CleanTechnica » Onshore Wind Farms http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 DONG Energy Completes Divestment Of Onshore Wind Projects In Favour Of Offshore http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/24/dong-energy-completes-divestment-onshore-wind-projects-favour-offshore/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/24/dong-energy-completes-divestment-onshore-wind-projects-favour-offshore/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:43:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76783 Danish wind energy giant DONG Energy announced Monday that it had completed the divestment of its onshore wind energy holdings, allowing the company to now focus solely on offshore wind energy. DONG Energy agreed Monday to divest its shareholding in the Swedish onshore wind farm Storrun, a 30 MW wind farm which has been in operation since

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/24/dong-energy-completes-divestment-onshore-wind-projects-favour-offshore/feed/ 4 Wind & Solar = 77% Of New US Electricity Generating Capacity In November (Exclusive) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/wind-solar-account-70-new-us-generating-capacity-november/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/wind-solar-account-70-new-us-generating-capacity-november/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:53:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76745 Editor’s Note: Upon repeated reader request and my own interest in seeing more accurate numbers, I have included an estimate of non-utility-scale solar (i.e., residential and commercial solar) in the numbers below. I will do this from here on out. Assumptions* and sources for these estimates are at the end of this article. If you think you’ve

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/wind-solar-account-70-new-us-generating-capacity-november/feed/ 60 Emerging Economies See Wind Growth As Technologies Evolve & Innovate http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/emerging-economies-see-wind-growth-technologies-evolve-innovate/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/emerging-economies-see-wind-growth-technologies-evolve-innovate/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:54:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76744 Emerging economies in the Middle East and Africa will have installed almost 3 GW of wind power by the end of 2014, with more than 58% of that being installed in the last two years. This is according to new analysis from MAKE, which follows on from recent and numerous additions to its wind power analyses, including an

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/23/emerging-economies-see-wind-growth-technologies-evolve-innovate/feed/ 1 Least Financially Risky Electricity Projects: Solar & Wind http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/20/solar-wind-power-financial-risk/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/20/solar-wind-power-financial-risk/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:38:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76656 David Roberts of Grist recently dug into a couple of academic papers on the topic of cost overruns in the electricity sector. I had been saving the story for someone from our team to cover… but no one was picking it up, so I decided to do so a bit midnight (here in Europe) on this Saturday before Christmas. (You

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/20/solar-wind-power-financial-risk/feed/ 19 Gamesa Teams With Iberdrola To Launch Next-Gen Wind Farm Operations http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/gamesa-team-iberdrola-launch-next-gen-wind-farm-operations/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/gamesa-team-iberdrola-launch-next-gen-wind-farm-operations/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:26:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76580 Wind energy giant Gamesa is teaming up with Spanish multinational utility Iberdrola to launch a next-generation system for operating wind farms from a distance.  The system allows for remote management of any make of wind turbine, anywhere in the world, through a single interface. WindCORE® + WindOne® will enable operators to operate wind farms from a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/gamesa-team-iberdrola-launch-next-gen-wind-farm-operations/feed/ 3 David Cameron Versus The UK Wind Industry http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/david-cameron-versus-uk-wind-industry/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/david-cameron-versus-uk-wind-industry/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:22:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76577 Speaking to the House of Commons Liaison Committee on Tuesday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron dealt a remarkably ignorant blow to the country’s wind industry by claiming the public were “fed up” with the construction of wind farms, before arguing that subsidies wind energy subsidies should be stopped.  Prime Minister Cameron had been asked about

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/david-cameron-versus-uk-wind-industry/feed/ 10 Vestas To Fulfil Order For Largest African Wind Farm http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/vestas-fulfil-order-largest-african-wind-farm/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/vestas-fulfil-order-largest-african-wind-farm/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:06:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76354 International wind energy leader Vestas Wind Systems has announced that it has received an order to provide wind turbines for the 310 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya, Africa — a project that Vestas claims will be the largest wind power project in Africa upon completion. The Lake Turkana Wind Power group placed

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/vestas-fulfil-order-largest-african-wind-farm/feed/ 15 Sudan Government To Invest $213 Million In Wind Energy Project http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/13/sudan-government-invest-213-million-wind-energy-project/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/13/sudan-government-invest-213-million-wind-energy-project/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:01:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76297 Sudan seems to be getting ready to play catch-up with several other African countries tapping renewable energy to strengthen their electricity sectors. Sudan has announced a large-scale wind energy project for this purpose. The government in Sudan has decided to invest $213 million to set up the 100 MW wind energy project by 2019. The United National Development Programme

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/13/sudan-government-invest-213-million-wind-energy-project/feed/ 15 5 Steps To Make Your City A Climate Champion, Too http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:22:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76196 Originally published on ilsr.org. In August 2013, Minneapolis (MN) was in the news for considering a take-over of its energy utilities. Today, they’re back in the news for supporting a first-in-the-nation clean energy partnership with those same utilities and a pioneering effort to bring more local input into the city’s energy future. It’s been a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/5-steps-make-city-climate-champion/feed/ 2 Wind Farms Affect Neither Health Nor Property Values http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/10/wind-farms-affect-neither-health-property-values/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/10/wind-farms-affect-neither-health-property-values/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:28:40 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76157 More than any other renewable energy technology, wind farms have encountered heated opposition based solely on the absurd: They affect our health; They impact property values; They look ugly (this one being somehow a valid argument in some countries). However, two new studies have found that wind farms do not affect health or property values (those

