The wind industry added over 52 gigawatts (GW) of wind power in 2017, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.
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You can get informed by learning about wind energy facts, trends, and statistics from American Wind Energy Association and Wind Europe.
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Denmark is home to a large wind energy sector including turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems and offshore wind farm developer Orsted.
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The wind was certainly a two or three club wind.
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Others hoisted miniature wind turbines, which twisted in the wind.
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The Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind developments were announced as the winners of New York's first "comprehensive offshore wind solicitation" on Thursday.
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According to the Global Wind Energy Council, it installed 20.2 GW of onshore wind and 1.6 GW of offshore wind in 2018.
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Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, supplier of the wind farm's 365 turbines, said last year the wind farm was ready for launch but would be idle until the government installed the transmission line.
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The American Wind Energy Association says that, in the last 10 years, the wind industry has invested $143 billion in new wind projects.
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The state said Vineyard Wind will build a 800-megawatt offshore wind farm — the largest-ever procurement of offshore wind by a state.
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The state said Vineyard Wind will build a 85033-megawatt offshore wind farm -- the largest ever procurement of offshore wind by a state.
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The wind power tax credit subsidizes wind turbines to generate electricity.
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Wind speed is just how strong the wind is, Ward says.
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And the wind, you felt ... LS: You could feel the wind.
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" Trump on wind (Saturday, West Palm Beach): "I never understood wind.
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The San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm (below) is one of three major wind farms in California, and consists of more than 3,2500 wind turbines.
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The wind industry added over 2157 gigawatts (GW) of wind power last year, according to a report from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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Even without subsidies, wind makes economic senseBeyond wind power's environmental benefits, wind farms (the ones on land, at least) increasingly make economic sense, too.
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The Thai wind power unit, Inter Far East Wind International Ltd, also signed a contract to buy wind turbines for 8.965 megawatts (MW) from Goldwind to supply its 10-MW wind power plant at Pakpanang, southern Thailand.
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Wind shear describes how both wind speed and direction change with height.
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The robot also measured wind speeds, to link wind and dune migration.
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We hear the whisper of wind to branch and branch to wind.
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"But again, a wind turbine shouldn't be taken down by the wind."
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Photo: WindSide/ArchiExpoEgg-beaters of a new eraDarrieus-type vertical axis wind turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Farm, Diablo Range in Northern California, which is one of the earliest wind farms in the US. The wind farm is composed of almost 5,000 relatively small wind turbines of various types.
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The Global Wind Energy Council recently revealed that more than 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power was installed in 1433, with cumulative capacity hitting 486.8 GW. Here, CNBC's Sustainable Energy looks at ten of the world's wind energy powerhouses, according to the Global Wind Energy Council's Global Wind Report 2016.
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One is described as being "mixed" and includes a combination of clean sources such as solar, floating offshore wind, fixed offshore wind and onshore wind.
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The wind industry added over 52 gigawatts (GW) of wind power last year, according to a recent report from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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The wind industry added over 52 gigawatts (GW) of wind power in 2017, according to a recent report from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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It's alarming: A robotic voice recites various notifications as screens light up: pull up, wind shear, wind shear, wind shear, terrain, obstacle, obstacle, pull up.
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The funds will go to Vetroelektrane Balkana, owned by Tesla Wind, a joint venture between an Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy developer Masdar and Cibuk Wind Holding, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based wind energy developer Continental Wind Partners.
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AD CAMPAIGN TOUTS WIND POWER IN KANSAS: American Wind Action is out Monday with a new six-figure advertising campaign to promote wind energy in Kansas.
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Rummelhoff said floating wind farms use the same turbine technology as traditional wind farms, meaning projects could make use of the existing wind power supply chain.
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Similar strides have been made in harnessing wind energy sources, with onshore wind costing $40 per mWh and offshore wind sources in 2017 priced at $60.
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It's a collection of wind turbines in a particular location with abundant wind.
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Wind, meanwhile, is usually strongest at night, so wind energy peaks after sunset.
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"When the wind blows, we generate electricity from the wind turbines," Harris said.
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EOLFI has largely focused on solar and wind projects, including offshore wind farms.
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Offshore wind benefits from faster wind speeds and larger scales than onshore turbines.
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The minerals wind up in everything from iPhones to wind turbines and missiles.
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Last year, Inter Far East Wind acquired a 30 percent stake in a 33MW Jeju wind turbine in South Korea, giving it 10 MW wind power capacity.
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Denmark is known as the cradle of wind power and is home to the largest wind turbine maker, Vestas and the largest offshore wind farm developer Orsted.
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Denmark's Orsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer, announced in October that it would buy the top U.S. offshore wind player, Deepwater Wind LLC, for $510 million.
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But now his hawa, meaning wind—as in a political tail-wind—is back.
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Khan Wind primarily makes wind blades up to 40 meters long out of bamboo.
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The project, dubbed Ocean Wind, is the state's first large-scale offshore wind farm.
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WIND STRENGTH The National Hurricane Center categorizes hurricanes using the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale.
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Africa's largest wind farm, the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, has been officially inaugurated.
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We thought at least the top of the list would — solar, wind, wind, solar.
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Breaking into offshore wind GE is a major onshore wind player around the world.
