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Policy tops resources as key to success
incentives framework is vital to becoming a wind power heartland. In many areas, the wind resource ... When the wind industry was growing up, it was the areas with the strongest wind resource ... of our Power Places ten have genuinely excellent wind resources. But all, in their own way, have a ... East Germany's relatively modest wind resources. Meanwhile, excellent wind regimes such as those ...
No ill winds in Wisconsin
creates the impression that the Wisconsin wind project is of low priority and interest to the sponsoring ... for their pioneering and visionary application of state-of-the-art wind turbine technology to the moderate wind resource in Wisconsin. In addition, we think that the fact that the Wisconsin utilities followed through ...
Nuclear fuel for the wind lobby
and far greater use of renewable resources. Also last month, the Milan Conference, a follow ... -- reiterated the need for a firm commitment to achieving a substantial penetration of wind and other clean ... of nuclear -- or any other technology -- will inevitably retard the introduction of wind energy, now ...
Power surplus makes wind unnecessary
There is absolutely no urgency or necessity to build wind power stations near people or important ... about the proposed development at Makara. New Zealand has a good wind resource and wind power can do ... Regarding Conference airs both sides of wind debate (Windpower Monthly, September 1997). I never stated that there would be possible harm of radiation from wind turbines and I believe ...
Nice in theory but few benefits for wind
few, if any, benefits for wind energy, compared to other policies already in existence in Europe.x ... their deployment was limited by the size of the resources. Wind energy would only be developed on a large scale in countries with the very highest wind speeds. Germany might not see much action, for example. Even ... bring few, if any, benefits for wind energy, compared to other policies already in existence in Europe ...
Comment: Gamble on offshore
For a country that commands some of the finest wind resources in the world, England is a slouch. ... its onshore wind energy targets by 2020, that forecast is only likely to become reality thanks ... by building large wind farms on very blowy sites. The evidence in England is that Nimbys remain in charge ... . Planning control over English wind farms remains under the jurisdiction of local councils, which have ...
Small wind turbine rotor size is possible
Wind turbine rotor size is again nearing the failed size limits pursued by the US aerospace ... the wind turbine WindPACT Drive Train Study program, being conducted for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is assessing design options which may lead to cost and system improvements. Unfortunately ...
Wind energy development - A positive way forward
Put environmental groups, planners, community groups and the wind energy industry in one room and what do you get? A positive way forward for wind energy development. The British Wind Energy ... to create best practice guidelines for wind energy development. The initiative has been taken ...
Setting things straight
The authors defend their study on utilising wind energy resources far from a demand centre reported ... of your article on our study of utilising wind energy resources far from a demand centre (Importing Wind ... not randomly chosen examples, but two countries with enormous wind energy resources and low population ... to set a few things straight. The study was a first assessment of the technical and economic viability ...
Wind cheaper than gas in United states
of electricity from wind power and from gas is the opposite of what you describe in your cover story ("Annual power cost analysis: wind has only gas left to beat," January 2002). Electricity from wind is cheaper ... efficiency is 55%. This is especially true for areas of moderate wind speeds, such as the Great Lakes ...
Selling wind farm assets is about yield not costs
Selling wind farm assets is about yield not costs. From a banker's perspective, the traditional ... megawatt installed determines value, yields will differ quite significantly depending on the wind resource ... From a banker's perspective, the traditional approach to wind plant valuation -- installation cost ... the market Veterans of the wind energy industry are used to being told that everything is changing ...
A PRICE WORTH PAYING
The article contends that wind energy should not be sold at dumping prices. However, today ... Has wind energy lived up to the expectations of a decade ago? It is a question fundamental to any evaluation of the status of wind power after ten years of development. The answer is straightforward. The exploitation of wind power has lived up to the most daringly optimistic expectations of ten years ago ...
Homespun Wind
The author, a 16 year old wind enthusiast, relates stories of his own experimentation with turbine ... I am 16 years old and an avid fan of wind energy. When I was ten, I built a small wind turbine ... force wind and a short wire run to produce any usable power. I've improved things since then. Today I ... radio batteries, was probably one of the first wind energy units built solely for commercial use. I ...
Wind in Kyoto
, one that will be of immense benefit to the future of wind power. That is why the Kyoto climate change summit is of such importance to wind. That is why the industry's tiny band of professional lobbyists are in Japan. That is why this issue of Windpower Monthly devotes seven pages to setting the scene for wind ...
THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE STILL THERE
Spearheaded by the demise of the Biennial Resource Plan Update in California and its contracts ... as predicted. And now the entire Biennial Resource Plan Update in California is in jeopardy -- and the wind ... contracts for over 1000 MW of wind in California, the United States is seeming an ever more tiresome place to do business. Many in the wind industry were already fed up with dragged-out government programmes ...
Costs and carbon
tonne of carbon avoided lies within the $20-60 range. The good news is that wind can meet or beat ... feat for wind to match it. Second, the report goes on to quantify the generation cost, total resource ... , but with finite resources. Last comes nuclear. Like wind, it is free of emissions but significantly more expensive in most locations. The upshot is that wind that has the best combination of resource, cost and carbon ...
Mastering the market
, and it looked like wind was not ready to compete head to head with other energy resources without the nearly 30 ... transmission problems: utilities were becoming reluctant to integrate large chunks of wind into their resource ... Last year at this time, the US wind industry's mood was one of cautious optimism. It had come off the best year ever in terms of installed wind generation and Texas had put into law a well ...
Community versus corporate wind
Amidst a debate over a proposed wind farm in Wisconsin, the author poses a question: Does Wisconsin ... As the debate over a proposed wind farm in Washington County heats up, I offer a viewpoint overlooked thus far in the statewide debate. Does Wisconsin want community or corporate wind development? Community wind is locally owned, produced and consumed wind generated energy scattered widely across a ...
Storing offshore wind power
main airport at Heathrow a demand for light. Yet if the much vaunted Thames Estuary wind farms had been ... at Heathrow a demand for light. Yet if the much vaunted Thames Estuary wind farms had been operational they would have contributed nothing to aid this situation. Why? Because as things are at present, wind energy must be used as soon as it is generated. There is no "energy storage" for wind power in the system ...
Wind displaces gas not coal
on the potential of wind energy to reduce CO2 emissions (Windpower Monthly, March 2001). ... I was pleased to see you mention a study we carried out on the potential of wind energy to reduce ... 's, expected demand for electricity in 2020 could be met by wind plant at a cost of under $0.05/kWh, we add ... 's expected demand in 2020 could be met by wind at an average additional cost of $20/tonne of CO2 emissions ...
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