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/10/wind-farms-affect-neither-health-property-values/feed/ 4 Distributed Generation Capacity Expected To Double By 2023 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/distributed-generation-capacity-expected-double-2023/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/distributed-generation-capacity-expected-double-2023/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:21:04 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76040 Navigant Research has released a new report analysing the distributed generation technology market, and reached the conclusion that the industry is expected to expand rapidly over the next few years. Analysing forecasts for installed capacity, revenue, and pricing through 2023 for the distributed generation market, Navigant found that cost reductions, government incentives, and rising interest

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/distributed-generation-capacity-expected-double-2023/feed/ 3 MIT Study: Wind Farms Do Not Harm Human Health, But Annoy Some People http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/mit-study-wind-farms-harm-human-health-annoy-people/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/mit-study-wind-farms-harm-human-health-annoy-people/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:00:34 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76059 Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Yet another scientific study has undermined one of the shoutiest claims of the anti-wind movement – that inaudible sound waves (or infrasound) emitted by operating wind turbines causes people living close by to wind farms to get sick, with a litany of symptoms ranging from anxiety, to nausea

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/mit-study-wind-farms-harm-human-health-annoy-people/feed/ 6 Farmers Turning Wind Into Cash http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/farmers-turning-wind-cash/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/farmers-turning-wind-cash/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:36:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75727 Wind power is one of our favorite topics. It’s often the cheapest option for new electricity generation, and it may well be the greenest. It is comparable to solar on greenhouse gas emissions, and uses even less water than solar (0.001 gallons per kWh vs 0.030 gallons per kWh), and hundreds of times less than

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/farmers-turning-wind-cash/feed/ 10 Wind Turbines Will Power Honda Car Plant http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/wind-turbines-will-power-honda-car-plant/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/wind-turbines-will-power-honda-car-plant/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:30:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75871 A wind farm will power a Honda car manufacturing facility in Brazil. Honda has a car assembly plant in Sumare, Sao Paulo. According to Wikipedia, Honda Civics and Fits are assembled there. The wind farm that will soon power this facility is located in the most southern part in Xangri-la, hundreds of miles away, and

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/08/wind-turbines-will-power-honda-car-plant/feed/ 5 Solar PV Generation Doubles (Monthly US Electricity Generation Report) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/solar-pv-generation-doubles-monthly-us-electricity-generation-report/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/solar-pv-generation-doubles-monthly-us-electricity-generation-report/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:29:40 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75937 Following up on my first monthly report on US electricity generation by source, here’s the next one. Electricity generation data takes longer to gather than capacity data, so the EIA’s electricity generation information is always from a couple of months prior. In this case, we now have data from September. Check out the charts and a bit of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/solar-pv-generation-doubles-monthly-us-electricity-generation-report/feed/ 60 Merrill Lynch Invests $70 Million Into Indian Wind Energy Company http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/merrill-lynch-invests-70-million-indian-wind-energy-company/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/merrill-lynch-invests-70-million-indian-wind-energy-company/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:07:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75918 Yet another emerging wind energy developer in India has secured investment from international investors as the country looks set for a wind energy revolution. Mytrah Energy recently announced that it had secured funding worth $70 million (₹430 crore) from Merrill Lynch and Apollo Global Management. The company has issued bonds to raise these funds a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/merrill-lynch-invests-70-million-indian-wind-energy-company/feed/ 1 $6 Billion Opportunity: Rural Electric Cooperatives Could Lead On Clean Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/6-billion-opportunity-rural-electric-cooperatives-lead-clean-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/05/6-billion-opportunity-rural-electric-cooperatives-lead-clean-energy/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:50:20 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75898 Originally published on ilsr.org. Last week I asked why rural electric cooperatives haven’t been leaders on renewable energy. This week, I explain a $6 billion opportunity they can seize to take leadership. One of the biggest barriers to making investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy is the upfront cost. So what if members of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/04/e-on-to-focus-on-the-new-energy-world/feed/ 1 How Wind Energy Is Subsidizing Albertan Ratepayers http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/wind-energy-subsidizing-albertan-ratepayers/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/wind-energy-subsidizing-albertan-ratepayers/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:30:52 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75767 A recent Pembina Institute fact sheet discusses how wind energy is subsidizing Albertan ratepayers. The author, Ben Thibault, said that during 2013 Alberta’s electricity was 65% less expensive when wind was generating over 600 MW than when production fell below 300 MW. He also had some interesting insights into other wind sector issues. During 2013, the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/02/wind-energy-subsidizing-albertan-ratepayers/feed/ 0 Wind Industry Is An Economic Shot In The Arm http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/01/wind-industry-economic-shot-arm/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/01/wind-industry-economic-shot-arm/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:21:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75691 It’s still a tough job market for many people in many sectors. Politicians and policymakers speak of job creation, but if they are serious about that, they have to recognize the jobs and job-creation potential in the renewable energy sector. The renewable energy sector has helped to replace jobs lost when other manufacturing sectors and technical trades moved

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