Sentences with phrase «wind resources»

According to the author, this report puts into question the entire past, present and future deployment of wind resources in the province.

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.

As long as the 30 % federal investment tax credit is an option, finding the best wind resource with adequate transmission capacity isn't even that important.

The intent of this group is not to set any specific guidelines or best practices for wind resource assessment.

Wind resource assessment — provides maps of a country or state / province that includes specific wind data such as average wind speed and its variability.

With a world - class wind resource, we are just scratching the surface of our clean wind potential!

There's tremendous power - producing potential, but limited information is available about ocean - based wind resources.

But there are, he explained, rich wind resources adjacent to some of the nation's highest - priced utility districts.

All of these states are located in the central part of the country, where wind resources are the strongest.

The authors estimated that in most of the world's leading carbon dioxide - emitting countries, available wind resources could easily meet national electricity needs.

With wind resource development accelerating, however, wind's share is increasing rapidly.

Am I located in an area with ample wind resources?

I do believe that we can help these communities in the best way by enabling them to make use of their local wind resources.

This map shows some of the areas with wind resources suited for development with newer, taller turbines.

The map below shows the average total wind resource in different parts of the world between 1980 and 2005, with high wind power potential shown in yellow and low potential shown in blue.

Some parts of the country have substantial wind resources.

Also, building a more robust transmission network not only connects wind resources to load centers but provides a wider set of resources for combating the effects of intermittent generation.

The industry seeks to fill up every possible «wind resource zone» and there's no precedent for machines of this size and quantity, especially in scenic areas.

It shows that the best wind resources are along the southern coast and in the higher altitude areas.

Then again, the offshore wind resource is much larger, with much less potential for environmental objections.

They are not some future switch to a more difficult option that will be pursued simply because on - shore wind resources are exhausted — they are already in the mix for other reasons.

Prior to the acquisition of 12,800 ha of land in 2004, wind speed studies were conducted confirming the high wind resource potential of the region giving a green light to the project developers.

The state facilitated the construction of transmission lines that link the strong wind resources in West Texas and the Panhandle to major markets — known as «load centers» — in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.

Canada has high - quality wind resources in all provinces, with capacity factors ranging from 34 per cent in British Columbia to 40 per cent in Nova Scotia;

Using DNA from tissue and stable isotopes from the feathers of golden eagle carcasses, researchers from Purdue University and the U.S. Geological Survey found that golden eagles killed at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area in northern California can come from hundreds of miles away.

Wind Powering America (a DOE program initiative) publishes an onshore wind resource map for the United States, at 80 meters above ground and with resolution down to 2.5 meters.

With the ready availability of large wind resources, interest began to grow, with a result that this fledgling industry began to expand at a rate of about 30 % per year.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.

After developing most of its existing 28,400 megawatts of capacity on land, Europe is now tapping offshore wind resources as well.

(The study omitted the notoriously high mortalities at California's Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area from consideration.)

A group of operators is proposing a transmission line that would link the vast wind resources of Kansas and Oklahoma with the southeastern United States, carrying electricity from proposed wind farms with 13,000 megawatts of generating capacity.

If it performs as expected, the final go - ahead will be given to a pilot ammonia plant in Juneau, Alaska, to take advantage of huge wind resources in a state powered by a patchwork of isolated microgrids.

New England's excellent wind resources offer an opportunity to produce clean, local, and affordable power.

Presentation — Jake Badger: The Global Wind Atlas: The New Worldwide Microscale Wind Resource Assessment Data and Tools

Western Montana has abundant wind resources and enough rooftop space on schools and warehouses to generate scads of solar power, not to mention the land base to produce large quantities of biodiesel fuel and other biomass energy crops.

With Canada's unparalleled wind resource, there are still opportunities to do more to maximize the economic, industrial development, and environmental benefits associated with wind energy development.

You can also use tools like 3Tier's FirstLook, or Renewable Solutions» Modern Energy Plan to find specific information on wind resources for your property.

Head of Insights Gavin Smart, who is leading the study for ORE Catapult added: «Innovations in turbine foundations and the development of floating wind technologies are key to opening up enormous new wind resources in expanses of water too deep for conventional, bottom - fixed farms.

The Global Wind Atlas provides wind resource data at one - kilometer resolution.

As in China, some of the best U.S. wind resources are located in remote areas and require new or upgraded transmission lines to move electricity to population centers.