Sentences with phrase «scale wind turbines»

However, small scale wind turbines are really only appropriate (economically feasible) for off - grid installations.

Contemporary utility - scale wind turbines typically exceed the 200 - foot limit.

project — the nation's first, tribal - owned, large scale wind turbine on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

This chapter in our collective history will bring shame to politicians who all must be named for allowing this to happen as well as to all non governmental agents / operatives who manipulated behind the scenes to force industrial scale wind turbines on our rural communities.

So far as I have been able to find out, while there are about 200 000 utility scale wind turbines in the world, no aircraft has ever crashed because of a wind turbine.

For comparisson, the BWEA states that for industrial scale wind turbines, the actual power produced by the turbine is about 30 % of its theoretical maximum capacity.

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Snapshots of University renewables The first large scale wind turbine at a UK university was built at the University of Ulster's Coleraine campus in 2008.

A utility scale wind turbine uses more than a ton of heavy - duty and lightweight magnets, 700 pounds of which is neodymium.

Intertribal COUP has flourished since it helped build the first large commercial - scale wind turbine project on the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 2003.

Research from NREL shows exceptionally good wind speeds for utility - scale wind turbines along the southern coast of St. Croix — including near the old oil refinery.

Despite wind developers vigorous claims to the contrary, the state now concedes that utility scale wind turbines constructed too closely to people's homes can make them ill.

The federal government was the key sponsor of, for example, the shale oil and large - scale wind turbine debacles in response to the energy crisis thirty years ago.

Staff at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) have advised us (by telephone) that complaints about the noise emissions and the «sensation» or vibration produced by large - scale wind turbines number in the thousands.

The project features the first utility - scale wind turbine installed in Michigan, and a 1 MW solar energy array.

Utility - scale wind turbine towers range in height from 60 to 120 meters; 18 - 60 meter turbines can be used for community - or residential - scale electricity generation.

In fact the typical utility - scale wind turbine seen in Australia today has the capacity to generate up to about two megawatts, and on average will generate about 35 % of that (see capacity factor, on another page).

The large - scale Wind Turbine System Subaru 80/2.0 with an output of 2000kW was displayed on a scale of 1/50.

Many in the small - scale wind turbine industry think residential wind power is about to enter suburbia with simpler, less expensive systems that perform more like household appliances than complicated renewable energy systems.

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small scale vertical axis wind turbines don't generate very much power and small scale wind turbines on city buildings DO NOT WORK.

New York City's first commercial - scale wind turbine at the Sims Material Recovery Facility.

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.

Downtown Muskegon, Mich., population just over 40,000 people, has one thing on New York City's Times Square: a small - scale wind turbine powering a liquid - crystal display.

Keurig Green Mountain coffee roasters challenged their own success with voluntary carbon reduction targets and, in partnership with NativeEnergy, helped create the Alex Little Soldier Wind Turbine project — the nation's first, tribal - owned, large scale wind turbine on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

At BayWa r.e., our asset management team offers a wealth of expertise to the monitoring and operations of utility scale wind turbines.

As the first tribally owned, large scale wind turbine in the US, tribal officials see this as the start of an economic development initiative that will bring a vital industry to the reservation.

In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

But many of those hitches are being addressed by engineers familiar with developing and maintaining Arctic infrastructure such as small - scale wind turbines and drinking - water systems, Desch says.

The goal is to offer the public information about local power generation with small - scale wind turbines and other sources.

The above statements apply to utility scale wind turbines (about 3MW) operating in mainland Australia.

My home is 13 km from the nearest utility - scale wind turbines.

(It appears supporting industrial - scale wind turbines that kill birds and bats did not deter the Ontario Liberal government from appointing Ms. Saxe as commissioner of the environment.)

A survey by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of large wind facilities in the United States found that they use between 30 and 141 acres per megawatt of power output capacity (a typical new utility - scale wind turbine is about 2 megawatts).

There were tons of other exhibits other than solar applications, such as home - scale wind turbines, energy efficient lighting and other home appliances, green building materials, smart electricity meters, electricity consumption monitoring software and hardware, and of course, technological applications that were deployed in the recent «Green Olympics».

He decided he would like to make large scale wind power comercially viable and in 1996 he erected his first large scale wind turbine, Ecotricity was on its way and the rest is history.

We are hoping for a complete halt to the ongoing damage of the government's policies, and that there will be help for people already living with the noise and other impacts of industrial - scale wind turbines.

Each cell represents four square kilometers, with a presumed maximum installation capacity of eight 2 MW modern utility - scale wind turbines.

Prices for the net - zero energyProducing as much energy on an annual basis as one consumes on site, usually with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics or small - scale wind turbines.

Now there are many manufacturers of large - scale wind turbines in the market, including big companies like General Electric.

In the 1970s and»80s, the U.S. government funded the development of large - scale wind turbines, as did other countries such as Denmark, Germany, Spain, India, and, later, China.

With the average cost of a 10kW small - scale wind turbine on a 100 - foot tower in the range of $ 45,000 to $ 60,000 (before state and federal incentives), pouring through the pages of Power from the Wind make this book a wise first investment.

In recent years, attention has been given to large utility - scale wind turbines, though the micro wind market offers individuals a good opportunity to become more self - reliant and less dependent on the grid to serve their electricity needs.

One of those policies resulted in Ontario's electricity sector focusing on acquisition of renewable energy from industrial - scale wind turbines, solar panels and biomass.