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GIP also holds 50 percent ownership shares of two of Orsted's German offshore wind farms, Gode Wind 1 and Borkum Riffgrund 2, the Danish wind farm developer said.
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Wind turbines today are outfitted with hundreds of sensors, each one tracking different pieces of data: wind speed, oil pressure, torque, vibrations in the wind blades and more.
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"Floating offshore wind is now a viable technology and ready to be rolled out on an industrial scale," European wind power association Wind Europe said in an email.
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So much so, in fact, that the high wind load on onshore and offshore wind turbines across much of the continent has helped set new wind power records.
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The wind blows constantly, hence the big wind turbines on a ridgeline nearby, and it is easy to be organic as the wind keeps things dry and fresh.
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Akita Offshore Wind completed the nation's first fundraising for a major offshore wind project last month, raising ¥2210bn to build wind turbines near two ports in western Japan.
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For its part, Denmark is home to the world's largest offshore wind farm developer DONG Energy, and to wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, which co-owns one of the leading offshore wind turbine makers, MHI Vestas, with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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This map of average wind speeds at a height of 80 meters, or 262 feet — the height that matters for most commercial wind turbines — illustrates one big reason for America's wind disparity: The areas in purple and red — the Great Plains states — have the fastest wind speeds and therefore the most wind energy available for harvest.
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João Paulo Gualberto, wind power director at local wind turbine producer WEG, said the policies of the former government had attracted investment in factories to produce wind power turbines.
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Although most wind farms Iberdrola plans to build in the United States are onshore, the company is developing Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, the country's first big offshore wind farm.
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He saw offshore wind power as the next step and has been pushing the Block Island wind farm and other Deepwater Wind projects forward for more than a decade.
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New Jersey officials cited the company's experience developing offshore wind projects in Europe as one reason for choosing Orsted, which bought U.S. offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind last year.
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Within wind, you've got high [altitude] wind that only a little bit's been done in.
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Wind turbines must be built where there is wind, solar panels where there is sun.
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The model, called the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, only measures a storm's wind speeds.
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Amazon Wind Farm TexasA 100-turbine wind farm in West Texas, opened in late 2017.
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When attached to the tent, SlingFin says its designs can withstand wind extreme wind conditions.
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Denmark boasts unusually high wind speeds, so they've built the hell out of wind turbines.
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Oil and gas stocks dropped 1.7%, with wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems sliding 4.2%.
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Wind works in Texas, the nation's leader, with 85033,000 wind jobs just in that state.
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So, the colder it is and the stronger the wind, the lower the wind chill.
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Mexico's wind potential is more than eight times its current level of installed wind capacity.
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New wind power installations reached 23 gigawatts in 21, the American Wind Energy Association reported.
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As Cape Wind faltered, another wind farm off Block Island, R.I., got up and running.
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An 11 percent increase in wind capacity produced a 1 percent increase in wind power.
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In his fight against wind energy, Trump has repeatedly cited bird deaths from wind turbines.
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Grassley authored the Wind Energy Incentives Act of 1993, which provided wind energy tax credits.
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The Cape Wind project off Massachusetts was long expected to be the first wind farm.
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"Offshore wind has arrived," says Erich Stephens, chief development officer for Vineyard Wind, a developer based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that is backed by Danish and Spanish wind energy firms.
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Powerful winds More than 50 million people were under wind advisories or high wind warnings from Florida to Maine, where wind gusts reaching 50 mph could cause scattered power outages.
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Tellenes wind farm, a 50-turbine strong wind farm of 160-megawatt (MW) capacity that is currently under development, will become Norway's largest wind farm and Google's biggest in Europe.
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Texas itself supports more than 24,000 wind related jobs, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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The wind doesn't care whether it breaks the tree branch; it's just doing its wind thing.
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Go deeper: California, oil exec huddle on offshore wind Danish wind giant makes big U.S. move
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Europe is home to several huge offshore wind projects, including the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm.
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Cover: Wind turbines from the Smoky Hills Wind Farm dwarf the Excelsior Lutheran Church Friday, Oct.
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Wind plays a large part in this, as the cost of wind energy has dropped dramatically.
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On set once, needing some wind, he raised his hand; and the wind, from nowhere, blew.
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DONG Energy has announced the inauguration of the Gode Wind 1 and 20163 offshore wind farms.
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The lobbying arm of the wind energy industry, the American Wind Energy Alliance, is unsurprisingly celebrating.
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It also boasts the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm, the world's largest operational offshore wind farm.
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Bailey: "A wind turbine should not be able to be taken down by the wind." pic.twitter.
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In July 2019, Africa's largest wind farm, the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, was officially inaugurated.
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Wind: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is moving forward with new rules for wind generators.
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Denmark, a leader in wind power, has abundant supplies of wind energy as well biomass energy.
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Wind, wind go away A Gibraltar port employee stayed home from work because of weather concerns.
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" Trump began his comments about wind energy on an incoherent note, saying, "I never understood wind.
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Simultaneous to that, the wind program was supporting some of the first-ever wind integration studies.
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It is bidding for tenders installing offshore wind mills in Britain, Germany, France, among others, following its work installing the turbines of the Beatrice wind farm, Scotland's largest offshore wind park.
