Sentences with phrase «to build a wind farm»

In dollar terms, the cost of building wind farms has increased in the last few years, at least partly due to substantial increases in the price of steel.

Just to be clear, no one is suggesting we should stop building wind farms on the basis of this risk.

When building wind farms, it's common to hire local contractors to pour concrete foundations, lay wiring and build access roads.

An idea to build a wind farm there has been discussed for decades.

I want regulatory clearance to build wind farms offshore.

However, there were already plans in place to build a wind farm just off the shore in this location.

Building wind farms there, her analysis showed, would provide the biggest bang for the buck.

Wind Catcher Energy Connection, a joint effort between PSO and SWEPCO, is a $ 4.5 billion project that involves building a wind farm in Oklahoma, a 350 - mile 765 Kv power line across the state and two substations.

The Interior Department has issued leases to five companies to collect wind speed and other weather data to find the best sites for building wind farms on the outer continental shelf.

Theoretically, they can be an effective way to lower emissions, since they can allow a nation to grow its economy and gradually cut the fraction of carbon intensive emitters (say, by building wind farms instead of new coal plants)

If prices can be brought down or stabilised, as Davey argues, by building wind farms and other renewables, why can't they be brought down by building more capacity in conventional energy production?

Wind Catcher Energy Connection, a joint effort between PSO and Southwestern Electric Power Co., is a $ 4.5 billion project that involves building a wind farm in Oklahoma, a 350 - mile power line and two substations.

The study concluded that it is just as difficult to build a wind farm as it is to build a coal - fired plant, with about 45 % of all challenged projects now being «renewable energy.»

The agreement would require Bluewater to build a wind farm with up to 200 megawatts in generation capacity.

Offshore wind power is here to stay, and after observing Deepwater's approach in building the wind farm off Block Island and getting to know the team, I'm sure that this is the company that will develop wind power the right way, with everyone in mind.»

It had begun to look like no one would ever build a wind farm on land in Virginia.

That's where the other ~ $ 17 billion of that previously mentioned spend goes: to companies who build wind farms, solar power projects / plants, and other technologies that can be used along side the same (battery research, etc).

A year ago it bought Horizon, which was a small company building wind farms, and now that company has 5,000 megawatts of generating capacity under construction or in the planning stage.

«We decided it would pretty hard to build a wind farm while we were still in college, so this was a little bit less capital intensive and aligned with our vision of what we wanted to do.»

(The capital costs of building the wind farms get passed on through retail rates, Chang noted.)

The energy white paper board (the majority at least) appointed by Ian MacFarlane are part of the same crowd, semi demented by their «catastrophic» climate change beliefs and their infantile and ignorant solutions (ie build wind farms).

Please note that the table gives the cost of building a wind farm divided by the maximum number of Watts that wind farm is capable of generating (cost per installed Watt) and the number of Watts it has generated on average (cost per generated Watt).

Taking a dispassionate view of the fundamentals, it's a lot easier to build a wind farm today than a new oil pipeline.

built the wind farms which destroy environment, communities and lives (for a whole lot of reasons)....

South Korea is also building up wind expertise, primarily through building wind farms in and around its southern island of Jeju in the East China Sea off South Korea's South Coast.

No one has ever proposed building wind farms on the Chase Range, Wilpena Range, Elder Range, Heysen Range or in any other of the most popular parts of the Flinders Ranges.

Newly built wind farms in Morocco, and solar plants in Dubai and Chile, where electricity costs are around $ 30 / MWh, could also be competitive with SMR paired with carbon capture and storage.

Nonetheless, a handful of opponents showed up at the county supervisors» meeting, with one speaker reportedly comparing Apex building a wind farm to ISIS taking over the Middle East.

This, combined with growing concerns over the safety and performance of hastily built wind farms, has led regulators to cap the allowed new wind capacity at 15,000 — 20,000 megawatts per year and to make improved project quality and grid access a priority.

Once built the wind farm will make this section of the Heysen Trail much more popular because it will present an opportunity for people to walk a dedicated walking trail close to, and among, a group of modern wind turbines.

Ultimately the system, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, could make building a wind farm offshore far simpler and cheaper than it looks today, experts said.

His company has already built a wind farm in Montana that provides power to more than 45,000 homes.

Building wind farms before they are economically justifiable requires subsidies that only enrich wind farmers and make citizens poorer.

Can't build those wind farms fast enough.

It pioneered floating lidar during the development phase, and there are plans to build the wind farm around tripod - mounted Siemens Gamesa 7MW SWT -7.0-154 turbines feeding power to shore via substation - replacing offshore transformer modules.

For the same, Tesla paired up with French company Neoen, which will build a wind farm alongside the battery.

«We will purchase or build a wind farm nearby.»

The sorts of emission cuts that are required are technologically feasible, if we were to build wind farms instead of coal plants, an integrated regional or global electrical power grid, and undertake a crash program in energy efficiency.

When built the wind farm will be Finland's largest onshore wind project.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

The story of the fight to protect Coal River Mountain from the mining companies who seek to exploit it, and the plan to instead build a wind farm on its ridges.

To replace that capacity with wind energy at the current rate of building wind farms of about 650 megatwatts per year, with a load factor of 28 % would take over sixty years.

These laws make it harder to build a wind farm in Victoria than to start a coal mine, extract coal - seam gas, or build a fossil - fuel - fired power station.

«A clean economy isn't just about jobs at tech startups, manufacturing solar panels or building wind farms.