After a decade in development, the toughest wind turbines ever built are ready to make their debut. The machines are the world’s first designed specifically … Toughest wind turbinesRead more
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Kenya looking for 300 MW of wind power
18 Jan 2008 A Kenyan firm plans to produce 300 MW of electricity by 2012 by harnessing renewable wind power in the north of the … Kenya looking for 300 MW of wind powerRead more
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Wind farm in Minnesota
Xcel Energy has 1.1 gigawatts of wind turbines installed in Minnesota. They hope to triple that amount by 2020. Xcel, in an effort to increase … Wind farm in MinnesotaRead more
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Cheaper Wind Power
FloDesign Wind Turbine, a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign based in Wilbraham, MA, has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half … Cheaper Wind PowerRead more
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More efficient wind turbine
ExRo Technologies, a startup based in Vancouver, BC, has developed a new kind of generator that’s well suited to harvesting energy from wind. It could … More efficient wind turbineRead more
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Canada’s largest wind farm
The newly finished Melancthon EcoPower Centre, developed by Canadian Hydro, is Canada’s largest wind farm. Located near Shelburne, Ontario (northwest of Toronto), the Melancthon EcoPower … Canada’s largest wind farmRead more
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Improving wind turbine efficiency
Virginia-based Catch the Wind has an innovative solution for improving wind turbine efficiency— laser beams. The company’s fiber-optic laser system gives turbines up to 20 … Improving wind turbine efficiencyRead more
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Global Wind Power conference
China has the world’s fastest-growing wind-energy market and is expected to become the biggest manufacturer of wind energy equipment by the end of 2009, according … Global Wind Power conferenceRead more
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Wind turbine for home
The Swift wind turbine has a blade/ring diameter of 7 feet; has a rated power output of 1.5 k and can generate up to 2000 … Wind turbine for homeRead more
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UK now leads in offshore wind farms
The UK now leads the world in generating electricity from offshore wind farms, the government said, as it completed the construction of a farm near … UK now leads in offshore wind farmsRead more