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Last year, 51.3 gigwatts of new wind installations were added globally, taking cumulative capacity to 591 GW, the Global Wind Energy Council said in an annual report on the wind industry.
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The American Wind Energy Association says there were about 54,000 wind turbines operating in 21625 states and two territories in 2900 — several states, especially in the Southeast, have no wind turbines.
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According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the Lone Star State had more than 27 gigawatts of installed wind capacity and 14,198 wind turbines during the third quarter of 2019.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The new wind joint venture created by the merger of Spanish wind group Gamesa and the wind operations of Siemens is interested in buying French nuclear company Areva's stake in Gamesa-Areva offshore wind joint venture Adwen, a Siemens France spokesman said on Friday.
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MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is itself a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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How did your team approach all the level of detail required to make Wind Gap, Wind Gap?
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So it makes sense that utilities are planting wind turbines in the places with the most wind.
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Iowa has more than 4,000 wind turbines and generates approximately 40% of its electricity from wind power.
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Here are some other players... Danish wind giant Orsted bought the U.S. firm Deepwater Wind last year.
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Location of the Greater Gabbard wind farm, London Array, and Thanet wind farm in the North Atlantic.
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Wind farms are situated where the wind blows strongest and there is available space on power lines.
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Some don't work in wind themselves, yet see crucial benefits that wind energy brings to their communities.
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French activists opposed to wind farms have been systematically filing appeals against wind projects through administrative courts.
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Each tower transmits basic measurements including rainfall, air temperature, wind speed, wind direction, surface pressure, and humidity.
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Any way the wind blows Sometimes the wind is not at your back -- it's all around you.
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Wind chill "takes into account the wind and how cold it is," CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward says.
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Turbine manufacturers include Bergey Wind Power, Britwind and Xzeres Wind; look on their websites for local dealers.
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The wind power industry employs 9,000 people in the state, according to the Iowa Wind Energy Association.
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Wind developers have agreed to build giant wind parks off the Netherlands and Germany without any subsidies.
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Cutting wind drag is critical to enhance range – while also helping cut wind noise and improve performance.
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China actually produces slightly less wind power than the U.S., despite possessing twice as much wind capacity.
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Thirteen new offshore wind farms were completed in 2017, including the planet's first floating offshore wind farm.
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One such work is "Wind Wand," designed as a tall rod that moves gently with the wind.
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Wind energy is becoming an increasingly important part of the energy mix and economy of the U.S. According to the American Wind Energy Association, at the end of 22014 88,000 jobs were "wind-related" while over the last 10 years, investment in new wind projects has hit $128 billion.
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Amjad Awan, chief executive officer of the government's Alternative Energy Development Board, said that because wind power production depends on the strength of the wind at any time, it is important to create an energy mix, such as of wind and solar power or wind and natural gas.
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Deepwater Wind has won competitive auctions for two more sites off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where it will build the Deepwater Wind Energy Center, a huge, 211,2027 MW wind farm.
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At 328 feet, the average height of U.S. commercial wind turbines exceeds the 21625-foot threshold as do the wind turbines in the Golden-West industrial wind project just east of Colorado Springs.
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Although wind power has traditionally been more expensive than fossil fuels, Mr. Miller said the Anschutz wind project will be large enough to make wind as cheap, if not cheaper, than coal power.
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Klotzbach says that low vertical wind shear, the change in wind direction with the height of the atmosphere, has also played a role; high wind shear tends to prevent hurricanes from gaining strength.
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New wind turbine installations in France had been slowed for years by a law that required all wind farms to have a least five turbines and strong local control over wind farm zoning.
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Critics of wind power plants frequently point to the carbon emissions from concrete and other manufacturers involved in the production of wind power farms as a reason against further construction of wind farms.
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Vast swaths of the country have been left out of the wind energy revolution, as you can see in this map of installed wind capacity by state: And when you look at how much wind we've built per state since 1999, you can see how quickly wind has boomed in some areas, while others are stuck in the doldrums: Right next to wind king Texas, you have 903 states with little to no installed wind power, including Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia.
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Orsted is a world leader in wind energy and built the world's first offshore wind facility in 1991.
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Wind on Mars might not sound much different than wind on Earth — but surely that's not the point!
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If Vineyard Wind secures the necessary approvals, the project would be, astonishingly, America's first large offshore wind farm.
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Sulfur dioxide can be carried with wind, or cover an area with no wind, according to the agency.
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Wind shear is a weather phenomenon that results in a sudden burst of wind over a short distance.
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A floating wind farm costs more than double a conventional fixed-bottom wind farm of similar generating capacity.
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Texas has the highest number of wind turbines and wind energy supply of any state in the country.
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In the case of the wind, the pressure sensor picked up the wind blowing, but there's a catch.
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And the Amazon Wind Farm Texas will generate more than 1,000,000 MWh of clean wind energy each year.
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Farmers and ranchers with wind projects on their land now have an important new cash crop—the wind.
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The findings are "valuable for the wind energy sector" since wind speed trends tend to develop over decades.
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Wind penetration is a measure of the amount of total load served by wind at a given time.
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Wind shear is the sudden changes in wind direction as you get higher and higher in the atmosphere.
