Sentences with phrase «wind turbine farm in»

I predict a major decline has occurred in all the local bird of prey populations in the vicinity of every wind turbine farm in North America.

From Pagudpud, our Lakbay Ilocos Norte continued heading this time to the Municipality of Bangui, the home of Bangui Windmills, the famous wind turbine farm in the Philippines.

She worked on policy issues, did research for hearings related to wind turbine farms in Ontario, prepared disclosure documents, and worked on the prosecutors» side to impose fines or jail sentences to violators of the Environmental Protection Act.

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Through a partnership with Eneco UK, the 20 - turbine wind farm, located just south of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, will generate electricity equivalent to -LSB-...]

A community benefits package hangs in the balance as the East Hampton Town Board and town trustees prepare to host a joint hearing next Thursday on Deepwater Wind's plan to construct a 15 - turbine wind farm approximately 36 miles east of MontWind's plan to construct a 15 - turbine wind farm approximately 36 miles east of Montwind farm approximately 36 miles east of Montauk.

At its meeting tonight, the East Hampton Town Board is expected to set May 17 as the date of a joint hearing with the town trustees on the proposal by Deepwater Wind, a Rhode Island company, to construct a 15 - turbine wind farm in the Atlantic some 35 miles east of MontWind, a Rhode Island company, to construct a 15 - turbine wind farm in the Atlantic some 35 miles east of Montwind farm in the Atlantic some 35 miles east of Montauk.

The wind turbines are being built on private parcels as part of the Summit Wind Farm in Arkwriwind turbines are being built on private parcels as part of the Summit Wind Farm in ArkwriWind Farm in Arkwright.

In total, however, Wyoming County has four wind farms with 237 turbines generating power, according to the Wyoming County Business Center.

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

Mr Miliband was asked to clarify his position on wind farms after he said it should «be socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area - like not wearing a seatbelt or driving past a zebra crossing.»

By Paul Snyder Chicago - based Invenergy LLC wants to finance its 100 - turbine wind farm project near Green Bay with We Energies» money and has put the decision in public service commissioners» hands.

ARKWRIGHT, N.Y. — Seven of the 36 turbines at Arkwright Summit Wind Farm in Chautauqua County are up and in the rotation.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

In order to provide electricity on the scale of wind farms, hundreds of airborne wind turbines will need to be launched and operated, necessitating such a central hub.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates energy losses in wind farms to be as high as 10 - 20 percent and identifies complex airflows created by the turbines as the major culprit for such losses.

This research is essential to improving wind energy efficiency, especially in wind farms where airflows from many large wind turbines interact with each other.

Stephen Rose and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, modelled the risk hurricanes might pose to turbines at four proposed wind farm sites.

According to temperature readings from one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S., near Palm Springs, Calif., the turbines make it warmer at night and cooler during the day, generally speaking.

On the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in Oregon.

Long - term data from a wind farm at San Gorgonio, California, confirmed his earlier model predictions: surface temperatures behind the wind turbines were higher than in front during the night, but as much as 4 °C lower by day.

«These findings have implications for airport safety but also have potential applications for agriculture and for alternative energy sources such as solar farms, where birds living and feeding in the area can cause disruption, and around wind turbines where the birds are at risk of collision and the threat to birds can sometimes be a legislative barrier,» Professor Swaddle added.

But when the two utilities with agreements to buy power from the 130 - turbine wind farm pulled out in 2015, the terminal was widely panned as a waste of taxpayer funds.

«Probably next year China will overtake the United States in manufacturing wind turbines and building wind farms,» he notes.

From computer models, he found that counter-rotating vertical turbines could be arranged in such a way that a vertical wind farm has a higher power output per unit of area than a horizontal farm, upward of 10 times the energy density.

Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem in KU's Department of Geography are co-authors of a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the effects of large wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the turbines can generate.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

In 2012 turbines killed more bats than birds, and the numbers of the dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000 birds.

If completed, it will be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., and if it is successful, it could prove that wind power generated by turbines off the coast is a viable enterprise similar to onshore wind farms, which generate about 4 percent of America's electricity.

That's especially true since the future of Cape Wind, a proposed 100 - turbine project off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, had been a contender for the nation's first offshore wind fWind, a proposed 100 - turbine project off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, had been a contender for the nation's first offshore wind fwind farm.

So, the task for Boal and other researchers becomes ensuring eagle habitats and the landscape are as conducive as possible to ensure survival and reproduction while at the same time having mitigation policies in place for landowners who erect wind turbine farms that could endanger eagles.

«We're able to track where they go, and see if they interact with wind turbine farms, if they fly through to hunt in those areas or do they avoid them altogether,» Boal said.

Here at the Burradale wind farm, the five turbines — named Mina, Brenda, Betsy, Sally and Karen — are among the most productive in the world.

The tip of the highest turbine blade at the wind farm stretches close to 500 feet in the air above the base.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

Wind turbines are generally connected to a single home or building in order to create electricity for its occupants, however, there is an increasing number of wind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricWind turbines are generally connected to a single home or building in order to create electricity for its occupants, however, there is an increasing number of wind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricwind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricity.

Project Could Bring in # 23 Million per Year Plans for the wind farm envision 150 turbines erected on some 250 hectares on the central mainland of Shetland.

She said wind turbines were just one item on Bloomberg's green energy list, citing six experimental turbines in the East River and a possible city - state offshore wind farm.

Florida Power Group has a portfolio of 2700 kilowatts of wind turbine capacity on 44 wind farms in 15 states, including Washington and Oregon.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Not to mention cases like the city government in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, that's set to attract 400 new green jobs by opening a wind turbine manufacturing plant https://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/400-green-jobs-wisconsin-rapids.php, and the expansion of a wind farm in Illinois that will power 30,000 homes.

Photo: Flickr, CCHarvesting the WindThe French government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a $ 10 billion ($ 14.26 billion) tender to build about 1,200 wind turbines in 5 different offshore wind farms.

David White, energy consultant to governments in Europe and in the U.S.A., states that «it is imperative that the Auditor General's Office investigate this wasteful investment of public funds (wind - farms) and that Ontario's Legislature place an immediate moratorium on the building of new wind turbine facilities in the province as well as end subsidies and tax incentives paid to the wind industry.»

Sustainability Victoria in a document titled «Wind energy myths and facts» of May 2007 reported 1.2 bird deaths per turbine per year at the Codrington Wind Farm.

Salmon Beach Wind Farm, the first in Australia, no longer operates but two turbines have been retained for historical interest.

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.

In the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force BasIn the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force BWind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force Basin Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force Bwind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

Ernie Marshall, who lives near a wind farm in Goderich, Ontario, said that once the turbines got rolling, his health began to suffer.

In what is claimed to be the first floating wind farm in the world, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures and located some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of ScotlanIn what is claimed to be the first floating wind farm in the world, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures and located some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotlanin the world, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures and located some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotland.

The rear part of a nacelle casing on an Adwen M5000 turbine broke off and fell in the sea at the 60MW Alpha Ventus wind farm (pictured) in the German North Sea.

The pilot floating wind farm comprises four 172 - meters turbines positioned in water depths of up to 129 meters.