Sentences with phrase «scale wind farms»

An Ontario court has dismissed a set of appeals from four families that sought to have provincial legislation related to the approvals of large - scale wind farms declared unconstitutional.

-- Families opposed to the erection of large - scale wind farms near their homes failed to prove the projects would cause any serious harm to their health, an Ontario government lawyer said Tuesday.

I agree with Shylock, building large scale wind farms does not contribute to a greener future in energy production, we should reuse the land we already utilize for our cities.

American wind power was born in the Golden State, where the first large - scale wind farms were built three decades ago.

The Heritage Stoney Corners Wind Farm project is one of the first utility scale wind farms in Michigan.

After Texas and California, the other leaders among the 30 states with commercial - scale wind farms are Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, and Colorado.

There is not yet an efficient supply chain for building and maintaining large scale wind farms, he said.

The advances in wind turbine design that offer cheap electricity from wind help explain why some 22 states now have commercial scale wind farms pumping electricity into the local grid.

As increased wind speed causes golden eagles to decrease their vertical air space, it could be argued that industrial scale wind farms on ridges are a great danger to migrating raptors as they descend.

By their very nature, most large - scale wind farms are fairly remote, making theft and vandalism a very real concern.

Dayna Baird Payne, a lobbyist in Columbus who represents the American Wind Energy Association, says developers of large - scale wind farms in Ohio «are in a pretty bad hurt,» according to an Associated Press report.

Major companies — electricity giant Huaneng Group and state - directed China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)-- have responded to the government's goals, looking to build utility - scale wind farms throughout the country, according to engineer He Dexin, president of CWEA.

Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

Pamela Atwater, president of Save Ontario Shores, Inc., recently sent a letter to Cuomo reiterating SOS's concern about an industrial - scale wind farm possibly threatening the future of Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

Nidec ASI will be installing 5MW / 5MWh of battery energy storage at a utility - scale wind farm on the French island territory of Martinique, aimed at stabilising and maximising the flow of energy onto the grid.

Construction began this summer on the first utility - scale wind farm in North Carolina, and one of the first in the southeastern U.S., the Amazon Wind Farm US East, powered by Iberdrola Renewables.

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.

A recently completed wake - steering experiment at the Sandia National Laboratories Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility has successfully demonstrated that the wake from an upwind turbine can be steered away from a downwind turbine by yawing the upwind turbine.

An experiment at the Sandia National Laboratories Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility successfully demonstrated wake steering, which will help wind power plants increase energy capture.

GL's Stute said using retrofitted oil and gas industry vessels will work with prototype and smaller projects in the earliest stage of U.S. offshore development but «for building a large scale wind farm to a very tight time schedule» he is dubious.

The email said: «We have two very significantly - scaled wind farm proposals in the pipeline for Clashindarroch... they are probably below the radar for most at the moment.

«We see this, of course, in the cost reductions between the Hywind 1 [the 2.3 MW prototype installed by Statoil off western Norway in 2009] and 2, which were staggering [a per - MW cost reduction as great as 70 %] and now the one we have on the drawing board [for a commercial - scale wind farm] is another 50 % cheaper again.»

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.

IEA is one of the largest utility - scale wind farm contractors, completing over 13,500 MW of wind power projects in 32 states and three provinces.

Until now, NPPD has invested in large - scale wind farm projects to reach its goal of having 10 percent of its power generation come from renewable energy resources by 2020.

NCGA members got up close and personal with the first utility - scale wind farm in the region and learned about all of the economic benefits associated with the project.

Not only will they mean an uptick in their own right (the Southeast is getting its first large - scale wind farm thanks to an Amazon commitment to buy energy from it), but they also create a sizable segment of the economy that has an interest in ensuring a consistent, stable and ambitious policy environment that moves us toward a clean energy future.

It will be the first utility scale wind farm in North Carolina, sending power to an electrical grid that supplies Amazon Cloud data centers in the region.

Miranda Leppla Clean Energy Attorney, Ohio Environmental Council Prior to joining the OEC, Miranda was in private practice for several years where her practice focused on litigation, natural gas utility issues, and utility - scale wind farm permitting.

Not exact matches

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Wind farming is notoriously finicky when it comes to supply, and large - scale batteries like the one Tesla will be providing in the pilot project at BP's South Dakota Titan 1 wind farm will help solve the volatility of the renewable power souWind farming is notoriously finicky when it comes to supply, and large - scale batteries like the one Tesla will be providing in the pilot project at BP's South Dakota Titan 1 wind farm will help solve the volatility of the renewable power souwind farm will help solve the volatility of the renewable power source.

Clarence and Tonawanda are crafting laws to prohibit all large - scale industrial - sized wind farms that generate power to sell back to the grid.

The Long Island Power Authority is one step closer to a vote on the nation's first large - scale offshore wind farm.

In order to provide electricity on the scale of wind farms, hundreds of airborne wind turbines will need to be launched and operated, necessitating such a central hub.

«I think that these wind farms, especially if they are spaced sufficiently apart, will not have global - scale effects.»

So far, in the UK, that has primarily meant large - scale offshore wind, rooftop solar and what you might call medium - scale solar farms.

Copious, green, inexpensive energy at $.04 - $.05 / kWh could be achieved via large scale wind, and solar thermal farms, today.

The testing of a small - scale wind tower in Castine is the second phase of a five - phase plan (they hope) will end with the implementation of full - scale offshore wind farms about 20 miles off Maine's coast.

The projects announced last month include 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and a hydroelectric project.

In addition to the wind farm, I believe that Neoen proposes a grid - scale battery with a power capacity of 20 megawatts and energy storage of 34 megawatt - hours.

As such, the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiWind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiwind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovations.

Our work suggests that there should be no major showstoppers for commercial - scale floating wind farms, but we need a pipeline of commercial projects to validate this, develop the supply chain and reach the volumes of scale necessary to bring down costs.

A utility - scale offshore wind farm planned for the federal waters off the coast of New Jersey, Garden State Offshore Energy is a partnership between Deepwater Wind and Pwind farm planned for the federal waters off the coast of New Jersey, Garden State Offshore Energy is a partnership between Deepwater Wind and PWind and PSEG.

«The 18 utility - scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green - lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes.

Not that it ever really left it: it is the one state that has hardly any large - scale renewable generation, apart from a series of biomass plants from sugar cane plantations and a single 12MW wind farm.

Enabling wind farm owners and operators to more efficiently and cost - effectively convert wind energy into electricity and supply it to power grids improves the economics of utility - scale wind power.

The recently awarded projects include 22 solar farms, demonstrating that large - scale solar power is economically viable across the State, three wind projects, and one hydroelectric project.

[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.

The final word goes to Phil de Villiers, Head of Offshore at the Carbon Trust who concludes, «This collaborative research programme will provide robust, scientific evidence to better inform the decision - making process and in turn help reduce the consenting risk of developing large - scale offshore wind farms.»

In fact, recent data indicates that small - scale and community - based wind projects have 3.5 times the economic benefit for local communities because the owners typically reside where the farm has been built.