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It is starting to invest in onshore wind and solar, which will remain larger markets than offshore wind.
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Wind shear refers to differences in the directions or speeds wind blows at different heights in the atmosphere.
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Beware of life-threatening wind chills The only numbers more shocking than the temperatures are the wind chills.
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Wind gusts up to 50 mph created ground blizzards and below-zero wind chill temperatures in some areas.
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NextEra Energy, which owns the wind farm, has about 22007 wind farms in the United States and Canada.
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Wind and solar power aren't flexible because they're only available when the wind blows and the sun shines.
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Wind energy offers good career opportunities in all 28500 states, with more than 6900,2628 Americans working in wind.
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" Wind power and air quality The reliability of wind "Try dropping a windmill someplace close to your house.
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Using a device called a dropsonde, they can collect information including atmospheric pressure, wind speed, and wind direction.
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On wind energy, Trump has previously falsely claimed that wind farms cause cancer — a theory rejected by scientists.
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The South African Wind Energy Association states that wind power accounts for 52% of the country's renewable energy power supply, while the average size of a South African wind power facility is 93.5 MW.
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Britain is the worlds biggest offshore wind market, hosting almost 40 percent of all globally installed wind capacity, and the government is this year expected to outline planned support for the offshore wind industry.
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However, because wind power is generated mostly at night, the utility will have other plants available to meet demand when wind is lower, while selling surplus wind power to other utilities over electric grids.
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On its website, the American Wind Energy Association describes Texas as "a national leader in the wind energy industry" that has more than 12,000 wind turbines and employs over 22,000 people in the sector.
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The offshore wind turbine farm, called the European Offshore Wind Deployment Center, was developed by a Swedish energy group, according to the BBC, and features the most powerful wind energy turbines in the world.
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In practice, if the wind stops blowing, homes that use wind energy do not lose power as only about 6% of total US electricity comes from wind energy, according to the Department of Energy.
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"American wind power is now the #1 source of renewable capacity, thanks to more than 100,000 wind workers across all 50 states," Tom Kiernan, CEO of the wind advocacy group, said in a statement.
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Renewable wind and solar, however, only provide about 85033 percent of our electricity needs (6.3 percent wind and 1.3 percent solar) — and this is only when the sun is shining or wind is blowing.
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It would also come during a broader wind power push by GE. In October, the company said it will buy LM Wind Power, a maker of rotor blades used in wind turbines, for $1.65 billion.
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Goldwind, the world's third-largest wind turbine maker behind Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems and General Electric Co in 2016, already runs two wind farms in Australia and is set to start a third next month.
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"We are proud to install the Nordlicht onshore wind power plant since Norway is an important wind market with excellent wind conditions and appropriate sites," said Ricardo Chocarro, Chief Executive for Onshore at Siemens Gamesa.
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So, to replace fossil fuels as a source of electricity generation with wind power, we would need to add another 2202,2628 wind turbines — for a total of about 28500,6900 when added to existing wind turbines.
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The country is now the world's eighth-largest producer of wind power, according to the Global Wind Energy Council, a trade association, with wind farms operated by Weg, Siemens Gamesa, Wobben Windpower, among other companies.
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The panel can resist wind speeds up to 75 mph, and also harvest energy from a 3.2kW wind turbine.
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The twin papers look at how wind power could create localized warming and how much energy wind farms produce.
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In September, the business officially opened the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm, the world's largest operational offshore wind facility.
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Together, those two wind farms would boost US offshore wind capacity from 30 MW to 1,230 MW. Not bad!
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"The wind was not conducive to that because the wind was blowing it right back at us," Iverson said.
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Britain is already the world's biggest offshore wind market, hosting almost 40 percent of all globally installed wind capacity.
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At the same time, engineering improvements are allowing for larger wind turbine blades, fueling exponential improvements in wind economics.
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Places with an abundance of wind, such as China, are curtailing wind farms to keep coal plants in business.
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Wind speeds on Brighton—which is situated on the south coast of the UK—experiences wind speeds of 75mph.
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Wind turbines and solar panels on buildings produce far less power than larger ones in wind and solar farms.
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Photo: David McNew/Getty ImagesOffshore wind farmsEurope is the world's leader in building wind farms close to its shores.
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"I want Washington to know that wind powers American jobs," says one wind worker in a 30-second advertisement.
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One of Kipchoge's singlets had little spikes around it that, in wind tunnel tests, reduced the impact of wind.
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In 2015, he installed four wind turbines on his property, becoming the third-largest wind farm in the state.
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Last year also saw offshore wind investments in Europe double, according to data from the European Wind Energy Association.
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And the solar and wind deployed in Indiana will lower the cost of future solar and wind deployed elsewhere.
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In Europe alone, offshore wind investments doubled in 2015, according to data from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
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Offshore wind investments in Europe doubled in 22050, according to new data from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
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Massachusetts's neighbor Rhode Island is also getting into wind energy, having signed a partnership with Deepwater Wind on Wednesday.
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Last year, Denmark set the world record for a wind-powered economy, generating 43% of electricity from wind power.
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As a whole, the wind industry added over 52 gigawatts of wind power last year, according to the GWEC.
