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Christmas Break in United States for Wind

When people across the world think of Christmas, they probably think of giving and receiving presents, Goodwill to all men, and a time for forgiving and harmony. But in the world of energy, especially wind, it’s become an almost ritualistic time in the States for taking off the gloves and getting mean and nasty over wind… Read the rest

GEV Show Innovative Wind Turbine Maintenance Rig

As anyone involved in wind power knows, one of the more expensive and time-consuming parts of the business is maintenance of the tower, nacelle and most importantly the blades of a wind turbine. Climbing up the inside of a wind turbine mast (or worse still, the outside for older masts) can be a pain- and there… Read the rest

El Hierro to be powered by100% Renewable Energy

El Hierro is a Spanish-owned island, one of the Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa. It is 278.5 square kilometres and was formed approx 1.2 million years ago after three successive eruptions. The island emerged from the ocean with a triangle-shaped top with a volcanic cone more than 2,000 metres high. Despite being formed… Read the rest

The United States and Offshore Wind Power

Why is it, when other countries, such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany, have built massive turbine farms off their coastlines in the past few decades, the United States has no operational offshore wind farms? The US clearly embraces wind and has a plethora of onshore wind farms sprinkled all over its states. Look… Read the rest

$100 billion invested in oil Will not Produce as much Energy as $100 billion invested in Renewable Energy

0 billion invested in oil Will not Produce as much Energy as 0 billion invested in Renewable Energy

Don’t take my word for it! A French investment bank, Kepler Chevreuxhas, has produced a ground-breaking piece of analysis which should have considerable implications for the continued viability of the global oil industry. The investment bank estimates that $100 billion invested in the two key renewable industries; wind energy or solar energy and deployed as energy… Read the rest

UK Wind Turbine Record- And the Seals are Loving it!

RenewableUK industry group reported that United Kingdom wind turbines generated a record 22 percent of the country’s electricity on Sunday 17 August 2014, beating the 24-hour record for the second time in the same week. Wind farms produce an average of 5,797 megawatts- enough to power more than 15 million homes at this time of year,… Read the rest

Wind versus Fracking: The Debate Continues…

In a carefully calculated move to switch opposition to fracking to opposition to wind turbines the UK energy department’s recently-gone chief scientific advisor has claimed that a wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site. Prof David MacKay, pictured right in the picture above, stood down… Read the rest

Green Investment Bank Plans to Get the Wind Up!

The government’s Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank (Gib) has announced plans to raise £1bn to encourage new investors to put money into offshore wind farms. The bank has said that it is seeking long-term investors for a fund that will be managed by a subsidiary. That subsidiary would buy equity stakes in wind farms already in operation.… Read the rest

North Myrtle Beach, California to be Home for new Wind Farms

South Carolina’s North Myrtle Beach is soon to become a significant home for wind farms. South Carolina’s growing wind power industry will take a significant step forward this September when the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) identifies the offshore tracts available for lease to wind power farms. The potential for South Carolina to grasp… Read the rest

Three Blades or Two Blades?

Just when we all thought that the three-bladed wind turbine was the industry standard, several major wind-power companies are testing a departure by dropping one of the three blades and spinning the rotor 180 degrees to face downwind. The attraction is that if a two-bladed turbine can produce as much energy as a three-bladed one, the… Read the rest