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Go Green: Is wind power viable?
Massa chu setts residents now have the option to fuel their homes with 100-percent green energy through Mass Energy's New England Green Start program. Sign up at massenergy.org/cet. However, many people are unsure whether wind energy is a viable ...
Dixfield puts moratorium on wind energy projects
The town's selectmen approved a Wind Energy Facility Ordinance in 2012 and began revising it in January 2013. The Sun Journal reports the six-month moratorium is to allow selectmen to finish the revisions. Residents voted 89-7 in favor of the moratorium ...
Siemens To Provide 67 Turbines For UK Offshore Wind Farm
“We are very proud to achieve this milestone on the way to enhancing efficiency and lowering the cost of offshore wind energy with our innovative direct drive technology.” The move solidifies Siemens control of the European wind market, at the same time that ...
Crowded meeting yields no definite answer on wind farms
After still more argument, those were both stricken and the second opportunity for public comment began after the board voted to pass the establishment of a process for review of the county's wind energy ordinance to the Ag, Zoning and Emergency Services ...
North American Windpower
The company attributes its first-half rise mostly to development and construction activities relating to the completion of the 3.4 MW wind energy facility in Russells Point, Ohio, in the first quarter, combined with revenue increases from electricity sales of its ...
Oskaloosa news
The tax abatement ordinance would help wind energy developers like RPM Access reduce taxes on such a project. Board Chairman Mike Vander Molen said he is in support of the ordinance, and made a motion to waive the second and third readings of the ...
5 Reasons to Attend AWEA's Offshore Wind Expo
The American Wind Energy Association is hosting its annual Offshore Wind Expo in Atlantic City, New Jersey this year. This is the second time the expo has made its way to the Garden State. If you live in the south, here are five reasons to make the trip north of ...
Alexander: Obama goes around Congress to help 'Big Wind'
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the Obama administration is tweaking the tax code to protect and extend wind energy subsidies. “Congress allowed this wasteful wind subsidy to expire at the end of last year,” Alexander said on Thursday. “Now the ...
Naval Station Drops Wind Farm for Solar Power
The effort to install wind energy on Navy-owned property began in 2009. A technical report and wind study from 2012 suggested up to seven turbines as tall as 400 feet could be suitable for Coddington Point at the Naval War College and an underground tank ...
Which Is More Scalable, Nuclear Energy Or Wind Energy?
Running the math, that's about 6.5 GW of real capacity of wind energy in one year vs 4.3 GW of real capacity for nuclear over four years. That's roughly six times more real wind energy capacity than nuclear per year. 2014 might be better than average as ...
South Africa, Kenya And Ethiopia Lead In Africa's Clean Energy Investment
Of the 6 gigawatts South Africa is likely to install 3.9 gigawatts, mostly from wind energy; Kenya will install 1.4 gigawatts, mainly from geothermal and wind; and Ethiopia will install nearly 570 megawatts, largely wind with some geothermal. Access to viable ...
Vestas Registers Net Profit, Set To Provide Biggest Offshore Turbines
One of the world's largest wind energy manufacturers, Vestas Wind, reported healthy second quarter earnings for 2014, and is now waiting on DONG Energy's final investment in a UK offshore wind project which would require the Vestas 8 MW turbines.
'Major investment cycle' and rapidly changing US energy markets pose fresh ...
That translated into 61,110 megawatts of capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Wind generation -- which has no fuel cost -- is often dispatched into a market before nuclear, coal and even natural gas-fired power because it's the least ...
