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Fish thriving around wind farms

Gabriel — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:58:52 +0000

The first Danish study into how one of the worlds largest wind farms affects marine life is now completed. It shows that the wind turbines and the fish live quite happily together. Indeed some species of fish have actually increased in number. As work is just beginning on Denmark’s newest and so far largest offshore […]

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LEGO goes on renewable energy using wind power

Adrian — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:18:22 +0000

LEGO Group decided to go on renewable energy after KIRKBI, the parent company announced it will invest in an offshore wind power development. The Denmark firm Kirkbi will invest $534 million in the largest wind farm made by a Danish company for renewable energy. This will happen after a join venture with Danish companies Dong […]

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Another wind farm to be build by Duke Energy till 2012 in Texas

Adrian — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:23:34 +0000

Duke Energy Renewables announced that will construct a large wind farm in Texas. Duke Energy will build, own and operate a wind farm with a big generator capacity of 202 MW. The project called Los Vientos II Wind Power is to sell the electricity and renewable energy credits to Austin Energy. The average amount of […]

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Wind Farm of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Offer Tenfold More Energy

Adrian — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:38:50 +0000

A vertical axis wind farm design can increase tenfold the output power simply by placing wind turbines to react each other. A study field on two acres wind farm in northern Los Angeles County was conducted by researchers from California Institute of Technology led by John Dabiri. Vertical axis wind farm are ideal for the […]

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Siemens to present power supply solutions for megacities at the Hanover Fair

Gabriel — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:01:20 +0000

As part of the “Metropolitan Solutions” exhibition at the Hanover Fair from April 4 to 8, Siemens Energy will present four selected projects providing energy-efficient, ecofriendly power supply solutions for megacities. Siemens will show how a sustainable supply of power can be provided for hundreds of thousands of households in Greater London from an offshore […]

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Deepwater Wind Proposed a 1000 Megawatt Wind Farm Near Rhode Island

Adrian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:18:44 +0000

Deepwater Wind, a wind power developer, proposed a 1,000-megawatt wind farm in a spot between Rhode Island and the eastern end of Long Island in New York. Their towers would be so huge, their blades rising 500 feet above the water’s surface, that they would be separated by seven- or eight-tenths of a mile, and thus would […]

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Nordex the Largest American Wind Farm Project

Adrian — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:47:33 +0000

After dedicating its new wind turbine manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Nordex USA secured an order for a 75 MW project using N100 wind turbines from EverPower Wind Holdings, Inc. The contract includes five-year premium maintenance and service agreement, as well as the delivery, commissioning, and testing of the wind turbines. This is the second […]

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Supply Chain Issues Dominate Offshore Wind Industry

Adrian — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:09:29 +0000

This year’s discussion on The UK Offshore Wind conference, which took place in Liverpool, was all about how to get in place the vast range of components that will be necessary to construct the 32 GW of new offshore wind power capacity recently licensed in the UK Crown Estate’s Round 3. (The UK government has […]

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A $117 million for Hawaii wind project

Adrian — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:43:12 +0000

First Wind, a developer of wind farm projects from Boston has been awarded with $117 million loan guarantee by the US Department of Energy for Kahuku Wind Project in Hawaii one of its new projects which will create almost 200 jobs in the process, and will have 12 wind turbines installed. The project is using […]

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Renewable energy for 400,000 households

Gabriel — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:18:58 +0000

Siemens Energy has secured an order from DONG Energy to supply 111 wind turbines for what will be Denmark’s largest offshore wind power plant. The 400 megawatts (MW) Anholt Offshore Wind Farm will feature a capacity almost twice that of Horns Rev 2, currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation at 209 MW. […]

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