We’ve written about floating wind turbines a few times here on CleanTechnica. Key benefit of these is that they can go in deeper waters, where there’s often more consistent and stronger winds. Key downside: they are still costly. But a new £25 million ($40 million) investment from Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is … [continued]
One of our readers and I are putting together a comprehensive resource page for all things wind (will do the same for solar power, tidal power, and more eventually as well). As we create each section, I thought I’d post them (or parts of them) here. The first section we’re tackling is installed wind power capacity around the world. Here’s the main part of that (but have some extra, unique parts to be added soon).
The $1.2 billion Thanet Offshore Wind Farm started sending power to the electric grid last week. While I was caught up with other stories at the time, I thought this was definitely worth coming back to. The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm includes “100 Vestas V90 wind turbines that have a total … [continued]
