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VisionAIR3: Heralding a Revolution in Wind Turbines?

In the last few days, the official debut of a new vertical axis micro wind turbine was launched. It’s a new addition to the UGE (formerly Urban Green Energy) portfolio of turbines. It’s called the “VisionAIR3″ and is a ramped-up, high-efficiency version of the company’s earlier micro-vertical axis wind turbine models. in 2012 UGE partnered with… Read the rest

The Future Cost of Windpower: New Research Published online

MarketReportsOnline have made available a major report on the cost of wind power energy, then, now and in the future. It is available here: http://www.marketreportsonline.com/395631.html. The report begins by covering the basics that most in the industry would concur with: The research says that wind power is a capital intensive industry with most of the investment… Read the rest

Shock! Horror! UK Wind Turbines are sometimes Powered by the Grid!

In a series of articles in certain areas of the UK media (essentially the usual anti-wind Not in My Back Yard suspects) it has been “revealed” that wind turbines take, rather than contribute, power from the National Grid. Cue the usual semi-hysterical scribblings of the wind-watch hacks venting their spleens in mock indignation that wind farms… Read the rest

Brazil Should Add More Wind Power to Hydro Power

There can be no doubt that Brazil has done a great job in moving away from those contaminating fossil fuels. As an example, in 2009 Brazil produced an astonishing 85% of its electricity from renewable resources. Very few other large countries can match that; neighbouring Argentina only produces just over a quarter of its electricity from… Read the rest

Germany Leads the Way in Wind and Solar Power

Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and nearly a third of its electric power comes from renewable energy. That fraction is increasing… Indeed it is now thought that Germany is an ideal global test bed for the feasibility of using renewable energy on a large scale. Let’s look at other countries that generate a large amount… Read the rest

Rockefellers Abandon Oil, Gas and Coal in Favour of Cleaner Energy

In a move that is likely to have massive (positive) ramifications, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from their great-grandfather’s Standard Oil Co., is selling investments in the fossil fuel industry in a move to put pressure companies that are adding to climate change. They are, US newspapers claim, getting out of “Big Oil” the… Read the rest

Siemens win Big Dutch Offshore Contract

Siemens has just clinched a deal with the Dutch Offshore Wind consortium called the Gemini Project. The contracts are for the construction, financing, and operations in Dutch offshore waters- a first for Siemens. Siemens will deliver 150 turbines, each with a capacity of 4MW, and a blade diameter of 130 metres. Included in the deal is… Read the rest

Farmers for Wind

I have seen many an article supposedly penned by a farmer that rails against the installation of onshore wind turbines on their land. When you do some background research you tend to find that the farmer is in fact a pro-fossil fuel hack who has adopted Wurzel credentials for a day to get off another anti-wind… Read the rest

Two Years idle for a Wind Turbine in Portsmouth, Hampshire

People in Portsmouth are angry. Portsmouth is the historic South coast of England town where Sir Francis Drake finished a game of bowls before setting off to defeat the Spanish Armada in the times of Elizabeth the First. In 2007 Council voters approved a £multi-million bond to erect a wind turbine 330 foot high to the… Read the rest

Renewable Energy Islands

While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are doing their bit for reducing the carbon footprint. Let’s look at El Hierro and Eigg. El Hierro is the smallest of the Spanish Canary Islands and located off the coast of Africa. … Read the rest