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Underground Wind Energy Storage

While wind power is one of the greenest renewable energies around, the wind doesn’t blow continuously at an optimum speed for offshore or onshore wind turbines. That means sometimes no energy is being generated and added to the grid. But an equal issue is that when you have a period of optimum wind, it is difficult… Read the rest

New Type of Turbine Designed in English University

Here on the MWPS web pages we often feature new innovative designs to capture wind energy. Few ever make it beyond the drawing board or prototype stage, and therefore the standard three-bladed wind turbines continue to be seen (although getting bigger year by year). However, a Derbyshire inventor has teamed up with Nottingham’s Trent University and… Read the rest

Add Wind Turbines To Make UK Energy More Resilient says new Report

How do you make your energy market more able to resist the vagaries of fossil fuel prices? You install more wind turbines of course! This was the conclusion of a new report by Cambridge Econometrics, commissioned by the UK renewable Industry’s main body; RenewableUK. The dwindling supplies of domestic gas and coal mean that the UK… Read the rest

Pellworm, the Greenest Island?

Pellworm is one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea Coast of Germany. It is tiny- its area is 37 square kilometres and its permanent population is just over 1000 souls (and about 1000 sheep). Small and insignificant? No! When it comes to renewable energy, has long been ahead of its time. This Sleepy… 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

United States Wind Power Surges in Quarter 4 of 2013

The American Wind Energy Association has published its quarterly market report for the US wind industry. It reveals that while there was very slow growth for the first three quarters of 2013, a lot of groundwork was being laid, leading to the commencement of construction in the fourth quarter to the tune of 10,900 megawatts. Adding… Read the rest

Belwind-Belgium: World’s Biggest Offsore Turbine is Erected

In a follow-up to our previous story (Ostend offshore wind farm) about the world’s largest offshore wind turbine near to the port of Ostend, in Belgium, the French engineering giant Alstom yesterday announced it has successfully completed the installation of the turbine. The company reported that the installation of its 6-MW Haliade 150 turbine made it… Read the rest

Iranian Wind Power

While the word “nuclear power” tends to crop up when speaking about Iran, it could soon be “renewable energy” instead. Year on year Iran has increased its output generated from wind power, and to date it’s the sole country producing wind turbines in the Middle East. While apparently shunned by most of the Governments of the… Read the rest

Does Wind Power Increase Carbon Emissions? Of Course Not!

It’s always quite amusing to see critics of wind power jump on some piece of dodgy reporting, or half-baked so-called research, and use it to further their own anti-wind agenda. Is it a rare bat that has been found dead at the foot of a mast? A turbine that caught fire flashed around the world, or… Read the rest

World’s Largest Wind Turbine About to be Tested in Scotland

It’s an interesting and exciting time in Scotland for the wind business: The world’s largest and most powerful installed wind turbine will be ready for testing in Fife, Scotland before the end of October 2013. The 196 metre tall turbine will be handed over to Korean firm Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) by the principal contractor, Graham… Read the rest