Sentences with phrase «wind farms»

Upon completion, it is expected to be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

As for wind farms on public property, the situation is predictably worse.

With many wind farms on a large grid, variability largely disappears.

Currently it reduces the price of electricity from wind farms by 2.2 cents / kWh — from 6 - 8 cents / kWh to 4 - 6 cents / kWh.

And it is all in line with wind farms coming on line.

In dollar terms, the cost of building wind farms has increased in the last few years, at least partly due to substantial increases in the price of steel.

During these sessions, representatives from some of the country's largest wind farm operators weighed in on strategies to boost efficiency, improve productivity and lower costs.

The study estimates that routine wear and tear will more than double the cost of electricity being produced by wind farms in the next decade.

But now it is in the middle of building its first wind farm at about 60 MW in the country's north.

Costs caused by government policies such as subsidies for new wind farms and energy efficiency schemes will be the main driver, adding # 144, it claims.

To accomplish this they have to convince local governments that proposed wind farm projects will be installed in a manner that does not adversely impact residents.

Investors in wind farm projects aim for a gross return on the capital invested in the order of 20 % per annum.

I would hope and expect that national parks and conservation parks would be kept free of wind farm developments.

The company has already build more than 800 MW of wind projects in the state, and expects to have another 200 MW wind farm online by the end of the year.

He has called for wind farm operators to pay the state millions of dollars in taxes.

The universal reporting of ill health is a fact that wind farm developers and their political allies have tried to deny all along.

It has also commissioned studies to determine what effect wind farm construction and electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the turbines may have on fish populations.

There is a great deal of support for more wind farms in various locations all over the world.

And offshore wind farms do not represent an exception to this, since they are already being pursued.

This is the world's first floating wind farm.

The advances in wind turbine design that offer cheap electricity from wind help explain why some 22 states now have commercial scale wind farms pumping electricity into the local grid.

Actually, the average Australian wind farm generates around 35 % of its installed capacity.

Other considerations are often involved in abandonment unrelated to the claims made about wind farm noise.

This decline in performance means that it is rarely economic to operate wind farms for more than 12 to 15 years.

After all, when wind farms put electricity into a power grid it usually replaced electricity that would otherwise be generated by the burning of fossil fuels.

At the end of the day these people don't care if wind farms make people sick.

The planners envisioned large - scale projects, including bigger wind farms and more heating plants run on renewable fuels.

The graphs on the right show that in all the Australian cases where wind farms have been constructed close to towns, there has been no tendency for house and land prices to fall.

This may well be true for very high levels of low frequency noise, but the evidence is that wind farms produce very low levels of low frequency noise.

The gas transfer station would have been built in the same location where an off - shore wind farm has also been proposed.

With this information, energy developers can plan wind farms better, but also extract more energy from their existing turbines while minimizing wear and tear on their hardware.

During the same period, there have been over 600 noise related complaints against wind farms.

If it did, how could we explain the fact that people like wind farm workers are immune and people living kilometres away get sick?

The fact that existing wind farms shut down because of inadequate transmission capacity is not news to those of us actually involved in alternative energy - it's been widely known for years.

And 91 percent were in favor of developing wind farms for electricity; a figure double that of residents who would want to see further development of coal and nuclear power.

Like so many statements from wind farm opponents this is a half - truth.

The service scope will cover full as well as tailored operation and maintenance solutions for wind farm owners in these countries.

New opportunities for optimization of wind farm operations continue to present themselves.

By the time demand peaked, wind farm output was just 5 % — i.e. next to useless.

However, these benefits will require long - term support for local wind farms by municipalities and their residents.

The only exceptions I know of are one or two very small community owned wind farms that might have had significant government funding.