The 2016 AWEA WINDPOWER conference* takes place May 23–26, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The theme of this year’s event is Generation Wind. It will feature four times the number of educational opportunities as a year ago. They will be set up in all five of the main show areas … [continued]
Originally published on ABB Conversations. By William Galton Microgrids offer advantages for reliability and bringing more renewables onto the grid. 1. What are the benefits of integrating renewable energy with microgrids? The obvious first benefit is related to cost of generation reduction. With the increasing costs of traditional fossil fuel based … [continued]
Wind power needs to be and will likely be a key source of electricity in the near future (and already is in some places). As legendary business leader Ted Turner said at the U.S. WINDPOWER conference in California yesterday, embarcing renewable energy such as wind, solar, geothermal is an “even more of an obvious business decision for him today than launching eventual cable giant CNN was in 1980.” Turner stated, “I’ve never seen anything more clear as the case for wind, solar, and geothermal.”
