Comments on: Europe’s UpWind Project Cuts Loose with Gigantic 20 MW Wind Turbine http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: jeffhre http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/#comment-226422 Tue, 13 May 2014 17:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26063#comment-226422 Imagine if every utility scale turbine today was replaced with a 20 MW turbine. There would be more energy produced, in less area with thousands of fewer turbines, which would be spaced much farther apart.

The lowering land use intensity alone would reduce many problems, as well as leaving more open land to enjoy. This is a great direction to move towards for both land and sea based turbines.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/#comment-96665 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:28:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26063#comment-96665 Well, this is a European project – this enormous 20MW turbine. Think they stole our philosophy?

Sometimes big is beautiful….

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/#comment-96664 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26063#comment-96664 In general curtailment is a temporary issue. Sometimes turbine installation gets ahead of transmission installation. China built an entire ‘stranded’ wind farm. They got the farm ready to go long before they were able to hook it up to their grid.

That said, there will be some farms where it does not make sense to build transmission for 100% of the power produced. If a farm hits full output only a small percentage of the year it might be cheaper just to ‘toss’ that extra little bit on the few times it is produced than to spend extra for larger wire.

]]> By: Anumakonda Jagadeesh http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/#comment-96651 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26063#comment-96651 “Think Big” is the philosophy of Americans. With advances in Wind Turbine Technology machines are increasing in size. Will there be a limit for size?

Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
Wind Energy Expert
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

]]> By: Jon K http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/europes-upwind-project-cuts-loose-with-gigantic-20-mw-wind-turbine/#comment-96631 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26063#comment-96631 I thought the big issue with wind is distribution. Wasn’t it here that I read some huge amount of wind power is dumped every year. I think the power guys use the word “curtailed” for power they have but can’t use because they can’t get it to where it’s needed.

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