Sentences with phrase «utility scale wind»

Rather, the working group will be a forum for information sharing and material development relevant to the topic of wind resource assessment for commercial utility scale wind energy development.

He was not aware that I had previously interviewed a site developer about dust storms on utility scale wind and solar sites.

The Heritage Stoney Corners Wind Farm project is one of the first utility scale wind farms in Michigan.

It will be the first utility scale wind farm in North Carolina, sending power to an electrical grid that supplies Amazon Cloud data centers in the region.

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

To assess the long - term outlook for utility scale wind and solar that considers both the tax extenders and the CPP, we use RHG - NEMS, a modified version of the National Energy Modeling System used by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) to produce their Annual Energy Outlook (AEO).

According to the American Wind Energy Association, there are approximately 1,000 utility scale wind projects — which represent 74,512 megawatts (MW) and over 48,800 wind turbines — installed across 40 U.S. states, plus Puerto Rico and Guam.

Pairing utility scale wind and solar power in the South could improve renewable energy market share as well as relieve potential integration issues.

WIND: While windmills have been built for centuries, it was not until the 1980s and 1990s that large utility scale wind farms were constructed.

Here's what true energy independence would look like: With $ 3.9 billion equally divided, we could install 65,000 typical 5kw residential rooftop PV systems, each supplying about half of the home's electricity needs; install 325 2MW utility scale wind towers that would generate over 3.5 billion kwh per year; and provide 160,000 homes with $ 8000 efficiency retrofit packages, saving $ 300 / yr / home.

By the way, a typical utility scale wind turbine has an installed capacity of 2MW and a capacity factor of 34 % while the average Australian roof - top solar installation is 2kW and solar PV has a capacity factor of about 16 %; so a typical wind turbine will generate as much electricity as 2000 average roof - top solar systems and a wind farm of 50 such turbines will generate as much power as 100 000 roof - top solar systems.

And the Rosebud Wind Project is leading the way in bringing tribal utility scale wind power on line.»

In Australia most utility scale wind turbines are in «farms» where there are commonly at least twenty or even up to a hundred in one area.

As one of the first utility scale wind energy generating facilities in the State of Michigan, development began in 2008 with the installation of the first 2 turbines.

In order to support environmentally beneficial initiatives, The Environmental Law Clinic has sublet space to Illinois Wind Energy, which developed the first utility scale wind farm in Illinois; the Friends of the Forest Preserves; and the Healthy Schools Campaign, a coalition of more than 70 organizations committed to providing environmentally safe schools for Illinois children.

An anti-wind power Net site (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum) in 2013 recorded an average of about 20 blade - failure events per year world - wide (not necessarily in utility scale wind turbines and the blades did not necessarily fall off).

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

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.

In this note we provide the first long - term outlook for utility scale wind and solar with the tax extenders in place and discuss the implications for compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

We then explore the implications for utility scale wind and solar under the CPP, with and without the tax extenders.

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.

While it seems that no one has yet been injured by a blade or piece of a blade thrown from a utility - scale wind turbine, considering that there are several hundred thousand utility scale wind turbines in the world it is quite probable that it will happen some time.

Craig Poff is Director, Business Development for Avangrid Renewables where he is responsible for development of utility scale wind and solar energy projects in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.

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