Sentences with phrase «power farm areas»

The university has an anaerobic digester that helps to power farm areas and buildings on the south side of campus.

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Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

The Tories have promised to give local communities greater power to stop the construction of wind farms in their area.

In an address to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank in London, she called for a federal UK founded on a «new Act of Union» that included repatriating to Scotland the EU's powers in areas like fisheries, farming and employment rights.

«From repairing roads and bridges, getting power back, helping with insurance claims and working with family farms, state government has rapidly mobilized to make sure that all available resources are in place to help the affected areas recover.

The project has the potential to be the nation's largest offshore wind farm, and is located in an area that can host up to 1,000 MW of offshore wind power.

A VAWT farm positioned in this way could generate 10 times the power of a HAWT farm of the same area.

From computer models, he found that counter-rotating vertical turbines could be arranged in such a way that a vertical wind farm has a higher power output per unit of area than a horizontal farm, upward of 10 times the energy density.

As it seeks to expand its infrastructure to support those workloads, Microsoft is pursuing a hybrid strategy in which it builds state - of - the - art data centers in areas where land and power are cheap, and leases third - party wholesale space in key markets where it is expensive to build and operate large server farms.

Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), a vision of a world power grid, was outlined by the State Grid Corporation of China («State Grid») It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

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.

To deliver 42 kWh per day per person from wind for everyone in the United States would require wind farms with a total area roughly equal to the area of California, a 200-fold increase in United States wind power.

The graph on the right shows how much wind power South Australia's wind farms were generating at the time the state's last coal - fired power station shut down; the green area represents wind power.

When energy usage is highest, the wind farm will complement existing power sources to ensure the area has enough power during peak hours.

Cost is also a factor, not only in the initial investment required for wind turbines, but in the hefty price tag for moving energy from wind farms — which tend to be located away from metro areas — to power distribution sites.

A solar farm constructed in one of Pocono Raceway's former parking lots will generate enough electricity to power the NASCAR facility as well as about 1,000 homes in the surrounding area, making it the largest solar - powered sports stadium in the world.

In new Zealand our last government committed us to it and the present one supports that with the absurd result that as a clean, green nuclear free country with four and a half million population on a land - mass nearly the size of Britain we are buying carbon credits from Russia, who are classed better environmentally than us, pollution, dodgy power stations, doubtful farming, the lot, as their population / area ratio is lower!

On Thursday, a more than 100 foot long wind power blade arrived by truck in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to mark the near completion of Mill Run, the largest wind farm in the East, which will help power Philadelphia area homes and businesses by this fall.

For 24 GW of power plants operating at an average of 13 % capacity factor (assumed by EDM - 2011), the land area would be around 35 million hectares and involve nearly 75,000 average sized wheat farms.

For a 30 megawatt power plant at a 70 % capacity factor the land area would be around 240,000 hectares and involve nearly 500 average sized wheat farms.

Widespread rural electrification has been held back to date by the financial obstacles to profitable distribution of power in the farming areas... Chief among the financial obstacles are the farmer's small cash income, coupled with the large unit investment required in distribution systems to serve only a few farms per mile of line.

We should also be preparing to take our energy from a decentralized system using whichever non-carbon energy technologies are best suited to their natural surroundings — solar in sunny areas, offshore wave and tidal power in coastal areas, wind farms in the world's wind corridors and geothermal almost everywhere.

«Four in ten (40 %) people believe that the Government should prioritise preserving scenic wild land from large commercial wind farms, even if this means there is less opportunity to develop wind power in those areas.

Speaking to Solar Power Portal at the official opening of the second phase of Ketton Solar Farm's 13MW project, Rudd said: «There has been a lot of subsidy in this area — a lot.

Although the environmental community supports wind power in general, large wind farms near populated areas tend to generate substantial local opposition, often from staunch environmentalists.

Halifax — Bullfrog Power, Canada's leading green energy provider, is pleased to announce an agreement with Alternative Resource Energy Authority (AREA), a partnership between the Towns of Berwick and Mahone Bay, to source clean, pollution - free electricity from a proposed wind farm in Nova Scotia developed by Minas Energy.

Possner and Caldeira's sophisticated modeling tools compared the productivity of large Kansas wind farms to massive, theoretical open - ocean wind farms and found that in some areas ocean - based wind farms could generate at least three times more power than the ones on land.

This is 2 1/2 times the area of solar farm required to power the world in 2030.

High capacity power transmission lines cost in the order of a million dollars per kilometre and wind farms need to be built in areas with a good wind resource, so financially viable wind farm sites are limited.

From high - tech rooftop aquaponics farms in Florida through underground farms in Chicago to Will Allen's incredible Growing Power project, aquaponics has the potential to massively increase the areas available for growing high quality food.

Offshore wind farms could also have the advantage of being close to big cities, unlike wind farms in remote areas, which require significant power grid upgrades to transport the power to places where it's needed.

It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

His second main area of practice are disputes related to large infrastructure projects such as power plants, offshore wind farms, electricity networks, public transport projects or airports.

In the product liability area, he has defended manufacturers and distributors in personal injury and wrongful death claims involving aircraft engines, industrial and consumer power saws, toys, children's products, earth moving equipment, tractors, farm implements, forklift trucks, power presses and grass mowing equipment.

J.D. Power and Associates rates State Farm Insurance above average in the area of overall customer satisfaction.

State Farm is «A + +» rated by A.M. Best and has the highest rating from J.D. Power & Associates in the area of customer satisfaction.

Leningrad's governor is inviting miners to the Sosnovy Bor area near St. Petersburg to create industrial - scale mining farms at the old Leningrad nuclear power plant.

On average, there were 63 hectares (156 acres) of total wind farm area per MW of capacity, but only 0.27 hectares (0.67 acres) of permanently disturbed area per MW of wind power capacity.

A study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory of US wind farms built between 2000 and 2009 found that, on average, only 1.1 percent of the total wind farm area suffered surface disturbance, and only 0.43 percent was permanently disturbed by wind power installations.