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
Wind Energy
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Windy record
The growth of wind energy is fastest among all renewable sector energy sources
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New wind turbine
Wind Energy Group (WEG), a UK- based company has developed a new wind turbine to cater to the demand for medium-scale three-blade wind turbines. The turbine, MS4-600 has a 41-metre diameter rotor
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China makes a beginning
China installed its first commercial wind farm near the city of Shantou. The 24-mega-watt wind farm was put up by Dutch and Chinese developers. It is the largest commercial wind farm in Asia that
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Windfall
The year 1998 saw a record production of wind energy
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Small steps are needed to increase public awareness
California boasts of some of the best regulated and implemented air pollution standards in the world. Vinita Mathur, director of information management of the South Coast Air Quality Management District AQMD , California, spoke to Rajat Banerji in Delhi
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Wind beneath my hood?
Japanese inventor Hikoshichi Takahashi is patenting a wind-powered generator that sits on the roof of a car. The device has either funnels or tubes, or both, which channel fast-moving air into a
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ARGENTINA
Greenpeace and wind energy experts have said that concerted action by the governments could see close to a million megawatt of wind powered-systems installed worldwide within next 20
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Making a comeback
To reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere, various countries turn to windmills for a cheap and easy source of energy
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Against the wind
Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil
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Windward, ho
The Chinese government has launched a "Ride the Wind' project to achieve 1,000 megawatts (MW) of installed power capacity by the end of the year 2000. The state planning commission has appointed