Washington State’s Bonneville Power Administration has filed a request to curtail wind generators without payment when there is surplus power on the grid from hydro and wind, according to a report by Mark Ohrenschall at Energy Prospects.
A consortium of renewable energy companies is looking to put $1 billion into two wind farms in southern Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan relies quite a bit on imported electricity and these projects would be a tremendous help in giving it more energy independence.
In the past 10 years or so, the world has seen a clean energy revolution. With growth rates like seen in the telephone industry, computer industry, and internet industry during comparable revolutions, clean energy options like solar and wind have been growing tremendously in recent years.
Clean Edge has been tracking the cleantech industry since 2000 and, in combination with its annual report on cleantech investment and growth, it reflected on the last 10 years as a whole this year. Clean Energy Trends 2011 reports a number of interesting statistics, the most salient of which I’m sharing below.
A commenter on my last story about wind derided wind power because of seeing turbines “not turning”. Like most people, she didn’t know that wind farms are frequently shut down by grid operators, because there is no room on the grid. But it raised a question in my mind. How … [continued]
Wisconsin might have the luxury of turning down opportunities to create new green jobs in the wind power industry, but North Dakota isn’t taking any chances. North Dakota’s wind industry is taking off, and the latest addition is a
Poor Wisconsin. When a new Tea Party Governor Scott Walker and a matching Tea Party majority was shoe-horned in by the Koch brothers, that speedily reversed the economic benefits that former Governor Doyle had approved to develop new progressive infrastructure. First they disconnected the high speed train connection and then … [continued]
This week a House committee in Idaho’s state assembly killed a bill that would have slapped a two-year moratorium on new wind farms, in a competition-killing bill promoted by utilities who argue that costs will rise. Republican House Member Erik Simpson of Idaho Falls was out-voted 11-8. His bill aimed … [continued]
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has found that while traditional offshore wind turbines using a horizontal axis design are a good energy source in many locations now, vertical axis offshore turbines may be even better.
All of Japan’s wind farms are unscathed by the 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
I wrote a short piece last week on onshore wind energy being cost-competitive with coal in some regions. Now, EU climate chief Connie Hedegaard has added that offshore wind energy is cheaper than nuclear.
