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1,600 MW of Wind Energy In Turkey

A Wind power plant was completed in Akhisar. The total number of wind farm plants in Turkey is 72. Turkey has invested 1.6 billion euro in wind turbines so far. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc on Sunday inaugurated the Akhisar Wind Farm (AKRES) in the western province of Manisa. The prime minister said that [...]

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Supply of Wind Energy Can it be Speculated?

Japan’s earthquake produced pandemic problems, especially when associated to the Fukushima nuclear power complex. On the other hand, Japan’s nearby wind farms were almost totally unaffected. It is an established fact that wind turbines does not always run on 100 percent, there are moments of intermittence. Yet, there are already clear that other sources of [...]

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Opinion’s On Wind Turbines

Wind power is one of the benchmarks of renewable energy. However, in some region of the world, the reputation of wind turbines isn’t the best. There are even instances when the negative effects of wind turbines – makes wind energy ostensibly alike dirty green energy with some regions having signs indicating “Stop the Turbines”. From [...]

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Offshore Wind Farm – Meerwind – Blackstone Financing

Meerwind offshore farm in Germany receives finance from Blackstone, one of the world’s largest private equity and asset-management firms. Recently, Blackstone confirmed its support in fully financing German’s largest offshore wind power farm: Meerwind. German Regulatory framework has effectively supported the realisation of Meerwind wind turbine projects. Today, it is amidst the world’s most successful [...]

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Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm – VattenFall Generating 150 MW for UK

Vattenfall is a Swedish Energy Company, which has just started to deliver electricity from the new Ormonde Offshore UK wind farm situated in the Irish Sea. Wind power is being generated by one of the thirty wind turbines. According to Vattenfalls’s country manager, David Hodkinson, the Ormonde offshore wind turbine is the first commercial-scale project [...]

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Investment In Renewable Energy Is Rapidly Increasing:2010

From 2009 to 2010, the renewable installed capacity increased from 250 to 312 GW. The main areas of expansion were wind energy, geothermal energy, solar energy (photovoltaic and concentrated solar power). A report suggests that renewable generates almost 50 percent of what fossil fuels generate. In 2010, the total investment on renewable energy increased to [...]

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Indian Company Selected Vestas To Generate 47 MW of Wind Power

On Thursday the 4th of August it was announced that Vestas, the Danish Wind Turbine Maker, won a large order in the highly competitive Indian market. The order is for a generation capacity of 47 MW of wind power. The Indian buyer, is Powerica Ltd, has ordered 26 of Vestas’s wind turbines, model V100-1.8MW. These [...]

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Solar PV Technology Should Be a Key Player In UK’s Renewable Energy Roadmap

Green energy pioneer says solar PV is key technology Solar power is a strong source of renewable energy. UK seems to have excluded solar energy from the list of renewable source, or rather downgraded it as a source of demising oil and gas dependency. Recently, UK’s Renewable Energy roadmap was released. The government has set [...]

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Vestas Builds World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine

Vestas, who is Europe’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, released the V164. The largest wind turbine ever designed with the resistance to support the windiest seas of the world. The gigantic wind turbine has a wingspan which is 164 metres in diameter. In other words, each wingspan can accommodate nine-double-deck buses on the blades. The wind [...]

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New Design of Wind Farm Can Yield Efficiency; Reinvent Traditional Wind Farms

Typical wisdom says that we have already reached the maximum efficiency per wind turbine. However, this restriction on wind energy efficiency might be based on the use of mature technology without re-invention. The California Institute of Technology research has re-invented some of the basic assumption that underlines the wind industry. They believe it is time [...]

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