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Wind energy is affordable. Wind prices for power contracts signed in 2013 and levelized wind prices (the price the utility pays to buy power from a wind farm) are as low as 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour in some areas of the country. This is the lowest ever price ...
How One Wonky Court Decision Could Unlock Our Renewable Energy Future
For context, consider the wind power records being set across regional grids every day, the impact Texas' Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) transmission project has had on the state's western wind energy resources, or the potential impact of the ...
Wind Turbine Syndrome? Courts Aren't Buying It
“Of course wind turbines make noise, and we all know that noise can be annoying,” said Melissa Whitfield Aslund, a scientist at the Canadian consulting firm Intrinsik, whose clients include wind energy developers. “Once sited properly, where you have ...
ArcelorMittal South Africa invests in the wind energy sector
“ArcelorMittal South Africa's role in round two of the wind energy programme is to supply steel for 20 wind towers to a Vestas Wind Farm called the Grassridge Wind Energy facility situated in Eastern Cape. The total requirement for these towers were 3,000 ...
Wind energy sets new record by generating 22% of UKs electricty
Trade association RenewableUK says a record high of 22% of the UK's electricity was generated by wind last Sunday, beating the previous 24-hour record of 21% set earlier this month. Before that, the record stood at 20%, set on 20th December 2013.
Can These New Small Wind Companies Finally Duplicate the Success of the ...
It was co-founded by Tal Mamo, the former director of the Distributed Wind Energy Association, and Russell Tencer, the founder of Wind Analytics. (A few SolarCity founders have also invested in the company.) The company's mission is to recreate the success ...
Alabama bureaucrats kill domestic energy jobs
Even though the announcement of these wind farms' abandonment is just now being published, the reality is that they died in early March. That's when the state legislature passed two local bills specifically designed to kill wind energy in Cherokee and ...
Wyoming wind farm won't need federal tax credits to be viable
The most expansive onshore wind energy farm in the United States will not need federal tax credits in order to be commercially viable, according to report by the Casper Star-Tribune. The private firm Power Company of Wyoming LLC has plans to place 1,000 ...
Wind energy reaches record levels
The share of wind power within the UK's generation mix reached a record high of 22 per cent on Sunday due to strong power output of almost 6 GW and typically low summer weekend demand. The new record share surpassed the 21 per cent stake wind held ...
Alabama regs too strict for turbines, says lawyer for wind energy developer
GADSDEN, Alabama -- The lawyer for a Texas-based company abandoning plans for two windmill farms in northeast Alabama said today that recently approved state regulations on wind energy led to the decision. Charlie Stewart, attorney for Pioneer Green ...
Indian State Of Andhra Pradesh Plans To Add 5000 MW Solar Power Capacity ...
The state government is working on a comprehensive renewable energy policy that would see 5,000 MW of solar power and 4,000 MW of wind energy capacity installed by 2019. The policy is expected to be released in a month's time. To kick off things, the ...
Clarkson University Graduate Student Wins Award for Paper on Wind Power
When there is a large amount of wind energy in the system, system operators can't tell how much wind energy is available for the next couple of hours, Wu said. Upadhyay's paper explores the maximum amount of ramp in wind power, which can be used to ...
