Sentences with phrase «wind farm produce»

For example, if some wind turbines at the front of a wind farm produce less power than they're able to, this could leave more wind for the other turbines.

Gullible in that they swallow the wind weasel spin and actually believe that wind farms produce meaningful power and effectively reduce the production of green house gases.

But due to the variability of wind, offshore wind farms produce around a third of their nameplate capacity.

On average throughout the year, and depending on location, modern wind farms produce 10 - 45 % of their rated maximum power capacity, roughly double the annual capacity factor of the average solar PV installation (5 - 30 %).

Not only will these wind farms produce paltry amounts of electricity, the electricity produced will be of lower value due to the intermittent, volatile, and unpredictable nature of wind - generated electricity.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas reports that wind farms produced nearly 10 percent of the electricity delivered to its 24 million customers in 2013.

A single 1,000 - megawatt wind farm produces at least 7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in component construction and concrete.

In Portugal, wind farms produced nearly a quarter of the country's electricity in 2013.

Regarding fossil fuels: the flaw in your reasoning is that wind farms produce intermittent energy, and that there is no storage capacity for such a large amount of electricity.

The department found the evidence showed wind farms produced no more infrasound than the background level in other environments.

Britain was forced to rely on new «last resort» measures to keep the lights on for the first time on Wednesday after coal power plants broke down and wind farms produced less than one per cent of required electricity.

These subsidies are given irrespective of whether the wind farm produces any consumable energy or not and are paid even when a wind farm is shut down due to strong winds.»

Not exact matches

The 10 year agreement will see Microsoft get 100 percent of the energy produced by an onshore wind farm.

Beyond developing the wind farms, Shell intends to buy and sell the power they produce.

The agreement relates to energy produced by a portion of the Thunder Ranch wind farm in Oklahoma, which is expected to commence operations by the end of this year.

That deal means that Microsoft will purchase all the wind energy produced at GE's new, 37 MW Tullahennel wind farm in County Kerry.

Back in August, Scotland reported that its wind farms were able to produce 106 percent of the country's entire energy needs.

The region is also a major energy producer, the source of 75 % of the state's oil production and 65 % of its gas production.18 Kern County is the third most productive oil - producing county in the U.S., 19 accounting for one - tenth of overall U.S. oil production and three of the five largest U.S. oil fields.20 Kern is also home to the world's second largest onshore wind farm, the Alta Wind Energy Center, 21 and construction is underway there on what will be the world's largest solar PV installation, at Antelope Vallewind farm, the Alta Wind Energy Center, 21 and construction is underway there on what will be the world's largest solar PV installation, at Antelope ValleWind Energy Center, 21 and construction is underway there on what will be the world's largest solar PV installation, at Antelope Valley.22

This one - of - a-kind inspiration, combined with the farm - fresh produce and invigorating trade winds, creates an incomparable recipe for the perfect meal.

Kids can wind or squeeze the fun farm or zoo animalshapes to produce a beam of light.

An offshore wind farm at the center of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short of a sharply expanding summer peak load, a recent analysis found.

Way to go Denmark!Due to an unusually windy day, wind farms in Denmark managed to produce 140 % of the country's...

(The South Fork Wind Farm, if constructed, is expected to produce energy sufficient to power around 50,000 residences.)

The wind farms that now punctuate the landscape from California to New York produce a total of almost 100 terawatt - hours of electricity a year, almost 2.5 percent of total demand.

They estimated how much power offshore wind farms could produce if they had been placed at the same locations as the monitoring stations — which would be the case under current wind - farm configurations.

If each site was redeveloped with solar arrays and wind farms, according to the study, they could produce an estimated 5,855 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 1.8 million homes, or roughly half the homes in Michigan.

That means a feed - in tariff for offshore wind in the United Kingdom, improvements on the grid that would take the wind energy produced in the North Sea to the rest of Europe, and operators» making progress on securing permits for the offshore wind farms.

«Once a wind farm is up and running, they want to know how much it's going to be producing, maybe in the day ahead or in the hours ahead, because they need to manage the overall grid,» Real de Azua says.

The wind turbines on these wind farms connect directly into power grids and produce 5 percent of the electricity that that entire state uses.

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Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

Whereas solar or wind farms have few negative environmental side effects, they require more space and produce less energy than environmentally unfriendly coal plants.

The partners develop mathematical models that produce improved forecasts accurate for each quarter - hour, which show how much electricity Germany's installed photovoltaic and wind - farm facilities will generate over the next few hours and days.

An economic slowdown has caused some solar and wind farms to sit idle or produce energy that can't be used.

The action followed the council's decision last month to direct city staff to purchase 1 megawatt of power produced at the wind farm at a 20 - year fixed cost of $ 33.39 per megawatt hours.

And to be clear, the wind farm will produce an amount of electricity equivalent to what they use across the US, it won't be directly connected to all those offices.

The country's largest wind farm to date is expected to start producing power this summer; the total of 54 wind turbines due to be installed by 2010 will be able to generate up to 135MW.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

Denmark's government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers.

Because turbines take up only 1 percent of the land covered by a wind farm, ranchers and farmers can, in effect, double - crop their land, simultaneously harvesting electricity while producing cattle, wheat or corn.

There is huge controversy about how much energy a wind farm will produce

According to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), between the months of July and September last year, 50 per cent of the country's electricity was produced primarily by wind and solar farms, as well as wood and nuclear power plants.

When you also consider that wind currently produces only about 4 % of America's power, and there is growing opposition to wind farms with cutbacks and moratoria being advanced in states like New Hampshire, Vermont, and Ohio, it looks like there continue to be stiff headwinds against the rapid growth of this favored Green energy source.

The wind - farm, even if it functions at its «maximum efficiency», would produce far less than 1 % of the electricity needed in Toronto.

That's the equivalent of approximately 440 coal fired power plants6 or 484 wind farms the size of the Cape Wind project.7 On our nation's current course, a huge portion of this power will come from conventional coal, which produces 48 % of the electricity8 in the U.S. todwind farms the size of the Cape Wind project.7 On our nation's current course, a huge portion of this power will come from conventional coal, which produces 48 % of the electricity8 in the U.S. todWind project.7 On our nation's current course, a huge portion of this power will come from conventional coal, which produces 48 % of the electricity8 in the U.S. today.9

The researchers are pursuing what they call «System Management of Atmospheric Resource through Technology» (SMART) strategies — a cluster of technologies and practices that will allow next - generation wind farms to produce more energy, more reliably, for more hours of the day.

The South Fork Wind Farm will produce enough clean, renewable energy every year to power 50,000 typical homes.

The hydroelectric portion of the project can produce 16 MW, while the onshore wind farm on its own can produce 13.6 MW (3.4 per wind turbine).

In favourable locations across the world, including the United States, Europe and India, onshore wind and solar farms are the least expensive way of producing electricity.

Wind farms are very costly, The capital cost is high and the produce unreliable energy.