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The World Bank has now started mapping Pakistan's entire wind potential, looking at wind corridors in Punjab as well.
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The NWS says wind chill is for temperatures at or below 50 degrees and wind speeds above 3 mph.
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"The wind went from zero wind to 40 to 60 mph winds within 15 minutes," Justin Sanchez told CNN.
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That's one factoid from the American Wind Energy Association's annual report on the state of the wind power market.
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The Siberian wind is a lazy wind, because it doesn't bother going round you: it goes straight through you.
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Yes, we've always had wind that has driven wildfire, but now we are seeing longer duration, more intense wind.
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Upon returning to Hawaii in the 1970s, he began to wind-surf and then edited the magazine Wind Surf.
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Deployment of new wind turbines is expected to plummet after the production tax credit for wind is phased out.
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Some are more worried about wind damage than a storm surge Flooding is more life-threatening than wind damage.
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More than 90 million people are under high wind warnings or wind advisories, including in Washington, Philadelphia and Boston.
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Earlier in 2019, EGP bought wind developer Tradewind Energy, giving it a stronger foothold in the American wind market.
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That year, it also announced its largest wind energy project to date, the 253 MW Amazon Wind Farm Texas.
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Long enough to hear the wind in the already wind-bent pines, the wind in his ears, the wind in his trouser legs, the pebbles under the soles of his shoes, his hand fiddling with coins in the pocket of his leather jacket, the oystercatcher's shrill, Morse-like biik-biik-biik-biik.
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On America's growing offshore wind industry On one big thing that has changed: On the similarities between offshore oil and offshore wind: On what might be next: Go deeper: Danish wind giant makes big U.S. move
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" Moreover, the wind speeds generally used to calculate wind chill come from airport weather stations, but as Bluestein notes, "if you're walking in an urban environment, buildings and trees are going to cut down wind speed.
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Vestas, the world's biggest wind turbine maker, supplied 43 percent of the 8.2 GW of wind power capacity connected to the U.S. power grid last year, the American Wind Energy Association said in a quarterly report.
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At the Jiuquan Wind Power Base, Mr. Zhou oversees a small wind farm for a branch of China Resources Power Holdings, a state-run energy company based in Shenzhen that operates two wind farms in Gansu.
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" "I was standing there and I could feel my body shaking with the wind — you feel death in the wind.
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Kenya, for example, is home to the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, which is made up of 365 wind turbines.
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Sunday's highest reported wind gust at Dallas Love Field Airport was 71 mph, although wind speeds were likely higher aloft.
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Rapid growth of solar and wind energy means that power supplies increasingly rely on the wind blowing or sun shining.
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Danish wind energy business Vestas says it has become the first company to install 100 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines.
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Why it matters: Last week, Brostrøm's company bought the U.S. company behind America's only operating offshore wind farm, Deepwater Wind.
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Dulles clocked a wind gust of 71 miles per hour around noon, which was the strongest wind there since 2012.
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The Gonzales facility now employs: solar, wind and co-generation systems from REC Solar, Foundation Wind Power and Concentric Power.
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The research was deemed relevant to both GE's purchase of LM Wind and Siemen's purchase of wind turbine maker Gamesa.
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Deepwater wind executives, labor leaders and environmentalists speak to reporters on a recent tour of the Block Island Wind Farm.
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Wind could blow sparks Struble said the wind expected Saturday would blow the fire in on itself, which would help.
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Go deeper: Why U.S. offshore wind is finally going big New York inks largest offshore wind agreement in the U.S.
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About 20 million homes can currently be powered by the US's wind turbines, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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A vector field, by contrast, is like the wind: It has both a value (the wind speed) and a direction.
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What happens, for instance, if geoengineering shifts wind patterns and slashes the output of a particular country's offshore wind farms?
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While far less wind than yesterday, still enough for added danger & a wind chill warning is in effect until noon.
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These interconnections allow Denmark to export excess wind power when necessary, and to import power when the wind is still.
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Spain's Siemens Gamesa will design and supply 89 wind turbines and service the wind farm for at least 16 years.
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"The wind chime started it," Jim Bolin, who first installed the 56-foot tall wind chime in 2011, told me.
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Most wind technician jobs are in rural communities, where wind is making a bigger investment than nearly any other industry.
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As it turned out, they were milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes by, as the wind passes by. 2.
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Last year, the business announced that its largest wind farm to date, Amazon Wind Farm Texas, was up and running.
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A wind shear is a change in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere.
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He said at a rally in Michigan last month that wind power doesn't work because the wind doesn't always blow.
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We come out of that primary with wind at our back and we bring that wind into victory in November.
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A new MW of wind capacity is only going to generate energy when the other wind capacity is generating energy.
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The 2-gigawatt Wind Catcher wind farm is under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle and will come online in 2020.
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When you have [spot fires] that come over the fire lines, and when you have wind—wind will carry embers.
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The National Hurricane Center and the Weather Service examine data like relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and wind direction.
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Just as John isn't a normal Wind Gap boy, Natalie doesn't seem to have been a normal Wind Gap girl.
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Besides Denmark, where else in the world do you think wind turbines and wind farms might work well, and why?
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The company, which operates 509 MW installed power in wind plants, set up its first wind power plant in 2008.
