Sentences with phrase «turbine technology»

Additionally, research into wildlife behavior and advances in wind turbine technology have helped to reduce bird and bat deaths.

Featuring the best - in - class capacity factor, the 2 MW - 127 demonstrates the next step in turbine technology and efficiency.

New turbine technology already allows developers to exploit lower - speed winds and get more production from otherwise potentially destructive high - power winds.

Wind can provide an excellent supplement to fossil fuels, but it's impossible to fully replace fossil fuels using current turbine technology.

All three of the selected projects will use innovative turbine technology from different turbine manufacturers.

However, there also are advances taking place in smaller - scale turbine technology.

Note: While the health effects of wind turbine technology is being analyzed, the effects of low sound generation on other species is not.

These projects are developing, testing, and permitting new turbine technologies, such as hurricane - resistant foundations, foundations that are environmentally friendly and easy to install, and floating turbine designs.

«Advanced gas turbine technology gives customers one of the lowest installed costs per kilowatt,» said Joe Citeno, combustion engineering manager for GE Power.

These investments address a long - list of research challenges, including upgrading turbine technology for its operation at sea, developing and testing new turbine foundations that offer greater reliability and ease of installation, transmission issues, as well as technical shipping and maintenance challenges unique to offshore turbines.

Because Japan lacks much shallow seabed in which to fix standard offshore turbines, new floating turbine technology is likely the future for offshore wind there.

The company says its RAAX turbine technology improves engine response and also increases efficiency.

Exhibiting at the annual event provides a terrific platform to share our track record of projects requiring intelligent turbine technology as well as our experience working with First Nations and other communities.

The MOU on Wind Energy between NREL and India's Centre for Wind Energy Technology will focus in particular on supporting efforts to develop a low - wind speed turbine technology program.

The Acer's thermal management system borrows from jet - engine turbine technology, using louvers in the vents to direct airflow across the bottom of the chassis.

What is the impact of different wind turbine technologies on the value of wind power in Europe?

«Wind power in Australia is a proven and mature technology that can be readily deployed, and the intelligence and reliability of GE's wind turbine technology makes it a natural fit with the requirements for long - term renewable energy supply in NSW.»

«We're looking at a turbine rotor shaft with four stages on it that's 4 inches in diameter, 4 feet long and could power 1,000 homes,» said Richard Dennis, turbine technology manager at the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Wind turbine technology ranges from onshore to offshore turbines.

The 740Ld will be powered by a 3.0 - liter inline - six diesel engine with a single turbocharger using variable vane turbine technology, making 255 hp and 413 lb - ft of torque, and will be coupled exclusively with BMW's xDrive all - wheel drive system.

Currently a process of gathering tidal energy called «In - stream turbine technology» is being tested in the Minas Passage, Nova Scotia.

The unreliability of turbine technology inhibits it from becoming the most dominate power source.

Existing 2MW and 3MW turbine technology was assumed.

Both Dominion Virginia Power and Fishermen's Energy will use this type of foundation at their sites off the coasts of Virginia Beach and Atlantic City, New Jersey, respectively which will enable the companies to analyze and assess how the structural design performs at two separate locations with different turbine technology and site conditions.

We find this wind turbine technology very interesting.

But we recently met a startup called Hydrovolts (formerly Puget Sound Tidal Power, or PSTP) which is taking the tidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and canals.

Jens Tommerup, CEO of MHI Vestas, said, «As a leader in the offshore wind industry, we are committed to lowering the cost of energy through innovative turbine technology.

As wind turbine technology catches up with the latest solar cell inventions, other research on bird collision risk and marine mammal injury mitigation will complete preparations for larger scale wind - energy projects, just as recent research is also providing evidence of varying bird risks occurring at different heights (and for different species.)

Additionally, new wind turbine technology now makes wind energy development within Florida feasible.

An indication of how turbine technology is evolving is that 30 % of wind farm applications received this year by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were for turbines taller than 152.4 metres (500 - feet) at the blade tip — the traditional industry - wide «soft cap» limit.

Because gas combustion turbines require no cooling (having no steam to condense), the overall combined cycle system requires much less water for cooling than traditional steam turbine technologies.

Promising new EU wind energy and offshore wind turbine technology research project, SUPRAPOWER, which means, SUPerconducting, Reliable, lightweight, And more POWERful offshore wind turbine.

Ruoff says if the energy production from wind turbine technology grew at 45 percent annually for the next 20 years, the total energy production from wind alone would almost equal the entire energy production of the world from all sources in 2007.

«We believe that our support for the Britannia project, through the acquisition of this purposely designed new generation offshore turbine project, will drive forward the development of turbine technology designed for the challenges of the offshore environment.

Kinsella added: «We have taken advantage of significant advances in wind turbine technology allowing the number of turbines to be reduced from the 125 in the original design to a maximum of 54 today.»

«The HA is our most advanced gas turbine technology, and we've never stopped pushing the boundaries of what it -LSB-...]

Claire Mack, chief executive of Scottish renewable energy association Scottish Renewables, said the start - up of the Hywind array off Scotland is «a reminder that, as the windiest country in Europe, and with some of the deepest waters and most promising offshore wind sites, [the country] is perfectly placed to capitalise on floating turbine technology».

Project leader Lee Jay Fingersh argues that it is important for the research center to stay abreast of the latest in turbine technology:

In an attempt to combine my business experience to the wind industry, I decided to join the Wind Energy and Turbine Technology program at Iowa Lakes Community College located in Estherville, Iowa.

This new nuclear technology, because it operates at higher temperatures, can increase thermal efficiency from the 34 % or so of current nuclear technology to closer to 50 %; it can have more inherent safety features from not being pressurized and have a core that can not melt down; it can use more efficient combined cycle turbine technologies that require less capital for the same amount of power generated.

Roughly 90 % of the U.S. OCS wind energy resource occurs in waters that are too deep for current turbine technology.

The newest turbine technology and low prices make it possible to pioneer the American Southeast

«With predictable policies now in place, we will continue advancing wind turbine technology, driving down our costs and passing the savings on to American families and businesses in all corners of the country,» Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement.

FRANKFURT, Feb 8 - Vestas is betting on geared wind turbine technology to meet the ambitious profit - margin target it promised when it reported quarterly results on Wednesday.

Effortlessly explore the U.S. wind fleet, major players, wind turbine technology, and the wind turbine manufacturing footprint.

As ESRU preps its turbine technology for sea trials, which begin next week, Grant acknowledges that a number of questions remain.