Sentences with phrase «turbine site»

Keep in mind that the wind will keep blowing over a wind turbine site long after a typical shale gas well has reached the end of its useful lifespan, and you can see why some shale investors, notably Shell, are beginning to pull back.

Police were notified Wednesday by a construction supervisor that equipment parked at a wind turbine site on Manley Line in Huron East had been tampered with.

Two excavators parked at a site on Glen's Hill Road in Ashfield Colborne Wawanosh were vandalized last month and a light - stand generator was ruined at the Cransford Line wind turbine site.

If you see something suspicious such as a suspicious vehicle or person (s) on or in the vicinity of a wind turbine site please call police immediately with as much information as possible.

For example, the IEC defines a Class IA wind turbine to be designed to withstand a turbulence intensity of 16 percent at a wind speed of 15 m / s over its design lifetime.5 Turbulence intensities can be computed from wind data recorded at the wind - turbine site and are compared with the design values, providing another metric for quantifying the margin between design and actual wind conditions.

Landowners with wind farm infrastructure on their properties also receive one time payments for the turbine site, access roads, collection lines and other components at the time construction activities occur.

Wind turbine worker threatened with gun Man said he was confronted while doing preliminary site work West Grey Police are investigating alleged threats against a worker, who says he had a shotgun pulled on him while working on a wind turbine site near London, Ont.

My question is, How close is the nearest proposed wind turbine site to the homes of each of these public officials?

Some turbine sites may require minor vegetation clearing however this will be avoided wherever possible.»

When performed properly, vibro compaction is an efficient and economical alternative to traditional deep foundation systems for many wind turbine sites with loose granular soil...

This wind turbine siting health review and policy update report was drafted by the PSCW staff and Wind Siting Council (WSC).

In a press release (July 25, 2011) TWA, EPAW and NA - PAW lament the loss of an Ontario court ruling but are spinning with joy at the news of an important scientific breakthrough that may help their quest to bring a halt to further growth in wind turbine siting and development.

Writing in Environmental Research Letters (ERL), a team advises that if the country is to achieve national goals and increase utilization up to US levels, in addition to addressing the much - discussed issues related to grid integration, China will need policy measures to address turbine siting and technology choices.

In general Heritage pays a fixed price per acre for various rights associated with determining the feasibility of wind turbine sites, and the subsequent building of turbines if deemed appropriate.

Better metocean characterization of the wind, wave, and ocean currents will also help increase certainty of development conditions which is valuable information for planning project layout, turbine siting and engineering.

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Wheat farmers in Sherman County who lease their land to wind developers receive annual royalty payments of between $ 2,000 and $ 4,000 for each turbine sited on their property.

How many Wind Turbine sites have to go up before this madness stops?

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CPRE Chief executive Shaun Spiers, said «CPRE accepts onshore wind in the right places as part of the mix required to meet the UK's carbon reduction targets, but we are seeing more and more giant turbines sited in inappropriate locations.

The following update to the July 2008 policy on industrial wind turbine siting and monitoring was adopted by the Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) Board of Directors on June 17, 2013.

The two wind projects are comprised of 176 large wind turbines sited on private agricultural land.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

1) A review of the European and other wind turbine siting criteria and existing studies of the prevalence of noise problems after construction;

The purpose of this expanded paper is to outline a rational, evidence - based set of criteria for industrial wind turbine siting in rural communities, using:

Not exact matches

GE said that, based on wind conditions at a «typical» site in the German North Sea, one turbine could produce as much as 67 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually, enough power for as many as 16,000 European households.

Also at 11:30 a.m., the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy, ally organizations and local residents will gather at the site of two new proposed fracked gas turbines to call on Cuomo to halt the proposal and reissue a request for proposals for renewable energy solutions, 79 Sheridan Ave., Albany.

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The Smoky Hills site — the Meridian Way Wind Power Facility near Concordia — was developed into a wind energy site, which gave researchers the opportunity to observe greater prairie chickens before, during and after wind turbine construction.

«We have some evidence for females avoiding the turbines, but the avoidance within the home range doesn't seem to have an impact on nest site selection or nest survival.»

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

Stephen Rose and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, modelled the risk hurricanes might pose to turbines at four proposed wind farm sites.

Wind turbines began springing up on a 30 - acres section of the former Superfund site in this Buffalo suburb.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

«Vestas works closely together with our customers to prevent this by identifying the best sites for installing wind turbines as we map multiple weather data, including temperatures.»

TVA produces energy from 18 wind turbines built atop Buffalo Mountain near Oak Ridge, Tenn., and it has installed small solar photovoltaic systems at 14 locations throughout its territory, including two sites in Alabama.

One area that requires scientific expertise is environmental assessment, in which the site that will house the turbines is studied to determine whether drinking water, plants, or animals will be affected by a new wind - power facility.

The city's argument: Wind is good, but turbines need to be properly sited in order to coexist with the fishing industry.

The East River site produced nearly 50,000 kilowatt - hours of energy from December 2006 to May 2007, and the testing spot has the potential to support as many as 300 turbines and nearly 10 megawatts of installed capacity.

After wind turbine construction, they found an increased rate of lek abandonment at sites within eight kilometers of the turbines as well as a slight decrease in male body mass.

Virginia Winder of Benedictine College, Andrew Gregory of Bowling Green State University, Lance McNew of Montana State University, and Brett Sandercock of Kansas State University monitored prairie - chicken leks, or mating sites, before and after turbine construction and found that leks within eight kilometers of turbines were more likely to be abandoned.

The site is too windy for workers to safely erect turbines for more than a few hours a day.

For example, lek persistence at our study site depended not only on distance to turbine, but also male numbers and habitat.»

And carcass surveys are expensive or not feasible at remote locations or other sites like agricultural fields, dense shrub habitats, or in offshore turbine operations.»

Often these sites generate electricity as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as using gas from landfills to drive turbines.

Collisions with wind turbines kill about 100 golden eagles a year in some locations, but a new study that maps both potential wind - power sites and nesting patterns of the birds reveals sweet spots, where potential for wind power is greatest with a lower threat to nesting eagles.

10 MW Wind R&D Park, which includes a well - equipped 80 m IEC compliant meteorological tower.WEICan's site also includes a 62 m meteorological tower and a small wind test bed with 14 test pads forsmall wind turbines.

Carry out a school survey, collect data and evaluate it to see if there is a potential site for a wind turbine.

Committed to environmental sustainability, Mountain View Grand is an official EPA Green Power Partner, receiving all of its electrical power from the wind, including production from its own on - site wind turbine.