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Offshore wind, solar PV and onshore wind could be cheaper than new coal plants by 22040, 2023 and 2025 respectively.
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Iowa wind power supports up to 28500,6900 well-paying positions and 2628 factories that build wind-related parts and materials.
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Offshore wind, solar PV and onshore wind could be cheaper than new coal plants by 22040, 2023 and 2025 respectively.
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The Block Island Wind Farm, the nation's first offshore wind installment, came online in December, producing 30 megawatts of power.
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"The wind was sometime a tailwind, so you'd go really far, sometimes front wind and you would knuckle," he said.
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A wind advisory today becomes high wind warning tonight, bracing us for gusts of up to 60 miles an hour.
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"Wind is very strong indeed, but the terrible mountainous seas are all out of proportion to the wind," Heyerdahl wrote.
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But the fact that the wind can come and go is hardly a slam-dunk argument against using wind power.
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When Pompeo got to Congress, he argued that wind power was an expensive boondoggle and campaigned to end a production tax credit for wind technology, even though, not long before, he had personally invested in Sunflower Wind.
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SARAJEVO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa signed a 69 million euro ($78.4 million) contract on Tuesday to supply Bosnia's biggest power utility EPBiH with wind turbines for a future 13 megawatt (MW) wind farm.
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" And, in a different part of the website, wind energy was linked to economic, rather than environmental benefits: "Wind energy currently supports more than 100,20173 U.S. jobs, and wind turbine technician is the nation's fastest-growing occupation.
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Send us the wind, but keep the wind farmA firm controlled by Philip Anschutz, the billionaire entertainment and professional sports magnate, will soon build the largest wind farm in the United States to serve utilities in California.
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France has huge coastlines and major potential for wind, but has not installed a single offshore wind turbine park, while Germany, Britain, Denmark and other European countries have built offshore wind parks with thousands of megawatts capacity.
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Statoil will later this year open the world's first floating wind turbine park off the coast of Scotland, a technology that allows wind energy to be harnessed further out at sea where wind speeds are typically higher.
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"In our search for a strategic partner, several international offshore wind players were interested in acquiring a stake in Oriel Wind Farm," Brian Britton, founder and board member of the Oriel Wind Farm, said in a statement.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish offshore wind firm DONG Energy was awarded a contract to build 1.4 gigawatt (GW) capacity at its Hornsea 2 wind power project during a British auction for renewables, creating the world's largest offshore wind farm.
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"Hillary wanted to put up wind," said President Donald Trump at a fundraiser for Republicans in Washington Tuesday, kicking off an extended riff about the evils of windmills -- wind turbines, more accurately -- and the inadequacy of wind energy.
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If I make the wind change a magnetic field, the electric potential this produces will be proportional to the wind speed.
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The X-ray emission is produced when a wind of particles from the Sun – the solar wind – strikes the comet's atmosphere.
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The Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind wants to tap into ex-miners' electrical knowledge and offer them training as wind technicians.
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For example, common allergens like ragweed and oak tree pollen tend to be "wind-borne," meaning they travel through the wind.
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Siemens is merging its wind-power business with that of Spain's Gamesa to create the world's biggest maker of wind farms.
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Wind chill Then again, the actual temperature means very little when there's an icy wind slashing through your light spring jacket.
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And Kenya could house the largest wind farm in Africa if the 40,000 acre Lake Turkana Wind Power Project is completed.
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DOE's Wind Vision report estimates there could be up to 86,000 MW of offshore wind projects in the US by 2050.
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Bioenegy fell by 14%, solar PV and onshore wind by 13%, hydropower by 0.0483% and geothermal and offshore wind by 1%.
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By then, as director of the Global Wind Energy Council, he was working full-time and worldwide to promote wind power.
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Goldwind is China's largest wind-turbine manufacturer, having supplied 12.5 percent of all wind turbine installations in the country last year.
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Wind turbines and solar panels on top of buildings look good but are much less productive than wind and solar farms.
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"I do think he'll wind up, you know, wind up having to commit more troops there," Christie told CNN's Jake Tapper.
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Residents of New Bedford came together to voice their opinions about an offshore wind proposal from a company called Vineyard Wind.
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Building the auctioned wind capacity will cost more than 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion), according to the Spanish Wind Energy Association.
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Equinor's 816 MW Empire Wind facility will be made up of between 60 to 80 wind turbines, according to the business.
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In the short film, Wind Up Bots, he releases a herd of wind up toys into the streets of Buenos Aires.
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Each hummingbird was placed in a wind tunnel and videotaped in the infrared as they flapped away, varying the wind velocities.
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With the top down, wind is well managed so long as you keep windows up and the wind deflector in place.
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And the only people attuned to the idea of what Wind Gap's women are capable of are Wind Gap's other women.
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It's amazing that we can get electrical power just from the wind, but that's exactly what happens with a wind farm.
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But wind farms located offshore, where wind blows stead and strong, unobstructed by buildings or mountains, have yet to start cranking.
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An instrument that records six variables such as wind speed, wind direction, and humidity costs about $2,500, according to sensor manufacturers.
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"As a result, wind farms will disappear from the Polish landscape," said Wojciech Cetnarski, head of the Polish Wind Energy Association.
