Siemens Gamesa officially announced the first blade manufacturing plant in Africa and the Middle East this week with the inauguration of its new rotor blade factory in Tangier, Morocco.
Around 40% of Germany’s wind turbines will soon be 15-years old. The French, Italian, Spanish, and British fleets are also aging. More than 86 gigawatts of Europe’s wind capacity is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2030. A new report from New Energy Update describes an alternate solution, which is reconditioning wind farms.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S announced a flurry of wind turbine orders to mark the end of the third quarter last week, with orders from the United States, India, Europe, and Latin America totaling 463 MW.
More than $37 billion worth of wind turbine blade materials are expected to be produced and purchased over the next ten years, according to new figures published this week by Navigant Research, highlighting the growing strength of the global wind energy industry.
One way to bring more attention and funding to climate science is by using renewable energy to “uncover” cryptocurrency. Say what? Julian Oliver, who used wind energy “to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research,” explains further after the artistic picture…
GE has just launched a new wind turbine that spells bad news for fossil fuel power generation. The “brand new machine” is GE’s its biggest onshore turbine to date, and more to the point, it provides a low cost pathway for harvesting energy from less than ideal wind speeds.
I experienced my first tornado at the age of 5, and my first hurricane (category 3) at the age of 22. I am fortunate — never hurt or compromised. The water (everywhere) and the wind clearing out the atmosphere is refreshing (if houses remain and people are fine). The darkness without electricity for a day or so can be relaxing. Sunrise, sunset — they become more like what they were for most of our ancestors. At the same time, I grieve emphatically for all the lost lives and broken people who hurricanes have ripped apart.
GE Renewable Energy unveiled its largest onshore wind turbine this week, a 4.8 megawatt turbine which is able to generate enough electricity at low to medium wind sites for the equivalent of 5,000 homes.
When the Koch Brothers sit around their mansions at night, do they throw darts at an image of Bill McKibben (the champion of climate change information)? Along with other lonely warriors such as Michael Mann and James Hansen, he is swimming upstream against a tide of climate denial funded by the Kochs, ExxonMobil, and anyone else who stands to make a buck off of poisoning the world with the effluent and detritus created by extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.
Solar and wind power are slashing the cost of electricity in Australia and driving coal and natural gas out of business. That’s a good thing for the country and an even better thing for the planet.
