GE Wind Repowering Scheme Puts Wind Whiners To Bed
Wind repowering projects can skim over the obstacles and pitfalls that bedevil new wind farm proposals, adding significant new capacity to the US renewable energy profile.
Onshore Wind Farms
Trump Vows To Crush Booming US Wind Industry, Or Maybe Just Windmills
The modern US wind industry deploys many different kinds of wind turbines, none of which are anything like the windmills of olden days.
War, Wind Power, And The Green Way Forward For Ukraine
Wind power continues to add megawatts of clean power to the Ukrainian electricity grid, even as Russia continues its drive to demolish the country’s energy infrastructure.
Texas Wind Energy Industry Makes Friends With Oil & Gas Producers
Wind energy investors are finding a friendly home in Texas, partly on account of the rising demand for electricity from oil and gas operations.
The Wild Wind Turbines Of Wyoming Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
Wind turbines that resemble model airplanes will run around an oval track in Wyoming to generate electricity, in a pilot project supported by private, state, and federal investors.
MacIntyre Wind Farm Exports Power!
Queensland is known in Australia as the Sunshine State, and rightly so. At this time, on a Sunday afternoon, the state is producing about 50% of its electricity from sunshine — pure yellow stuff. Where it has fallen down in the renewable transition is the use of its vast land … [continued]
Small Wind Power Projects Expanding into New Markets
The distributed wind market is growing both in size and variety, according to a new PNNL-led report An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from … [continued]
Pennsylvania Catches Wind Farm Repowering Fever
The wind repowering movement is enabling states like Pennsylvania to maximize less-than-optimal wind resources and squeeze more energy from aging wind farms.
Panels, Presentations, & Posters: NREL Plays Key Role at Premier Wind Energy Conference
NREL’s Wind Expertise Highlighted at Biannual TORQUE Conference In May 2024, amidst ancient marble statues and sweeping centuries-old frescoes, a group of researchers came together to talk about something decidedly more modern: wind energy technologies. The biannual TORQUE Conference, organized by the European Academy of Wind Energy and held this year … [continued]
New Report: Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion For Knocking Cheaper Midwest Wind Offline
New Report Shows Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion for Running While Wind Was Available, Cheaper in MISO Territory Adding to a growing field of research, the new report, The Consumer and Environmental Costs from Uneconomically Dispatching Coal Plants in MISO, reveals new details about the impact of aging, uncompetitive coal plants … [continued]
