Sentences with phrase «turbine towers»

The bill would also increase a mandate that utilities get more power from so - called renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in many rural communities.

Unlike with solar, bigger wind turbines are usually better — the larger turbine towers and blades are more efficient (and safer) than small ones.

Which of three ways to connect the columns and panels works best for wind turbine towers?

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

The bill also increases from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of power that utilities must get from renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in rural communities.

Between July 10, 2017, and April 20, 2018, a subsidiary of DTE Energy secured 98 easements for turbine towers from property owners in Bay County.

«Taller turbine towers can enable wind energy production in all 50 states, including those in the Southeast.»

Sritharan said the studies of concrete turbine towers will continue at Iowa State.

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

After testing the technology on a tower built at one - fifth scale (compared with a normal turbine tower), Scottish Enterprise is now looking for partners to turn the prototype Orangutan into a climbing machine that can be commercialized.

Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

«Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide.»

BMW is adding four wind turbine towers near its Leipzig plant which builds the X1 crossover and is scheduled to build the i3 electric car.

For instance, since no U.S. ship was capable of hoisting the 400 - ton nacelles, or generators, 330 feet to the tops of the Block Island turbine towers, Deepwater Wind had to lease a Norwegian vessel to do the job.

Natural gas the real replacement, but new Michigan wind mandate means more turbine towers coming, too

The height of existing turbine towers and turbines» spinning blades are causing beam blockage and under - sampling of the radar echoes downstream for Jefferson, Lewis, and Oswego counties.

Yesterday, a South Australian Department of Environment and Heritage officer collected the remains of a juvenile wedge - tailed eagle from the base of one of the Waterloo wind farm turbine towers.

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.

THese TURBINE TOwers are 400 - 600 feet high!

The shear numbers of wind turbine towers planned for rural Ontario to produce even an insignificant amount of electricity for the grid will have a negative impact on the environment through migratory bird and bat destruction, devaluation of tourism attraction and creation of rural industrial ghettos.

(3) Any footings or exposed edges on the bases of off shore turbines towers will create perching opportunities and attract birds.

Turbine components: All 15 turbine tower sections and 15 blades, supplied by GE Renewable Energy and its blade manufacturer LM Wind Power, have been delivered to ProvPort, in Providence.

DTE says the process of getting local approvals and signing long - term leases for turbine towers can take two to three years.

«Taller turbine towers can enable wind energy production in all 50 states, including those in the Southeast.»

Oil leak along a wind turbine tower in the Sierra de El Perdón (courtesy of Gurelur — the Navarrian association of real ecologists)

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

ITI Energy's system, designed by Oreada, Ltd., also based in Scotland, is made up of two friction clamps, connected by a hydraulic structure that allows caterpillar - like motion up and down the turbine tower (pdf).

The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.

The goal was to test three column - and - panel segments for the expected loads at the top of a turbine tower.

«A lot of people are talking about taller, concrete wind turbine towers,» he said.

He calls the technology «Hexcrete,» which can also be combined with steel tubular technology to create hybrid wind turbine towers.

Sritharan said the models show using Hexcrete technology to build 120 - to 140 - meter wind turbine towers could drop the levelized costs 10 to 18 percent under the costs of current 80 - meter technologies.

Taller wind - turbine towers will be crucial in expanding wind power nationwide, enabling wind energy production in all 50 states, according to studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, based in Golden, Colorado.

One solution is called «Hexcrete» wind turbine towers.

Turbine towers could not be taller than 500 feet from base to blade tip, and they could not emit noise greater than 45 decibels at the property line.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

The planning factor for wind turbine placement — the «a «footprint» of land that has to be taken out of production to provide space for turbine towers, roads, and support structures» — is 0.25 acres per wind turbine.

The government will work with municipalities to determine a property tax rate increase for wind turbine towers.

«EDF RE is also proud of Kelly Creek's positive economic impact, generated through the use of wind turbine towers, blades and nacelles manufactured at Vestas» Colorado facilities, the creation of approximately 100 construction jobs and 10 long - term, full - time operations jobs, long - term lease payments to landowners, and recurring tax payments to local municipalities.»

Power from the Wind covers every aspect of small - scale wind energy systems, from an initial site assessment to wind turbine towers, from inverters to batteries, should an owner decide to create an off - grid or grid - intertied system with a battery backup.

It is possible that, if the eagle was hit by an ascending turbine blade, it could have been thrown this far; however, research by Dr Cindy Hull in Tasmania has indicated that wedge - tailed eagles are most often hit by descending turbine blades and that they rarely, if ever, fall as far as 180m from a turbine tower (it is possible that the eagle could have been dragged by a large scavenger).

A contractor said the dangers of big turbines are associated with huge underground vaults at the towers» bases (though, in fact, turbine towers are planted in solid concrete foundations).

After building more than 20,000 wind turbine towers, why have Germany and Denmark been unable to close a single coal - fired power plant?