Follow on Twitter
Subscribe by RSS
Although there is sufficient power in the earth’s winds to be a major source of near-zero emission electric power for the world, extensive high altitude wind power production is unlikely to considerably affect climate That is the conclusion...
Google has signed a contract with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to green the energy provided to its Oklahoma data center with 48 MW of wind energy from the nearby Canadian Hills Wind Project. The wind farm is planned to come online later...
Over the weekend, MidAmerican Wind, a subsidiary of Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway announced it has purchased two wind projects from California Highwind Power. The two projects are the 168 MW Alta Wind VII and the 132 MW Alta Wind IX. In...
An IWEA policy paper has called on the government to put in place the framework to allow the delivery of energy exports to create jobs and investment. The Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) yesterday (4th October) launched a new policy paper...
Greedy Fellows!! Solar energy and wind energy are two most admired renewable energy sectors worldwide so people may be surprised what is presently the better energy alternative, wind energy or solar energy. Both are renewable energy sources...
Few critics of wind power have initiated to make the claim that wind farms really produce carbon and build a net increase in carbon emissions due to the fact that their generating intermittency means they must be “backed-up”...
Greedy fellows! Its true! Politicians are slaves to opinion polls, goes the conventional wisdom: not in the case of wind farms. Most of us think that more wind turbines are a good idea, even when located close to our homes and even if we...
The costs of offshore wind power generation could be brought down by one-third by the end of the decade by making this form of renewable energy commercially viable in the UK, according to new reports by the wind industry and government. A...
Wind energy is an alternative method of producing electricity, though the cost is higher than paying for traditional electricity provided. But there are countries who are still putting their efforts and this however, has not stopped several...
Do you know that wind is a type of solar energy? Wind is produced because of the irregular heating of the atmosphere, the unevenness of the earth’s surface, and rotary motion of the earth. The patterns of wind flow are customized by the...
