Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
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Iberdrola to invest in US green energy
Spanish power company Iberdrola said it plans to invest $8 billion (5.1 billion euros) in the US between 2008 and 2010. The Bilbao-based firm is aiming to have a 15 per cent share of the wind power market in the US by 2010, it added. It had a wind power production capacity of 2,400 megawatts in the US at the end of March and it expects to reach 3,600 megawatts by the end of the year, the statement added. Iberdrola chairman Mr Ignacio Sanchez Galan has said he considers the US as the company's most exciting growth market.
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Windmills to power Ramnad district
RAMANATHAPURAM district will soon find its place among the districts in Tamil Nadu, which generate power through windmills. Experts from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) have conducted a survey along the coast of Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi during the past two years. They have installed wind monitors in three locations to calculate the velocity of wind. Following the assessment of the velocity of the winds along the coastal areas, the TNEB has decided to erect some windmill towers between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi for power generation.
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World's largest offshore wind farm in the works
British utility Scottish Southern Energy Plc(SSE) will build the world's largest offshore wind farm and has awarded $3 billion in contracts to US engineer Fluor Coip and Germany's Siemens AG. Despite industry doubts about the viability of offshore wind .SSE said it would build the farm off Britain's east coast. Work would begin on the 504 mw Greater Gabbard project shortly and power generation would startin2011. The utility added it had bought Texas-based Fluor's 50%stake in the projectfor40 million pounds.
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Unhelpful conditions affect viability of green energy
Pradip Sen Alternative and green energy resources like hydropower, wind power, biomass, fuel cell, solar PV, geothermal and other unconventional resources constitute a high potency growth segment. In India, green energy generation has been on the priority list for quite some time, but its potential is yet to be realised because many unhelpful conditions affect viability of green energy. Inadequate power distribution networks, high cost of generation and absence of focussed approach are impediments in making green energy a preferred alternative.
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Winds Of change
Tulsi Tantir a rainmaker who cashed in on the unlimited supply of nature's energy, the wind---------
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To make the most of wind power, go fly a kite
While green campaigners push for ever more wind turbines, a new wave of environmentally motivated engineers is already considering turbines to be a little old-school. One of the pioneers of the concept of a kite as a renewable energy source is Peter Lynn, a New Zealand kite designer.
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$2 Billion Wind Turbine Order Is Largest Ever
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed an the largest ever order for wind turbines: he ordered 667 wind turbines from GE, each costing $3 million dollars, making the total order $2 billion. Picken plans to develop the world's largest wind farm in the panhandle of Texas.
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McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change
Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change. Senator John McCain, second from left, toured the Vestas Wind Energy Training Facility in Portland, Ore., on Monday. Mr. McCain called for more action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More Photos
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Tapping the wind's power (editorial)
Don Quixote's fictional exploits have thrilled us during our childhood. His futile attacks upon the windmills of La Mancha, in the mistaken belief that they were ferocious giants, are etched in many a memory. That mental picture could lead us to consider windmills to be relics of a bygone era.
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Tilting at windmills
Land development, as wind turbine leader Suzlon is discovering in Maharashtra, is confronted with a peculiar problem. Once developed, land