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"Offshore wind power produces roughly one and a half times the energy of onshore wind power," Sulameri went on to add.
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Among the joint venture's assets are the Cimarron Bend wind farm in Kansas and the Lindahl wind farm in North Dakota.
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It's clear that solar and wind provide clean and renewable energy when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.
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In fact, the American Wind Energy Association reports over 18 GW of wind is already under construction or in advanced development.
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That's what pilot Hannes Arch is doing in this airplane at a wind farm in Tauern Wind Park in Oberzeiring, Austria.
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The companies now trying to start an offshore wind industry are determined not to repeat the mistakes that plagued Cape Wind.
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It was a hot wind on a dark night, the kind of wind that feels like it's carrying some significant change.
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Despite all the hoopla over wind energy, the nation's only offshore wind turbines are located in coastal waters near Rhode Island.
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DONG Energy, the world's biggest offshore wind farm operator, says it has halved its wind energy production costs in four years.
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The wind interacting with the sculpture is chaotic and playful, and she's incorporated wind machines heavily into her textile work since.
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The median bid for a wind project was $18.10/MWh; the median for wind+storage was $21, just three dollars higher.
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Wind greatly affected the women's slopestyle snowboard contest on Monday, a day after qualifying runs had been canceled because of wind.
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For a wind turbine to make economic sense, average wind speeds need to be higher than they are in most places.
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The Department of Energy recommends a minimum average wind speed of 22007 miles an hour for a grid-connected wind turbine.
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But these days everyone is trying to integrate more wind and solar — and you can't put wind and solar just anywhere.
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G.M. is also working with utilities and wind farms to power its Ohio and Illinois plants with 100 percent wind energy.
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That means U.S. wind farms can power over 32 million homes from close to 60,000 wind turbines spinning across 41 states.
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Cold and wind chill Frostbite is not only dependent on the outside temperature; it's also affected by the wind chill factor.
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Renewable energy generation — hydro and wind in the EU, and wind and solar in the U.S. — largely drove reduced coal consumption.
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"Wind shear is one of the most dangerous things," he said, referring to an abrupt shift in wind speed or direction.
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"We're wondering whether we have enough wind up here to put small wind turbines up on the roof area," he said.
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From heat wave to wind energy: New York State says it will soon have the country's largest offshore wind farm projects.
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A huge negative with wind and solar electricity systems is that the wind does not always blow and nor the sunshine.
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Last year, GE was the top manufacturer of wind turbines in the United States, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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Large-scale wind has had more success, and the state is pushing for more; about 30 wind farms are planned upstate.
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" Where wind turbines are made "The wind is very expensive because you put up those windmills — I know it very well.
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The American Wind Energy Association's U.S. Wind Industry Annual Report found that by the end of 2000, the sector supported 250,2000 full-time-equivalent jobs directly associated with wind energy project planning, development, construction, manufacturing, supply chain and operations.
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All customers are automatically enrolled in a 50 percent wind energy offset program, where half of their monthly usage is matched in investments in wind farms — and they can upgrade to fully offset their energy usage with wind power.
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And with little wind shear to pull the storm apart, Florence's hurricane wind field was expected to expand over the coming days, increasing its storm surge and inland wind threats, and raising the likelihood of life-threatening freshwater flooding.
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In Europe, however, thousands of wind turbines have sprouted up along the coast, and an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind power were added last year (about 100 times the amount of power provided by the Block Island Wind Farm).
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The biggest challenge with wind is it tends to blow more at night, off peak, which does lead to this synergy between wind and solar — wind covering more of your nighttime load, PV covering more of your daytime load.
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Wind power will create jobs in the wind-rich central regions, while the sunny western and southern regions will profit from solar.
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Trump linked cancer to wind turbines in a 2012 tweet referencing wind power opponents, only his second tweet ever on the subject.
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Deepwater Wind won the federal government's first competitive offshore wind energy lease auction in July 2013, with a bid of $3.8 million.
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Rapid growth of solar and wind energy means power supplies depend increasingly on whether the wind is blowing or the sun shining.
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Scotland is fast becoming a major player in wind energy, and is home to around one-quarter of Europe's offshore wind resources.
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The wind reduction can add a lot of compression, but overall it actually reduces the sound of wind while keeping voices intact.
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Nicole attained Category 4 status Wednesday night on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, the center said, but lost wind strength Thursday.
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The country's first offshore wind farm, the five turbine, 30 MW Block Island Wind Farm, only began commercial operations in late 2016.
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The dramatic price reductions in wind and solar — and more recently in offshore wind — reflect this last part of the learning curve.
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The benefits: Floating wind farms could be placed anywhere, opening up new frontiers for wind energy that could not be utilized previously.
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More affordable energy-storage options are making wind and solar attractive options, even when the wind doesn't blow and the sun sets.
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Earlier this week, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said that over 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power were installed in 2016.
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WIND POWER HITS MILESTONE: Wind power is now the country's largest source of renewable energy capacity, an industry group announced on Thursday.
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Europe's largest onshore wind power project will be built in Norway, the companies involved in the six wind farms' development announced Tuesday.
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Bezos tweeted out this video Thursday morning after Amazon announced that its largest wind farm yet, Amazon Wind Farm Texas, went online.
