of the farm, 1,400 meters above sea level, I looked out over the one thousand plus - hectare estate, the largest contiguous coffee farm in the country.

Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).

The Conservatives are split over the benefits of onshore wind farms, their energy minister has said.

Mr. Van Scoyoc criticized the Republican candidates for supervisor and town board, who he said «started very early opposing the wind farm» and are «trying to drive a wedge» between residents over the project's potential to impact the commercial fishing industry, members of which fear that the wind farm's construction and operation will destroy critically important habitat.

Sources close to the Lib Dem Minister accused Mr Paterson of «lying» over claims that Mr Davey had blocked publication of a report showing that on - shore wind farms can harm rural areas.»

[Cameron] thinks that people who talk about Europe or «bang on» about Europe as he once put it himself, he thinks that people who talk about immigration and who are worried about the numbers of people coming to Britain, he thinks that people who are concerned about the blot of wind farms all over our landscapes and seascapes, he thinks that people who discuss those things are beyond the pale and I think when he insults us actually what he's doing, he's insulting a very large number of his own voters.

Kauffman also is chairman of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which last month announced it will take over as the lead agency to pursue lease rights for an 81,000 - acre offshore wind farm 19 miles from Long Beach.

But attacking wind farms, Boris Johnson today said they «look like some hideous Venusian invasion, marching over the moors and destroying the dales».

As with onshore wind farms, there is frequent public outcry over the placement of power pylons.

«To meet the 2005 U.S. electricity demand of about 4 million megawatt - hours with around - the - clock wind would have required wind farms covering over 780,000 square kilometers,» Ausubel notes.

THE NEW ENERGY ECONOMY Because of the lack of data, energy projections at wind farm sites can be highly inaccurate, with errors of up to 20 percent in farms that are built over uneven terrain.

Though offshore structures are expensive, floating wind farms have advantages over their land - based relatives.

The partners develop mathematical models that produce improved forecasts accurate for each quarter - hour, which show how much electricity Germany's installed photovoltaic and wind - farm facilities will generate over the next few hours and days.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

You don't need to deck out your roof with solar panels or move closer to a wind farm to switch over to renewable energy in your home.

If the price of both carbon - burning extraction businesses and non-carbon emitting solar farms and wind farms were both fair before a carbon tax was introduced in any given jurisdiction, what would happen to the profitability of each as that tax came into effect (and was ramped up over time)?

Animals Today May 18, 2014 — Dr. Michael Michael Hutchins from American Bird Conservancy explains lawsuit filed over 30 year wind farm permits.

Clearly, we are in for many more years of haggling over placement of solar and wind farms and so forth.

(I'm sorry to say that the long effort to block construction of a wind farm off Cape Cod — which may finally be over thanks to the Obama administration — played right into that caricature.)

It will be more like some wind farms here and there going into safe mode and coming back online as the storm front passes over the country.

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Maybe if you gave all the land surface of Australia over to wind farms it would work, otherwise not.

So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

So those who oppose a wind farm development are most likely prioritising their personal preferences over the welfare of the planet and of future generations.

The Massachusetts law envisions a steady, sizable build - out, equivalent to one large wind farm every two years over an eight - year period.

According to new climate modeling data, the Northern hemisphere's wind farms could see a dramatic downturn in productivity over the next hundred years, as climate change disrupts some of the key drivers that shape the world's wind patterns.

These wind farms generate well over half of SA's wind power and SA generates about half of Australia's wind power.

The Skipjack Wind Farm is expected to generate well over $ 100 million dollars in economic benefits for Maryland.

Gina Raimondo, governor of Rhode Island, said: «From the nation's first offshore wind farm to the thousands of clean energy jobs we've created over the past few years, I'm proud that Rhode Island is leading the nation in the green economy.

Keurig Green Mountain subsequently decided to play a bigger role in the Greensburg Wind Farm and agreed to a multi-year contract for over 50 % of the offsets from the project, which enables them to build a known price for carbon into their budgets.

The issue heated up between Brazil and Saudi Arabia over deforestation versus carbon - capture and sequestration, and there are ripples in China after the additionality rug was pulled out beneath several wind farm projects.

The tax expires on Dec. 31, 2012, and uncertainty over Congress» willingness to extend it is bringing project planning for next year to a standstill, said Kerry Hattevik, director of western regulatory and market affairs for NextEra Energy Resources, the nation's largest wind - farm owner and operator.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

«Ex-Chancellor Backs Prince Philip Over Attack On Wind Farms,» The Global Warming Policy Foundation, November 21, 2011.

As a native North Carolinian and self - professed clean energy enthusiast, I have really been scratching my head lately over recent pushback on our state's first large - scale wind farm.

On - the - ground research over the past decade at a number of operating wind farms has shown that will significantly reduce the collision risk for bats in low wind speed conditions when they are most at risk.

Once completed, the Seychelles» state - owned Public Utilities Corporation will take over the ownership, running and maintenance of the wind farm.

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A large wind farm in Ohio saw an 83 - percent drop in WTE maintenance running cost over just three years of annual inspections.

Requiring an investment of over $ 12 billion, these wind farms off the east and northwest coasts of England, the north coast of Wales, and in the shallow waters of the Thames estuary could satisfy the residential electricity needs of 10 million of the country's 60 million people.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.