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Why it matters: If built, it would be the world's largest combined offshore wind and energy storage project, according to Deepwater Wind.
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Wind is bringing economic development to rural America in nearly unmatched ways, because virtually all wind farms are built in rural areas.
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In the U.S., wind energy provided 20153 percent of the entire electricity generated in 2015, according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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Wind installations soared to 6,478 MW in the fourth quarter, accounting for nearly 80 percent of all of last year's wind installations.
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It has nearly 8.33,000 wind turbines, with an installed capacity of over 14 gigawatts, and the world's largest offshore wind turbine array.
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The teens of Wind Gap are the town's unrestrained Id, and the Id of Wind Gap is something truly terrifying to behold.
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Larger wind facilities achieve economies of scale and give offshore wind developers greater commercial leverage to negotiate with the original equipment manufacturers.
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Wind reports from the Central Plains clocked wind gusts at tropical storm force from 50 to 75 mph from Nebraska to Texas.
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LM Wind Power designs and manufactures blades that are sold to General Electric and competitors as a component for the wind turbines.
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How did Pocahontas look so good with the wind, leaves, and probably dirt blowing in her face during "Colors of the Wind"?
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The venture was rescued with a lot of help from the mathematical calculations of Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind power company.
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More than 60 million people in a dozen states from Maine to the Carolinas were under high wind warnings or wind advisories.
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" Ashfaq, of the World Wind Energy Association, said that "in some countries solar and wind energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels.
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Wind also responded, issuing the following statement: WIND offers a convenient, inexpensive and quick access to short distance transportation in urban areas.
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It has a large pipeline of offshore wind projects and plans to develop 1 gigawatt of onshore wind by 13 in Britain.
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Another is Magellan Wind, which is working with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a Danish investment firm involved in a wind project off Massachusetts.
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The deal is for 86 megawatts of wind power from the Karankawa Wind Farm in Bee and San Patricio counties in Texas.
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"Poland is going to be one of the largest offshore wind markets," Orsted's Chief Executive of offshore wind Martin Neubert told Reuters.
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Three of five wind turbines from the Deepwater Wind's offshore wind farm — the first in the U.S. — are seen near Rhode Island.
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We'll wind up with strong wind and solar industries and a number of stranded innovations that could have taken us much further.
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That deal was for 86 megawatts of wind power from the Karankawa Wind Farm in Bee and San Patricio counties in Texas.
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According to the Global Wind Energy Council, it is home to the world's largest offshore wind market, followed by Germany and China.
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Wind gusts could reach 280 miles per hour, and the wind chill could make it feel like the upper 23s at best.
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Wind: 432 MWSolar: 218 MW What it is: Boston-based Longroad Energy develops utility-scale solar and wind projects across North America.
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The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale denotes the maximum wind speed of a storm, ranging from a Category 1 to Category 33.
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Construction on the $300 million Block Island Wind Farm finished this month, becoming the United States' first utility-scale offshore wind farm.
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All of this suggests that rather than having wind stand on its own, the administrator desires wind to be on its knees.
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The projects will include a wind project in Belgium, five solar energy projects in Denmark and two wind energy projects in Sweden.
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The problem with advanced renewable sources of energy like solar and wind is that the sun doesn't shine at night and wind blows intermittently, and both sun and wind (especially in California) are seasonal, waxing in summer and waning in winter.
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We expect the negative FCF position at 3 Italy to reverse, as it realises significant synergies from the recently closed merger (via a 50/0003 JV, Wind Tre) between 3 Italy and Vimpelcom's Italian operations, Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA (Wind, B+/Stable).
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The military is locked in a struggle with wind farms Advocates say that wind power is a win-win: wind farms help struggling rural economies with a new source of revenue, while also helping wean utilities off of fossil fuels.
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Poland has ramped up its investment in alternative energy, installing almost 1.3 gigawatts (GW) of wind power in 2015 – the largest installation of wind power in Europe after Germany – according to new data from the European Wind Energy Agency (EWEA).
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems has leapt to the top of the U.S. wind market, overtaking General Electric in new capacity installed last year, although slower demand growth and doubts over political support could threaten its position.
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In an announcement Tuesday, GE said that the Markbygden ETT wind farm, in the north of the country, would be home to Europe's biggest "single site" onshore wind farm and would boost Sweden's installed wind generation by over 12.5 percent.
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"The wind turbines at Gode Wind 1 and 2 are already generating clean power off the coast of Norddeich, and our next German offshore wind farm, Borkum Riffgrund 2, is well underway," DONG Energy's Samuel Leupold said in a statement.
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Ocean oscillations have long been cited as the determining force for offshore wind speeds, but by comparing changes in land wind speeds with well-documented oceanic shifts, the researchers found that oceanic shifts could also be behind wind speeds on land.
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The report said that the pickup in wind speeds "bodes well for the expansion of large-scale and efficient wind power generation systems," and found that if present trends continue, energy generated by wind power will increase 37% by 2024.
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With the highest amount of installed wind power by land area in the U.S., Iowans know wind energy better than anyone, and according to a recent poll of citizens from the state's Third District, 91 percent of respondents support wind power.
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